Anne (St Leger) Manners (abt. 1476 - abt. 1526)

Born about Jan 1476 in England

Ancestors

Daughter of Thomas (St Leger) de St Leger KB and Anne (York) de St Leger

Wife of George Manners — married 20 Jun 1490 in Haddon, Nottinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died about 21 Apr 1526 at about age 50 in Windsor, Berkshire, England [uncertain]

Biography

Anne St Leger was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Anne St Leger was the only daughter and heiress of Anne of York, sister of King Edward IV, and her second husband Thomas St Leger.^[1]

She was born in January 1475/6, based on the death of her mother in childbed. ^{[2] [3]} Anne St Leger should then have become the heiress to the estates held by her mother, but in 1483, Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset and the widower of Anne of York's first daughter, Anne Holand, obtained the marriage of Anne St Leger to his heir, Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess of Dorset, whereby he and his family would control Anne and her inheritance. ^[4] That marriage, however, did not take place, as political events soon altered the fortunes of St Leger and the Grey family, and Anne St Leger eventually married, about 1490, George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, who fought for Henry VIII in Scotland and Henry VIII in France. ^[2] Their marriage produced a numerous family:

Issue

• Thomas
• Oliver
• Anthony Manners
• Richard
• John Manners
• Anne Capell
• Eleanor Bourchier
• Elizabeth Sandys
• Catherine Constable
• Cecily Manners
• Margaret Heneage

Anne, Baroness de Ros, died in 1526 and was buried with her husband (d. 1513) in the Rutland Chantry Chapel at St George's Chapel, Windsor. The inscription reads: "Here lyethe buryede george Maners knyght lord roos who decesede/ the xxiii daye of October In the yere of our lorde god Mi Vc xiii and ladye Anne his wyfe dawghter of anne duchesse of exetur Suster unto/ kyng Edward the fourthe and of Thomas Sentlynger knight/ the wyche anne decessed the xxii day of apryll In the yere of our lorde god MiVc xxvi on whose souls god haue mercy amen." ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match between this mtDNA test for Michael Ibsen and this mtDNA test of his direct maternal line 14th cousin twice removed Wendy Duldig and this mtDNA test of his direct maternal line 15th great uncle King Richard III.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Cokayne, GE. Complete Peerage, Vol XI, 2nd edition, London: 1949. p. 108, "Ros". FamilySearch
3. ↑ Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. V. page 455-461.
4. ↑ "Edward IV: January 1483." Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. Eds. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry, and Rosemary Horrox. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005. British History Online. Web. 8 February 2024. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/january-1483 #20]
5. ↑ Archives, St George's Chapel, Windsor. Ros

• Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 24

• Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V p. 456

• Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84147532

• The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families, pg 181 [1]

• This person is a confirmed DNA-linked descendant of Anne of York, sister of King Richard III. For more information, Please see the full study and the conclusions The University of Leicester