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Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile; [a] c. 1437 [1] – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from 1 May 1464 until 3 October 1470 and from 11 April 1471 until 9 April 1483 as the wife of King Edward IV. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic civil war between the ...
Hace 2 días · Elizabeth Woodville (or Wydeville) (1437-1492) is buried with her husband King Edward IV at St George's chapel, Windsor Castle, but she took Sanctuary at Westminster Abbey on two occasions during the Wars of the Roses.
8 de jun. de 2022 · Tudor Minute June 8, 1492: Elizabeth Woodville dies - Renaissance English History Podcast. by Heather - June 8, 2022. Today we mark the death, in 1492, of Elizabeth Woodville, in Bermondsey Abbey. She was the mother of Elizabeth of York, and the princes in the Tower, and the grandmother to Henry VIII.
Elizabeth Woodville was born in 1437 at Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire and was the eldest daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and his wife, Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Whilst her father’s family were respectable and wealthy, they were not of the nobility, something which would prove to become an obstacle for Elizabeth’s marriage to King Edward IV .
30 de nov. de 2022 · This article explores the documentary evidence for the short-lived St Erasmus chapel, from its construction at the behest of Elizabeth Woodville in the late 1470s, to its use for royal burials and to house the abbey’s relics of St Erasmus, and ultimately its fate at the beginning of the 16th century.
The Princes, sons of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, were born during the intense turmoil of the Wars of the Roses. On Edward’s death in 1483, his brother the Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) became Lord Protector of Edward’s son and heir, the 12-year-old Edward V. The Duke immediately placed Edward in the Tower of London, closely ...
29 de abr. de 2019 · SMART NEWS. Did Elizabeth Woodville, England’s ‘White Queen,’ Die of the Plague? A 500-year-old letter recently found in the National Archives suggests the queen was buried quickly and without...
