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Edward Woodville, born around 1454–1458 at Grafton Regis in Northamptonshire, England, stands out as an emblematic figure of the twilight of the medieval chivalric era. The youngest son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, he grew up in a family that embodied the meteoric social rise under the Yorkists. His elder sister Elizabeth secretly married King Edward IV in 1464, catapulting the Woodvilles to the very heart of royal power. This controversial union transformed the Woodvilles from minor nobility into pillars of the court, but also made them targets of the intrigues of the Wars of…
