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Isabel Neville was born at Warwick Castle, the seat of the Earls of Warwick, on 5 September 1451. [2]On 11 July 1469, Isabel secretly married George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, the younger brother of Edward IV, in Église Notre-Dame de Calais.
Clarence married Isabel Neville in Calais, at that time controlled by England, on 11 July 1469. Together they had four children: [14] Anne of Clarence (16 April 1470 – c. 17 April 1470), who was born and died in a ship off Calais. Identified by some sources as a girl but by others as an unnamed boy. [7] [15]
Ankarette Twynho (c. 1412 –1477) was a member of the Somerset gentry and had been a lady's maid to Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence until the duchess' death, probably from complications following childbirth, in December 1476. Twynho was accused of poisoning her with bad ale.
Drawing of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence from the Rous Roll, c. 1483. [93] Clarence's degree of personal responsibility has also been discussed. Professor J. R. Lander found the charges against Twynho and Thursby too implausible to credit, calling them "fantastic". [94] He blames Clarence's actions as the result of a "seriously disturbed mind". [45]
Drawing of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence from the Rous Roll, c. 1483. [93] Clarence's degree of personal responsibility has also been discussed. Professor J. R. Lander found the charges against Twynho and Thursby too implausible to credit, calling them "fantastic". [94] He blames Clarence's actions as the result of a "seriously disturbed mind". [50]
Relations between King Edward IV and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, had been fraught ever since the late 1460s. [1] Edward had tried to prevent the Duke's first marriage, to Isabel, daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. [2] [3] Although Clarence had returned to Edward's side in 1471, he was no longer fully trusted.
Clarence, whose claim was founded on his marriage to Isabel Neville, gained the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury. Gloucester acquired the old Neville estates in the north, establishing his claim by marrying Anne Neville, who had been widowed by Prince Edward's death in the final Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
Duke of Clarence was a substantive title created three times in the Peerage of England. ... Isabel Neville 11 July 1469 4 children 18 February 1478 Tower of London ...