Anne Neville

Family: House of Lancaster · Role: daughter of the Earl of Warwick · First appears: Edward IV 10

Life events

c. 1470 · Edward, Prince of Wales, married Anne Neville, securing the alliance between their factions.(Edward IV 10 · 📍 France)
- With: Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
- “Edward prince of Wales wedded Anne second daughter to the earle of Warwike, which ladie came with hir mother into France.”
c. 1483 · Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned together in the customary royal ceremony.(Richard III 2)
- With: Richard III
- “Then both the king and the quéene changed them into cloth of gold, and ascended to their seats, where the cardinall of Canturburie, & other bishops them crowned according to the custome of the realme, giuing him the scepter in the left hand, & the ball with the crosse in the right hand; and the quéene had the scepter in hir right hand, and the rod with the doue in her left hand.”
c. 1484 · Anne Neville died, possibly from grief or poison, and was solemnly buried at Westminster.(Richard III 17 · 📍 church of S. Peter at Westminster)
- “But howsoeuer that it fortuned, either by inward thought and pensiuenesse of hart, or by infection of poison (which is affirmed to be most likelie) within few daies after the quéene departed out of this transitorie life, and was with due solemnitie buried in the church of S. Peter at Westminster.”

parent: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “Edward prince of Wales wedded Anne second daughter to the earle of Warwike”
married with Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales “Edward prince of Wales wedded Anne second daughter to the earle of Warwike”

married with Richard III “The fourth daie of Iulie he came to the Tower by water with his wife”

married with Richard III “Then followed quéene Anne daughter to Richard earle of Warwike in robes like to the king, betwéene two bishops, and a canopie ouer hir head borne by the barons of the ports.”
parent: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “Then followed quéene Anne daughter to Richard earle of Warwike in robes like to the king, betwéene two bishops, and a canopie ouer hir head borne by the barons of the ports.”

married with Richard III “if it should happen quéene Anne his wife to depart out of this present life”

married with Richard III “Now when the quéene heard tell that so horrible a rumor of hir death was sprung amongst the communaltie, she sore suspected and iudged the world to be almost at an end with hir. And in that sorowfull agonie she with lamentable countenance and sorowfull cheare, repaired to the presence of the king hir husband, demanding of him what it should meane, that he had iudged hir worthie to die. The king answered hir with faire words, and with smiling and flattering leasings comforted hir; and bid hir be of good chéere, for (to his knowledge) she should haue no other cause. But howsoeuer that it fortuned, either by inward thought and pensiuenesse of hart, or by infection of poison (which is affirmed to be most likelie) within few daies after the quéene departed out of this transitorie life, and was with due solemnitie buried in the church of S. Peter at Westminster. This is the same Anne, one of the daughters of the earle of Warwike, which (as you haue heard before) at the request of Lewes the French king was maried to prince Edward, sonne to king Henrie the sixt.”
married with Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales “This is the same Anne, one of the daughters of the earle of Warwike, which (as you haue heard before) at the request of Lewes the French king was maried to prince Edward, sonne to king Henrie the sixt.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.