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Authors: Sarah Gristwood

her death, 315

and Henry VII’s accession, 247, 260–1, 266

Suffolk, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of, 36

Suffolk, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of, 36, 41, 80–1, 91, 180

Suffolk, Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of, 298, 302, 307, 309, 315, 321, 326

Suffolk, William de la Pole, Marquess of, 11, 13, 21–3, 33, 36–7, 80

suicide, 27

sumptuary laws, 143

Surrey, Earl of, 314

Swynford, Katherine, 26, 28, 231, 236

Syon Abbey, 145, 285

tapestries, 162, 164

taxation, 288, 326

Ten-Noode, 292

Tetzel, Gabriel, 97

Tewkesbury, battle of, 120, 122

Tewkesbury chronicle, 150

Thaxted, 158

Titchfield Abbey, 14

Titulus Regius, 212–13, 251

Torrigiano, Pietro, 335–6

Tournament of the Golden Tree, 102

tournaments, 101–2, 284, 304

Towton, battle of, 71–2, 77–9, 85

Treaty of Arras, 199

Tristan
, 228

Tudor, Edmund, 41–2, 48, 54, 79, 135

Tudor, Henry, see Henry VII, King

Tudor, Jasper, 41, 48, 55, 57–8, 64, 78, 103–4, 114, 122, 136, 202

and Henry VII’s accession, 237, 249, 251–2

Tudor, Owen, 41, 259

Tutbury, 51

Twelfth Night celebrations, 125, 272

Twynho, Ankarette, 151–2

Tyrell, Sir James, 210, 307

unicorn’s horn, 127, 334

Urswick, Christopher, 204, 220, 251

van der Weyden, Rogier, 299

Venice, 165

Vergil, Polydore, 12, 14, 60, 78, 83, 114, 136, 156, 172

and Perkin Warbeck affair, 277, 280–3, 289–90, 294

and Princes in the Tower, 201–4, 206–7, 210

and Richard III’s reign, 193, 195, 199, 212, 218–20, 228–9

and Tudor accession, 237–43, 253, 258, 261

Virgin Mary, 16, 34, 43, 57n, 88, 103, 129, 161, 169–70, 310

virginity, 57n, 89, 197, 264, 290

Wake, Thomas, 107–8

Wakefield, battle of, 67, 70, 140

Walcote, Cecily, 196

Wallingford, 121

Walsingham, 43, 289

Warbeck, Perkin, 217, 277, 279–85, 287–91, 294–5, 298–9, 312, 315

Warbeque, Katherine, 289

Warham, William, 283

Warkworth’s Chronicle
, 111

Warwick, Anne Beauchamp, Countess of, 53, 133

Warwick, Edward, Earl of, 200, 218–19, 232, 248, 258, 260–1, 285, 298

Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of (‘the Kingmaker’), 49, 59–61, 65, 69–70, 82, 296

and Anne Neville marriage, 110–11, 115

his death, 118, 122, 132

and Elizabeth Woodville marriage, 88–90, 92

his rebellion, 105, 107–11, 113, 115, 117–18

and Woodville family, 99–101

Waurin, Jean de, 32, 35, 83, 85, 89

Weinreich, Caspar, 86, 209

Welles, John, Lord, 202, 251, 293

Westmorland, Ralph Neville, Earl of, 28–9, 49

Whethamsted, John, 65

Whittlebury Forest, 83

Winchester, 255, 257

Windsor, 48, 126, 129, 200, 236, 273, 278, 292

witchcraft, 86, 107, 118, 152, 188, 213, 277

Woking, 104, 114, 135, 249–50, 322, 330

Woodstock, Thomas of, 180

Woodstock, 271, 292, 308

Woodville, Edward, 102, 164, 187, 220

Woodville, Elizabeth

alienation of property, 258–9

and Anne Neville marriage, 132

appearance, 87–8

and Buckingham rebellion, 206

and Cecily Neville, 5, 145

and Clarence’s execution, 155–7

her coronation, 90–1

her death, 278–9, 281

early life, 26, 70, 78

and Edward IV’s death and succession, 180–92, 194

and Edward IV’s mistresses, 131, 173

and Edward IV’s will, 136–7

and Edward V, 114–15, 125–6, 129–30

finances, 98–9, 273–4

gillyflower emblem, 88

and Henry VII’s accession, 216, 252, 255–6

her household, 98–9, 126

Marguerite of Anjou’s curse on, 175

marriage, 83–92, 155–6, 179, 192, 212–13

and patronage, 167, 170

and pretenders, 258, 261–2

and Princes in the Tower, 203–4, 206, 215–17, 253

as queen, 47, 97–9, 125–6, 129–31, 280

rapprochement with Richard III, 231

her reading, 168–9

retirement, 255–6, 259, 262, 266, 270, 275

in sanctuary, 184–6, 212, 214–16

and Warwick rebellion, 107, 111–15, 117–19

her will, 278–9

Woodville, John, 100, 107

Woodville, Bishop Lionel, 185

Woodville family, 99–104, 155, 180–3

Worcester chronicle, 106

Worde, Wynkyn de, 319

Wriothesley, Thomas, 329

Wychwood Forest, 83

Yolande of Aragon, 17, 50

York, Cecily Neville, Duchess of, 5–6, 26–32

and Clarence’s execution, 6, 157–8

and Clarence’s marriage, 106–7

daily regime, 159

her death, 280, 285

and Duke of York’s death, 67–8, 79, 242

and Duke of York’s reburial, 140–2, 144–5

and Elizabeth Woodville, 5, 145

and Elizabeth Woodville marriage, 87–9, 91

and Henry VII’s accession, 262

her household, 29

her library, 159–60

and Marguerite of Anjou, 31, 43–5, 62

as queen dowager, 79–80, 91, 98, 103, 113, 141, 270

and Richard III’s accession, 192–5, 198, 219, 236

and Richard III’s death, 242

religiosity, 82, 89, 158–61, 286

sexual accusations, 30–1, 106, 157–8, 192–3, 213, 283

and Warwick rebellion, 108–9

and Yorkist claim, 40, 61–3, 65, 70–1, 91

her will, 285

York, Edmund of Langley, Duke of, 25, 28

York, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of, 26–30, 32–3

his death, 67–8, 242

and Edward IV’s paternity, 30, 193

Irish exile, 35–6, 38–9

reburial ceremony, 140–3

and Yorkist claim, 35, 38–41, 44–5, 47–8, 51–2, 59–61, 65–7, 91

York, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of, 131, 137, 152, 157, 168

imprisonment and death, 6, 201, 206–10, 215–17

see also
Lambert Simnel; Perkin Warbeck

York, 67, 71, 73, 116, 144, 187, 200, 203

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book began with two conversations, each with writers more familiar than I with the pleasures and pitfalls of the fifteenth century. I was discussing with Alison Weir the possibility of basing a book around a place or an event, rather than a person, when the idea of a book on the battle of Bosworth first occurred to me – one from the viewpoint of the women affected. I was discussing that idea with Ann Wroe when she mentioned that she’d always thought how interesting it would be to try to build an entire book around the Privy Purse expenses of one of those women, Elizabeth of York. I wasn’t quite courageous enough to take that on, but it did start me thinking about how the surviving records for the lives of the royal ladies might be used in a new way. It was George Lucas of Inkwell Management in New York who, eyeing my first proposal on Bosworth, said that since it was clearly the women than really interested me, why didn’t I just write about the women? But even since then, it has been a long journey.

Along the way I have encountered the most extraordinary generosity. Susan Ronald most kindly made available to me her own research on Richard III. Besides Alison Weir, my text was read and improved by Ceri Law, while Julian Humphrys and George Goodwin corrected my blunders on military history, and Dr David Wright checked my interpretation of certain Latin texts. What errors remain are all my own. Above all, thanks are due to Margaret Gaskin who, as so often before, answered the call of old friendship and came to my rescue over everything from questions of attribution to the family tree.

I owe a huge debt to my agent Peter Robinson, to my commissioning editor Arabella Pike, to Essie Cousins and the whole team at HarperCollins. I owe much, also, to those authors whose work on the individual subjects and strands which combine to make up this book has been of such assistance to me. Every effort has been made to contact the owners of any copyright material reproduced, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers would be glad to hear from them so that the mistake can be corrected in future editions.

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