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Encyclopedia > Anne Mowbray

Anne Mowbray (10 December 1472 _ 19 November (?), 1481) was the child bride of Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower, and held the title Duchess of York from her marriage until her death at the age of nine.


She was born at Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England, the only (surviving) child of John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk. His death in 1476 he left her a wealthy heiress. On 15 January 1478, she was married in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, to Richard, Duke of York, the 4-year-old son of Edward IV of England. (They were married rather than betrothed (as would have been the custom for children of their ages), so that the king could get control of her vast estates.)


Anne died at Greenwich, London, nearly two years before her husband disappeared into the Tower of London with his older brother Edward V of England, and she was entombed in a lead coffin in the Chapel of St. Erasmus in Westminster Abbey. When that chapel was demolished in about 1502 to make way for the Henry VII Chapel, Anne's coffin was moved to a vault under the Abbey of the Minoresses, run by nuns of the order of St. Clare, which eventually disappeared.


In December 1964, construction workers in Stepney accidentally dug into the vault and found Anne's coffin. It was opened, and her remains were analyzed by scientists and then entombed in Westminster Abbey in May 1965. Her red hair was still on her skull and her shroud still wrapped around her.






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The splendid ceremony and the feast and jousting which followed it are descriibed in 'A Narrative of the Marriage of Richard Duke of York and Anne of Norfolk' taken from Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts preserved in the Ashmolean Museum (edited by W.H. Black, 1840).
That would have been the last anyone heard of Anne Mowbray had it not been for the sharp eyes of a workman on a building site in Stepney in December 1964 who spotted a small lead coffin among the debris of demolition.
In May 1965 Anne's body was reinterred in Westminster Abbey, near her original burial place.
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