Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick
Anne Beauchamp | |
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| Born | 14 February 1444 |
| Died | 3 June 1449 (aged 5) Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England |
| Resting place | Reading Abbey, Berkshire 51°27′22.85″N 0°57′54.31″W / 51.4563472°N 0.9650861°W |
| Title | 15th Countess of Warwick 7th Baroness Burghersh |
| Term | 11 June 1446 – 3 June 1449 |
| Successor | Richard Neville |
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Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick (14 February 1444 – 3 June 1449) was the only child and heiress of the English nobleman Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick. She died a child aged 5, after which the earldom of Warwick was inherited by her paternal aunt. The title then passed by marriage to Anne's maternal uncle, Richard Neville, the famous 'Kingmaker' of the later Wars of the Roses.
Life
Anne Beauchamp was born on 14 February 1444[1] at Cardiff in Wales.[2] Her father was Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick (1425–1446), the last male of the medieval Beauchamp family to hold the Warwick title. Anne's mother was Cecily Neville, sister to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who later played a key role in the Wars of the Roses.
On 11 June 1446, Anne's father died.[2] The dukedom of Warwick, created in 1445, had been originally granted to heirs male only,[3] and so became extinct upon Henry Beauchamp's death, but the earldom (created in 1088) allowed for female succession and was therefore inherited by his daughter. She also inherited from her father the barony of Burghersh, being the 7th person to hold that title since its creation in 1330. Upon the death of the king's uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, on 23 February 1447, Anne also succeeded to the lordship of the Channel Islands, which had been previously entailed on her father.[2]
Anne died on 3 June 1449,[4] aged five, at Ewelme in Oxfordshire,[2] the home of her maternal step-great-grandmother.[citation needed] She was buried in Reading Abbey church. Reading may have been chosen as her burial site because her great grandmother, Constance of York, had been buried there.[5]
Anne's title Countess of Warwick was inherited by her paternal aunt, Lady Anne. The barony of Burghersh fell into abeyance between her aunts.[6]
Ancestry
Footnotes
- ^ Hicks 1998, p. 31.
- ^ a b c d Cokayne 1959, p. 384.
- ^ a b Cokayne 1959, p. 383.
- ^ Hicks 1998, pp. 30–32.
- ^ Baxter 2016, p. 83.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, p. 385.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, p. 382.
- ^ a b c d Richardson III 2011, pp. 161–162.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, p. 378.
- ^ a b c Cokayne 1959, p. 377.
- ^ a b c d Richardson II 2011, pp. 76–77.
- ^ a b c d Richardson III 2011, pp. 159–160.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, p. 375.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, p. 374.
- ^ a b Richardson II 2011, p. 75.
- ^ a b Richardson III 2011, p. 244.
- ^ a b Richardson III 2011, pp. 246–247.
- ^ a b Richardson III 2011, p. 158.
References
- Baxter, Ron (2016). The Royal Abbey of Reading. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-78327-084-2.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Cokayne, G.E. (1959). G.H. White (ed.). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 12.2 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Hicks, M.A. (1998). Warwick the Kingmaker. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 978-0-631-16259-9.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Richardson, D. (2011). Kimball G. Everingham (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1-4499-6638-6.
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