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Richard Woodville

Male - 1469


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  • Name Richard Woodville 
    Gender Male 
    Death 12 Aug 1469  Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I3066  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2019 

    Father Richard Wydevill,   b. of the Mote, near Maidstone, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Dec 1441 
    Mother Joan Bittlesgate   d. Aft 17 Jul 1448 
    Marriage Abt 1403  [3
    Family ID F5503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jacquetta of Luxembourg,   b. 1415   d. 30 May 1472 (Age 57 years) 
    Marriage Bef 23 Mar 1437  [4
    Children 
    +1. Anne Woodville   d. 30 Jul 1489
    +2. Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England,   b. 1437, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1492, Bermondsey Priory, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
     3. Katherine Woodville,   b. Abt 1458   d. 18 May 1497 (Age ~ 39 years)
    Family ID F1767  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Or Wydeville. Treasurer of England, 4 Mar 1466 to his death. Created Earl Rivers, 24 May 1466, and Constable of England for life, 24 Aug 1467. Following the Yorkist defeat at Edgecote Moor, he and his second son John were put through a hasty show trial and beheaded.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.

    2. [S3236] Lynda J. Pidgeon, "A Family 'Made by Maryage': Sir Richard Wydevile and Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford." Northamptonshire Past and Present 62:19, 2009., year only.

    3. [S2677] Charles M. Hansen, "Mary Isaac's Beauchamp Descent: The Correct Lineage." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 147:3, Jan 1993.

    4. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.