Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk (''née'' Talbot; December 1442/January 1443 – 6 November 1506/10 May 1507) was a daughter of

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and his wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp.

Family

Lady Elizabeth Talbot was a daughter of

and his wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp. Her older sister was Lady Eleanor Talbot, believed to have been King Edward IV's mistress. Elizabeth's maternal grandparents were

Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (25 or 28 January 138230 April 1439) was an English medieval nobleman and military commander. Early life Beauchamp was born at Salwarpe Court Richard Gough, ''Description of the Beauchamp chapel, adjoi ...

and Elizabeth de Berkeley. One of her brothers was John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle, a nobleman and soldier.

Marriage

She was married to John de Mowbray. He succeeded his father as

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in 1461, making her the Duchess of Norfolk by marriage. They had only one surviving daughter, who inherited the Warwick estates. *

Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later Duchess of York and Duchess of Norfolk (10 December 1472 – c. 19 November 1481) was the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower. She died at the age ...

(10 December 1472 – 1481), married

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, a son of Edward IV of England and one of the

Princes in the Tower The Princes in the Tower refers to the apparent murder in England in the 1480s of the deposed King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. These two brothers were the only sons of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville sur ...

. Anne died at the age of 8.

Ancestry

References

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