Anne Neville (Blooming Roses)

Anne Neville (11 June 1456 - 13 October 1511) was an English noblewoman. The younger daughter of Richard Neville, "The Kingmaker", she married Edward of Westminster in an alliance with Lancastrian forces. After her husband was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, she married Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III. She gave birth to one son during this marriage, Edward of Middleham, who died in 1484. Following the battle at Bosworth Field, she was captured by Henry Tudor's forces and married off to Richard Woodville, an uncle of Elizabeth of York. She would have four children with her third husband and after his death was address at court only as Lady Rivers, her former Queen status stripped from her and her second husband regarded as a usurper.