![]() ![]() Katherine was with her husband when he moved from the family home in Brecon to Weobley, leaving her daughters at Brecon. Buckingham, for whatever reasons, made the fateful decision to rebel against King Richard III and joined the men who backed Henry Tudor for the throne. ![]() Because of Richard’s hostilities towards Katherine’s family, she did not attend his coronation.īy the fall of 1483, the two princes had disappeared from the Tower and were never seen again. Buckingham was richly rewarded by Richard III for his help. But Edward IV’s brother Richard Duke of Gloucester usurped the throne from his nephew with the help of Katherine’s husband and Edward V and his brother Richard Duke of York were imprisoned in the Tower of London upon the suggestion of Buckingham. He was succeeded by his young son Edward V. King Edward IV died unexpectedly in April of 1483. There may have been another son Humphrey who died young. Katherine would have both a daughter Elizabeth and a son Henry in 1479 and a daughter Anne in 1483. About a month later, Katherine’s first child Edward was born and King Edward IV served as his godfather. Katherine attended the wedding and banquet of her nephew Richard Duke of York to Anne Mowbray in January 1478. In 1475, Henry participated in the invasion of France with King Edward but he returned before the peace talks at Picquigny in August.Īfter this, Henry was noticeably out of public life, living quietly with Katherine on his estates in Brecon, Wales. It is presumed Katherine and Henry would have been living together at this time. In 1474, he finally had most of his inheritance in hand. Around the time of the readeption of King Henry VI, her husband was in the custody of his grandmother. In 1472, Katherine was present for the great festivities at court during the visit of the Flemish courtier and nobleman Louis de Gruthuyse. ![]() Her husband was in the custody of the Queen during these years and lived in her household. There is some evidence that Katherine served in the household of the Queen in the mid-to-late 1460’s. Because of their youth, both were carried on the shoulders of unnamed persons in the procession for the ceremony. The couple attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on May 26, 1465. He was about four years older than Katherine. Shortly before the new Queen’s coronation, Katherine was married to Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. From that point on, many of the Woodvilles found positions at court and were married into the nobility of England. King Edward IV married Katherine’s eldest sister Elizabeth, the widow of a Lancastrian knight. The Woodville family lived a quiet life in their home of Grafton Regis in Northamptonshire until their fortunes changed dramatically sometime in 1464. Little is known of her childhood but she would have been given an education worthy of a child of her rank. The Woodville family was large and Katherine appears to have been one of the youngest if not the youngest child. Sir Richard was from a prominent family of the landed gentry and Jacquetta was of the nobility of Luxembourg. Her father was Sir Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and her mother was Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford. She married three times and had several prominent children. Although the family would suffer many adversities during the time of great upheaval which would later be named the Wars of the Roses, Katherine managed to survive and live well into the reign of the new Tudor king Henry VII. Katherine was a member of the sizable Woodville or Wydeville family who came to prominence when King Edward IV of England married her sister Elizabeth Woodville. Undated sketch of a family by Hans Holbein ![]()
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