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Sir Edward Woodville KG KB (died 1488) was a member of the Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses. He survived the reign of Richard III in which several of his relatives were executed in a power struggle after the death of his brother-in-law Edward IV. Exiled with Henry Tudor, he participated in Henry's capture of the throne.
When Edward Woodville , Lord Scales was born in 1455, in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Sir Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers, was 50 and his mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford, Countess Rivers, was 40.
Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, was selected as the English challenger, standing in for the king, who had chosen not to compete but to preside over the fighting. Woodville’s rapid rise at the Yorkist court was in part because his sister, Elizabeth Woodville, was Edward’s queen.
Elizabeth Woodville’s siblings, Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, and Jacquetta Woodville, Lady Strange, were already married when she caught the king’s eye.5 In the heat of the debate over the political and economic significance of these marriages, another of Hicks’s observations has sometimes been lost sight of: whatever provision Edward ...
Alain d'Albret, Edward Woodville, Lord Scales †. Strength. 15,000. 11,500. Casualties and losses. 1,500. Around 5,000 - 6,000. The Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier took place on 28 July 1488, between the forces of King Charles VIII of France, and those of Francis II, Duke of Brittany, and his allies.
- 28 July 1488
- French victory
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (d. 1488), soldier and courtier. Katherine Woodville (c. 1458 [5] – 1497 [6] ), married first Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , second Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford , she married third Sir Richard Wingfield .
30 de sept. de 2020 · Henry VII sent Edward Woodville, Lord Scales to Doncaster with his light cavalry. He repeatedly harassed the Yorkists with a series of skirmishes in Sherwood Forest. The objective was to slow the Yorkist army down, giving Henry VII time to gather reinforcements commanded by George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange.
