Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England

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Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of England

Tenure: 1 May 1464 – 9 April 1483

Coronation: 26 May 1465

Spouse:

Sir John Grey m. c. 1452; dec. 1461

Edward IV of England m. 1464; dec. 1483

Issue: Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset

Richard Grey

Elizabeth of York, Queen of England

Mary of York

Cecily of York, Viscountess Welles

Edward V of England

Margaret of York

Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York

Anne of York, Countess of Surrey

George Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford

Catherine of York, Countess of Devon

Bridget of York

House: House of York

Father: Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers

Mother: Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Born: 3 February 1437

Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire

Died: 8 June 1492 (1492-06-08) (age 55)

Bermondsey, London

Burial:

St. George's Chapel, Windsor

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"Elizabeth Woodville (also spelled Wydeville or Widvile; c. 1437 – 8 June 1492) was Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Edward IV from 1464 until his death in 1483. Elizabeth was a key figure in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. As Lady Grey (née Woodville), Elizabeth had two sons by her first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby who was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans. As the daughter of Sir Richard Woodville, she was the first commoner (i.e. non royal) to marry an English sovereign. It was because of this that Edward's former staunch ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, fell out with his cousin King Edward leading to a battle of wills that finally resulted in Warwick changing sides and switching his allegiance to that of Lancaster.
Her children included the Princes in the Tower and Elizabeth of York; the latter made her the maternal grandmother of Henry VIII and great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth I. Tradition holds that she served as a Maid of Honour to Margaret of Anjou, but the evidence of this is uncertain."

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