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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 1454, in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Sir Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, was 49 and his mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford and Countess Rivers, was 39. He died on 28 July 1488, in Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France, at the age ...
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
Despite his attack on London, Scales had a reputation as a hero in the Hundred Years War, and Warwick condemned his murder as regrettable. He and Edward of March attended Scales's funeral. Scales's daughter (already a widow) later married Anthony Woodville, the son of Earl Rivers.
8 de feb. de 2021 · Edward Woodville era nombrado en las crónicas como Lord Scales o Conde de Rives. Washington Irving, en su Crónica de la conquista de Granada, y basándose en un documento que nadie sabe dónde está, describe a los ingleses como "bien parecidos, demasiado rubios y sonrosados para ser guerreros, sin la tez curtida y el aire marcial de nuestros soldados, incapaces de adaptarse a nuestras ...
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.
The tournament at Smithfield took place in June 1467 between Antoine ‘the Great Bastard’ of Burgundy, illegitimate son of Philip the Good, and Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, brother-in-law to king Edward IV. Four records survive, two of which are from the English perspective, and two Burgundian.
