. Anne of York (1439-1476) (daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York) and and her second husband Sir Thomas St Leger (). Her first husband was Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter. Monumental brass on east wall of St Ledger Chantry (now Rutland Chantry), north transept of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Anne was a sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. Inscription: Wythin thys Chappell lyethe beryed Anne Duchess of Exetur suster unto the noble kyng Edward the forte. And also the body of syr Thomas Sellynger knyght her husband which hathe funde within thys College a Chauntre
. Anne of York (1439-1476) (daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York) and and her second husband Sir Thomas St Leger (). Her first husband was Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter. Monumental brass on east wall of St Ledger Chantry (now Rutland Chantry), north transept of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Anne was a sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. Inscription: Wythin thys Chappell lyethe beryed Anne Duchess of Exetur suster unto the noble kyng Edward the forte. And also the body of syr Thomas Sellynger knyght her husband which hathe funde within thys College a Chauntre with too prestys sy’gyng for ev’more. On whose soule god have mercy. The wych Anne duchess dyed in the yere of oure lorde M Thowsande CCCCl xxv. The arms above Anne show her paternal arms of the Dukes of York: in the dexter half the royal arms of England, emphasising their descent from Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368), third son of King Edward III (on which basis the House of York claimed the throne), who married Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (1332–1363). Their daughter Philippa de Burgh married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, whose son Roger de Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, was the great-grandfather of King Edward IV; In the sinister half are shown in chief Or a cross gules (de Burgh) and in base: Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent (Mortimer) . circa 1476/83. Unknown 48 Anne of York and Sir Thomas St. Leger
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