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Elizabeth Woodville was the eldest daughter of Richard, 1st Earl Rivers (executed 1469) and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford (her brothers Anthony and John were also executed). By her first husband Sir John Grey she had sons Thomas and Richard and was a lady of the bedchamber to Queen Margaret, wife of Henry VI .
Apr 6, 2022 · Through his scandalous marriage to unlikely queen Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV defied the expectation that he should use such a union as a diplomatic tool and instead prioritised love – or perhaps lust. Amy Licence, late medieval and early Tudor historian, explores their 19-year relationship…. Published: April 6, 2022 at 4:00 PM.
Feb 7, 2022 · When, in the autumn of 1464, Edward IV informed his councillors that he had made a secret marriage, his choice of bride – Elizabeth Woodville – went against all the conventions of his day. Kings were supposed to marry in order to cement a foreign alliance – Elizabeth would be the first English queen since the Norman Conquest.
May 23, 2018 · Elizabeth Woodville (c.1437–92), queen of Edward IV. Elizabeth was a widow with two children when she married Edward IV secretly at Grafton Regis (Northants) on 1 May 1464. She was the daughter of Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
Elizabeth Woodville’s enormous family hitched a ride on her rising star in a big way. The Woodville clan shamelessly used their new fancy-pants status as the king's in-laws to ensnare wealthy husbands and wives. Most scandalously, Woodville’s 20-year-old brother John married the Duchess of Norfolk, who a whopping 65 years old at the time.
QUEEN ELIZABETH WOODVILLE or WYDVILLE (1437-1492) Jacquetta of Luxemburg, the fair young widow of the old warlike Duke of Bedford, took for her second spouse his favourite knight, the brave and handsome Sir Richard Woodville, when she came to England in 1435 to claim her dower. The time of the birth of her eldest child Elizabeth, the issue of ...
Elizabeth Woodville. Played by Rebecca Ferguson. Fact title. Fact data. House. York (Was Lancaster) Elizabeth was married to Sir John Grey, who died at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461 ...
