Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
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Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, also Wydeville, was the father of Elizabeth Woodville and father-in-law of Edward IV.
Sir Richard Woodville depicted on the Order of the Garter Stall Plate in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
Elizabeth Woodville
Katherine Woodville (left) and her second husband Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford on stained glass windows in Cardiff Castle.
Anthony Woodville (kneeling, second from left, wearing a tabard displaying his armorials) and William Caxton (dressed in black) presenting the first printed book in English (Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers) to King Edward IV and Woodville's sister Queen Elizabeth. Lambeth Palace Library, London.
Elizabeth Woodville
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Elizabeth Woodville, later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from her marriage to King Edward IV on 1 May 1464 until Edward was deposed on 3 October 1470, and again from Edward's resumption of the throne on 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic civil war between the Lancastrian and the Yorkist factions between 1455 and 1487.
Posthumous portrait, 16th century
Illuminated miniature depicting the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin, 15th century
Elizabeth at the time of her coronation surrounded by pink and white roses, symbolic of her union with Edward IV.
Elizabeth's daughters by Edward IV