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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.
Whether Richard joined Henry Tudor’s forces at Bosworth is unknown. Following Richard III’s defeat there, Richard Woodville was restored to his estates, including those of his father, and became the third Earl Rivers, the title that his father and his brother Anthony had held before him.
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.
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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.
Richard, 3rd Earl Rivers, was a younger son of Richard Woodville by wife, Jacquetta of Luxembourg. He was brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife and queen of King Edward IV. He succeeded his elder brother Anthony who, after Edward's death, was arrested and executed by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, on 25 June 1483. Just...
Apr 4, 2024 · 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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