Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
15th-century English noble, courtier, and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers KG (c. 1440 ā 25 June 1483), was an English nobleman, courtier, bibliophile and writer. He was the brother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville who married King Edward IV. He was one of the leading members of the Woodville family, which came to prominence during the reign of King Edward IV. After Edward's death, he was arrested and then executed by the Duke of Gloucester (the future King Richard III) as part of a power struggle between Richard and the Woodvilles. His English translation of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is one of the first books printed in England.[2]
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2nd Earl Rivers | |
Anthony Woodville (kneeling, second from left, wearing a tabard displaying his armorials) and William Caxton (dressed in black) presenting the first printed book in English (Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers) to King Edward IV and Woodville's sister Queen Elizabeth. Lambeth Palace Library, London. | |
Earl Rivers | |
Tenure | 1469ā1483 |
Predecessor | Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers |
Successor | Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers |
Born | c. 1440 Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, Kingdom of England |
Died | 25 June 1483 Pontefract Castle |
Spouse | Elizabeth de Scales, Baroness Scales Mary Fitz-Lewis |
Issue | Margaret Woodville (Illegitimate)[1] |
Father | Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers |
Mother | Jacquetta of Luxembourg |
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