Eleanor Woodville, Lady Grey

Joan Wydeville1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Last Edited 10 Mar 2014
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Father Sir Richard Wydeville, 1st Earl Rivers, Constable of England, Lord High Treasurer1,2,3,8 b. b 1408, d. 12 Aug 1469
Mother Jacquetta (Jacqueline) of Luxembourg1,2,3,5,8 b. 1416, d. 30 May 1472
Joan Wydeville married Sir Anthony Grey, Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire, son of Sir Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, 4th Baron Grey of Ruthin, Lord High Treasurer and Katherine Percy, before 1475; No issue.9,2,3,5,7 Joan Wydeville married Sir Edward Wingfield, son of Sir John Wingfield, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk and Elizabeth FitzLewis, after 27 November 1480; No issue.3,4,5,6,7
Family 1
Sir Anthony Grey, Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire d. c 27 Nov 1480
Family 2
Sir Edward Wingfield b. c 1458, d. a 1508
Citations
1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 166.
.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 783-784.
2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 280.
3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 336.
4.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 132.
5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 199.
6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 426.
7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 423-424.
8.[S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 165-166.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2256.htm...
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Eleanor Woodville1
F, #107509
Last Edited=23 May 2004
Eleanor Woodville is the daughter of Richard Wydevill, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta de Luxembourg.1 She married Sir Anthony Grey, son of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and Lady Catherine Percy.1
She was also known as Joan Woodville.1
Citations
1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 125. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p10751.htm#i107509
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Eleanor (Joan) WOODVILLE (B. Grey of Ruthin)
Father: Richard WOODVILLE (1° E. Rivers)
Mother: Jacquetta Zu St. POL of Luxembourg (D. Bedford)
Married: Anthony GREY (4° B. Grey of Ruthin) Feb 1466
From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WOODVILLE.htm#Eleonor%20(Joan)%20WOODVILLE%20(B.%20Grey%20of%20Ruthin)
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Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers KG (1405 – 12 August 1469), also Wydeville, was the father of Elizabeth Woodville and father-in-law of Edward IV.
Early life
Born at Maidstone in Kent, Richard Woodville was the son of Richard Wydeville (Woodville), chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford, and Joan Bittlesgate (or Bedlisgate), the daughter of Thomas Bittlesgate of Knightstone[1][2][3] in the parish of Ottery St Mary in Devon. He was also a grandson of John Wydeville who was Sheriff of Northamptonshire (in 1380, 1385, 1390).[3]
Marriage and courtly career
Woodville followed his father into service with the Duke of Bedford. In 1433 the Duke had married the 17-year-old Jacquetta of Luxembourg; she was the Duke's second wife and he was significantly older and in ill health. When the Duke died in 1435, Jacquetta was left a childless and wealthy widow. She was required to seek permission from King Henry VI before she could remarry, but in March 1437 it was revealed that she had secretly married Richard Woodville who was far below her in rank and not considered a suitable husband for the lady still honoured as the king's aunt. The couple were fined £1000, but this was remitted in October of the same year.
Despite this inauspicious start, the married couple soon prospered, thanks mainly to Jacquetta's continuing prominence within the royal family. She retained her rank and dower as Duchess of Bedford, which initially provided an income of between £7000 and £8000 per year, though over the years this diminished as a result of territorial losses in France and collapsing royal finances in England. Richard Woodville was honoured with military ranks, in which he proved himself a capable soldier.
Further honours for both came when Henry VI married Margaret of Anjou, whose uncle was Jacquetta's brother-in-law (Jacquetta's sister Isabelle married Margaret of Anjou's paternal uncle Charles du Maine). The Woodvilles were among those chosen to escort the bride to England, and the family benefited further through this double connection to the royal family. Sir Richard was raised to the rank of Baron Rivers in 1448. Therefore their children would grow up enjoying considerable privilege and material comfort.
Military career
Woodville was a captain in 1429, served in France in 1433 and was a knight of the regent Duke of Bedford in 1435. He was at Gerberoy in 1435 and served under William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, in 1435–36. He then fought under the Duke of Somerset and the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1439 and the Duke of York in 1441–42, when he was made captain of Alençon and knight banneret.
Woodville was created Baron Rivers by King Henry VI on 9 May 1448. Two years later, as Sir Richard, he was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1450. He was appointed seneschal of Gascony in 1450 (but failed to reach it before its fall) then lieutenant of Calais in 1454–55. He was appointed Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1459 to defend Kent against invasion by the Yorkist earls (but was captured at Sandwich).
In the Wars of the Roses, he was initially a Lancastrian, but he became a Yorkist when he thought that the Lancastrian cause was lost. He reconciled himself to the victorious Edward IV, his future son-in-law. On 1 May 1464, Edward married Rivers' daughter Elizabeth, widow of Lancastrian knight Sir John Grey. Richard Woodville was created Earl Rivers in 1466, appointed Lord Treasurer in March 1466 and Constable of England on 24 August 1467.
Later career
The power of this new family was very distasteful to the old baronial party, and especially so to the Earl of Warwick. Rivers was regarded as a social upstart, and in an ironical episode, his future son-in-law in 1460, while accepting his submission, had rebuked him for daring, given his lowly birth, to fight against the House of York. The Privy Council, in its horrified response to the King's marriage, said bluntly that Richard Woodville's low social standing in itself meant that the King must surely know "that Elizabeth was not the wife for him". Early in 1468, the Rivers estates were plundered by Warwick's partisans, and the open war of the following year was aimed at destroying the Woodvilles. After the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Edgecote on 26 July 1469, Rivers and his third son John were taken prisoners at Chepstow. Following a hasty show trial, they were beheaded at Kenilworth on 12 August 1469.
Richard Woodville's eldest surviving son Anthony succeeded him in the earldom.
Lord Rivers had a large family. His fourth son, Lionel (d. 1484) became the Bishop of Salisbury. All his daughters made great marriages: Katherine Woodville, his eighth daughter, was the wife of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
"Woodville" is the modern spelling of the name: in their own time "Wydeville", "Wydville" and other variants were used.
Issue
Richard and Jacquetta had 14 children:[4]

• Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437 – 1492), married first Sir John Grey of Groby, and second Edward IV of England.
• Lewis Woodville (c. 1438–1450), died in childhood.
• Anne Woodville (1439–1489), married first William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier, and second George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
• Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (1442–1483), married Elizabeth Scales, 8th Baroness Scales.
• Mary Woodville (1443–1481), married William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
• John Woodville (1445–1469), married Katherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk.
• Jacquetta Woodville, Baroness Strange of Knockin (1445-1509), married John le Strange, 8th Baron Strange of Knockin.
• Lionel Woodville (1447–1484), Bishop of Salisbury.
• Martha Woodville (d. c. 1500), married Sir John Bromley of Baddington.
• Joan Woodville (1452–1512), married Sir Anthony Grey, son of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent.
• Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (1453–1491).
• Margaret Woodville (1454–1490), married Thomas FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
• Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (d. 1488), soldier and courtier.
• Katherine Woodville (c. 1458[5] – 1497[6]), married first Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, second Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, she married third Sir Richard Wingfield.

Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, noted another 'Richard' who would seem to have been born before Richard the 3rd Earl.[7] A 'Richard Woodville, esquire for the body' was present at the christening of Prince Arthur (son of Elizabeth and Henry VII) on 24 September 1486 in Winchester Cathedral; Arthur's grandmother, Elizabeth Woodville, served as his Godmother, and her younger brother Edward was also present at the ceremony.
The Visitation of Buckinghamshire of 1566 mentions the marriage of William Dormer of Wycombe (only later of Ascott House) to "Agnes, da. of Sir Richard Woodvyle, Erle Ryvers" but does not say whether the father was the first or the third earl, who the mother was or whether Agnes was legitimate. Considering though that she is thought to be born about 1458 the more likely candidate is the senior Richard Woodville.
In fiction
Woodville is a primary character in Philippa Gregory's 2011 novel about Jacquetta of Luxembourg, The Lady of the Rivers. In The White Queen television series, he is portrayed by Robert Pugh.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woodville,_1st_Earl_Rivers
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Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, KB (26 October 1416 – 22 May 1490), English administrator,[1] nobleman and magnate, was the son of Sir John Grey, KG and Constance Holland. His main residence was at Wrest near Silsoe, Bedfordshire.
Lineage
Through Constance Holland, he was great-grandson of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, the third son of King Edward III of England, and thus grand-nephew of King Henry IV of England.
Grey succeeded his grandfather Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn in 1440.
He married Lady Katherine Percy, who was also a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt by his third wife, Katherine Swynford, and also a descendant of King Edward III of England through his second son, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.
Knighthood
Edmund Grey was knighted following service in Aquitaine in October 1440. He attended the royal council between 1456 and 1458. Active militarily in the Wars of the Roses, he especially played a decisive role in the Battle of Northampton by switching his allegiance from the Lancastrian to the Yorkist cause. For this action he was rewarded by Edward IV with a grant of the manor of Ampthill, ownership of which had come into dispute between Grey, Ralph Lord Cromwell and Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter.[1]
Treasurer of England
Edmund Grey's appointment as treasurer of England was enacted at Westminster on 24 June 1463 but Walter Blount succeeded him in November 1464. Edmund also held other high offices under Edward IV and Richard III.[2]
On 5 July 1483, he was made a Knight of the Bath. In 1485, he was constable of Northampton Castle.[3]
Earldom
He was created Earl of Kent on 30 May 1465, shortly after the marriage of his eldest son, Anthony, to the king's sister-in-law, Joan Woodville[1] (she is sometimes known as Eleanor Woodville)[4] He was then appointed chief justice of the county of Meryonnyth, North Wales[5] and constable of Harlech.[1] After the death of their first son, the second, George, became his heir and eventually George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Posterity
His children by Katherine Percy included:

• Anthony Grey (died in his father's lifetime), married Eleanor Woodville sister of Elizabeth Woodville. There were no children
• George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, married Anne Woodville then Katherine Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke
• Elizabeth Grey, married Sir Robert Greystoke
• Anne Grey, married John Grey, 8th Baron Grey of Wilton

etc.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Grey,_1st_Earl_of_Kent
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Lady Eleanor Elizabeth (Eleanor) Arundel formerly Grey Born 1478 in Groby, Leicestershire, , Englandmap Daughter of Thomas Grey and Cecily (Bonville) Dorset Sister of Edward Grey, Thomas Grey, Anthony Grey, Dorothy Grey, John (de GREY) Grey, Richard (de GREY) Grey, Cicely Grey, Elizabeth (de GREY) Grey, Mary (Grey) Devereux, Leonard (de GREY) Grey, Margaret (de GREY) Grey, George (de GREY) Grey, Bridget (de GREY) Grey and Anne (de GREY) Grey	 Wife of John Arundel — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Mother of John Arundel, Elizabeth (Arundel) Tregian, Thomas (Arundel) FitzAlan, Eleanor (Arundel) FitzAlan, Margaret (Arundel) FitzAlan, Jane (Arundel) FitzAlan and Mary (Arundel) FitzAlan	

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grey-11
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