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RICHARD WYDEVILL, esquire, brother of the half-blood, succeeded to Grafton under Thomas's will (g). In early life he was very probably in the service of Henry, Earl of Derby, afterwards Henry IV. In 1411 he was in the retinue of the King's son "Thomas of Lancaster," captain of Guînes; in 1419 he had a grant of the lands and lordships of Préaux, Dangu and Neuville, and in November was appointed bailiff of Gisors, Vernon, Andely and Lions; bailiff of Chaumont in February 1419/20; promoted seneschal of Normandy, January 1420/1; in March 1422/3, a commissioner to receive the surrender of Meulan; in 1423 he was chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford, treasurer-general of Normandy, and captain of Caen. He was appointed, February 1424/5, during pleasure, at a time of disturbances in the City, to attend to the safe keeping of the Tower of London. In June 1427 and June 1429 he was Lieutenant of Calais, and in March 1430/1 was appointed to attend the young King's person for half a year in France; in May 1434 he was retained to serve the King in the wars in France with 20 men at arms. In July 1433, Knight of the shire, Kent; J.P., 1433-41. He was present at the Great Council meeting at Westminster in April and May 1434, at which the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester contended as to the conduct of the war in France, and, in February 1434/5, one of the commissioners to treat with the Duke of Burgundy as to the statutes of the Staple of Calais. On the death of the Duke of Bedford he was appointed Lieutenant of Calais, 1 October 1435. As the King's esquire he was appointed, 25 January 1436/7, during pleasure, constable of Rochester castle; and 1437-39, took part in various commissions in Kent. In 1437 he was sheriff of Northants, and a commissioner to raise a loan there, 1439.

He married Joan, daughter of Thomas BITTELSGATE of Knightston, co. Devon, byhis wife Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John BEAUCHAMP of Lillesdon. He died probably about December 144I. His widow was living 17 July 1448. [Complete Peerage XI:17-9, XIV:549, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(g) He had therefore been seated at the manor of La Mote, near Maidstone - a property leased in 1428 for 50 years by Richard and his wife Joan from Archbishop Chichele.

Note (a) from his elder half brother Thomas for the year 1433 when Thomas was sheriff of Northants: It was about this time that the form Wodeville is first found. Thomas dsp 1435.
 ~1385 - 1448 Joan Bedlisgate 63 63 ~1438 - 1489 Anne Woodville 51 51 ~1454 - 1490 Margaret Woodville 36 36 ~1436 - 1483 2nd Earl Rivers Anthony Woodville 47 47 Anthony Woodville, 2d Earl Rivers, 1442?-1483,accompanied Edward into exile (1470-71) and later served him in various capacities. In 1473 he was appointed guardian of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward V). On Edward IV's death, however, Rivers was arrested by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (laterRichard III), and executed. A somewhat romantic and otherworldly figure, Rivers wrote translations of various French works. His"Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophres" (1477) was the first dated book printed in England by William Caxton. [ColumbiaEncyclopedia, 6th Edition, 2001 - online]

EARLDOM OF RIVERS (II)

ANTHONY (WYDEVILL), EARL RIVERS, and BARON RIVERS, son and heir, born about 1440, was a Knight in January 1459/60, when captured with his father at Sandwich. He fought on the Lancastrian side at Towton, 29 March 1461. Having married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Scales, he was summoned to Parliament, 22 December 1462, as LORD SCALES. In that month he accompanied the King to Scotland and took part in the siege of Alnwick. J.P. in Norfolk in 1464. On 25 May 1465, cup-bearer at his sister's coronation. K.G. 1466(?). In November 1466, upon surrender by a previous grantee, he had a grant of the Isle of Wight, with Carisbrooke Castle. In June 1467 he fought the Bastard of Burgundy, whom he had challenged, in lists at Smithfield. He was a commissioner in September following to arrange the marriage ofthe King's sister Margaret with Charles, son of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, and in November made keeper of Porchester Castle. In October 1468, captain of the King's armed power (armata) against France, which effected nothing. When the rebellion broke out 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 also appointed Lieutenant of Calais. When Edward, in his turn, was obliged to flee from England, in September 1470, Rivers attended him. He returned with him in March 1471, and fought with great valour, 14 April, at Barnet, where he waswounded. Left in charge of London, while Edward was fighting at Tewkesbury, he defeated the Bastard Fauconbridge's attempt to seize the city. In July he was among the Lords of Parliament (no Parliament was then sitting) who took the oath to maintain the right of the 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 of Pembroke and Richmond from Brittany, and was chief commissioner to treat with the Duke. On 17 May 1473, Chief Butler of England for life; 10 November, Governor ofthe Prince of Wales. In August 1475 he took part in the King's expedition to France, and in 1476 was with the Duke of Burgundy 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 Prince at Ludlow; on their way to London the Duke ofGloucester procured his arrest, on a charge of attempting to usurp the government; he was imprisoned in Sheriff Hutton andPontefract Castles, Yorks, and beheaded at Pontefract, 25 June,without any regular trial.

He married, 1stly, before 22 December 1462, Elizabeth, widow ofSir Henry BOURCHIER, 2nd son of Henry (BOURCHIER), EARL OF ESSEX, and daughter and heir of Thomas, LORD SCALES (died July1460). She died s.p., 2 September 1473. In 1477 Edward proposed Lord Rivers as a husband for the young Duchess of Burgundy; in1479 considerable progress had been made with a proposal for a marriage with Margaret, sister of James III of Scotland. He married, 2ndly, before October 1480, Mary, daughter and heir ofSir Henry FITZLEWIS (died May 1480) of Horndon, Essex, by Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund (BEAUFORT), DUKE OF SOMERSET (g).He died s.p., as above, 25 June 1483. His widow married, 2ndly,Sir George NEVILLE. [Complete Peerage XI:22-4, (transcribed byDave Utzinger)]

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

Note: Although CP states "dsp", Anthony actually was "dsplegit", according to Ancestral Roots, line 234-34, as well asseveral postings on soc.genealogy.medieval newgroup.
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Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
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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. Like his father, he was originally a Lancastrian, fighting on that side at the Battle of Towton, but later became a Yorkist. He succeeded his father in 1469.

Rivers became very influential at the royal court after his sister Elizabeth married Edward IV. He joined the king in his temporary exile in 1470, and returned with him the next year, where he was wounded at the Battle of Barnet.

He was married to Elizabeth de Scales, Baroness Scales in her own right, daughter of Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales, and widow of Henry Bourchier, younger son of Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex.

In 1473 King Edward IV appointed Rivers Governor of the Prince of Wales' household, and Rivers went with the prince to Ludlow Castle. His duties included the administration of justice throughout the principality. When the king died in 1483, he accompanied the Prince, now King Edward V, on the way back to London. However, they were waylaid by the Duke of Gloucester, who imprisoned the Earl and then had him beheaded at Pontefract Castle on June 25, 1483 as part of his path toward becoming king (as Richard III).

After his wife's death in 1473, Anthony was summoned to Parliament in her right as Baron Scales. On his death in 1483 the peerage fell into abeyance.

Rivers was evidently quite learned. One of the first, if not the first, books printed in England was his translation from French of the Sayings of the Philosophers, printed by William Caxton in 1477. Lambeth Palace Library has an illustration showing Rivers presenting a copy of this book to Edward IV.

Anthony was succeeded by his brother, Richard, as Earl Rivers.
 ~1456 - 1481 Mary Woodville 25 25 ~1444 - 1509 Jacquetta Woodville 65 65 ~1440 - 1469 Sir John Woodville 29 29 ~1446 - 1484 Bishop of Salisbury Lionel Woodville 38 38 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.
 ~1455 - 1488 Sir Edward Woodville 33 33 ~1453 - 1492 3rd Earl Rivers Richard Woodville 39 39 ~1451 Thomas Woodville ~1448 - 1454 Lewis Woodville 6 6 ~1442 - 1500 Martha Woodville 58 58 ~1449 - 1512 Eleanor Joan Woodville 63 63 ~1405 - 1469 1st Earl of Rivers Sir Richard Woodville 64 64 Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
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Richard Woodville (or Wydeville), 1st Earl Rivers (1405 – August 12, 1469), was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV.

Born at Maidstone, Kent, he was the son of another Sir Richard Wydevill, 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.

Originally a mere squire from Grafton, Richard was considered "the handsomest man in England" and rose to become the squire of Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt in which the house of Lancaster conquered France. He managed to keep the king's lucky totem of a squirrel's tail tied to a lance "always within sight of the king" during the battle and was knighted afterwards.

He was created Baron Rivers by Henry VI on May 9, 1448. 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 Forby, to Edward IV on May 1, 1464, he was created Earl Rivers (1466) and appointed Lord Treasurer by his new son-in-law.

The power of this new family was very distasteful to the old baronial party, and especially so to the Earl of Warwick. Early in 1468, the Riverses' estates were plundered by Warwick's partisans, and the open war of the following year was aimed to destroy the Woodvilles. After the king's defeat after the Battle of Edgecote Moor on 26 July 1469, Rivers and his second son, John, were taken prisoners at Chepstow. After a hasty trial, they were decapitated at Kenilworth. His eldest son, Anthony succeeded him as earl.

Rivers had a large family. His third son, Lionel, (d. 1484), became the Bishop of Salisbury. All his daughters made great marriages: Catherine Woodville, the fifth child, was wife of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
 ~1438 - 1487 Richard Hawte 49 49 ~1395 - 1461 Sheriff of Kent William Hawte 66 66 Sheriff of Kent 1420-21
Served with his father in France in 1415 for Henry V's invasion of France. Served as MP for Kent. By his second marriage, in Calais in 1429 to Joan Woodville, William raised the family s status considerably. For Joan's niece Elizabeth was later to marry Edward IV. But William Haut did not always side with his wife's family, coming out in support of Jack Cade's rising, which convulsed Kent in 1450. Perhaps thanks to his brother-in-law, Lord Rivers, who was sent to put down the rebellion, he was able to win a royal pardon. Such royal connections were dangerous during the Wars of the Roses. [Ightham Mote, p. 36]
In his will, dated 9th May 1462, he lists: His two wives, both deceased, William Haute his son, Richard his son, Edward his son, James his son, Anne his daughter, Joane his daughter, Elizabeth his daughter, Margaret his daughter, Alice his daughter, married to Sir John Figge, Joane, wife of his son William William, son of his son William.
 ~1404 - 1449 Joan Woodville 45 45 ~1341 - 1404 John De Wydeville 63 63 ~1345 Isabel de Maidstone ~1310 - 1379 Richard De Wydeville 69 69 ~1430 - 1497 Sheriff of Kent Sir William Hawte 67 67 ~1432 Alice Hawte ~1434 Anne Hawte ~1436 Joan Hawte ~1440 Edward Hawte ~1443 Elizabeth Hawte ~1443 Margaret Hawte ~1445 James Hawte ~1402 - 1442 Sir John Pashley 40 40 ~1407 - 1453 Elizabeth Woodville 46 46 ~1425 - 1468 John Pashley 43 43 ~1416 - 1472 Jacquetta de Luxembourg 56 56 Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415/1416 – May 30, 1472) was the elder daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint Pol, Conversano et Brienne and his wife Margaret de Baux (Margherita del Balzo of Andria).

Family and ancestry
Her father Peter I, comte de St-Pol was a hereditary Count of Brienne from 1397 to his death in 1433.

Peter had succeeded his father John, Lord of Beauvoir and mother Marguerite of Enghien. They had co-reigned as Count and Countess of Brienne from 1394 to her death in 1397.

John was a fourth-generation descendant of Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny, second son of Henry V of Luxembourg and Margaret of Bar. This cadet line of the House of Luxembourg reigned in Ligny-en-Barrois.

Her mother Margaret de Baux was a daughter of Francois de Baux, Duke of Andria and Sueva Orsini. Sueva was a daughter of Nicola Orsini, Count of Nola (August 27, 1331 - February 14, 1399) and Jeanne de Sabrano.

Nicola Orsini was a son of Roberto Orsini, Count of Nola (1295-1345) and Sibilla del Balzo. Sibilla was a daughter of Hugh de Baux, Great Senechal of the Kingdom of Naples.

Roberto Orsini was a son of Romano Orsini, Royal Vicar of Rome and Anastasia de Montfort. Anastasia was the oldest daughter and heiress of Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola and Margherita Aldobranderschi.

Guy de Montfort was a son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was the youngest child of John of England and his Queen consort Isabella of Angoulême.

Jacquetta herself was an eighth-generation descedant of John and thus distantly related to the Kings of England descending from him.

First marriage
On April 22, 1433 at 17 years of age, Jacquetta married John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford at Therouenne. The Duke was a son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun.

Jacquetta was a cousin of Sigismund of Luxembourg,the reigning Holy Roman Emperor, and King of Bohemia and Hungary. The marriage was meant to strengthen the ties of the Kingdom of England with the Holy Roman Empire and to increase English influence in the affairs of Continental Europe.

The marriage was childless and the Duke died on the night of September 14/15, 1435 at Rouen. There are famous events associated with this first marriage. Jacquetta's brother, Jean de Luxembourg, was the one who betrayed Joan of Arc and arrested her.[citation needed] He brought Joan in chains to Rouen castle, seat of the Duke of Bedford. During Joan's two year long trial there, she was attacked by a drunken English lord who, according to rumour, had taken her maidenhood. Joan had to be examined in order to prove this rumour false.

Second marriage
Sir Richard Woodville, son of Sir Richard Wydevill who had served as the late Duke's chamberlain, was commissioned by Henry VI of England to bring the young widow to England. During the rough journey, the couple fell in love and married in secret (before March 23, 1436/1437), without seeking the king's permission. Enraged, Henry VI refused to see them but was mollified by the payment of a fine.

By the mid-1440s, the Woodvilles were in ascendancy. Queen Consort Margaret of Anjou influenced her husband Henry VI to create Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers in 1448. Jacquetta was related to both the Queen and the King. Her sister, Isabelle de Saint Pol, married the brother of Queen Margaret, while Jacquetta was herself the erstwhile widow of the uncle of Henry VI.

As royalty, she outranked all ladies at Court with the exception of the Queen herself. As a personal favourite and close relative of the Queen, she also enjoyed special privileges and influence at court. Happily married to the love of her life, Jacquetta bore Richard sixteen children, among them Elizabeth Woodville who was to become the wife of King Edward IV of England, and mother of Elizabeth of York (in her turn mother of King Henry VIII, thus making Jacquetta his great-grandmother).

Jacquetta weathered two accusations of witchcraft during her second marriage,[citation needed] once by the mob that illegally beheaded her second husband and once when a little leaden figure of a man of arms "about the size of a thumb" bound up in wire was discovered among her personal effects.[citation needed] She was acquitted by her son-in-law, King Edward IV. However, these instances were recalled and cited after her death when Richard III ordered Parliament in 1483 to attaint her daughter, the widowed Queen Elizabeth Woodville, for witchcraft.

Wars of the Roses
The death of her son-in-law Sir John Grey (Elizabeth's husband) in the Second Battle of St Albans (February 22, 1461) against King Edward IV brought out the strong calculating and manipulative mind in Jacquetta. Following her mother's directives, in 1464, Elizabeth (with her two minor sons) accosted Edward (out on a hunt) at Whittlebury Forest near the family home and pleaded with the King to return the confiscated estates of her husband to her sons. Thoroughly bewitched by her beauty, Edward offered to make her his mistress, but she held out for marriage. A desperate Edward married Elizabeth in secret, but the marriage was not disclosed as it would mean difficulty for the House of York. Once it became common knowledge, however, the alliance displeased Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, the King's most trusted ally, and his friends.

With Elizabeth as Queen of England, Jacquetta managed to find rich and influential spouses for all her children and helped her grandchildren achieve high posts. She arranged for her 20-year-old son, John Woodville, to marry the widowed and very rich dowager Duchess of Norfolk, Catherine Neville. The bride was at least forty years older than the groom at the time of the wedding. The marriage caused a furore and earned the Woodvilles considerable unpopularity. Catherine Neville's son, John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, especially, turned against the Queen and her family and vowed vengeance against the Yorkist allies for the slur on his family honour.

Sadly, the Woodvilles' luck soon ran out. The Lancastrian side (on which the Woodvilles found themselves) was the losing side in the War of the Roses. In 1466, Richard Woodville was captured by Warwick and executed subsequently in 1469. A broken hearted Jacquetta survived her beloved husband by six years and died in 1472, at about 56 years of age.

Jacquetta was as influential in death as she was in life. She is credited with being the ancestress of most present day European monarchs.

Children of Jacquetta de Luxembourg by Richard Woodville[1]
Sir Edward Woodville (d. 1488)
Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (d. 1491)
John Woodville d. young
Lewis Woodville d. Young
Eleanor Woodville married Sir Anthony Grey (b. before 1464, d. between 15 May 1480 and 27 November 1480)
Martha Woodville marries Sir John Bromley
Elizabeth Woodville (b. ca.1437, d. 1492), Queen consort of Edward IV of England.
Anne Woodville (b. ca.1438, d. 1489). Married 1. William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier b. before 1452, d. before 26 June 1480 Married 2.George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Margaret Woodville (b. ca.1439, d. ca.1490) married Sir Thomas FitzAlan, 17th Earl of Arundel b. circa 1450, d. 25 October 1524
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (b. ca.1440-42, d. 1483)
Catherine Woodville (b. ca.1442, d. ca.1513)
Mary Woodville (b. ca.1443, d. 1481)
Sir John Woodville (b. ca.1445, d. 1469) married Lady Katherine Neville,b. circa 1397, d. after 1483
Jacquetta Woodville (b. ca.1444-45, d. 1509) married John IX Lestrange, 8th Lord Strange b. circa 1444, d. 16 October 1479
Lionel Woodville (b. ca.1446, d. 1484), Bishop of Salisbury.
Thomas Woodville married Anne Holland
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