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 Woodville, Countess Rivers Mary, but remained without legitimate issue. He was later beheaded by order of Richard III due to the threat he posed to Richard usurping from the crown from Anthony's nephew, Edward V, at Pontefract on 24 June 1483, but did leave a will. The lands attached to the Rivers title were inherited by Anthony's brother, Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers. The Barony of Scales went to his youngest brother, Edward Woodville, but Richard III ignored this provision and the title fell into abeyance. In 1485, John de Vere and William Tynedale became heirs to the Scales' estate. Elizabeth Woodville, Countess