John Grey of Groby Richard III in June 1483. <br> In 1491, his widow, by then Queen Dowager, became the co-heiress of her brother, Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers. She died a year later. Sir John Grey was killed in the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461, fighting for the Lancastrian cause. His widow, Dame Elizabeth Grey, later secretly married Edward IV who was the successful Yorkist claimant to the throne. John Grey of Groby Sir John Grey, of Groby, Leicestershire (c. 1432 – 17 February 1461) was a Lancastrian knight, the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville who later married King Edward IV
The White Queen (TV series) 1464; the nation has been at war for nine years fighting over who is the rightful king as two sides of the same family, the House of York and the House of Lancaster, contest the throne. The story follows three women, Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville, who manipulate events behind the scenes of history to gain power. Elizabeth Woodville is the protagonist in the novel "The White Queen", and Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville are the focus of the novels "The Red Queen" and "The Kingmaker's Daughter"; the three characters appear in the three novels that make up