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Richard Wydeville

Male Bef 1408 - 1469  (~ 61 years)


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  • Name Richard Wydeville  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Born Bef 1408  Grafton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1448 
    Created Baron Rivers by Henry VI 
    Occupation 1466 
    Created Earl Rivers and appointed Lord Treasurer by his new son-in-law, Edward IV Plantagenêt King of England 
    Occupation 1469 
    Captured with his son after the defeat of Edward at Edgecote 
    Died 12 Aug 1469  Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Beheaded 
    Person ID I10152  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Richard Wydeville 
    Mother Joan Bedlisgate 
    Family ID F9214  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jacqueline de Luxembourg,   b. 1415-1416,   d. 30 May 1472  (Age 56 years) 
    Married Abt 1436 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Wydeville Queen of England,   b. Abt 1437, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jun 1492, Bermondsey Abbey, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F5222  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S628] Dictionnaire de la noblesse, seconde et troisième éditions, François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois, (La Veuve Duchesne, libraire, Antoine Boudet, l'auteur, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Schlésinger frères, Paris, 1770-1778), Tome 9, p. 226.

    2. [S576] Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, augustin déchaussé, (Troisième Édition, la Compagnie des Libraires, Paris, 2 août 1726-1733), Volume 3, p. 726 & Vol. V, p. 361.

    3. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume II, p. 72 & Vol. XII/2, p. 910.

    4. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 236, 430 & 573.

    5. [S721] The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles Best Norcliffe, M.A., of Langton, (The Harleian Society, Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, 140 Wardour Street, W., London, 1881), 301.