![]() ![]() Of course, it could all be a wild goose chase, since any son who was Kell negative (a 50/50 chance) could have oodles of children with no problems. I went looking among Henry’s ancestresses for a woman who had either few descendants or mostly female descendants with only a few male lines. Since this gene could easily compromise male fertility, I assumed it was inherited from his mother, so I started with the King’s maternal linage. Follow the link and you can read the whole thing.)įrom the earliest days of research on the theory, I wondered which side of the family passed a Kell positive gene down to Henry VIII. 681 (Richard, Earl of Ryvers).*(Since this blog post was written, there has been an article published in the Journal of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh the posits the same theory of transmission from Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Gloucester: Gloucester Reprints, 1975 (originally published 1935) by George Smith.ģ.^ Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem, Henry VII, vol. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1963. The Marcher Lordships of South Wales, 1415–1536. “The Household of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, 1466–7.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 1967–68 by A. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Henry Stafford, Second Duke of Buckingham" by C. The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal ancestors of 300 American Families By Michel L. A contemporary description of Elizabeth Woodville's coronation, where Catherine and her husband Henry are described as being carried on squires' shoulders, and Elizabeth Woodville's household records for 1466-67, which indicate that Catherine was being raised in the queen's household, also indicate that she was a child at the time of her first marriage. Her brother Richard's 1492 postmortem inquisition names her as being “34 or more,” placing her birthdate at about 1458. She was mother of five children by her first husband Henry:Ĭatherine's age at the time of her marriage to Henry Stafford is often misstated. By 24 February 1496, Catherine married her third and last husband, Sir Richard Wingfield, who outlived her. Following Richard III's defeat at Bosworth in 1485, Catherine married Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, who died in 1495. Buckingham was executed for treason on 2 November 1483. Henry was said by Dominic Mancini to have resented his marriage to a woman of inferior birth, but nothing is known about the couple's private relations. They were married sometime before the coronation of Elizabeth Woodville in May 1465 both parties were children at the time. Her first husband was Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. She owed her position largely to her sister, Elizabeth Woodville, the queen of King Edward IV of England.Ĭatherine and her sister were the daughters of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. 1458 – 1497) was an English medieval noblewoman, best known for marrying a number of influential husbands and producing several illustrious children. Richard WOODVILLE, 3rd Earl Rivers †1491Ĭatherine Woodville (or Katherine Wydeville) (cir.Catherine WOODVILLE, Duchess of Bedford 1457/1458-1497/.Anthony WOODVILLE, 2nd Earl Rivers, Knight of the Garter ca 1442-1483. ![]() Anne STAFFORD ca 1483-1544 Married to George HASTINGS, 3d Lord Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon (1529) 1488-1544.Elizabeth STAFFORD 1479-1532 Married to Robert FitzWalter RADCLIFFE, Baron FitzWalter (10e), Viscount FitzWalter (1525), Earl of Sussex (1er, 1529), Knight of the Garter 1482-1542.Edward STAFFORD, 3d Duke of Buckingham 1478-1521 Married in 1500.Humphrey STAFFORD, 7th Earl of Stafford 1424-1455 & Margaret BEAUFORT †1474) To Henry STAFFORD, 2d Duke of Buckingham 1455-1483 (Parents : ![]()
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