Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle husband of Elizabeth Woodville who later married King Edward IV, and great-great-grandfather of Lady Jane Grey. Sir Edward Grey married Elizabeth Talbot, daughter and eventual heiress of John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle (1423–1453), 4th son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury by his wife Margaret Beauchamp, heiress to the Barony of Lisle created by writ for her great-great-grandfather Gerard de Lisle (d.1360). By Elizabeth Talbot he had the following progeny: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1492) was an English nobleman who was created Viscount Lisle in 1483, in recognition of his wife's
Lady Margaret Beaufort first book she commissioned from Caxton in 1483 was the 13th-century French romance "Blanchardin et Englantine", which mirrored fairly closely the match she was forging in secret between her son Henry and Elizabeth of York, with the aid of Elizabeth Woodville, then in sanctuary from Richard III in Westminster Abbey. Six years later, after Richard's defeat to Henry at Bosworth, she commissioned an English translation of the romance from Caxton: it heralded the beginning of a period of Tudor patronage. Apart from encouraging book production and building her own library, Margaret also achieved considerable success as a translator, become the