Saturday, 9 June 2018

40) Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk

Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later Duchess of York and Duchess of Norfolk (1472 – 1481). Child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower. She was born at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, the only (surviving) child of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Talbot.

- "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." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_de_Mowbray,_8th_Countess_of_Norfolk

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