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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.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Edward Woodville , Lord Scales (1455–1488) of Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom.
11 de nov. de 2016 · 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.
However the English knight Edward Woodville, Lord Scales, defied Henry and brought over a small force of 700 archers he had gathered from his base in the Isle of Wight. [1] .
- 28 July 1488
- French victory
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 ...
Biography of Lord Scales, warrior in the Hundred Years' War against France under Henry VI, who fought and died on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses.
Anthony Woodville (c. 1440 – 1483) was the eldest brother of Elizabeth, Edward IV’s queen. He acquired the title Lord Scales through his first marriage, in 1460, and became Earl Rivers on his father’s death in 1469. He was internationally renowned for his jousting and was an important patron and collaborator of William Caxton.
