Editing Anne Neville (section)

== Death ==
Anne Neville died on 16 March 1485, probably of [[tuberculosis]], at [[Westminster]].<ref>Licence 2013, p. 176.</ref> The day she died, there was an [[eclipse]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE1401-1500.html |title=Catalog of Solar Eclipses: 1401 to 1500 |website=Eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov |access-date=8 October 2016}}</ref> which some took to be an omen of her husband's fall from heavenly grace. She was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]] in an unmarked grave to the right of the High Altar, next to the door to the Confessor's Chapel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://westminster-abbey.org/our-history/royals/anne-neville,-wife-of-richard-iii |title=Westminster Abbey » Anne Neville, wife of Richard III |website=Westminster-abbey.org |access-date=8 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918062055/http://westminster-abbey.org/our-history/royals/anne-neville,-wife-of-richard-iii |archive-date=18 September 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Richard III is said to have wept at her funeral. Nevertheless, rumours circulated that Richard III had poisoned her in order to marry his niece [[Elizabeth of York]].<ref>Hicks 2006, p. 196.</ref>

Richard sent Elizabeth away from court to Sheriff Hutton and publicly rebutted these rumours on 30 March 1485 during an assembly of Lords he had summoned at the Hospital of St. John. Addressing them "in a loud and distinct voice", he "showed his grief and displeasure aforesaid and said it never came into his thought or mind to marry in such manner wise, nor willing nor glad of the death of his queen but as sorry and in heart as heavy as man might be …".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Watney|first1=Frank D.|last2=Lyell|first2=Laetitia|title=Acts of Court of the Mercers' Company 1453–1527|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lApNUxjgg1gC&pg=PR7|year= 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1107681644}} Entry for 31 March 1485</ref> There is no reason to doubt that Richard's grief over his wife's death was genuine.<ref>Hicks, 2011</ref> Documents later found in the Portuguese royal archives show that after Anne's death, Richard's ambassadors were sent on a formal errand to negotiate a double marriage between Richard and the Portuguese king's sister [[Joan, Princess of Portugal|Joanna]] (who was of Lancastrian descent), and Elizabeth of York and Joanna's cousin Duke Manuel (the future [[Manuel I of Portugal|Manuel I]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Ashdown-Hill|first=John|title=The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA|url=https://archive.org/details/lastdaysofrichar0000ashd|url-access=registration|year=2012|publisher=History Press Ltd.|isbn=978-0752492056}}</ref>

There was no memorial to Queen Anne until 1960, when a bronze tablet was erected on a wall near her grave by the [[Richard III Society]].

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|notes = As Queen, Anne Neville bore the arms of her husband, King [[Richard III of England|Richard III]], impaled with the Neville arms without difference. Anne Neville sometimes bore her father, Lord Warwick's, full achievement, however at other times she also bore the arms of [[House of Neville|Neville]] ''without'' difference by a label for [[House of Lancaster|Lancaster]] (larger coat of arms).
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|escutcheon = [[quartering (heraldry)|Quarterly]], 1st and 4th, France moderne, 2nd and 3rd England; impaled with Gules, a saltire Argent.
|symbolism =  The other version of Anne Neville's arms as queen bore that of her husband, King Richard, Quarterly, 1st and 4th, France moderne, 2nd and 3rd England, impaled with the full achievement of Anne Neville's father; of seven, 1st, Gules, a fess between six crosses crosslet Or (Beauchamp), 2nd, Chequy Or and Azure, a chevron ermine (Newburgh), 3rd, Argent, three lozenges conjoined in fess Gules (Montacute), 4th, Or, an eagle displayed Vert (Monthermer), 5th, Gules a saltire Argent, a label of three points gobony Argent and Azure (Neville), 6th, Or, three chevrons Gules (Clare), 7th, Quarterly, Argent and Gules, a fret Or, overall a bendlett Sable (Despencer).<ref>Pinches, John Harvey; Pinches, Rosemary (1974), ''The Royal Heraldry of England, Heraldry Today'', Slough, Buckinghamshire: Hollen Street Press, {{ISBN|090045525X}}</ref> [[File:Arms of Anne Neville.svg|right|100px]] The coat of arms of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick used almost all typical forms of heraldry in England: the first quarter consisted of his father-in-law, [[Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick|Richard de Beauchamp]], who bore with an escutcheon of De Clare quartering Despenser, which was shown in Neville's fourth quarter. The second quarter showed the arms of the Montacutes (Montagu). The third quarter showed the arms of Neville differenced by a label for [[House of Lancaster|Lancaster]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Turnbull|first=Stephen R.|title=The Book of the Medieval Knight|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofmedievalkn0000turn_l7u4|url-access=registration|year=1985|publisher=Arms and Armour Press|isbn=978-0853687153}}</ref>
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