Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Jacquetta de Luxembourg (1415/1416May 30, 1472) was daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint Pol, Conversano et Brienne and his wife Margaret de Baux (Margherita del Balzo of Andria).

On April 22, 1433 she married John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford at Therouenne. He was a son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun. This marriage was childless. He died in the night of September 14/15, 1435.

Before March 23, 1436/1437, she married Sir Richard Woodville, who was the son of her dead husband's chamberlain. He was later created 1st Earl Rivers. They had sixteen children, among them Elizabeth Woodville who was to become the wife of King Edward IV of England, and mother of Elizabeth of York (in her turn mother of King Henry VIII) and of King Edward V.

Children of Jacquetta de Luxembourg by Richard Woodville[1]

  • Sir Edward Woodville (d. 1488)
  • Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (d. 1491)
  • John Woodville
  • Lewis Woodville
  • Eleanor Woodville
  • Martha Woodville
  • Elizabeth Woodville (b. ca.1437, d. 1492)
  • Anne Woodville (b. ca.1438, d. 1489)
  • Margaret Woodville (b. ca.1439, d. ca.1490)
  • Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (b. ca.1440-42, d. 1483)
  • Catherine Woodville (b. ca.1442, d. ca.1513)
  • Mary Woodville (b. ca.1443, d. 1481)
  • Sir John Woodville (b. ca.1445, d. 1469)
  • Jacquetta Woodville (b. ca.1444-45, d. 1509)
  • Lionel Woodville (b. ca.1446, d. 1484)
  • Thomas Woodville

Notes

  1. ^ per Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir

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