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Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk also known as Elizabeth Plantagenet (22 April 1444 – c. 1503) was the sixth child and third daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (a great-grandson of King Edward III) and Cecily Neville. [1] She was thus a sister of kings Edward IV and Richard III. [1]
Elizabeth of York (11 February 1466 – 11 February 1503) was Queen of England from her marriage to King Henry VII on 18 January 1486 until her death in 1503. [1] She was the daughter of King Edward IV and his wife, Elizabeth Woodville, and her marriage to Henry VII followed his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field, which marked the end of the civil war known as the Wars of the Roses.
Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV and wife of Henry VII; Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk, sister of Edward IV; Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of Edward I of England, wife of John I, Count of Holland and then of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford; By marriage. Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of Edward IV.
One of the few members of the House of Plantagenet to have survived the Wars of the Roses, Margaret was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, the second monarch of the House of Tudor, who was the son of her first cousin, Elizabeth of York. [2] Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Catholic Church on 29 December 1886. [5]
John de la Pole was the eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk [1] and Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk.His father was the son of Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, and Philippa (de) Roet.
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Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk LG (c. 1404 –1475) was a granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter , an honour granted rarely to women and marking the friendship between herself and her third husband, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk ...