Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk

Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk ( * December 10, 1472 Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, † November 19, 1481 in Greenwich), later Duchess of York and Norfolk, was the daughter of John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, and its wife Elizabeth Talbot.

Anne was the only child Mowbray, which was still alive and at his death in 1476. She was thus a wealthy heiress and a politically high-quality marriage candidate. Already in 1478 a marriage agreement was concluded with the House of York, making it the same year on January 15 to a marriage to the second son of King Edward IV, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York came. For those times the marriage of a five year old with a four year old instead of a political engagement was very strange, but so Edward IV gained control of the large possessions of his young daughter. Anne's child husband Richard was also invested with the dignity of a Duke of Norfolk. To put this very early marriage the considerable importance of his young daughter out.

On November 19, 1481 Anne died in Greenwich at the age of almost 9 years, and with it went the lineage of the Dukes of Norfolk in personal union with the family Mowbray. She was buried in St. Erasmus Chapel at Westminster Abbey in a lead coffin.

As Henry VII in 1502 an extension of the Westminster Abbey realized and the St. Erasmus Chapel of the Lady Chapel had to give way, Anne's coffin was placed in a vault under the church and fell into oblivion. 1964 met with construction workers stumbled upon the vaults. Anne's remains were in 1965 scientifically studied and the results published in various journals, such as with respect to the teeth under the title The Teeth of Anne Mowbray. Special mention was made of this in addition to the teeth Anne's red hair, which can still be seen in parts, as well as the Shroud preserved. The body was reburied after the close examination of his original tomb.