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  The House of York
Until Elizabeth Woodville finally bore Edward a son in 1470, Clarence was the heir presumptive,and it was soon clear to the Earl of Warwick that he was discontented and ambitious.
The eldest son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, Edward was born in sanctuary at Westminster on 4 November 1470.
This child of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville (not to be confused with her aunt of the same name) was born 10 April 1472 at Windsor Castle and died on 11 December of the same year.
www.richard111.com /house_of_york.htm   (14089 words)

  
  Richard Woodville Rivers - LoveToKnow 1911
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.
The younger Richard Woodville was knighted by Henry VI.
The mesalliance caused some scandal, but Woodville enjoyed the king's favour and continued to serve with honour in subordinate positions in France.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Richard_Woodville_Rivers   (432 words)

  
 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg20 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Elizabeth WOODVILLE Queen Consort [Parents] was born 1437 in Grafton Regis, Northants.
Elizabeth WOODVILLE Queen Consort was born 1437 and died 8 Jun 1492.
Jacquetta WOODVILLE was born 1444 and died 1509.
www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg20.htm   (815 words)

  
 WOODVILLE
Woodville was a loyal servant of King Henry and was rewarded with the Rivers Barony in 1448.
Edward was induced to provide grants of land and office for her father and her brothers and her sisters nearly all made advantageous marriages, three of them to minors.
Only one of Elizabeth Woodville's brothers made a marriage at all out of the ordinary and that was brother
www.tudorplace.com.ar /WOODVILLE.htm   (1291 words)

  
 Jacquetta of Luxembourg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Richard Woodville, the son of the late Duke's chamberlein, was commissioned by Henry VI to bring the young widow to England.
Happily married to the love of her life, Jacquetta bore Richard sixteen children, among them Elizabeth Woodville who was to become the wife of King Edward IV of England, and mother of Elizabeth of York (in her turn mother of King Henry VIII, thus making Jacquetta his great-grandmother).
In 1466, Richard Woodville was captured by Warwick and executed subsequently in 1469.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacquetta_of_Luxembourg   (751 words)

  
 Richard III Society--Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The rebellion against Richard in 1483 was essentially a rising of the substantial gentry of the counties from Kent to Cornwall, south of a line from the Thames to the Severn.
Although Woodville influences and connections were not unimportant, an analysis of the movement reveals a very different picture.
Elizabeth Woodville was clearly implicated in the plan of autumn 1483 to place Henry Tudor on the throne, on condition that he married her eldest daughter, Elizabeth of York.
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 The Golden Falcon
Sir Richard Woodville's son Anthony served as a steward under Fastolf in France and married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Scales and secondly Mary, daughter of Sir Henry fitzLewis of Hornden Essex.
Jacquetta's daughter Elizabeth Woodville married, as her first husband, Sir John Grey by whom she had two sons, Richard and Thomas Gray (who married Anne Holland, daughter of the Duke of Exeter).
Of Jacquetta's sons Edward Woodville defected in 1483 to Henry VII, Lionel Woodville was Bishop of Salisbury and John Woodville married Anne Mowbray, the 70 year old Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (widow of John Mowbray).
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~pillagoda/ch6-05.htm   (2429 words)

  
 University Archives
Honorary degrees appear to have arisen out of the practice of granting dispensations from certain particular academic requirements, a practice which is as old as the University itself.
Woodville, Dean of Exeter and the brother-in-law of Edward IV, appears to have already held the degree of Bachelor of Canon Law; the University offered to confer the degree of Doctor of Canon Law on him without the usual academic exercises.
Woodville was shortly afterwards elected Chancellor of the University, a post he held until the death of Edward IV in 1483.
www.oua.ox.ac.uk /enquiries/hondegrees.html   (411 words)

  
 Richard and The Queen’s Brother (Part one.)
The eldest male in a brood of thirteen offspring, Anthony Woodville was born to Sir Richard Woodville of Grafton, Northamptonshire, and Jacquetta, daughter of Pierre Count of St Pol of Luxemburg.
Edward IV showed him preferment in allowing him to marry Elizabeth, the heiress of Lord Scales in 1462, and one can guess the reason: the King had become enamored of Elizabeth Woodville and was actively pursuing her during this period.
His brother Lionel was a type of their father in the gown of a bishop.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/united_kingdom_history/103630   (442 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10751
     Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers was the son of Sir Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg.
She married Thomas Woodville, son of Sir Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg.
     Eleanor Woodville is the daughter of Sir Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg.
www.thepeerage.com /p10751.htm   (677 words)

  
 Flanagan Genealogy
She was the daughter of 1st Earl Rivers Richard Woodville and Jacquetta zu St. Pol.
He was the son of Sir John Woodville and Isabel.
John of Lancaster April 22, 1433 in Bishop's Palace, Therouene, France; married (2) 1st Earl Rivers Richard Woodville 1435.
flanaganfamily.net /genealo/flanagan/report.htm   (9101 words)

  
 (Sarah WOODSON - Richard WOODVILLE (WYDEVILLE) )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Elizabeth WOODVILLE (WYDEVILLE) (Queen of England) (ABT 1437 - 8 Jun 1492)
Jacquetta WOODVILLE (WYDEVILLE) (ABT 1444 - ABT 1472)
Joan (Eleanor) WOODVILLE (WYDEVILLE) (ABT 1450 - ____)
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 Wikidpedia - The free online encyclopedia - Honorary degree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An ad eundem degree may also be considered a sort of honorary degree, although it is only conferred on an individual who has already achieved a comparable qualification at another university.
The first honorary degree was awarded to Lionel Woodville in the late 1470s by the University of Oxford.
It is worth mentioning the point that although higher doctorates such as DSc, DLitt, etc, are often awarded honoris causa, in many countries (notably the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) it is possible formally to earn such a degree.
www.pagerank10.co.uk /wiki/?title=Honorary_degree   (1468 words)

  
 +~*Richard "Earl" of Rivers Woodville/+~*Jacquetta de Luxembourg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Name: *Anthony Woodville Born: Abt 1440 at: Grafton,Northamptonshire,England 17-783 Married: at: Died: 25 JUN 1483 at: beheaded,Pontefract Castle,Yorkshire,England Spouses: *Gwenthlian Stradling
Name: ~*Jacquetta Woodville Born: Abt 1444 at: 18-2432 Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: ~*John "8th Baron" of Knockin Strange
Name: Lionel "Bishop" Woodville of Salisbury Born: Abt 1446 at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:
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 THE BLOOD POISONERS By Lionel Dole (1965)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was the London doctors, Pearson and Woodville, who forced the spurious cowpox on the public and on Jenner.
The person who provided the alleged cowpox lymph which was sent out all over this country and abroad from Woodville’s Inoculation Hospital, King’s Cross, was a young woman of twenty, Ann Bumpus, who had 310 pustules on her body.
In the last century, Antoine Be-champ and Lionel Beale recognized certain minute living particles as being the active agents in vaccine lymph; Monckton Copeman, much later, regarded the similarity in size and appearance of such particles in smallpox pus and vaccine lymph as presumptive proof of a common origin.
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 Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1483 - 1544) was a daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and his wife Catherine Woodville.
Her maternal uncles included (among others) Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers and Lionel Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury.
Her aunts included Elizabeth Woodville and Mary Woodville, married respectively to Edward IV of England and William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_Stafford,_Countess_of_Huntingdon   (273 words)

  
 John WOODS - Eleanor WORDEN
Child: Lionel WOODVILLE, Bishop of Salisbury Birth: ABT.
1 Richard WOODVILLE, Earl Rivers 1 =Jacquetta of Luxemburg in ST. POL Marriage: 1435 2 Edward WOODVILLE 2 Richard WOODVILLE, Earl of Rivers 3 2 Elizabeth WYDEVILLE =John of Groby GREY, Sir, Lord Ferrers 7 Marriage: ABT.
OCT 1480 2 Jacquetta WOODVILLE =John of Knocking STRANGE, Baron Strange 8 Marriage: ABT.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~dphaner/HTML/people/p000016a.htm   (1619 words)

  
 Stephen GARDINER (Bishop of Winchester)
The date of his birth as commonly given, 1483, seems to be about ten years too early.
Said, though doubtfully, to have been the illegitimate son of Lionel Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury, brother of Edward IV's Queen.
More likely, he was the son of a Bury clothmaker of the town where he was born (see his will, printed in Proceedings of the Suffolk Archaeological Institute, i.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/StephenGardiner.htm   (2806 words)

  
 The Story of Magdalen College, Oxford. By Rena Gardiner.
King Edward IV, who was staying at his palace at Woodstock, entered Oxford after sunset with a large company, innumerable torches burning before them.
They were welcomed by the Chancellor, Lionel Woodville, the Queen's brother, and escorted to Magdalen where they were received by the Founder, President Tibard and the Scholars.
They spent the night and much of the next day at the College.
www.magd.ox.ac.uk /gardiner/kings_and_patrons.shtml   (210 words)

  
 Links to medieval buildings from the Worcestershire Branch of the Richard III Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Prebendal Manor House, Nassington, near Fotheringhay, is well worth a visit.
Lionel Woodville, brother-in-law of Edward IV,was appointed to the prebend from 1464-1471.
Queens' College Cambridge has many connections with Richard III and Queen Anne Neville.
www.richardiiiworcs.co.uk /linksother/linksbuildings.html   (127 words)

  
 writing letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Dr Shetty, we presume? -Calcutta Times-Cities-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An honorary degree may be (and often is) conferred by an institution that the recipient never attended...
The university derives benefits by association with the person's elevated status and so enhances its networking and publicity." It was as early as 1470, when Lionel Woodville was awarded the first honorary degree by the Oxford University.
Shetty's spokesperson Dale Bhagwagar says that the actor's title has been given in recognition of Shilpa's 'outstanding contribution to cultural diversity and good relations between the people of UK and India'.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /Cities/City_Supplements/Calcutta_Times/Dr_Shetty_we_presume_/articleshow/2215148.cms   (609 words)

  
 Edward the Fifth
Francis asks for 4,000 archers at Richard’s expense and another 2 or 3,000 at his expense, but Richard doesn’t comply.
Thomas Langton, whom Richard had made Bishop of St. David’s in May, is now made Bishop of Salisbury upon Lionel Woodville’s flight into exile.
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 Amazon.com: "Lord Rivers": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Key Phrases in this book: Lady Margaret, Harry Buckingham, Lord Rivers, Margaret Beaufort, William Caxton, Richard of Gloucester, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry Tudor, Lord Stanley, Mistress Caxton, King Richard, King of England (See more)
Key Phrases in this book: Miss Vernon, Sir Tilton, Sir Lionel, Captain Trevalyon, Major Delrose, Lord Rivers, hidden wife, small baronet, godmother mine, mesmeric eyes, dual solitude, fair madame (See more)
One morning Hastings received a summons to attend Edward, and, on entering the royal chamber, he found already assembled, Lord Rivers, the queen's father, Anthony Wood- ville, and the Earl of Worcester.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Lord-Rivers   (469 words)

  
 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Jacquetta of Luxemburg (mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville)
RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Jacquetta of Luxemburg (mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville)
Jacquetta of Luxemburg (mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville)
This web site copyright © 2002-2007 by Alistair Grieve.
www.royalist.info /execute/biog?person=195   (66 words)

  
 Woodville KNIGHTS - (2000 - 2001; 2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
12/08/2006 - Round 2, Vs Woodville Raptors, Won 20-12
09/09/2006 - Round 6, Vs Woodville Dragons, Lost 11-29
14/10/2006 - Round 9, Vs Woodville Raptors, Won 29-18
www.woodvillebc.com.au /knights.html   (134 words)

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