Katherine Woodville (Noblewoman)
Katherine Woodville (also Wydeville , * around 1458, † 1497 ) was an English noblewoman . By marriage she was at times Duchess of Buckingham , Duchess of Bedford and Lady Wingfield.
She was a daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and the Jacquetta of Luxembourg . She had eight brothers and seven sisters, including Elizabeth Woodville , wife of King Edward IV of England .
Before her sister Elizabeth was crowned Queen Consort in May 1465, she was married to Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455-1483). Both spouses were minors at the time. They had five children, the first of whom was born in 1478:
- Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478-1521) ⚭ Lady Eleanor Percy;
- Henry Stafford, 3rd Earl of Wiltshire (1479–1523) ⚭ Cecilia Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington, 2nd Baroness Bonville (around 1461–1529);
- Humphrey Stafford (* around 1480), died young;
- Lady Elizabeth Stafford († 1532), ⚭ Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex ;
- Lady Anne Stafford (1483–1544), ⚭ (1) Sir Walter Herbert († 1507), son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke , ⚭ (2) George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon (1488–1544).
After her first husband had been executed for high treason in 1483 , she married on November 7, 1485 in second marriage Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (1431-1495). He was the uncle of the ruler of England, Henry VII , who had only been crowned a week earlier . After her niece Elizabeth married Henry VII two months later , she was the king's aunt as well as the queen's.
In her third marriage she married Sir Richard Wingfield of Kimbolton (1468-1525), who survived her.
Web links
- Katherine Woodville on thepeerage.com
- KATHERINE at fmc.ac
- HENRY Stafford at fmc.ac
- JASPER Tudor at fmc.ac
Individual evidence
- ^ A b C. SL Davies: Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham (1455-1483). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004 ( online ).
- ↑ Barbara J. Harris: Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521. Stanford University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0804713160 , p. 20
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woodville, Katherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wydeville, Katherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1458 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1497 |