Ancestral Trails 2016 » Richard WOODVILLE (1405-1469)

Données personnelles Richard WOODVILLE 

• Il est né en l'an 1405 dans Maidstone, Kent.
• Titre: Baron De Ryvers 9 May 1448
• Titre: 1st Earl Rivers 24 May 1466
• Il est décédé le 12 août 1469 dans Kenilworth, Warwickshire, il avait 64 ans.

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• Un enfant de Richard WOODVILLE et Elizabeth Joan BEDELGATE

Famille de Richard WOODVILLE

Il est marié avec Jacquette St Pol of LUXEMBOURG.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1436 à Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, il avait 31 ans.Source 1

Enfant(s):

1. Edward WOODVILLE  1454-1488
2. Lewis WOODVILLE  1438-????
3. Lionel WOODVILLE  1448-????
4. Richard WOODVILLE  1446-????
5. Joan WOODVILLE  1460-????
6. Jacquetta WOODVILLE  1442-1470 
7. Martha WOODVILLE  1450-1500
8. John WOODVILLE  1444-1469
9. Katherine WOODVILLE  1458-1497 
10. Elizabeth WOODVILLE  -1492 
11. Anthony WOODVILLE  1440-1483 
12. Anne WOODVILLE  1452-1489 
13. Agnes WOODVILLE  1460-1506 
14. Margaret WOODVILLE  1450-1491 
15. Mary WOODVILLE  1456-1482 

Notes par Richard WOODVILLE

Richard Woodville (or Wydeville), 1st Earl Rivers KG (1405 - 12 August 1469) was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Queen consort Elizabeth Woodville and the maternal grandfather of Edward V and the maternal great-grandfather of Henry VIII.

Born at Maidstone in Kent, he was the son of Sir Richard Wydeville (Woodville), chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford, and Joan Bittlesgate (or Bedlisgate), the daughter of Thomas Bittlesgate of Knighteston, Devon. He was also grandson to John Wydeville who was Sheriff of Northamptonshire (in 1380, 1385, 1390).

Following the duke's death, the younger Richard married the widowed duchess, Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1416-1472). This was initially a secret marriage, for which the couple were fined when it came to public notice.

He was a captain in 1429, served in France in 1433 and was a knight of the regent Duke of Bedford in 1435. He was at Gerberoy in 1435 and served under William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, in 1435-6. He then fought under Somerset and Shrewsbury in 1439 and the Duke of York in 1441-2, when he was made captain of Alençon and knight banneret. He was appointed seneschal of Gascony in 1450 (but failed to reach it before its fall), lieutenant of Calais in 1454-5, and to defend Kent against invasion by the Yorkist earls in 1459-60 (but was captured at Sandwich). He was created Baron Rivers by Henry VI on 9 May 1448. Two years later, as Sir Richard, he was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1450. He was appointed Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1459.

In the Wars of the Roses, he was initially a Lancastrian, but he became a Yorkist when he thought that the Lancastrian cause was lost. He reconciled himself to the victorious Edward IV, his future son-in-law. On 1 May 1464, Edward married his daughter Elizabeth, widow of Sir John Grey of Groby. Richard was created Earl Rivers in 1466, appointed Lord Treasurer in March 1466 and Constable of England on 24 August 1467.

The power of this new family was very distasteful to the old baronial party, and especially so to the Earl of Warwick. Rivers was regarded as a social upstart, and in an ironical episode, his future son-in-law in 1459, while accepting his submission, had rebuked him for daring, given his lowly birth, to fight against the House of York. The Privy Council, in its horrified response to the King's marriage, said bluntly that her father's low social standing in itself meant that the King must surely know "that Elizabeth was not the wife for him". Early in 1468, the Rivers estates were plundered by Warwick's partisans, and the open war of the following year was aimed at destroying the Woodvilles. After the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Edgecote Moor on 26 July 1469, Rivers and his second son John were taken prisoners at Chepstow. Following a hasty show trial, they were beheaded at Kenilworth on 12 August 1469. His eldest son Anthony succeeded him in the earldom.

Lord Rivers had a large family. His third son, Lionel (d. 1484) became the Bishop of Salisbury. All his daughters made great marriages: Catherine Woodville, his eighth daughter, was the wife of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

It is worth noting that "Woodville" is the modern spelling of the name and was not so spelled at the time, even though uniform spelling was not established for almost two centuries. The spelling used at the time was "Wydeville" or "Wydville".

Children of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg
They had at least 14 children:

Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437-1492), married Edward IV of England.
Lewis Woodwille (c.1438?), died in childhood.
Anne Woodville (1439-1489). Married first William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier, and second George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (1442-1483), married Elizabeth Scales, 8th Baroness Scales.
Mary Woodville (1443-1481), married William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
Jacquetta Woodville (1444-1509), married John le Strange, 8th Baron Strange of Knockin.
John Woodville (1445-1469), married Catherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk.
Lionel Woodville (1447-1484), Bishop of Salisbury.
Martha Woodville (d. c. 1500), married Sir John Bromley.
Eleanor Woodville (1452-1512), married Sir Anthony Grey.
Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (c. 1453-1491).
Margaret Woodville (1454-1490), married Thomas Fitzalan, 17th Earl of Arundel.
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (d. 1488), soldier and courtier.
Catherine Woodville (c.1458[4]-1497), married first Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, second Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford.

Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, noted another 'Richard' who would seem to have been born before Richard the 3rd Earl. It should also be noted that a 'Richard Woodville, esquire for the body' was present at the christening of Prince Arthur (son of Elizabeth and Henry VII) on 24 September 1486 in Winchester Cathedral; Arthur's grandmother, Elizabeth Woodville, served as his Godmother, and her younger brother Edward was also present at the ceremony.

The Visitation of Buckinghamshire of 1566 mentions the marriage of William Dormer of Wycombe (only later of Ascott House) to "Agnes, da. of Sir Richard Woodvyle, Erle Ryvers" but does not say whether the father was the first or the third earl, who the mother was or whether Agnes was legitimate.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woodville,_1st_Earl_Rivers

Richard Woodville (or Wydeville), 1st Earl Rivers, KG (1405 - 12 August 1469) was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Elizabeth Woodville and the maternal grandfather of Edward V and the maternal great-grandfather of Henry VIII.

Born at Maidstone in Kent, he was the son of another Richard Wydeville, chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford. After the duke died, the younger Richard married the widowed duchess, Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1416-1472). This was initially a secret marriage, for which the couple were fined when it came to public notice.

The Woodvilles, though an old and respectable family, were knightly rather than noble, a reasonably landed and wealthy family that had previously produced Commissioners of the Peace, Sheriffs, and MPs rather than peers of the realm. Richard's own father had made a good career in royal service, rising to be Chamberlain to John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford.

Richard followed his father into service with the Duke, and so first met Jacquetta of Luxembourg. The daughter of Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and Margaret de Baux, she had been married off to the Duke of Bedford in 1433 at the age of 17; he was significantly older than Jacquetta, his second wife, and in ill-health, and he died in 1435, leaving Jacquetta a childless, wealthy widow. She was required to seek permission from the King before remarrying; but in March 1437, it was revealed that she had secretly married Woodville, who was far below her in rank and not considered a suitable husband for the lady still honoured as the King's aunt. The couple were fined £1000, but this would be remitted in October of the same year.

Despite this inauspicious start, the married couple soon prospered, thanks mainly to Jacquetta's continuing prominence in the royal family. She retained her rank and dower as Duchess of Bedford, the latter initially providing an income of between £7000 and £8000 per year (it would diminish over the years due to territorial losses in France and collapsing royal finances in England); Richard was honoured with military ranks, in which he proved himself a capable soldier. Further honours for both came when Henry VI married Margaret of Anjou, whose uncle was Jacquetta's brother-in-law: the Woodvilles were amongst those chosen to escort the bride back to England, and the family benefitted further through this double connection to the royal family, Richard being raised to the rank of Baron Rivers in 1448.

Their children therefore would have grown up enjoying privilege and material comfort.

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