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The Woodvilles : the Wars of the Roses and England's most infamous family / Susan Higginbotham.

by Higginbotham, Susan.

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The History Press, c2013.

Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492 -- Family.

Nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 -- Biography.

Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.

9780752488127 (hc.)

0752488120 (hc.)

224 p., [8] unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index.

"The notorious Woodville family: the fate of the Princes in the Tower and witchcraft allegations against Elizabeth and her mother. In 1464, the most eligible bachelor in England, Edward IV, stunned the nation by revealing his secret marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful, impoverished widow whose father and brother Edward himself had once ridiculed as upstarts. Edward's controversial match brought his queen's large family to court and into the thick of the Wars of the Roses. The story of the family whose fates would be inextricably intertwined with the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors: Richard, the squire whose marriage to a duchess would one day cost him his head; Jacquetta, mother to the queen and accused witch; Elizabeth, the commoner whose royal destiny would cost her three of her sons; Anthony, the scholar and jouster who was one of Richard III's first victims; and Edward, whose military exploits would win him the admiration of Ferdinand and Isabella. Includes little-known material such as private letters and wills"--Provided by publisher.

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