#elizabeth of luxembourg

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so you have found me a husband?

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THE MATERNAL LINE OF QUEEN JANE GREY

Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford and later Countess of Rivers, she was the daughter of Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol. (as portrayed by Janet McTeer in The White Queen) Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England and Lady of Ireland, she was the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl of Rivers. (as portrayed by Rebecca Ferguson in The White Queen) Elizabeth of York, Princess of England and later Queen Consort of England and Lady of Ireland, she was the daughter of Edward IV, King of England and Lord of Ireland. (as portrayed by Jodie Comer in The White Princess) Mary Tudor, Princess of England, later Queen Consort of France and then Duchess of Suffolk, she was the daughter of Henry VII, King of Ireland and Lord of Ireland. (as portrayed by Sai Bennett in The Spanish Princess) Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, she was the daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (Second Creation). (as portrayed by Anna Chancellor in My Lady Jane) Jane Grey, Queen of England and Ireland, she was the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (Third Creation) and Marquess of Dorset. (as portrayed by Emily Bader in My Lady Jane)

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Janet McTeer, Robert Pugh and Rebecca Ferguson as Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Richard Woodville and Queen Elizabeth Woodville ♛The White Queen | The Price of Power

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The White Queen + Nightgowns

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"YOUR GRANDMOTHERS PRAYERS ARE STILL PROTECTING YOU"

Royal Autumn 2024 challenge - favourite photos of royals with + their ancestors

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Brass Rubbing: John Lord Le Strange and his wife Jacquetta Woodville, 1509, Middlesex, Hillingdon.

John, Lord Le Strange was born in 1444 and at the age of five succeeded his father as the 8th Lord Strange of Knocking and 4th Lord Mohun. In 1461, he was knighted and a year later received a license to enter into his father's lands. By 1450, he was married to Jacquetta Woodville, second daughter of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxemburg, therefore a sister to Edward IV's queen, Elizabeth Woodville. During the 1470s, Lord Le Strange was on several commissions to array supporters of Edward IV against the adherents of Henry VI, or for foreign war. He also swore allegiance to the king's son prince Edward. Lord Le Strange died on 16 October 1479, leaving his 16-year-old daughter Joan as sole heir. He may not have lived to see the marriage of Joan to George Stanley, son of Thomas Stanley, third husband of Margaret Beaufort.

Jacquetta is still commemorated at Hillingdon, however, in the beautiful Lestrange brass. The brass was commissioned by their daughter Joan in 1509 and is considered to be one of the finest brasses in Middlesex. The slab was originally situated on a chest tomb until the restoration of the church in the 1840s. The Latin inscription on the tomb reads: Under this tomb lies the noble John Lord L’Estrange, Lord of Knocking, Mohun, Wassett, Warnell and Lacey and Lord of Colham; with a portrait of Janet (sic) at one time his wife, which same Janet was sister to Elizabeth, Queen of England at that time wife of Edward IV; which same John died the 15th day of October in the 17th year of the reign of Edward IV; this tomb Jane, Lady L’Estrange caused to be made with the portrait of Janet at her own expense 1509. The brass is 6 feet high and 31 inches wide on a marble slab. Lord Strange is featured in armour with a bare head. Jacquetta is wearing a waisted dress, tied with a loosely hanging decorated girdle. An outer gown is open in the front, fastened across the chest by a band decorated with roses. She is wearing a plain headdress. Both are standing under a double canopy and between them is a small effigy of Joan. - from Sarah J. Hodder. «The Queen's Sisters».

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THE WHITE QUEEN 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WEEK | Day 1 (August 14): Favorite Episode → 1.01 In Love With the King

You are a girl from the house of Lancaster, and you live in a country that is divided. You may not fall in love with a York king, unless there is some profit in it for you. Your life will not be easy because you wish it to be so. You will have to wade through blood and you will know loss, you must be stronger.

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Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick

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Jacquetta of Luxembourg

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A marginally more structured means of dispute resolution was the appeal to a local powerholder for arbitration. [...] While most arbiters mentioned in accounts of previous resolution efforts were men, there are a few examples in Requests and elsewhere of prominent women being approached for this task. […] An aside in Catesby’s narrative of litigation related how ‘it fortuned that Maister John Ebrall [Eborall]’ had visited Robert Catesby’s hometown of Newenham, Northamptonshire, to preach to the congregation. It turned out that Eborall was then in royal favour, ‘by cause he maried Kynge Edward and Quene Elizabeth [Woodville] toged[er]’ in secret, in 1464. Eborall suggested that Robert ‘make a bill of the seid mater and putt it up to the seid Quene’, and to Earl Rivers and ‘my lady of Bedforde than moder to the seid Quene’.

— Laura Flannigan, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547

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Did Jequetta of Luxembourg indeed forcibly steal the tapestry of the city council? (This story comes from Gregory's chronicles, but its credibility is said to be questionable.)

Anon, this is verging into history that I am not very familiar with. The story is found in the Great Chronicle of London, not Gregory's Chronicle. The story is that Sir Thomas Cook was charged with treason in 1467 after being named as part of a Lancastrian plot but was found guilty only of concealing the plot and fined 8,000 marks. The author of the Great Chronicle claims that Jacquetta coveted a tapestry Cook owned and refused to sell her. When he was arrested, his goods - including the tapestry - were seized by the treasurer, Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers. It goes on to claim that the Woodvilles, displeased Cook was not executed as a traitor, engineered the dismissal of the presiding judge and Elizabeth Woodville then sued Cook for her queen's gold.

The author of the Great Chronicle was a former apprentice of Cook so while he may have been in a position to know the truth, he was also in a position to be heavily biased in Cook's favour. There is a brief account by John Warkworth about the Cook affair and while Warkworth's view of Edward IV is, per Michael Hicks, "generally unfavourable" and he maintains Cook's innocence, the Woodvilles are not mentioned in his account. The judge retired several months after Cook's trial and it was said he did so at his own desire and request due to his "great age and debility". The general consensus of modern historians seems to be that Cook was unlikely to be innocent (per Hicks: "there are grounds for suspecting him guilty of more than could be proved") and that Earl Rivers was only acting as his position as treasurer dictated when Cook's goods were seized. Nor does the Great Chronicle tell us if Jacquetta succeeded in acquiring the tapestry, only that she coveted it.

Hicks on the Woodvilles' role in the Cook affair:

What was the role of the Wydevilles? Cook's conviction shows that their greed does not explain his misfortunes. If they really engineered the dismissal of the chief justice, it shows that they wanted the conviction of the accused including Cook, whom Elizabeth removed from office in her lordship of Havering. No frivolous reason is likely for their antipathy, for in 1465 earl Ryvers and Lord Scales became Cook's feoffees. As the councillor most intimately concerned in the case, earl Ryvers had exceptional information. It is unlikely that the Wydevilles were any less conscious than in 1478 and 1483 that treason threatened the queen and her offspring, the basis of their power. These were strong reasons for opposing leniency but Edward pardoned those involved. The queen's gold suit may be an attempt to punish Cook twice for the same offence but it coincides with other treason trials, in which he could have been implicated. His pardon made him untouchable, so the suit was probably an attempt to harass him for other offences. It coincides with his dismissal as alderman by Edward's direct order in a signet letter: the king and the Wydevilles were still at one.

However, Lynda J. Pidgeon points out that "the pursuit of queen’s gold was not exceptional; Elizabeth was just more successful in making good her claims."

Sources:

M. A. Hicks, ‘The Case of Sir Thomas Cook, 1468’, The English Historical Review, vol. 93, no. 366 (January 1978)

Susan Higginbotham, The Woodvilles (The History Press 2013)

Lynda J. Pigdeon, Brought Up Of Nought: A History of the Woodville Family (Fonthill 2019)

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TWQ 10th Anniversary

THE WHITE QUEEN 10-Year Anniversary Week

->Favorite Villain

In the midst of playing fast and loose with known historical facts, its wild costuming decisions, and some deeply questionable narrative choices, the one thing that stood out in The White Queen was the portrayal of its central cast of characters, all women, cast in various shades of grey, caught somewhere between damsel in distress and femme fatale. Not especially heroic, they were nevertheless complex and layered. In protecting what was important to them (their children), they strayed far from what tradition requires of heroines: to be pure, good-natured, ethical. Indeed, their behavior often called into question what it means to be a heroine. They were all villains!

Or were they? What if they were just victims of this story's ultimate and invincible villain, Fortune's Wheel?

“Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.”

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❁ THE WHITE QUEEN 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WEEK ❁

Day Seven - Free Day >> Favourite Costumes, designed by Nic Ede

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I can only liken Alicent and Viserys' marriage to that of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV.

Elizabeth Woodville was, according to the times she lived, pretty much a commoner. She was the daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Her fathers title had to be swiftly thought up because Jacquetta, former aunt-by-marriage to the actual king, married so below her class. They earned even more titles and honors when Margaret of Anjou married Henry VI, whose brother was Jacquetta's brother in law.

So, in short, Elizabeth Woodville was the daughter of a noble and a servant. She, at the time of her marriage to Edward IV, was a widow and mother of two sons. She was not considered a good match for Edward, but according to history, it was a love match and they married in secret, and once out in the open, it caused an absolute shit show because Warwick, the Kingmaker, had planned on marrying Edward to the Princess Bona of France, but was completely blindsided by Edward's marriage to Elizabeth, a commoner. One of his own subjects.

Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, all but made Edward King and believed he would be enriched and given a multitude of honors for the troubles he went through to get Edward on the throne, but with Edwards marriage to Elizabeth came her sons and siblings and in-laws etc, and so her family were given riches and honors and lavish marriages rather than Warwick, which infuriated him (rightfully so, imo).

Warwick and Edward's dislike turned to pretty much open warfare, and several times would Warwick try and overthrow Edward, first with Edward's brother George, Duke of Clarence, by using the age old rumor that Edward was illegitimate and marrying George to Warwick's daughter Isabelle Neville, and Warwick executed Elizabeth's father Richard and brother John.

The second time, Warwick and George allied themselves with Margaret of Anjou and her and Henry VI's son Edward. Warwick's daughter Anne Neville was married to Edward, the Lancastrian heir, as part of the agreement, and Henry VI was put back on the throne, but it didn't last long, because Warwick and Edward's (son of Margaret) were killed in battle and the rebellion pretty much fell apart.

George, Duke of Clarence, would later be executed by being drowned, allegedly, in a vat of malmsey wine, for other reasons, and Edward's youngest brother, Richard, would usurp the throne from his nephew and become Richard III. He would be overthrown by Henry Tudor, who would marry Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.

There was already a lot of unrest in England at this time, prior to Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth, of course, but the king marrying a commoner and giving her oh, so common family honors and riches, snubbing the nobility, surely didn't help matters.

It's why I liken it to Alicent and Viserys. Alicent is pretty much a commoner. The daughter of a second son with barely a dowry - or one paid by her uncle, Lord Hightower - no lands, no armies, no armada, etc - so it makes sense that the rest of the nobility are mad, are kind of disgusted, but it annoys me that they're not more put out about it, which would be realistic, especially considering that the lords didn't bother putting their daughter's forth because they believed it to be a foregone conclusion that Viserys would stick with tradition and marry Laena Velaryon, a lady of Valyrian/Targaryen blood, but he didn't, and insulted a great many lords and young maidens, but of course that isn't shown in the show whatsoever 🙄

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The White Queen + Hair Moments in 1.06: Love & Death

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Queen Elizabeth in Luxembourg.

1975

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THE WHITE QUEEN 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WEEK

Day Six - Favourite Family Dynamic: Elizabeth Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg