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  Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
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 the Edward IV appointed Rivers Governor of the Prince of Wales' household.
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  Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (birth unknown, died 6 March 1491) succeeded his brother, Anthony Woodville, as the third Earl Rivers.
He was the son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, and was the brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife and Queen of King Edward IV of England.
Richard Woodville was the last of his family to hold the title of Earl Rivers.
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 Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers born Richard Wydeville in 1412 at Maidstone, Kent, England was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV.
Initially he was on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses, but he later switched and became a Yorkist, once he was convinced that the Lancaster cause was lost and reconciled himself to the new king.
After the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth, widow of Sir John Grey of Gorby, to Edward IV on May 1, 1464, he was created Earl Rivers (1466) and appointed Lord Treasurer by his new son-in-law.
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 Karen Worley's Genealogy Database - Person Page 7
Richard "The Kingmaker" Neville Earl of Warwick married Anne De Beauchamp, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp 13 Earl of Warwick and Isabel Despencer, in 1434.
Richard de Beauchamp 13 Earl of Warwick married Isabel Despencer, daughter of Thomas Despencer 1st Earl of Gloucester and Constance Plantagenet, on 26 November 1423.
Thomas Despencer 1st Earl of Gloucester married Constance Plantagenet, daughter of Edmund Plantagenet of Langley, Duke of York and Isabel of Castille, circa 1385.
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 The House of York
Richard’s first wife, Anne Mortimer, was sister and afterwards heiress to the Earl of March and to the claims of her great-grandfather, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second son of Edward I, thus giving her Yorkist successors a superior claim to the throne over the House of Lancaster.
Richard Neville was born in 1400, the eldest son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt.
The attainder was reversed in 1495 on the petition of Ratcliffe's son Richard.
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 Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
He was the son of another Sir Richard Woodville, chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford.
After the duke died the younger Richard married the widowed duchess, Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
Rivers was executed by the Lancastrians after the Battle of Edgecote[?].
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 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
He was the eldest son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
Rivers became very influential at the royal court after his sister Elizabeth married Edward IV.
In 1473 the Edward IV appointed Rivers Governor of the Prince of Wales' household.
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 War of Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Richard soon began to press his claim to the throne with ever-greater boldness, imprisoning Somerset, and backing his allies, Salisbury and Warwick, in a series of minor conflicts with powerful supporters of Henry like the Dukes of Northumberland.
Richard was slain during the battle, and Salisbury and Richard's 17 year old son Edmund, Earl of Rutland were captured and beheaded.
The Woodvilles were in position to influence the young king's future government, since Edward V had been brought up under the stewardship of Earl Rivers in Ludlow.
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 Karen Worley's Genealogy Database - Person Page 76
William Herbert 1st Earl of Pembroke married Anne Devereux, daughter of Sir Walter Devereux and Elizabeth Merbury, circa 1455.
Edmund Crouchback Plantagenet 1st Earl of Lancaster was the son of Henry III Plantagenet King of England and Eleanor Berenger of Provence.
Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Lancaster was the son of Edmund Crouchback Plantagenet 1st Earl of Lancaster.
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 AllRefer.com - Rivers, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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.
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He was declared heir to the throne by Richard III in the event of the death of his own son, Prince Edward.
Jacquetta was the daughter of the Count of St Pol, and the widow of the Duke of Bedford, Henry V’s brother.
Catherine and her sister were the daughters of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
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 Woodville House
She was born circa 1437 at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, the daughter of Sir Richard Woodville (later made first Earl Rivers) and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
When the marriage to Elizabeth Woodville became common knowledge, it was the cause of considerable rancour on Warwick's part, and when Elizabeth's relatives, especially her brother, Earl Rivers, began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
Major Woodville Latham (1837-1911) was an ordnance officer of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and professor of chemistry at University of West Virginia.
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 Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers at AllExperts
Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (birth unknown, died 6 March 1491) succeeded his brother, Anthony Woodville, as the third Earl Rivers.
He was the son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, and was the brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife and Queen of King Edward IV of England.
Richard Woodville was the last of his family to hold the title of Earl Rivers.
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 Rivers in England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers - Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (birth unknown, died 6 March 1491) succeeded his brother, Anthony Woodville, as the third Earl Rivers.
River Tyne, England - The River Tyne is a river in England.
Rivers of Kent - There are four rivers draining the county of Kent, England.
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 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Rivers became very influential at the royal court after his sister Elizabeth (Elizabeth: elizabeth woodville or wydville (c....
Anthony was succeeded by his brother, Richard (Richard: richard woodville, 3rd earl rivers (birth unknown, died 6 march 1491) succeeded his...
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 ElizabethWoodville
Queen of Edward IV, daughter of Sir Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, of the great house of Luxemburg, Elizabeth Woodville was probably born in 1437.
By him she had two sons, Thomas and Richard, and it was when she was supplicating King Edward IV for the restoration of their estates that he fell in love with her.
The rivalry of the Nevilles with the Woodvilles soon succeeded to that of the Yorkists and Lancastrians, for Elizabeth was a greedy, unscrupulous woman who insisted on the King showering lands and wealth on all her relations.
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 People
She was the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt.
Richard Neville was born in 1428 at Raby Castle.
Richard Neville was the son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and half sister of Henry IV.
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 Search Results for "Woodville"
Woodville, Elizabeth, 1437-92, queen consort of Edward IV of England.
She was the daughter of Richard Woodville (later the 1st Earl Rivers).
...2d duke of Buckingham, seized custody of the young king from Edward IV's widow, Elizabeth Woodville, and her relatives, and was able to assume the protectorship....
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Her brother, Duncan, Earl of Fife, was an allie of the English and was married to Mary de Monthermer, niece of Edward I. of England.
She was daughter of the great Randolf, 1st Earl of Moray and in 1346 she inherited from her brother the Earldom of Moray and the Lordships of Annandale and the Isle of Man and lived (Ca.
She was daughter of Sir Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, of the house of Luxemburg, and had first been married Sir John Grey of Groby, a Lancastrian, who fell at St. Albans in 1461.
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 Elizabeth Woodville - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Edward IV married her in secret in 1464, partly because the powerful Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, had other marriage plans for him and partly because of Elizabeth's Lancastrian connections.
At the death (1483) of Edward IV, Richard, duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), seized custody of the young Edward V, Elizabeth's eldest son by the late king, and destroyed the power of the Woodvilles (Elizabeth's brother the 2d Earl Rivers and son Richard Grey were executed).
Shakespeare's 'King Richard III' and the problematics of Tudor bastardy.
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 WOODVILLE
Richard was assigned to accompany Jacquetta, the beautiful young widow of the Duke of Bedford, on a voyage to England from Rouen, where the Duke had died.
Woodville was a loyal servant of King Henry and was rewarded with the Rivers Barony in 1448.
The Earl assembled a body of troops, with the intention of crowning his nephew; but his design was defeated by the machinations of the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III, who caused the gallant nobleman to be beheaded, without trial, in the castle of Pontefract, Jun, 1483.
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg638 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Edward Plantagenet IV [Parents] was born in 1442 in England House Of York Son Of Richard III,,.
Edward, eldest surviving son of Richard, duke of York, brought the House of York to powe r i n the throne of England in 1461, succeeding Henry VI of the House of Lancaster.
Dtr of Sir Richard Woodville, 1st Earl of Rivers.
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 Wars of the Roses information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Henry V's short reign saw one conspiracy against him, led by Richard, Earl of Cambridge, a son of Edmund of Langley, the fifth son of Edward III.
Henry V died in 1422, and Richard, Duke of York, the son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer, grew up to challenge his successor, the feeble King Henry VI, for the crown.
The Act of Accord and the events of Wakefield left the 18-year-old Edward, Earl of March, York's eldest son, as Duke of York and heir to the throne.
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 Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford Information
Jasper was the third son of Owen Tudor and the former queen Catherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V.
Jasper was married on November 7, 1485 to Catherine Woodville (c.
Catherine was the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, and thus was sister to (among others) Elizabeth Woodville, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers and Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers.
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 EARL RIVERS - Online Information article about EARL RIVERS
RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c.
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RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (...
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 New England Historic Genealogical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville was the French-born Jacquette of Luxembourg, widow of John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford (son of the English King Henry IV) when she married the “parvenu” Lancastrian, later Yorkist peer, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (whose origin, and descent from the Beauchamps of Lillesdon, Somerset and Ryme, Dorset.
Among second cousins of Jacquette of Luxembourg (Duchess of Bedford and Countess Rivers) was Giovanella Orsini, wife of Giacomo IV Caetani, Lord of Sermoneta and grandmother of Giovanella Caetani, wife in turn of Pier Luigi Farnese and mother of both Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III, and Giulia Farnese, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia).
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (1473-83), the princes murdered in the Tower of London, and of 11.
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