Elizabeth Woodville Facts

About Elizabeth Woodville:

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Known for: role in the Wars of the Roses and in the succession between the Plantagenets and Tudors; character in Shakespeare's Richard III (Queen Elizabeth); title character in 2013 television series The White Queen

Occupation: Queen Consort to Edward IV

Dates: about 1437 - June 7 or 8, 1492

Also known as: Lady Grey, Elizabeth Grey, Elizabeth Wydevill

Family of Elizabeth Woodville:

• Father: Sir Richard Woodville, later, Earl Rivers (1448)
• Mother: Jacquetta of Luxembourg
• Husband:
  1. Sir John Grey, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, 1452-1461
  2. Edward IV, 1464-1483

Children of Elizabeth Woodville:

• by John Grey:
  1. Thomas
  2. Richard
• by Edward IV:
  1. 1466-1503 Elizabeth of York
  2. 1467-1482 Mary
  3. 1469-1507 Cecily
  4. 1470-1483? Edward V, briefly King of England (not crowned)
  5. 1472-1472 Margaret
  6. 1473-1483? Richard, Duke of York
  7. 1475-1511 Anne
  8. 1477-1479 George, Duke of Bedford
  9. 1479-1527 Catherine
  10. 1480-1512 Bridget

More About Elizabeth Woodville:

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