Jacquetta of Luxembourg

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Jacquetta (Jakobäa) von Luxemburg LG (* around 1415; † 30 May 1472 ) was a Burgundian noblewoman and successively Duchess of Bedford and Countess Rivers through marriage .

Life

She was the eldest daughter of Count Peter I of Luxemburg-St. Pol (1390–1433) from the House of Luxemburg-Ligny and Marguerite des Baux (1394–1469), daughter of Duke Francesco I of Andria and his wife Princess Sueva Orsini .

On April 22, 1433 she married the first marriage of the English prince John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389-1435) in the bishop's palace of Thérouanne in Flanders . He was the third surviving son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun . During the Hundred Years War he fought as the English regent in France. In 1435 Jacquetta was accepted into the Order of the Garter as Lady of the Garter . Her husband's suite included the knight Sir Richard Woodville . After the Duke of Bedford died in September 1435, she secretly married Woodville between September 16, 1435 and March 23, 1436. This improper marriage with a knight was both for her relatives and for her brother-in-law, the English King Henry VI. a shock. Since the marriage took place without the king's permission, Woodville was fined £ 1,000. For Woodville, on the other hand, marriage meant considerable social advancement. In 1448 he was raised to Baron Rivers and in 1450 as a Knight Companion in the Order of the Garter.

During the Wars of the Roses , her husband was a supporter of the House of Lancaster . When Edward IV of the House of York became King of England in 1461, another scandalous marriage occurred when the king married Jacquetta's widowed daughter Elizabeth in May 1464 . As a result, the king raised his father-in-law Woodville to Earl Rivers and gave him lucrative offices. For his wife's siblings, he brokered several marriages with members of the English nobility, so that the Woodville family gained considerable influence.

In contrast, there was a rebellion in 1469 by the Earl of Warwick and his allies. King Edward IV was captured at the Battle of Edgecote Moor , and after the battle, Jacquetta's husband Woodville and her son John were captured and executed without trial. Jacquetta was charged with sorcery, but after her son-in-law Edward defeated the Earl of Warwick and the Lancastrians in May 1471 and became King of England again, the charges were withdrawn.

progeny

Her first marriage to John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, was childless. By contrast, she had sixteen children with her second husband Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hicks: Woodville [Wydeville], Richard, first Earl Rivers (d. 1469). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X ( online ).
  2. ↑ Rivers, Earl (E, 1466–1491) at Cracroft's Peerage (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jacquetta of Luxembourg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobea of ​​Luxembourg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Bedford, Countess Rivers
DATE OF BIRTH around 1415
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1472