Editing Anne Neville (section)

==Duchess of Gloucester==
The exact date of the wedding of Anne Neville and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, is not known, although most sources agree that a ceremony took place sometime in the late spring/early summer of 1472 in [[St Stephen's Chapel]] in the [[Palace of Westminster]], after a dispensation to marry was issued from Rome on 22 April 1472.<ref>{{cite book |title=Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III |first=Michael |last=Hicks |publisher=The History Press  |year=2011  |pages=143–44  |quote=The ceremony has often been located in the spring of 1472 although, actually, canon law forbade marriage during Lent. Since actually Edward’s birth was probably some years later, such speculation is unfounded. That the Warwick inheritance dispute still raged in November 1473 does not mean, as Peter Hammond wrongly supposed, that Anne and Richard were still unmarried then and that the marriage took place in 1474. Where was Anne in the interim? Did she remain in sanctuary throughout, which Crowland’s chronology did not exclude? Did she cohabit with the duke or reside under his protection, scarcely less morally dubious? Sheer convenience points to marriage as soon after the March council as possible. Allowing for the dispensation of 22 April 1472 and its transmission from Rome, it is likely that, as Clarke has deduced, the wedding took place in the late spring or early summer of 1472.}}</ref> This dispensed the impediment of affinity created when Anne married Edward of Lancaster, who was Richard's blood cousin.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barnfield |first1=Marie |title=Diriment Impediments, Dispensations and Divorce: Richard III and Matrimony |journal=The Ricardian |date=2007 |volume=XVII |url=http://www.richardiii.net/6_3_1_the_ricardian_archive.php#2008 |access-date=13 September 2018 |archive-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913040153/http://www.richardiii.net/6_3_1_the_ricardian_archive.php#2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The couple made their marital home in the familiar surroundings of [[Middleham Castle]], Yorkshire, after Richard was appointed Governor of the North on the king's behalf. Upon her marriage, Anne was styled [[Duchess of Gloucester]]. They had only one child, [[Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales|Edward]], born at Middleham allegedly sometime in 1473, but more probably in 1476.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blunt|first1=John Henry|title=Tewkesbury Abbey and its associations|date=1875|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/tewkesburyabbeyi00blunuoft}}</ref> Anne's mother, the [[Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick|Countess of Warwick]], joined her daughter's household in 1473 after Richard obtained the king's permission to release his mother-in-law from her guarded sanctuary.<ref name=kendall1955 />

In 1478, Anne Neville inherited the [[Lordship of Glamorgan]]. The title had been held by her father and on his death had passed to Anne's elder sister [[Isabel Neville]]. Women could not exercise the Lordship in their own right, so the title immediately transferred to Isabel's husband, [[George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence]]. On his death in February 1478, the title passed to Anne and was henceforth exercised by her husband, [[Richard of Gloucester]] until his death, when it passed to the new king, [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Chrimes|first=Stanley Bertram|title=Henry VII|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQlo014s8lkC|year=1999|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0300078831|page=248}}</ref>