Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later also Duchess of York and Duchess of Norfolk was an English noblewoman and the sole heiress of the Mowbray family. She became the child bride of Richard
The marriage of Lady Anne Mowbray with Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, KG, known as 1st Earl of Surrey between 1451 and 1461, was the only son of John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Eleanor Bourchier. His maternal grandparents w
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk
…later dynastic settlement of her inheritance. Anne de Mowbray was born on 10 December 1472 at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, the only surviving child of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of Norfolk. Her birth made her the sole heiress to the vast Mowbray estates, one of the wealthiest inheritances in…
Left: Lady Elizabeth Talbot, wife of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1444–1476). On her kirtle she displays her paternal arms Gules, a lion rampant or a bordure engrailed of the last (Talbot) and on her mantle shows Gules three lions passant guardant or a label of three points argent (Brotherton, for Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, a younger son of King Edward I and ancestor of the Duke of Norfolk). Below is inscribed in Latin: Elizabeta nat(a) Talbot Ducissa Norfoltia ("Elizabeth born Talbot, Duchess of Norfolk"). Stained glass in Holy Trinity Church,