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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
Birth of Elizabeth Woodwvile, Daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Marries Edward IV, a secret wedding, only the brides mother and two ladies in attendance
When the marriage becomes known, it causes considerable rancour on Warwicks part, and when Elizabeth's relatives, especially her brother, Earl Rivers, began to be favored he changes sides
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