Brief Life History of Queen Elizabeth
When Queen Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England was born on 3 February 1437, in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, her father, Sir Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers, was 31 and her mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford, Countess Rivers, was 21. She married Sir John Grey in 1452, in Groby, Leicestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 8 June 1492, in Bermondsey, Surrey, England, at the age of 55, and was buried in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England.
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- Elizabeth Woodville, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22
- Legacy NFS Source: Lady Elizabeth Woodville - death:
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
Scottish: shortened form of McQueen .
English: from the Middle English female personal name Quene, sometimes a pet form of Quenill (Old English Cwēnhild, from cwēn ‘queen’ + hild ‘battle’). Early examples of the name are mainly from southern England, especially Sussex, but its currency in late medieval northern England has also been suggested by records from Yorkshire.
English: possibly a nickname from Middle English quene ‘woman; harlot; crone’ (Old English cwēn), but this is less likely than 2 to have given rise to a hereditary surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Woodville, Elizabeth Consort Story
When Elizabeth Consort England Woodville Wydeville was born on February 3, 1437, in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England, her father, Richard, was 32, and her mother, Jacquetta, was 21. She had 34 …
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