Isabel NEVILLE

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Isabel Neville; b. 5 Sep 1451; m. 11 July 1469 George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, KG (b. 21 Oct 1449; initially joined his father-in-law Warwick ["The Kingmaker"] in the attempt to restore Henry VI and depose his brother Edward IV but deserted the former for the latter at the Battle of Barnet and helped defeat Warwick; created 25 March 1471/2 Earl of Warwick and Earl of Salisbury as a consequence of his marriage; found guilty of high treason and attainted 8 Feb 1477/8, whereupon all his titles were forfeited, and then executed by being drowned in a butt of malmsey wine in the Tower of London 18 Feb 1477/8), and died 22 Dec 1476, having had [Edward Plantagenet (the last legitimate male Plantagenet), 2nd/17th Earl of Warwick, executed (dsp) 28 Nov 1499 on orders of Henry VII; Margaret (the last Plantagenet to survive), beheaded 28 May 1541, m. Sir Richard Pole and had issue] with other issue (d. young). [Burke's Peerage]

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He [George Plantagenet] m. 11 Jul 1469, at Calais, Isabel, 1st daughter and coheir presumptive of Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, by Anne, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. She, who was b. 5 Sep 1451 at Warwick Castle, d. there 22 Dec 1476, and was buried at Tewkesbury. He thereupon proposed to marry Mary, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, a match which was much opposed by the Queen Consort. He was accused of high treason, found guilty, and attainted 8 Feb 1477/8, whereby all his honours became forfeited. He was executed in the Tower of London 18 Feb following (said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey), and was buried at Tewkesbury, aged 28. [Complete Peerage III:260-1]

Isabel married George PLANTAGENET, Kg, Kb, Duke Of Clarence on 11 Jul 1469 in Calais, Pas-DE-Calais, France. George was born on 21 Oct 1449 in Dublin Castle, Ireland; died on 18 Feb 1477-1478 in Tower Of London, Middlesex, England (Drowned In Butt Of Malmsey Wine); was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 14th Countess Of SALISBURY
• _UID: 56A39B14975F45269698C7EEDF216372C1DB

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BARONY OF MONTAGU (X) 1513

EARLDOM OF SALISBURY (XIV, 1) 1513 to 1519

MARGARET PLANTAGENET, daughter of George (PLANTAGENET), DUKE OF CLARENCE, EARL OF SALISBURY, by Isabel, 1st daughter and coheir of Richard (NEVILL), EARL OF WARWICK and EARL OF SALISBURY, was born in August 1473, at Farley Castle, near Bath, Somerset. She married, probably by November 1487, Sir Richard POLE, K.G. (23 April 1499), who died before 20 October 1504, aged circa 45. On the death, 28 November 1499, of her brother, Richard (PLANTAGENET), EARL OF WARWICK, 1st and only surviving son of George, Duke of Clarence, she became sole heir, not only of her father, but of the Earls of Warwick and Earls of Salisbury. She was Lady of the Chamber to Queen Catherine of Aragon, 1509. Henry VIII gave her an annuity of ?100 during pleasure, 31 July 1509, and he granted to her and her heirs for ever the possessions of Richard, late Earl of Salisbury, her grandfather, son and heir of Alice, Countess of Salisbury, and husband of Anne, Countess of Warwick, which came into the King's hands by her brother's attainder, 14 October 1513. She was also, in accordance with her petition, restored "to the dignity of COUNTESS OF SALISBURY" by Act of Parliament [5 Henry VIII c. 12), when her brother's attainder was removed. She took part in the christening of the Princess Mary at Greenwich, 21 February 1515/6; Governess of the Princess from before 13 May 1520 to shortly after 1 October 1533; accompanied her into Wales 1525; slightly implicated in the case of the revelations of Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent, 1533. She returned to Court and the King gave her lands in Yorkshire, 1536. In 1538 Henry VIII struck at the family of Pole, on account both of their descent from Edward IV's brother, George, Duke of Clarence, and of the action of Cardinal Reginald Pole, who hoped that Paul III would publish a Bull of deprivation. Her youngest son, Sir Geoffrey Pole, was sent to the Tower, 29 August 1538, and he was followed, 4 November, by her 1st son, Henry, Lord Montagu. Information was laid against her; she was examined at her house at Warblington, Hants, by William (Fitzwilliam), Earl of Southampton, Lord High Admiral, and Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, 12 and 13 November 1538, and then removed to the former's house at Cowdray, where she remained until she was transferred to the Tower of London, after 20 March but before 20 May 1539. She was attainted by Act of Parliament (31 Hen. VIII, c. 15) without trial, 12 May 1539, whereby all her honours were forfeited. She was beheaded in the Tower, 28 May 1541[d].

She was the last surviving member of the great royal House of Anjou, now usually known as the Plantagenets. [Complete Peerage XI:399-402, XIV:567, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

[d] Marillac, the French Ambassador, writes to Francis I, 29 May 1541: "The countess of Saalberi, mother of Cardinal Pol and the late lord Montaigue, was yesterday morning, about 7 o'clock, beheaded in a corner of the Tower, in presence of so few people that until evening the truth was still doubted". . . Writing to Queen Mary of Hungary, 10 June 1541, Chapuys speaks of her "very strange and lamentable execution," which took place at the Tower in the presence of the Lord Mayor of London and about 150 persons more." In the absence of the executioner in the North "a wretched and blundering youth was chosen, who literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces in the most pitiful manner." . . . Lord Herbert of Cherbury relates that he was assured by a person of great quality that she refused to lay her head on the block, saying: "So should Traitors do, and I am none: neither did it serve that the Executioner told her it was the fashion; so turning her gray head every way, shee bid him, if he would have her head, to get it as he could: So that he was, constrained to fetch it off slovenly" (Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, 1649, P. 468).-This reads like a later legend, invented to account for the way in which the execution was bungled.

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• Name: 18th\2Nd Earl Of WARWICK
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BARONY OF MONTAGU (IX) 1485 to 1499

EARLDOM OF WARWICK (XVIII, 17 & 2) 1478 and 1492 to 1499

EDWARD (PLANTAGENET), EARL OF WARWICK, 1st and only surviving son and heir of George (PLANTAGENET), DUKE OF CLARENCE, EARL OF WARWICK [1472] and EARL OF SALISBURY, by Isabel his wife, was born 21 or 25 February 1474/5 at Warwick Castle; styled EARL OF WARWICK from his baptism by order of Edward IV, who was his godfather. Following his mother's death, 22 December 1476, and the attainder, 8 February, and "execution," 18 February 1477/8, of his father, he became heir, in accordance with the Act of Attainder, to his mother's moiety of the Warwick and Salisbury lands, which, not being forfeited, were accordingly taken into the custody of, and held, but only by reason of his minority, by Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VII in succession. This moiety included Warwick Castle and he was clearly considered, though presumably wrongly, to be EARL OF WARWICK from his father's death. On 8 June 1481 his wardship and marriage were granted, as from Michaelmas 1480, to Thomas (Grey), Marquess of Dorset. He was present, as Earl of Warwick, at the Coronation, 6 July 1483, of his uncle, Richard III and with many other nobles was with him in August at Warwick. On 8 September following he was knighted at the investiture at York of Edward, the King's son, as Prince of Wales, shortly after which he was sent to live at Sheriff Hutton. While there, on the Prince's death, 9 April 1484, he is said to have been declared heir apparent to the Crown; and he was a member of the Council of the North before 13 May 1485. By the death s.p.s., 16 March 1484/5, of the Queen Consort, Anne, his mother's only sister, the abeyance of the Baronies of Montagu and Monthermer terminated (according to modern doctrine) in his favour, whereby he became LORD MONTAGU [1299 and 1357] and LORD MONTHERMER [1309]. On the accession of Henry VII he was removed from Sheriff Hutton to the Tower of London, where he remained a close prisoner till his death. By that King he was, however, deemed, on the death of his aunt, the Queen Consort abovenamed, 16 March 1484/5, and of his uncle, Richard III, 22 August 1485, to be heir to the former's moiety of the Warwick and Salisbury lands. The whole of the lands of both Earldoms were thus held by Henry VII in custody for the duration of Edward's minority and it is possible that he was considered (though wrongly) to be Earl of Salisbury as well as Earl of Warwick. During the rebellion in 1487 of Lambert Simnel, who personated him, he was taken one Sunday in procession to St. Paul's to hear Mass, so that he might be seen and recognised. By the death, shortly before 20 September 1492, of his maternal grandmother, Anne, suo jure, Countess of Warwick, to whom he was sole heir, he became EARL OF WARWICK under the remainder of that dignity in the grant thereof in 1450. Seven years later, on a clearly trumped-up charge, he was condemned for conspiring high treason with Perkin Warbeck, a fellow prisoner, 21 November, and beheaded 28 November 1499 [a] on Tower Hill, being buried (with his maternal ancestors) at Bisham Abbey, aged 24 and unmarried. At his death his honours were forfeited and he was subsequently, January 1503/4, attainted by Act of Parliament, which attainder was, however, reversed by another Act (5 Hen. VIII, c. 12) at the instance of his sister Margaret, his sole heir, who was thereby restored (sic) as Countess of Salisbury. Although in this latter Act he is styled Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, such ex postfacto recognition does not in itself afford proof that he really enjoyed the latter Earldom. [Complete Peerage XII/2:394-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Last male Plantagenet

[a] "Earl Edward had to perish in this fashion in order that there should be no surviving male heir to his family." It is at least likely that the real reason for his execution at this date was the King's wish to expedite the marriage of his son Arthur with Catherine of Aragon.