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  Anthony Woodville Rivers - LoveToKnow 1911
"Memoirs of Anthony, Earl Rivers" are comprised in the Historical Illustrations of the Reign of Edward the Fourth (ed.
Rivers now met with marked favour at court, being entrusted with a delicate mission to the elector of Hanover in 1710, which was followed by his appointment in 1711 as master-general of the ordnance, a post hitherto held by Marlborough himself.
As Rivers left no legitimate son the earldom passed on his death to his cousin, John Savage, grandson of the 2nd earl, and a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, on whose death, about 1735, all the family titles became extinct.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Anthony_Woodville_Rivers   (903 words)

  
 Earl Rivers - LoveToKnow 1911
EARL RIVERS, an English title held in succession by the families of Woodville or Wydeville, Darcy and Savage.
In 12 9 9 John Rivers, or de Ripariis, was summoned to parliament as a baron,, and his son John was similarly summoned by Edward II.
A new barony of Rivers, held by the family of Pitt and its later representative, that of Pitt-Rivers, was in existence from 1776 to 1880.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Earl_Rivers   (253 words)

  
 Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the Wars of the Roses, Rivers fought for Henry VI until the Lancastrian defeat at Towton (1461).
Rivers was captured and executed after Edward's defeat at Edgecot.
On Edward IV's death, however, Rivers was arrested by Richard, duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), and executed.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rivers-r1.html   (287 words)

  
 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Earls (2)
Geoffrey de Mandeville was created by king Stephen earl of Essex, William, third earl of Essex, succeeded to the title of earl of Albemarle in right of Hawise, his wife, daughter of William third earl of Albemarle, The titles became extinct at his death 24 November 1190.
Henry Bourchier, earl of Eu in the province of Normandy, was created by king Henry the sixth 1446 viscount Bourchier, and by king Edward the fourth earl of Essex, which titles became extinct in this family upon the death of Henry, second earl of Essex, 13 March 1539.
James Butler, earl of Ormond of the kingdom of Ireland, was created by king Henry the sixth earl of Wiltshire, which title became extinct by his attainder 4 November 1460.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/Extinct2Earls.html   (2206 words)

  
 To Prove a Villain -- The Real Richard III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Restored as Earl of Surrey four years later, he served on commissions for Henry VII, including being sent to Scotland in 1501 to arrange the terms of peace with James IV and to negotiate the marriage treaty between that monarch and Henry's daughter, Margaret.
Accompanied by Earl Rivers and Sir Richard Grey (respectively brother and son of the Queen) the new King Edward V was intercepted by the Dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham at Stony Stratford and the two Woodvilles were arrested.
Henry, Earl of Richmond, intended to marry Maud, one of Herbert's daughters, to whom he had become attached during the time he was resident in her father's castle.
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 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthony Rivers, 2nd Earl Rivers (1442?- June 25, 1483) was an English nobleman, courtier, and writer.
He was the eldest son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
In 1473 King Edward IV appointed Rivers Governor of the Prince of Wales' household.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Woodville,_2nd_Earl_Rivers   (285 words)

  
 §4. The First Dated Book issued in England—"The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers". XIII. The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The translator, Anthony Wodville, earl Rivers, while on a voyage to the shrine of St. James of Compostella, in 1473, was lent by the famous knight Lewis de Bretaylles a manuscript of Les ditz moraulx des philosophes by Guillaume de Tignoville.
With this, the earl was so pleased that he borrowed the volume and, on his return to England, set about the translation.
This, when finished, was handed to Caxton to “oversee.” He revised the book with the French version and added an amusing epilogue, pointing out that the earl, for some reason, had omitted the remarks of Socrates concerning women, which he, therefore, had added himself.
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 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
At the age of twelve, when bearing the title of the Earl of March, he and his brother Edmund, called Earl of Rutland, who was a year his junior, wrote two joint letters to their father from Ludlow, the first dated Saturday in Easter week, the second on 3 June.
Earl Rivers and his son, Sir John Woodville, were also taken by the rebels and put to death at Coventry.
As the earl did not accept the invitation, Edward went on to the town of Warwick, where he was received as king, and issued proclamations as such.
www.thepeerage.com /e61.htm   (9082 words)

  
 "What to Do When Words Hurt" - CCM Presents A Discussion & Performance of Bach's "St. John Passion"
Earl Rivers is professor of music, head of the ensembles and conducting division and director of choral studies at CCM where he has been a faculty member since 1973.
Rivers is serving in his sixteenth season as music director of the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati (VAE), a 24-voice professional chamber choir acclaimed for its attention to the performance of music of contemporary American composers.
Rivers was presented a special award for service in the arts at the Post-Corbett Awards in Cincinnati.
www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=2076   (1268 words)

  
 Earl Fine Art at absolutearts.com
Jacobus Houbraken, Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, 1741
Thomas Worlidge, The Installation of the Earl of Westmoreland in the Theater at Oxford, 1761
Wenceslas Hollar, Jerome Weston, Earl of Portland, 1645
www.world-arts-resources.com /masters/e/earl--works.html   (1452 words)

  
 RIVERS, EARL - Online Information article about RIVERS, EARL
John Rivers, or de Ripariis, was summoned to See also:
Skjold; the origin is doubtful, but may be referred to the root seen in " shell " or " scale "; another suggestion connects it with Icel.
RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (...
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RHY_RON/RIVERS_EARL.html   (357 words)

  
 Earl Rivers Regiment of Foote (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Earl Rivers Regiment of Foote (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)
Earl Rivers' Regiment of Foote is part of the Prince Palentine's Tertio of the Royalist Army of the Sealed Knot, the Society of Cavaliers and Roundheads, formed in 1968 to re-enact the life and battles of Civil War that took place in Britain between 1642 and 1651.
These range from Major Musters, where literally thousands of members will come together to re-enact a large battle to small displays where members from one or two regiments will show the way of life of the people of the period, together with the tools and weapons used by them, at local museums, school fêtes etc.
www.earlrivers.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888   (147 words)

  
 Richard D. Rivers & Earl Carter
Source: John Harvey River's Descendants of Mathew Rivers, unpublished, 1923.
Source: Geneva Bailey Seymour's "Rivers, Eudy, Seymour", copyright 1981.
The morning was taken up with a trial of a case wherein Marion Whittington was suing W. Montgomery for possession of a trailer.
www.eosdev.com /rivers/FG04/FG04_004.HTM   (400 words)

  
 College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) - University of Cincinnati
Rivers' Recent guest conducting includes the Korean premiere of Arvo Pärt's Berliner Mass with South Korea's Inchon City Chorale and Mozart's Coronation Mass in Carnegie Hall.
He is a recipient of Choral America’s “Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Choral Art,” honoring a lifetime of significant contributions to the professional choral art.
In 2006-07 Rivers’ will teach conducting at Juilliard and the Taipei International Choral Festival in Taiwan, lead the CCM Chamber Choir and Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
www.ccm.uc.edu /faculty/facultyProfile.aspx?facultyid=22   (233 words)

  
 The Kaweah Commonwealth Online - Weekly News
Earl proudly points to the fact that his family has always been in the cattle business and today he still lives in the house where he was born and raised.
Earl said he was surprised and gratified to be honored after being involved with the association for more than 40 years.
For Petit, who lives in Three Rivers, her adventure began last year when she saw an advertisement in Competitor magazine that was seeking applicants for a new reality television show called Global Extremes: Mt. Everest — 4Runners of Adventure with the grand prize being an all-expenses-paid climb up Everest.
www.kaweahcommonwealth.com /11-03/11-14features.htm   (4873 words)

  
 Renowned Composer Philip Glass Visits UC
Earl Rivers will conduct the CCM Concert Orchestra, Chamber Choir, Chorale and the Cincinnati Children's Choir in the regional premiere of Glass' Symphony No. 5 "Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya.".
Originally commissioned and conceived as a celebration of the millennium for the 1999 Salzburg Festival, Glass' Symphony No. 5 contains original texts of Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and indigenous languages that are sung in English to show the commonalities with which these traditions resonate.
Earl Rivers, CCM's director of choral studies, acquired a tape of the Salzburg performance of Symphony No. 5 through Glass' publisher and was intrigued by the choices of texts and textures.
www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=368   (762 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Margaret Woodville and others
She was the daughter of Sir Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg.
She married Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, son of Sir Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg, circa 1460.
She married Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, son of Sir Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg.
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 Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the North (Richard III)
Admittedly his father was duke of York, lord of Wakefield, Sandal and Conisbrough, but he was also earl of March in Wales, earl of Ulster in Ireland, lord of Clare in East Anglia, Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire and many other places besides.
The earl had been warden of the West March towards Scotland, responsible for the defence of Carlisle and the Cumbrian borders, and Richard was appointed as his successor in 1470.
In Northumberland and Cumberland he took second place as landowner to the earl of Northumberland, in Durham he came second to the bishop, the cathedral priory, and the earl of Westmorland; in Yorkshire he had less land than the duke of Lancaster - his brother the king - the archbishop, and doubtless others as well.
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 TimeRef - History Timelines - Woodville, Anthony (Earl Rivers)
Anthony’s father and brother were both beheaded after the battle of Edgecote and he succeeded to the title of Earl Rivers.
It was called 'The Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers' and was a translation by Earl Rivers, the Queens brother.
Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers was arrested and imprisoned at Sherrif-Hutton Castle, near York.
www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hpr2359.htm   (744 words)

  
 Rivers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Anthony Woodville, known as Earl Rivers, is brother to Queen Elizabeth.
Rivers served King Edward IV and governed Wales.
He attempted to remove Richard from the role of Protector and was subsequently executed.
www.umich.edu /~shkspre/richardiii/characters/rivers.htm   (42 words)

  
 Mark Pilling Family History - pilg766 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She died in Colham Green, Middlesex, England and was buried 17 Nov 1550.
Anne married Thomas Stanley [Earl of Derby] about 1502 in of,, Leicestershire, England.
Jacquette married Richard Wydeville [Earl of Rivers] on BTW 6 FEB 1435/6 & 23 MAR 1436/7.
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 KING RICHARD III DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING EDWARD The Fourth (KING EDWARD IV:) EDWARD Prince
Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by, And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him, That none of you may live your natural age, But by some unlook'd accident cut off!
RIVERS By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate: And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.
RIVERS Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother, Of the young prince your son: send straight for him Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives: Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave, And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.
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Titles: King of England and France, Earl of March (from birth), Duke of York, Earl of Ulster and Earl of Cambridge (from 1460).
He was declared king on 4 March 1461, and just over three weeks later decisively defeated the forces of Henry VI at Towton, probably the bloodiest battle fought on English soil, and this secured his claim on the throne.
However, in May 1464, under the pretext of a hunting trip, Edward entered into a secret marriage with Elizabeth Wydville (often called Woodville), daughter of the IST Lord Rivers, and the widow of Sir John Grey.
www.historyincoins.com /ed4.htm   (2111 words)

  
 rivers - OneLook Dictionary Search
Rivers : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
Rivers, rivers : Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include rivers: three rivers, two rivers, oil rivers, rivers larry, earl rivers, more...
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 Mark Pilling Family History - pilg781 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
He died 25 Jun 1483 in Beheaded, Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire, England and was buried in Prob Pontefract.
married Anthony Wydeville [Earl of Rivers] before 22 Dec 1462.
Anthony married Mary FitzLewis [Countess of Rivers] before Oct 1480.
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 AllRefer.com - Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl, British And Irish History, Biographies
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 The Newgate Calendar - RICHARD SAVAGE, ESQ. (THE CELEBRATED POET, SON OF THE EARL OF RIVERS AND THE UNNATURAL COUNTESS ...
As soon as her spurious offspring was brought to light, the countess treated him with every kind of unnatural cruelty.
She committed him to the care of a poor woman to educate as her own, and prevented the Earl of Rivers from making him a be quest of L.6000 by declaring he was already dead.
She endeavoured to send him secretly to the American plantations; and at last, to bury him in obscurity and indigence for ever, placed him as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Holborn.
www.exclassics.com /newgate/ng177.htm   (958 words)

  
 Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st earl - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
The favoritism shown the Woodville faction embittered Richard Neville, earl of Warwick
On Edward IV's death, however, Rivers was arrested by Richard, duke of Gloucester (later Richard III
THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks.
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