Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (13 July 1426 – 20 September 1492) was an important late medieval English noblewoman.
[6] One of these, Lady Eleanor, was married to Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (killed at the First Battle of St Albans in 1455).
Anne Beauchamp's husband, Richard, was the grandson of Lady Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, sister of the Duke's late father.
[8] Her elder daughter, Lady Isabel, married George, Duke of Clarence, the younger brother of King Edward IV of England.
[9] Her younger daughter, Lady Anne Neville, was married to Edward of Westminster, the only son of Lancastrian King Henry VI.
A more sympathetic portrayal of the Countess of Warwick is in the novel The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, and a maternal view of her is observed in The Reluctant Queen by Jean Plaidy.
[citation needed] Novelist Sandra Worth represents the Countess as her husband's conscience in her five novels about the Wars of the Roses.