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Personal data Anthony Wydeville , 2nd Earl Rivers 

• Also known as Anthony /Woodville/, 2nd Earl Rivers.
• He was born about 1440 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England.Source 1
• He died on June 25, 1483 in Executed at Pontefract, Northamptonshire, England (dsp legit).Sources 1, 2
• This information was last updated on March 12, 2023.

Household of Anthony Wydeville , 2nd Earl Rivers

(3) He is married to Mary FitzLewis.

They got married before October 1480 at 1st husband 2nd wife.Source 3

Notes about Anthony Wydeville , 2nd Earl Rivers

His eldest son, Anthony Woodville, 2d Earl Rivers, 1442?-1483,accompanied Edward into exile (1470-71) and later served him in variouscapacities. In 1473 he was appointed guardian of Edward, prince of Wales(later Edward V). On Edward IV’s death, however, Rivers was arrested byRichard, duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), and executed. A somewhatromantic and otherworldly figure, Rivers wrote translations of variousFrench works. His "Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophres" (1477) wasthe first dated book printed in England by William Caxton. [ColumbiaEncyclopedia, 6th Edition, 2001 - online]

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EARLDOM OF RIVERS (II)

ANTHONY (WYDEVILL), EARL RIVERS, and BARON RIVERS, son and heir, bornabout 1440, was a Knight in January 1459/60, when captured with hisfather at Sandwich. He fought on the Lancastrian side at Towton, 29 March1461. Having married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Scales,he was summoned to Parliament, 22 December 1462, as LORD SCALES. In thatmonth he accompanied the King to Scotland and took part in the siege ofAlnwick. J.P. in Norfolk in 1464. On 25 May 1465, cup-bearer at hissister's coronation. K.G. 1466(?). In November 1466, upon surrender by aprevious grantee, he had a grant of the Isle of Wight, with CarisbrookeCastle. In June 1467 he fought the Bastard of Burgundy, whom he hadchallenged, in lists at Smithfield. He was a commissioner in Septemberfollowing to arrange the marriage of the King's sister Margaret withCharles, son of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, and in November made keeper ofPorchester Castle. In October 1468, captain of the King's armed power(armata) against France, which effected nothing. When the rebellion brokeout in June, 1469, he was with the King in Norfolk. In June 1470,commissioner of array in Hants, and captain of the King's armed power,with which he baulked the designs of the Earl of Warwick. He was alsoappointed Lieutenant of Calais. When Edward, in his turn, was obliged toflee from England, in September 1470, Rivers attended him. He returnedwith him in March 1471, and fought with great valour, 14 April, atBarnet, where he was wounded. Left in charge of London, while Edward wasfighting at Tewkesbury, he defeated the Bastard Fauconbridge's attempt toseize the city. In July he was among the Lords of Parliament (noParliament was then sitting) who took the oath to maintain the right ofthe Prince of Wales, and was appointed on the Prince's council. In 1472,he sailed with a body of men to obtain the surrender of the Earls ofPembroke and Richmond from Brittany, and was chief commissioner to treatwith the Duke. On 17 May 1473, Chief Butler of England for life; 10November, Governor of the Prince of Wales. In August 1475 he took part inthe King's expedition to France, and in 1476 was with the Duke ofBurgundy at the siege of Morat; an arbitrator between England and France,January 1478/9. When Edward IV died, 9 April 1483, he was with the Princeat Ludlow; on their way to London the Duke of Gloucester procured hisarrest, on a charge of attempting to usurp the government; he wasimprisoned in Sheriff Hutton and Pontefract Castles, Yorks, and beheadedat Pontefract, 25 June, without any regular trial.

He married, 1stly, before 22 December 1462, Elizabeth, widow of Sir HenryBOURCHIER, 2nd son of Henry (BOURCHIER), EARL OF ESSEX, and daughter andheir of Thomas, LORD SCALES (died July 1460). She died s.p., 2 September1473. In 1477 Edward proposed Lord Rivers as a husband for the youngDuchess of Burgundy; in 1479 considerable progress had been made with aproposal for a marriage with Margaret, sister of James III of Scotland.He married, 2ndly, before October 1480, Mary, daughter and heir of SirHenry FITZLEWIS (died May 1480) of Horndon, Essex, by Elizabeth, daughterof Edmund (BEAUFORT), DUKE OF SOMERSET (g). He died s.p., as above, 25June 1483. His widow married, 2ndly, Sir George NEVILLE. [CompletePeerage XI:22-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(g) At the taking of her father's Inq.p.m., she was aged 15 (20 EdwardIV).

Note: Although CP states "dsp", Anthony actually was "dsp legit",according to Ancestral Roots, line 234-34, as well as several postings onsoc.genealogy.medieval newgroup.

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