On This Day July 12

Following the decisive Yorkist victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Richard Plantagenet (later Richard III of England) married the widowed Anne Neville on July 12, 1472 when she was 16-years-old. After their marriage, Richard led a life of a rich and powerful country Lord, as Anne's dowry made him the biggest landowner in England. Anne bore Richard one son, Edward Plantagenet who died in 1484 and she died the following year, probably of tuberculosis,

Illuminated scroll of Queen Anne Neville and King Richard III 

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