Ankarette Twynho

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence had her seized from her house in April the following year and after a summary trial, she was found guilty and hanged outside Warwick.

The case became a cause célèbre, and historians consider her trial and death to have directly contributed, with other events, to Duke of Clarence's eventual downfall and execution in 1478.

[4][note 2] William and Ankarette also had a daughter Edith, who married Thomas Delalynde, while John and his wife gave Twynho a grandson, Roger.

[13] Richard Hyde,[note 3] and Roger Struggle of Beckham, a clothier[14] both servants of Clarence from Warwick Castle, led a force of 80 men to arrest her.

Twynho was charged with veneficium,[20] a form of petty treason,[8][note 4] by giving Isabel "a venomous drink of ale mixed with poison".

[11] The Parliament Roll later recorded thatDiverse of the same Jurre, after the said Judgment goven, came to the seid Ankarette, havyng grete remorce in their consciens, knowyng they hadde goven an untrue Verdyt in that behalf, humbly and pituously asked forgefnes thereof of the seid Ankarette...[25]The case became a cause célèbre.

[1] In late June 1477, Clarence was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of usurping royal authority, or "violating the laws of the realm by threatening the safety of judges and jurors", states Bellamy.