Bishop of Salisbury Lionel Woodville 
Bishop of Salisbury Lionel was born about 1446 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England.1 Bishop of Salisbury Lionel's father was 1st Earl of Rivers Sir Richard Woodville and his mother was Jacquetta de Luxembourg. His paternal grandparents were Richard Wydeville and Joan Bedlisgate. He had six brothers and eight sisters, named 2nd Earl Rivers Anthony, Sir John, Lewis, Thomas, 3rd Earl Rivers Richard, Sir Edward, Elizabeth, Anne, Martha, Jacquetta, Eleanor Joan, Margaret, Mary and Katherine. He was the seventh oldest of the fifteen children. He died on June 23rd, 1484 in New Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.General Notes
Lionel Woodville
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Lionel Woodville (c. 1446 – 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.
Life
He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.
In the late 1470s, he became the first person to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford.
After a number of more minor clerical positions, he was elected Dean of Exeter in November 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury. He was nominated January 7, 1482 and consecrated in April 1482.
He died about June 23, 1484.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1280 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England d.1329
- b.~ 1310 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England d.1379
- b.~ 1290 in Norwich, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1341 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England d.1404
- b.~ 1324 in Warkworth, Banbury, Northamptonshire, England d.1371 in Richmond, Surry, England
- b.~ 1378 in Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England d.29 Nov 1441 in Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England
- b.~ 1345 in Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England
- b.~ 1405 in Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England d.12 Aug 1469 in Executed by King Richard III at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1385 in Bedlisgate, Northamptonshire, England d.17 Jul 1448 in Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England
- b.~ 1446 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England d.23 Jun 1484 in New Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1416 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.30 May 1472 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England
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1 Mary de Neville.ged
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I48267
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I48267
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