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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 .
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.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Edward Woodville , Lord Scales (1455–1488) of Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom.
The Lancastrian garrison of the Tower of London, commanded by Lord Scales, opened fire indiscriminately into the surrounding streets with cannon and wildfire, causing many deaths and injuries.
- 2-19 July 1460
- Yorkist victory
- London, England
Durante el reinado del marido de su hermana, el joven Edward Woodville fue uno de los que supuestamente alentaron el estilo de vida licencioso del rey como "promotores y compañeros de sus vicios", en palabras del cortesano italiano Dominic Mancini.
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
