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Birth of Elizabeth Woodwvile

England · House / House of York. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1437Date range
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Chronological records

1437

Jacquetta of Luxembourg1437

Grafton Regis · House / House of York

Birth of Elizabeth Woodwvile, Daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Elizabeth Woodville1437

Grafton Regis · House / House of York

Birth of Elizabeth Woodwvile, daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. The first-born child of a socially unequal marriage that had briefly scandalised the English court. Her father, Sir Richard Woodville, was merely a knight at the time of her birth

Names involved

Elizabeth WoodvilleJacquetta of Luxembourg

Provenance

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