John Woodville [SEP] father
John Woodville
Sir John Woodville (c.1445 – 12 August 1469) was the second son, and fourth child, of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
In January 1465, Woodville's sister, Queen Elizabeth, procured his marriage to Catherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (born c. 1400 – died after 1483), who was aunt to the powerful Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. As the Duchess was about 65 years of age at the time and Woodville was only 19, the marriage
, of Drayton Parslow. The heir to the family lands was his elder brother from his father's first marriage, Thomas Woodville (died about 1435), who followed his father as an administrator and politician.
From at least 1268, the Woodville family had been tenants in the village of Grafton Regis, where they occupied the manor house next to the church, and had acquired lands in neighbouring parishes. According to Hasted, it was John Woodville who acquired the manor of Mote at Maidstone in Kent, which eventually came