Richard Woodville (died 1441) Richard Woodville (died 1441) Richard Woodville (also written contemporaneously as Wydville and Wydeville) (died 1441) was an English landowner, soldier, diplomat, administrator and politician. His son married an aunt of King Henry VI and they were the parents of the wife of the next king, Edward IV. He was the younger son of John Woodville (died before 1401), a Northamptonshire landowner with a long career as administrator and politician, and his second wife Isabel, widow of Robert Passelow, of Drayton Parslow. The heir to the family lands was his elder brother from his father's first marriage, Thomas Woodville (died about
Thomas Vaughan (died 1483) for Edward V. Also arrested was Edward V's half brother Sir Richard Grey the son of Sir John Grey of Groby and the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville. All three were beheaded at Pontefract Castle on 25 June 1483, in West Yorkshire. Vaughan was the second husband of Eleanor Arundel, widow of Sir Thomas Browne, who had likewise been executed in 1460. In Shakespeare's "Richard III", Vaughan's ghost appears to the King on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth. Thomas Vaughan (died 1483) Sir Thomas Vaughan (c. 1410 – June 1483) was a Welsh statesman and diplomat, who rose