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Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile; [a] c. 1437 [1] – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from 1 May 1464 until 3 October 1470 and from 11 April 1471 until 9 April 1483 as the wife of King Edward IV.
- Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Early life. Born at Maidstone in Kent, Richard Woodville was...
- King Edward IV
Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England...
- Cecily of York
Cecily of York (20 March 1469 – 24 August 1507), also known...
- Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Bermondsey, England. Elizabeth Woodville (Also known by Elizabeth Wydeville) was the wife of King Edward IV of England. She was the mother of King Edward V of England. She was also the mother of Elizabeth of York, the queen consort of King Henry VII of England. [2]
14 min read. A central figure in the War of the Roses, Elizabeth Woodville found herself on both the winning and losing side, as the battle between the Yorkist supporters and Lancastrians directly impacted not only her time as Queen consort but the fate of her two young sons known as “the Princes in the Tower ”.
- Lily Johnson
- Her parents’ marriage caused a scandal at court. Elizabeth Woodville was born in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire around the year 1437. Unlike most of her predecessors as Queen of England however, her family name was not always ‘great’, and at the time of her birth was even beset by scandal.
- She was married before Edward IV – to a Lancastrian! Through her parents’ strong links to the House of Lancaster, Elizabeth began much of her life on the side of the red rose during the Wars of the Roses.
- Legend surrounds her first meeting with the king. The story of Elizabeth Woodville’s meeting with Edward IV is something of a mystery. Legend tells that following her husband’s death, the future queen stood waiting beneath an oak tree with her two young boys, hoping that the king would pass by.
- Their marriage was not well-received. As her parents’ scandalous marriage had been, Elizabeth and Edward IV’s union was undertaken in secret on 1 May 1464.
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SMART NEWS. Did Elizabeth Woodville, England’s ‘White Queen,’ Die of the Plague? A 500-year-old letter recently found in the National Archives suggests the queen was buried quickly and without...
Elizabeth Woodville is the protagonist in the novel The White Queen, and Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville are the focus of the novels The Red Queen and The Kingmaker's Daughter; the three characters appear in the three novels that make up the television drama.
