Elizabeth: Lancastrian Princess, Yorkist Queen - and her world

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Bedford tree

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    John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (1389–1436) married a) Anne of Burgundy (1404-1432) in 1423 b) Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415-1472) in 1433

    1b) Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Bedford (1436-1492) married Edward IV of York, King of England (1442–1485) in 1449 (consummated 1456)
    1. Edward V, King of England (b. 1457) married Isabella of Viseu (b. 1459)
    2. Richard, Duke of York and Burgundy (b. 1459) married Mary, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1457)
    3. Elizabeth (b. 1462) married Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
    4. Jacquetta (1465-1470)
    5. Mary (1467-1482)
    6. Cecily (b. 1469) married John I, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1455) [or Charles VIII, King of France (b. 1470)?]
    7. John, Duke of Bedford and Brittany (b. 1470) married Anne, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1477)
    8. Margaret (1472-1473)
    9. Edmund, Earl of March and Duke of Norfolk (b. 1473) married Anne Mowbray, Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
    10. Anne (b. 1475) married James IV, King of Scotland (b. 1473)
    11. George, Earl of Cambridge (1477-1479)
    12. Catherine (b. 1479) married John, Prince of Asturias (b. 1478)
    Oh, yes... Plantagenet mega wank and ATL the English and not the Habsburg will be the greatest nightmare of France...
     
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    • Characters - Elizabeth, Duchess of Bedford and York

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    Life was never easy for the young Elizabeth and her often repeated moniker of “Lancastrian princess, Yorkist queen“ explain only a part of her sufferances: her father died four days after her birth, leaving her great estates and the rank of heiress presumptive to her still childless cousin Henry VI of England. If she had been allowed to live longer with her mother and stepfather (as Jacquetta, once widowed, followed quick her sister-in-law Catherine of France’s example, remarrying quite scandalously to a man of much lower birth) she would have surely be happier (still she was close to her mother, stepfather and half-siblings for all her life). When Richard, Duke of York and Lord Protector of the Realm was able to get custody of her (and then more-or-less forced the almost thirteen Elizabeth to marry his own eldest son, Edward, who was only seven) her life changed a lot and she resented a lot for that: oh, well her relationship with Edward would be best classified as complicated (at least for many years) for now, with Anne, already Duchess of Exeter and her main companion in the first years in the Yorks household (as her underage husband was under her father’s guardianship after the death of his own father in 1447), whose life mirrored so closely her own, she would always felt a strong kinship and solidarity, other than the friendship she has with both her and Elizabeth (Edward’s next sister and her namesake, who, while much younger, always followed around her elder sister and sister in-law). With her parents-in-law relationship were much more tense and with Cecily would never be warm (but Elizabeth would reach an understanding with her father-in-law in the last months of his life)...
     
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    • Elizabeth, Queen of England about the end of the War of the Roses.

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    “Jasper, I do not owe any loyalty to your half-brother or his son as, whatever blood we share, I married Edward and my loyalty MUST BE reserves to my husband and my sons. Still, I am my father’s daughter and will not let Edward destroys the supporters of the Lancasters. Now who his son is dead Henry is beyond any help and Marguerite’s fate will depend from her French relatives but that do not mean who the Lancastrians are outlaws, I will NEVER consent to that and Edward know it well. What I want NOW is peace for England, now who we can not have any doubt about who is the rightful ruler as my son, the Prince of Wales is the indisputable heir of both the Lancastrian and Yorkist branches of the Plantagenets. What you, and your nephew Henry can do NOW is accepting that, swearing loyalty to my husband and son and leave Henry to his fate. Edward will restore your Earldom of Pembroke and your nephew’s Richmond. I will find a suitable bride to your nephew and he will be included among my Edward’s companions. Do not worry, you will not need to explain to Margaret for what reason her son must marry a Yorkist. I am thinking to another bride for for him... My youngest sister Katherine need an husband and I think Margaret will not have anything against such match” Elizabeth of Bedford, Queen of England to Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke from “The Rose of England“ a play on Elizabeth’s life
     
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    • Woodvilles of Rivers tree

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    Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers (b. 1405) married Jacquetta of Luxembourg (b. 1415/6) still work-in-progress)
    1. Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers (b. 1438) married Elizabeth Scales, Baroness Scales (b. 1436) as second husband
    2. Richard Woodville (1439-1441)
    3. Jacquetta Woodville (1440)
    4. Lewis Woodville (1441-1446)
    5. Richard Woodville (b. 1442)
    6. John Woodville (b. 1444) married Catherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (b. 1400)
    7. Jacquetta Woodville (b. 1446) married Sir John Grey of Grosby (b. 1432), heir of Elizabeth Ferrers, Baroness Ferrers of Grosby
    8. Anne Woodville (b. 1447) married William Bourchier, Earl of Essex (b. 1526) as second wife
    9. Mary Woodville (b. 1449) married Antony Grey, Earl of Kent (b. 1446)
    10. John Woodville (1451-1452)
    11. Lionel Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1453)
    12. Margaret Woodville (b. 1454) married William Herbert, Earl of Monmouth (b. 1451)
    13. Eleanor Jane Woodville (b. 1456) married Thomas Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel (b. 1450)
    14. Edward Woodville (b. 1457)
    15. Katherine Woodville (b. 1458) married Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond and Pembroke (b. 1457)
     
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    • York tree

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    Richard, Duke of York (1411-1460) married Cecily Neville (b. 1415):
    1. Anne of York (b. 1439) married Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter(b. 1430)
      1. Anne Holland (b. 1461) married Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (b. 1455)
      2. Edward Holland, Duke of Exeter (b. 1464)
    2. Henry of York (1441)
    3. Edward IV, King of England (b. 1442) married Elizabeth, Countess of Bedford and Kendal (b. 1436)
      1. issues
    4. Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1443-1460)
    5. Elizabeth of York (b. 1444) married John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk(b. 1442)
      1. issues
    6. Margaret of York (b. 1446) married Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433) as third wife
    7. William of York (1447-?)
    8. John of York (1448-?)
    9. George, Duke of Clarence (b. 1449) married Isabel Neville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1451)
      1. issues
    10. Thomas of York (1450/1451-?)
    11. Richard, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1452) married Mary of Scotland (b. 1453) as her second husband
      1. issues
    12. Ursula of York (1455-?)
     
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