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Anne Neville

1456 - 1485

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Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the "Kingmaker"). Before her marriage to Richard, she had been Princess of Wales as the wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, the only son and heir apparent of King Henry VI. As a member of the powerful House of Neville, Anne played a critical part in the Wars of the Roses fought between the houses of York and Lancaster for the English crown. Her father betrothed her as a girl to Prince Edward, the only son of the ousted King Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Neville has received more than 3,520,920 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Anne Neville is the 1,342nd most popular politician (up from 1,407th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 349th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Politician.

Anne Neville was the youngest daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Anne Beauchamp. She was married to King Richard III of England in 1472.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anne Neville ranks 1,342 out of 15,577Before her are Aristide Briand, Horst Köhler, Ferdinand III of Castile, Frederick I of Denmark, Colin Powell, and John Tyler. After her are Psamtik I, Critias, Emmanuel Macron, Seljuk, Toghon Temür, and Valdemar IV of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1456, Anne Neville ranks 2Before her is Vladislaus II of Hungary. After her are Afonso I of Kongo, Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, Bernardino López de Carvajal, and Umar Shaikh Mirza II. Among people deceased in 1485, Anne Neville ranks 2Before her is Richard III of England. After her are Rodolphus Agricola, Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada, Giovanni Mocenigo, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Vuk Grgurević, and John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Neville ranks 319 out of 7,765Before her are Edward Gibbon (1737), Benny Hill (1924), Stanley Matthews (1915), Thomas Andrews (1873), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), and John Herschel (1792). After her are Frederick Soddy (1877), Syd Barrett (1946), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Jon Lord (1941), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), and George Eliot (1819).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Anne Neville ranks 62Before her are Harthacnut (1018), Harold Macmillan (1894), Richard Cromwell (1626), Halford Mackinder (1861), Æthelred the Unready (968), and David II of Scotland (1324). After her are Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Marie of Romania (1875), Tristan (535), Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411), and Æthelflæd (869).