Richard Woodville (died 1441) wife Joan Beauchamp. He had two known children: His widow died some time after 17 July 1448, when she had property in Ireland, and was probably buried at Maidstone. 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
Elizabeth of York December 1483, in the cathedral of Rennes, Henry Tudor swore an oath promising to marry her and began planning an invasion. In 1484, Elizabeth of York and her sisters left Westminster Abbey and returned to court when Elizabeth Woodville was apparently reconciled with Richard III, which may – or may not – suggest that Elizabeth Woodville believed Richard III to be innocent of any possible role in the murder of her two sons (although this is unlikely owing to her involvement in Henry Tudor's failed invasion of October 1483). It was rumoured that Richard III intended to marry Elizabeth of