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60 WARWICK, beeame extintL Admon. 17 June 1447, at Lambeth. AeA. 24 Hen. VI. Hia widow ai., after July 1446, aa hia firat wife, Johu (Tiftovt), Eabl of Wobcbstbr, who waa beheaded 18 Oct 1470, aged 48.(«) She d, 2d July 1460. Earldom. 23. Anns, who may be considered as sua jure XV 144.fi Couvnas ov Warwick, da. and h. ; 6. at Cardiff in Walea, Feb. AT. i««u, 1^12/S; nfe.A«r/aMer, 11 June 1446; <f. an infant, at Kwelme, Oxen, 1 A^Q ^ J*^"- 1448/9, and waa 6ttr. in Reading Abbey. Bich, 27 Hen. YI. 144:1. j^^ i^er ^^^j^ the Earldom, of Warwids lapied to the Orown, the repreaentation thereof devoWing on her four aunta, daughtem (by diflereut wivea) of her grandfather. Earl 1Uchard.(i>) XVI. 1449, 16 or 1, Sir Richard Nbvill, lut. b. and h. ap. of and Richard (Nbvill), Haul of Sausbuky, by Altoe, da. and 1l of Thomaa 1400. (MONTAOUTK), alao Bakl ov 8AU8BURY, waa 6. 22 Noy. 1428, uud knigkied at an early age, and having m. at a atill earlier one, poaaibly in 1484, and certainly before 143tf, Anne, only aister of the whoU blood to Henry (BiAUOBAUi'), DuKK OV Wahwick, she being 4th da. and ooheir(^) of Richard, Eakl OF Warwick, by hia aecond wife Isabel aboTementioned, ttw., in right of hia aaid wife (acoording to the then doctrine of the excludon of the half blood), to the vkUe of the great eatatea of the Earldom of Warwick. (<*) He waa, accordingly, eof^mud 28 July 1449, aa KARL OF WARWICK,(<1) to him and the hein of hia aaid wife " with all pre-eminencea [».e. that of premier HarC] that any of thnir anceatora, before the creation of Henry, Duke of Warwick, U8ed."(«) Thia patent he reaigned, and on 2 March 1460, he waa er. EARL, a^d ahe COUNTESS OF WARWICK each for their life, with all the pri? ilegea(*) ftc granted by the preceding patent, with rem. after the death of both, of the dignity to the heira of the body of the aaid Anne, and in caae ahe ahould die a.p., then to Maxgaret, Counteaa of 8hrewaburv,(0 and the heira male of hei- body,rem. to the heira general of her body, rem. to the right heira of [her father] Richard, late Earl of Warwick, &c. When, but 25, hewaa in 1463, made P.C.,aud (withhia father), waa 1468-69, joint warden of the Weat marchea, and a commiaar. to inveat I'rince Edward aa l^noe uf Walea, 18 April 1464. After, however, the recovery of Hen. VI., from madneBa,he became a ataunch Yorkiat, and at the firat battle of St Albana, 22 May 1466, " had the good foitune to deci<1e the day and win, Miniewhat eaaily, a militai'y reputation."(a) He waa rewarded, 1466, with the iuiiiortaiit poat uf Captain of Culaia, Lieut, of Picardy, and in 1467, waa made Captain ti> guard the aea. He waa Chief Commiaar. to Bui^undy, 1467 ; took an acttve part in the prupoaed reconciliation between Henry YI. and the Yorkiata, and walked in the " love-day " proceaaion to St Paul'a, 26 March 1468. AfUr the Yorkiat victory at Blore heath, 28 Sep. 1469, he joined their troopa at Ludford, near Ludlow, but at the King a approach, 12 Oct, they diaperaed, and he (with their other leaders) fled, and waa cc)uae([uent]y attainted (•) He ia, in the *' Roua Roll," called a aemelie Lord of peraon." (^) Theae four coheira, all of whom left iaaue, were (1) Margaret, m. John (Talbot), Earl of Shrewabury, which Lady waa mentioned in the entail of the Earldom of Warwick, er. in 1460 ; (2) Eleanor, m. firatly Thomaa (de Roe), l/ord Roa, who d. 18 Aug. 1481, aeoondly, Edmund (Beaufort), Duke of Someraet, alain 22 May 1466, and thirdly, Walter Rodealey ; (3) Elizabeth, m. Geoi-ge (Nevill), Lord Latimer, who d. 80 Dec. 1469 ; (4) Anne, only da. by the aecond wife, who m. Itichard (Nevill), Earl of Warwick, ao er. in 1449. («) Theae included the caatlea of Warwick, Woroeater, Elmley, Abeigavenny, Neath, kc, the lordahipa of Gower and Qlamoi^pin, and alao Barnard Caatle in the north, to which, after hia father'a death in 1460, the great Nevill eaUtea at Middleham and Sheriff Hutton, in Yorkahire, were added. {^) See ToL i, p. 16, note *' b," $ub ** Abeigavenny " aa to hia being atyled on hia teal, ** Dominut de Bergavenny** aa well aa " Ootnee Warrewiei." The unique impreaaion of thia aeal, attached to a document bearing hia autograph aignature ia now (1897), in poaaeaaion of Jamea Round, M.P. (•) See pace 69, note '* f." (0 Thia Margaret waa eldeat aiater, tho' of the half blood, to the aaid Anne, Counteaa of Warwick, being the aenior coheir of the old Earb of Warwick. See noU "b"aboTe. (C) Nai. BioffT.