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Biography of Edward Woodville Lord Scales 1456-1488
Paternal Family Tree: Woodville
Maternal Family Tree: Jeanne Sabran
1433 John Duke of Bedford marries Jacquetta Luxemburg
1467 Tournament Bastard of Burgundy
1469 Execution of the Woodvilles
1472 Death of Jacquetta of Luxembourg
On 22 Apr 1433 John Duke Bedford (age 43) and [his mother] Jacquetta Luxemburg (age 18) were married at Thérouanne [Map]. She by marriage Duchess Bedford. The difference in their ages was 25 years. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Peter Luxemburg I Count Saint Pol (age 43) and [his grandmother] Margherita Baux (age 39). He the son of King Henry IV of England and Mary Bohun. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry III of England.
The marriage caused a rift with Philip "Good" Duke Burgundy (age 36), John's late wife's brother, who regarded the marriage, some five months after his sister's death, an insult to her memory. There was no issue from the marriage with John dying a year and a half later.
Before 1437 [his father] Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 31) and [his mother] Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 21) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Peter Luxemburg I Count Saint Pol and [his grandmother] Margherita Baux (age 42). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry III of England.
Around 1456 Edward Woodville Lord Scales was born to Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 51) and Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 41).
On 05 Jun 1467 the challenger Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 11) travelled to London and was conveyed to Ely Palace Camden by John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester (age 40).
On 11 Jun 1467 the fighting on horseback took place witnessed by King Edward IV of England (age 25). John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester (age 40) was Master of the Ceremonies accompanied by John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 42). The day ended with the Bastard's (age 46) horse having being accidentally fatally injured by Lord Scales' (age 11) saddle.
On 12 Aug 1469 Woodvilles father and son were beheaded at Kenilworth Castle [Map] by supporters of Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 40).
[his father] Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 64) was beheaded. His son [his brother] Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers (age 29) succeeded 2nd Earl Rivers, 2nd Baron Rivers. Elizabeth Scales Countess Rivers by marriage Countess Rivers.
[his brother] John Woodville (age 24) was beheaded.
On 30 May 1472 [his mother] Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford (age 57) died. Not known where she was buried.
In 1475 Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 19) was created Knight of the Bath.
On 07 Dec 1484 King Richard III of England (age 32) issued a proclamation against the Lancastrian rebels:
Forasmuch as the King our sovereign lord hath certain knowledge that Piers Bishop of Exeter, Thomas Grey (age 29) late Marquis Dorset, Jasper Tydder (age 53) son of Owen Tidder calling himself Earl of Pembroke, John (age 42) late Earl of Oxford and Sir Edward Wideville (age 28), with other diverse his rebels and traitors disabled and attainted by authority of the high court of parliament (of whom many ben known for open murderers, adulterers & extortioners, contrary to the pleasure of God and against all truth, honour & nature), have forsaken their natural country, taking them first to be under the observance of the duke of Brittany, and to him promised certain things which by him & his council were thought things too greatly unnatural and abominable for them to grant, observe, keep and perform, and therefore the same utterly refused.
The said traitors, seeing that the said duke and his council would not aid and succour them nor follow their ways, privily departed out of his country into France, there taking them to be under th’obeissance of the King’s ancient enemy Charles calling himself king of France; and, to abuse and blind the commons of this said realm, the said rebels & traitors have chosen to be their captain one Henry Tydder (age 27), son of Edmond Tydder, son of Owen Tidder, which of his ambitious & insatiable covetise, stirred and excited by the confederacy of the King’s said rebels and traitors, encroacheth upon him the name and title of royal estate of this realm of England, whereunto he hath no manner interest, right or colour, as every man well knoweth.
And, to th’intent to achieve the same by the aid, support and assistance of the King’s said ancient enemies and of this his realm, hath covenanted and bargained with him and with all the council of France to give up and release in perpetuity all the title and claim that the kings of England have had and ought to have to the crown and realm of France, together with the duchies of Normandy, Gascony and Guienne, castles and towns of Calais, Guisnes, Hammes with the marches pertaining to the same. And over this, and beside the alienation / of all the premises into the possession of the king’s said ancient enemies, to the greatest aneyntesment, shame and rebuke that ever might fall to this land, the said Herry Earl of Richmond and all the other the king’s rebels and traitors aforesaid have intended at their coming to do the most cruel murders, slaughters, robberies and disherisons that ever were seen in any Christian realm.
For the which, and other inestimable dangers to be eschewed, and to th’intent that the King’s said rebels and traitors may either be utterly put from their said malicious purposes or soon discomfited if they enforce to land, the King our said sovereign lord desireth, willeth and chargeth all and everyche of the natural subjects of this his realm to call the premises to their mind and, like good and true Englishmen, to endeavour themselves at all their powers for the defence of themselves, their wives, children, goods and inheritances against the said malicious purposes and conspirations which the ancient enemies of this land have made with the King’s said rebels for the final destruction of the same land as is aforesaid.
And our said sovereign lord, as a well-willed, diligent and courageous prince, will put his most royal person to all labour and pain necessary in this behalf for the resistence and subduing of his said enemies, rebels and traitors, to the most comfort, wele and surety of all and singular his true and faithful liegemen and subjects. And these our letters shall be therein your warrant.
Given under our Signet at our palace of Westminster the 7 day of December the 2nd year of our reign.
To the right reverend father in God our right trusty and wellbeloved the Bishop of Lincoln, our chancellor of England.
On 22 Aug 1485 King Richard III of England (age 32) was killed during the Battle of Bosworth. His second cousin once removed Henry Tudor (age 28) succeeded VII King of England. Earl Richmond forfeit.
Humphrey Cotes (age 35) died. It isn't clear on which side he was fighting.
Those supporting Henry Tudor included:
John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy (age 35).
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 43).
Richard Guildford (age 35).
Walter Hungerford (age 21).
Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 50).
Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 29).
Edward Courtenay 1st Earl Devon (age 26).
Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 36).
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford (age 53).
William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 47).
Giles Daubeney 1st Baron Daubeney (age 34).
William Stanley (age 50).
Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 52).
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney (age 38).
William Brandon (age 29) was killed.
James Harrington (age 55) was killed.
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 60) was killed and attainted. He was buried firstly at Thetford Priory, Norfolk [Map] and therafter at Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham [Map]. Duke Norfolk, Baron Mowbray, Baron Segrave forfeit.
John Sacheverell (age 85) was killed.
Philibert Chandee 1st Earl Bath
William Norreys (age 44), Gilbert Talbot (age 33), John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 42) and John Savage (age 41) commanded,.
Robert Poyntz (age 35) was knighted.
Those who fought for Richard III included:
John Bourchier 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 47).
John Conyers (age 74).
Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 17).
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 59).
Richard Fitzhugh 6th Baron Fitzhugh (age 28).
John Scrope 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 48).
Thomas Scrope 6th Baron Scrope of Masham (age 26).
Henry Grey 4th or 7th Baron Grey of Codnor (age 50).
Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent (age 68).
Ralph Neville 3rd Earl of Westmoreland (age 29).
John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 23).
Humphrey Stafford (age 59).
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 17).
Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 42) was wounded, captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map] for three years. He was attainted; Earl Surrey forfeit.
Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 29) fought and escaped.
John Zouche 7th Baron Zouche Harringworth (age 26) was captured.
John Babington (age 62), William Alington (age 65), Robert Mortimer (age 43), Robert Brackenbury, Richard Ratclyffe (age 55) and Richard Bagot (age 73) were killed
Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley (age 53) was killed.
William Catesby (age 35) was executed at Leicester, Leicestershire [Map] after the battle.
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) held as a hostage by Richard III before the Battle of Bosworth.
Henry Percy 4th Earl of Northumberland (age 36) betrayed King Richard III of England by not committing his forces at the Battle of Bosworth.
John Iwardby (age 35) was killed.
On 16 Jun 1487 a Lancastrian army defeated a Yorkist army at the Battle of Stoke Field; considered by many to be the last battle of the Wars of the Roses.
The Lancastrian army of Henry Tudor comprised:
John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 44).
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford (age 55).
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 19).
Henry Willoughby (age 36).
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 45).
John Mordaunt (age 31).
Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape (age 19).
William Norreys (age 46).
Edward Norreys (age 23) wounded.
John Paston (age 43).
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 27).
Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 31).
Thomas Lovell, knighted.
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney (age 40).
Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London
William Lyttelton (age 37) who was knighted after the battle.
The Yorksists:
John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 25) was killed. Earl Lincoln extinct.
Thomas Fitzgerald (age 29) and Martin Schwartz were killed.
Lambert Simnel (age 10) fought and was captured. He was pardoned by King Henry VII and put to work in the in the royal kitchen as a spit-turner. When he grew older, he became a falconer. Almost no information about his later life is known.
Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 31) fought and escaped. He was attainted. Baron Deincourt, Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh, Baron Holand forfeit.
In 1488 Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 32) was appointed 235th Knight of the Garter by King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 30).
Before 28 Jul 1488 Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 32) fought at Loja during the Siege of Loja.
On 28 Jul 1488 Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 32) was killed during the Battle of Saint Aubin du Cormier.
Kings Wessex: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 9 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Woodville
GrandFather: Richard Woodville
Father: Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Bittelsgate
GrandMother: Joan Bittelsgate
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Beauchamp 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Beauchamp
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Beauchamp
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Lisle 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Idonea Lisle
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Beauchamp
Edward Woodville Lord Scales 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Waleran II of Luxemburg 6 x Great Grand Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Luxemburg Lord of Ligby 7 x Great Grand Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Guy of Luxemburg I Count Saint Pol and Ligny 8 x Great Grand Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Guy of Dampierre Richebourg 
6 x Great Grand Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alix Dampierre 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Luxemburg Count St Pol 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol 3 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Jean Chatillon Count Saint Pol Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie Capet Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mathilde Chatillon Countess Saint Pol 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Jean Fiennes 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jeanne Fiennes 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabelle Dampierre 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England
GrandFather: Peter Luxemburg I Count Saint Pol 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis Count of Enghien
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Brienne
Mother: Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francesco Baux 1st Duke Andria
GrandMother: Margherita Baux 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Romano Orsini
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roberto Orsini Count 2 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anastasia Montfort Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Orsini Count 3 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sueva del Balzo
Great x 1 Grandmother: Sueva Orsini 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jeanne Sabran
