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Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (1453 – 6 March 1491) succeeded his brother, Anthony Woodville, as the third Earl Rivers. He was the son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Richard was the brother of the English queen Elizabeth Woodville .
Richard died on March 6, 1491, without issue. He was the last of the Woodville brothers. In his will, he requested burial at the Abbey of St. James at Northampton and bequeathed his lands to his nephew Thomas, Marquis of Dorset (Elizabeth Woodville’s surviving son by her first husband). He asked that the underwood at Grafton be sold so as to ...
Aug 12, 2012 · 1469: Richard Woodville, father of the queen. Posted on 12 August, 2012 by Headsman. On this date in 1469, Richard Woodville, the father of the queen, lost his head. Though he died as Earl Rivers, Woodville started life as a commoner.
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Nov 6, 2017 · Posted on November 6, 2017. Sir Richard Woodville (Lord Rivers) and his eldest son Sir Anthony were men in trouble in the aftermath of the Battle of Towton fought at Eastertide 1461. They were Lancastrians who within six weeks of the battle found themselves attainted of treason and their lands confiscated. By July 12 1462 Lord Rivers was pardoned.
Apr 26, 2022 · Genealogy for Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (c.1453 - 1491) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Brief Life History of Richard. When Richard Woodville , 3rd Earl Rivers was born in 1453, in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Sir Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers, was 48 and his mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford, Countess Rivers, was 38. He died on 6 March 1491, in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, at the ...
RICHARD WOODVILLE, EARL RIVERS, (or Wydeville), was a member of a family of small importance long settled at Grafton in Northamptonshire. His father, Richard Woodville, was a squire to Henry V, and afterwards the trusted servant of John of Bedford, in whose interest he was Constable of the Tower during the troubles with Humphrey of Gloucester in 1425.
