Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick

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Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (13 July 1426 – 20 September 1492) was an important late medieval English noblewoman. She was the daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, and his second wife, Isabel Despenser. She married Richard Neville "the Kingmaker", who became Earl of Warwick by right of Anne. She was the mother of two famous daughters, Isabel Neville, the wife of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and Anne Neville, Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. She has been described as "diplomatic, intelligent and resilient", and was at the centre of politics during the Wars of the Roses.

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