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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.
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.
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
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.
About: Edward Woodville, Lord Scales. 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.
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 ...
