Anne Neville (26 page)

27  
The Brut or the Chronicles of England
, ed. F.W.D. Brie (Early English Text Society cxxxvi, 1908), 524;
Chronicles of London
, ed. C.L. Kingsford (Oxford, 1905), 167.

28  
Brut
, 529; Kingsford,
London Chronicles
, 170; ‘John Benet’s Chronicle 1400–62’, ed. G.L. and M.A. Harriss (Camden Miscellany xxiv 1972), 225;
Worcester
, 772.

29  Waurin, v. 305, 307–8.

30  
Ibid
. 310
; Warwick
, 185.

31  
Warwick,
200.

32  
Rows Rolls
, nos 57, 58.

33  
Ibid.
no.56.

34  
The Great Chronicle of London
, ed. A.H. Thomas and I.D. Thornley (1938), 207.

35  M.A. Hicks,
Edward V: The Prince in the Tower
(Stroud, 2003), 35–6.

36  
Issues of the Exchequer
, ed. F. Devon (1837), 490.

37  
Young Medieval Women
, ed. K.J. Lewis, N.J. Menuge & K.M. Phillips (Stroud, 1999), esp. 1, 4, 7; N. Orme,
From Childhood to Chivalry
(1984), 27–31.

38  
Rows Rolls
, no.62.

39  Warwick County Record Office MS 26/4 f.69.

40  J. Leland,
De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea
, ed. T. Hearne (6 vols. Oxford, 1770), vi. 3–4.

41  
Great Chronicle,
234.

42  
Warwick,
233.

43  
CPR 1461–7,
270.

44  
Warwick,
234.

45  Hicks,
Rivals,
324.

46  
Ibid.
347. Lady Latimer’s son Henry Neville and son-in-law Oliver Dudley were interred in the Beauchamp Chapel.

47  Devon,
Issues,
490.

48  Hicks,
Rivals
, 292.

49  Waurin,
Recueil
, v.458-9.

50  
Worcester
, 785.

51  
Ibid
. 786.

52  
Ibid
. 788

53  
Clarence
, 42.

3   
HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER
1469–71

1    TNA PSO 1/64/61.

2    
The Great Chronicle of London
, ed. A.H. Thomas and I.D. Thornley (1938), 206.

3    
Rows Rolls
, no.59.

4    
Crowland
, 132–3.

5    
Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household
(Society of Antiquaries, 1790), 89–105.

6    
Rows Rolls
, no.59.

7    
Collection of Ordinances
, 98.

8    
Clarence,
45.

9    
Worcester
, 788.

10  
Clarence
, 44.

11  Bodleian Library, MS Dugdale 15 p.75. Strangely this dispensation is not discussed by Clarke.

12  
Registrum Thome Bourgchier Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi 1454–86
, ed. F.R.H. Du Boulay (2 vols. Canterbury and York Soc. liv, 1957), 35–6.

13  
Collection of Ordinances
, 98; see also
Chronicle of John Stone
, ed. W.G. Searle, Cambridge Antiquarian Society octavo ser. 34 (1902), 109–11.

14  
Collection of Ordinances
, 98.

15  M.A. Hicks,
Edward V: The Prince in the Tower
(Stroud, 2003), 52–3; J. Calmette and G. Périnelle,
Louis XI et L’Angleterre 1461–83
(Paris, 1930), 306–7.

16  
Warwick
, 286–7.

17  
Crowland,
116–17.

18  
Clarence
, 55–61.

19  Waurin, v. 586.

20  
Clarence
, 69.

21  
Ibid
.

22  
Warwick
, 280–1.

23  
Ibid.
286, 300.

24  P. de Commines,
Mémoires
, ed. J. Calmette and G. Durville (3 vols., Paris 1923–5), i. 194.

25  
Warwick
, 287.

26  Commines, i. 194.

27  P.M. Kendall
, Louis XI
(1971), 229.

28  Hicks,
Warwick
, 289.

29  
CSPM
i. 139.

30  
Ibid
. 138.

31  
Ibid
. 117.

32  
Ibid
. 140.

33  Laynesmith, 167.

34  
Warwick
, 289–99.

35  
Crowland
, 123.

36  
The Politics of the Fifteenth Century: John Vale’s Book
, ed. M.L. Kekewich, C. Richmond, A.F. Sutton, L. Visser-Fuchs, and J.L. Watts (Richard III and Yorkist Trust, Stroud, 1995), 217.

37  
Ibid
.; C.D. Ross,
Edward IV
(1974), 147; Calmette and Périnelle, 118.

38  
CSPM
i.140–1. Louis had decided to apply for a dispensation no later than 24 July, when payment of expenses was authorised; the decision could have been earlier, Clarke, 1021; Calmette and Périnelle, 118.

39  
CSPM
i.117.

40  Ross,
Edward IV
, 147.

41  
CSPM
i. 142.

42  
Ibid
.
Pace
Clarke, 1027, this explicit statement demonstrates that it was Warwick who postponed the marriage.

43  
John Vale’s Bk
. 218.

44  
Ibid
.

45  
Clarence
, 82; Calmette and Périnelle, 118 n.1; Clarke, 1021 & n. For what follows, see P. Erlanger,
Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England
(1970), 221.

46  Clarke, 1021n.

47  Calmette and Périnelle, 133.

48  
Ibid
. 133, 319.

49  
Ibid
. 133.

50  
John Vale’s Bk
. 222–5.

51  
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, ed. J. Bruce (Camden Society i, 1838), 10.

52  
Clarence
, 93.

53  J. Fortescue,
The Governance of England,
ed. C. Plummer (1885), 348–53.

54  
CPR 1467–77,
252.

55  
Clarence
, 93.

56  
Ibid
., 96-7.

57  
Ibid
., 104

58  
Arrivall
, 10.

59  
Ibid
. 22.

60  
Ibid
.

61  J. Gairdner,
History of the Life and Times of Richard III
(Cambridge, 1898), 22n.

62  
Arrivall
, 23.

63  
Ibid
.

64  
Ibid
.

65  
Ibid
., 11;
Clarence
, 105–6. The
Arrivall
was apparently wrong in attributing recruitment in the South-West to Warwick,
Arrivall
, 23.

66  
Ibid
., 23.

67  
Ibid
., 23–8.

68  
Ibid
., 31.

69  
English Historical Documents
, iv,
1327–1485
, ed. A.R. Myers (1969), 315.

70  
Ibid
., 314–15.

71  A.F. Sutton and L. Visser-Fuchs,
Richard III’s Books
(Stroud, 1997), plate ix, from Besançon MS 1168.

72  
Arrivall
, 31.

73  C.L. Kingsford,
English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century
(London, 1913), 37.

74  
Ibid
.

75  
Ibid
.

76  N.J. Rogers, ‘The Cult of Prince Edward at Tewkesbury’,
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
101 (1984), 187–9.

4   
BETWEEN PRINCES
1471–5

1    
RP
vi. 9-11.

2    J.T. Rosenthal, ‘Other Victims: Peeresses as War Widows 1450–1509’,
History
lxxii (1987), 213–30.

3    
CPR 1477–85
, 254.

4    Laynesmith, 44; P.W. Hammond,
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales
(Cliftonville, 1973), 27-8.

5    
Warwick
, 29;
CPR 1429-36
, 598.

6    Hicks,
Edward V
, 31–5, 43–5.

7    
Ibid
. 31–5, 43–5.

8    BL MS Julius BXII ff.314-v; J.Gairdner,
History of the Life and Times of Richard III
(Cambridge, 1898), 22.

9    Hicks,
Rivals
, 327.

10  Gairdner,
Richard III
, 22n.

11  
CSPM
i. 177.

12  
Crowland
, 132–3.

13  
GEC
xii.i. 442–3.

14  E.g. Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, husband of Eleanor Bohun, wanted to prevent the marriage of her sister Mary.

15  Hicks,
Rivals
, 309.

16  
Crowland,
132–3.

17  
Ibid
.

18  
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century
, ed. N. Davis (2 vols. Oxford, 1971–6), i. 447.

19  
Arrivall
, 39; ‘Richard of Gloucester visits Norwich, August 1471’,
Ricardian
95(1986), 333.

20  TNA DL 29/648/10485.

21  
CPR 1467–77
, 297.

22  I. Wigram, ‘Clarence and Richard’,
Ricardian
76 (1982), 17.

23  
Paston L & P
i. 447.

24  J.C. Ward,
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages
(Harlow, 1992), 28.

25  
Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry
, ed. W.H. Black (Roxburghe Club, 1840), 30; see also the process regarding Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, related in the fourth degree of consanguinity,
CPL
xiv. 14–27.

26  E.g. J.J.N. Palmer, ‘England, France, the Papacy and the Flemish Succession, 1361-9’,
Journal of Medieval History
ii (1976), 339–64.

27  Clarke, 1021 & n., who wrongly supposes the dispensation to be sufficient.

28  
Paston L & P
i. 447.

29  
Crowland
, 132–3.
Pace
Clarke, 1023, ‘the only solution was’
not
‘for Edward to persuade Clarence to compromise’, still less on terms that satisfied none of the principal parties.

30  
Rows Rolls
, no.62.

31  BL MS Julius B XII f.314v partly printed in Gairdner,
Richard III
, 22.

32  
Clarence
, 117; Hanham, 121.

33  Gairdner,
Richard III
, 22.

34  
Clarence
, 122–3;
Crowland,
142–3.

35  
RP
vi. 100–1, 124–5; TNA DL 26/29.

36  
Rows Rolls,
no.56 note (Latin version).

37  
Crowland
, 132–3.

38  
Ibid
.

39  
Rows Rolls
, no.56.

40  
Ibid
. no.57, note (Latin version); Hanham, 121.

41  J.R. Lander,
Crown and Nobility 1450–1509
(1976), 139n.

42  
Ibid
.

43  
RP
vi. 391–2.

44  
RP
v. 100–1.

45  Gairdner,
Richard III
, 22.

46  
RP
v. 124–5; Hicks,
Rivals
, 273–6, 295–6.

47  
Clarence,
150–1.

48  Hicks,
Rivals
, 276.

49  
Rows Rolls
, no.56, note (Latin version); Hanham, 121.

50  
RP
vi. 391–2.

51  
CPR 1467
–
77
, 455.

52  
County History of Glamorgan
, iii,
The Middle Ages
, ed. T.B. Pugh (Cardiff, 1971), 613;
GEC
v.741.

53  See below p.152.

54  Hammond,
Edward of Middleham
, 11.

55  Clarke, 1023.

56  
RP
vi. 101. Strangely, Clarke, 1023, does not query this.

57  See above p.66.

58  H.A. Kelly, ‘Canonical Implications of Richard III’s Plan to Marry his Niece’,
Traditio
xxiii (1967), esp. 269, 290–1, 306.

59  
Rows Rolls,
no.63.

60  
Ibid
. 64.

61  W.H. Prescott,
History of the Reigns of Ferdinand and Isabella
, 2 vols (3rd edn. 1851), i. 164–5, 195, 208–9, 214; F. Fernandez-Armesto,
Ferdinand and Isabella
, London (1975), 44; H. Kamen,
Spain 1469
–
1714: A Society in Conflict
(2nd edn 1991), 1.

62  
Crowland
, 174–5; see below chapter 7.

5   
HER HUSBAND’S WIFE
1475-83

1    See above pp.88-9.

2    
Rows Rolls
, no.64.

3    Hanham, 122;
Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History
, ed. H. Ellis, Camden Society xxix (1844), 190; G. Smith, ‘One Prince or Two?’
Ricardian
149 (1999), 467–8.

4    TNA DL 29/648/10485 m.6d.

5    W.G. Searle,
History of the Queens’ College of St Margaret and St Bernard in the University of Cambridge 1446
–
1560
, Cambridge Antiquarian Society 9 (1867), 90;
CPR 1476
–
85
, 34. The use of the Salisbury title certainly indicates the Gloucester’s dissatisfaction with the 1474–5 settlement. Does it also indicate that Clarence’s forfeiture was intended, that Gloucester was already committed to it, and that the title was the first fruit of his support seven months before his brother Clarence’s destruction?

6    
CPR 1476
–
85
, 34.

7    M.A. Hicks, ‘One Prince or Two? The Family of Richard III’,
Ricardian
122 (1993), 467–8.

8    
CPR 1476
–
85
, 512.

9    
Stonor Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century
, ed. C.L. Kingsford, Camden 3rd series xxx (1919), ii. 81.

10  A.F. Sutton, ‘Anne and Peter Idley’,
Ricardian
74 (1981), 402–3.

11  
Crowland,
174–5.

12  
Ibid
. 170–1.

13  T. More,
History of King Richard III
, ed. R.S. Sylvester (New Haven, Conn., 1963), 44.

14  P. Hammond, ‘The Illegitimate Children of Richard III’,
Richard III: Crown and People
, ed. J.Petre (Gloucester, 1985), 18.

15  
Ibid.
19–23.

16  
Ibid.
20-23.

17  C.A. Halsted,
Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England
, 2 vols. (1844), ii.569–70.

18  
CPR 1476-85
, 538;
Harl.MS 433,
i. 271; ii. 211.