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Richard Wydeville (also written contemporaneously as Wydville and Woodville) (died 1441) was an English landowner, soldier, diplomat, administrator and politician. His son married an aunt of King Henry VI and they were the parents of the wife of the next king, Edward IV.
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers KG (1405 – 12 August 1469), also Wydeville, was the father of Elizabeth Woodville and father-in-law of Edward IV.
Nov 19, 2023 · Sir Richard Wydeville, or Woodville (1385 - 1441) was steward to the Duke of Bedford, Constable of the Tower of London, and Sheriff of Kent. He was also Captain of English Calais. Wydeville's spouse was Elizabeth Joan Bedelgate (1390 – 1448).
- Maidstone
- Maidstone, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
- 1375
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Apr 4, 2024 · Wars of the Roses. Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (died Aug. 12, 1469, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, Eng.) was the father-in-law of the Yorkist king Edward IV of England (reigned 1461–70, 1471–83). Nobles opposed to Rivers initiated the uprising that temporarily drove Edward into exile in 1470.
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Apr 26, 2022 · "Richard Woodville (or Wydeville), 1st Earl Rivers, KG (1405 – 12 August 1469) was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Elizabeth Woodville and the maternal grandfather of Edward V and the maternal great-grandfather of Henry VIII." ===== Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woodville,_1st_Earl_Rivers
- Maidstone
- circa 1405
- "Richard Wydeville"
- Maidstone, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
Richard Woodville, first of the Woodville family to step out onto the pages of history, was born in 1405 at Maidstone in Kent, the son of Richard Wydeville, a soldier and politician and Joan Bittlesgate, the daughter of Thomas Bittlesgate of Knightstone. Wydeville himself was the son of John Wydeville, a Northamptonshire landowner.
The Wars of the Roses. Ballantine Books, 1996. Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers, father of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of King Edward IV of England during the Wars of the Roses.