Anne Beauchamp (1444 - 1449)

Born 14 Feb 1444 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 3 Jan 1449 at age 4 in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England [uncertain]

Biography

Anne Beauchamp is Notable.

Anne Beauchamp, born on 14 February 1444 at Cardiff was the daughter and only child of Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick and his wife, Cecily Neville. ^[1] Her father died on 11 June 1446 when Anne was 2 years old.^[2][3]Anne was a very important heiress and her care was taken out of the hands of her mother and given to Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, lady in waiting to the Queen, Margaret of Anjou. Born Alice Chaucer, Alice had been married to Anne's great grandfather, Thomas Montagu. By this time she was, however, the wife of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. It was intended that Anne should be married to Suffolk's son and heir, John de la Pole.^[4]

Anne died at Ewelme in Oxfordshire on 3 January 1449, not then 5 years old.^[5][6]she was buried in the church at Reading Abbey. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Henry Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick
3. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Beauchamp, Henry, duke of Warwick (1425–1446)
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick
5. ↑ Thepeerage.com: Anne Beauchamp Cites: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 428
6. ↑ Thepeerage.com: Anne Beauchamp Cites: Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 125
7. ↑ Wikipedia: Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick