Ancestral Trails 2016 » Katherine NEVILLE (1397-1478)

Personal data Katherine NEVILLE 

• She was born in the year 1397 in Castle Raby, Raby With Kevers, Staindrop, County Durham.
• Title: Duchess of Norfolk
• She died in the year 1478 in Durham, County Durham, she was 81 years old.
• A child of RALPH NEVILLE and JOAN BEAUFORT

Household of Katherine NEVILLE

(1) She is married to John WOODVILLE.

They got married January 1464/65, she was 67 years old.

(2) She is married to Thomas STRANGEWAYS.

They got married in the year 1433 at Harlsey Castle, Osmotherley, Yorkshire, she was 36 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Katherine STRANGEWAYS  1436-1457
2. Joan STRANGEWAYS  1439-???? 

(3) She is married to John MOWBRAY.

They got married on January 12, 1411/12 at Raby with Kevers, Staindrop, County Durham, she was 14 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. John MOWBRAY  1415-1461 

(4) She is married to John BEAUMONT.

They got married in the year 1443 at Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, she was 46 years old.

Notes about Katherine NEVILLE

Katherine Neville or Catherine de Neville (born c. 1400 - died after 1483 was the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364-1425) and Lady Joan Beaufort. Through her mother she was a granddaughter of John of Gaunt.

On 12 January 1412, Katherine was married at the age of 12 to John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392-1432). Their only known child was John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1415-1461).

Katherine married for a second time to Thomas Strangeways (c. 1395-before 1442) - they had 2 daughters:
Joan Strangeways, who married Sir William Willoughby. Their daughter Cecily married Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. They were ancestors of Herbert Hoover, among many others.
Katherine Strangeways, who married Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor.
She married for a third time to John, Viscount Beaumont, who was killed in 1460.

Her fourth and last marriage was infamous, known by contemporaries as the "diabolical marriage". She married John Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. He was 19 years old at the time of their marriage, while she was 65. Nonetheless, she survived him, as he was executed in 1469 after the Battle of Edgecote, on the orders of her nephew Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, during a brief period of Lancastrian readeption. Whether or not she was forced into her final marriage against her will is unclear, but it added to the deep dislike of the Queen's family among the ruling class, which greatly weakened the Yorkist dynasty.

She was still alive in 1483, having survived all her children.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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