....... s Richard III Society, Inc. Volume XXIV No. 3 Fall, 2005 The Unseen Elizabeth Woodville REGISTER STAFF EDITOR: Carole M. Rike 14819 Flowerwood Drive • Houston, TX 77062 281-488-3413 ° 504-952-4984 (cell) email: [email protected] ©2005 Richard III Society, Inc., American Branch. No part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means — mechanical, RICARDIAN READING EDITOR: Myrna Smith electrical or photocopying, recording or information storage retrieval — 2784 Avenue G • Ingleside, TX 78362 without written permission from the Society. Articles submitted by (361) 332-9363 • email: [email protected] members remain the property of the author. The Ricardian Register is published four times per year. Subscriptions are available at $20.00 annually. 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(He played Exeter, Susan 1421 Wisteria • Metairie, LA 70005 Engel was Elizabeth). (504) 837-0974 • email: [email protected] 5. Modern artist’s interpretation by Charles Raymond, to WEBMASTER: Laura V. Blanchard illustrate an article ‘The clever widow and the King of 2041 Christian St. • Philadelphia, PA 19146 • (215) 985-1445 England’ by Christopher Hibbert. ‘WM’ magazine 1966. FAX (215) 985-1446 • email: [email protected] 6. Stained glass figure by G. Kruger Gray (1936) in the Great Hall, Eltham Palace, London. Ricardian Register Page 3 Fall, 2005 Elizabeth Woodville’s Families (1437-1492; Queen Consort to Edward IV of England, 1464-1470, 1471-1483) © by Kathleen Spaltro All Rights Reserved. dward IV secretly married in 1464 the English great-great-grandmother in both the paternal and Ewidow Elizabeth Woodville, who thereby be- maternal lines. came the first English-born Queen Consort since the Ironically for a family so closely associated with the 11th Century. By marrying this subject, rather than a Yorkist dynasty, the Woodvilles originally fought for the foreign princess, Edward IV precipitated much envy House of Lancaster. After the deposition of Edward V and ill-will. His Queen and her Woodville relatives and the accession of Richard III, the Woodvilles would won the enmity of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, again ally themselves with Lancastrians. The father of whose consequent rebellion in 1469-71 caused Edward Elizabeth Woodville, Richard Woodville, a knight, to lose and then to regain his throne. After Edward’s married Jacquetta of Luxembourg, the widow of John, restoration, the Woodville faction feuded with his Duke of Bedford, paternal uncle of Henry VI. brother George, Duke of Clarence. Following Clar- (Woodville’s own father had served both Bedford and ence’s execution in 1477 and Edward’s early death in Henry V, while Woodville had served Bedford as cham- 1483, the Woodvilles’ conflict with Richard, Duke of berlain.) Besides serving in France and suppressing do- Gloucester (brother of Edward IV and Protector of mestic rebels, Richard Woodville fought for Henry VI England during the reign of Edward’s minor son, Ed- until after the Lancastrian defeat at Towton in 1461. ward V), escalated into the deposition of Edward V, the accession of Gloucester as Richard III, and civil war. Elizabeth Woodville’s son had briefly reigned as Edward V and then disappeared, along with his younger brother Richard, Duke of York. Her daughter, in wedding Henry VII, became the matriarch of the new Tudor dynasty. Besides Edward V; Richard, Duke of York; Elizabeth of York; and other children of Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville hadbornetwosonsbyherfirsthusband. Her eldest child, Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, fathered a line that eventually in- cluded Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days in the summer of 1553. Al- though despised as inconsequential by crit- icsofElizabethWoodvilleasQueen Consort, the Woodvilles clearly acquired and retained importance as a family that spawned a half-Woodville King and Duke of York, a half-Woodville Queen Consort, and a Queen Regnant twice-descended from Woodvilles.