Anne Street Leger was a niece of two Kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III.
Background
Anne Street Leger was born on 14 January 1476, during the reign of her maternal uncle, King Edward IV. Her mother, Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, died the same day of complications surrounding the birth. Her father was the Duchess of Exeter"s second husband, Sir Thomas Street Leger. Lady Anne Holland, her maternal half-sister fathered by Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, died before she was born.
According to the 1467 grant, the Duchess of Exeter inherited the estate which her elder daughter had inherited from her father, the Duke of Exeter.
Career
Before she was 8, she had inherited a vast fortune and been disinherited of lieutenant Married at 14, she had 11 children, and is a link in the maternal line that was used to identify the remains of Richard III. The grant stipulated that most of the Exeter inheritance was to pass to the Duchess" heirs of the body, even if fathered by a subsequent husband. Anne inherited the enormous estate at birth, as it coincided with her mother"s death.
A much desirable bride since her birth, Anne was contracted to marry Lord Ferrers of Groby.
The arrangement, detrimental to the interests of the surviving descendants of the Holland family, resulted in a growing unpopularity of King Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth. Following the Battle of Bosworth Field, in which Richard III was killed, the match between Street Leger and Ferrers was discarded.
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