Katherine Neville ( – late summer 1483) was a medieval English noblewoman, the eldest daughter of

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, and his second wife Joan Beaufort. Through her mother, she was a granddaughter of

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and a great-granddaughter of

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First marriage

On 12 January 1412, Katherine was

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at the age of 15 to John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392–1432). Their only known child was John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1415–1461).

Second marriage

Katherine married for a second time to Thomas Strangeways (-before 1442) - they had 2 daughters: * Joan Strangeways, who first married Sir William Willoughby, before 20 July 1461. Their daughter Cecily married Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. They were ancestors of

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, among many others.Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 Joan married for a second time to William Berkeley in November 1468; they had one son, Thomas, and one daughter, Katherine. * Katherine Strangeways, who married Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor, 29 August 1454.

Third marriage

She married for a third time to John, Viscount Beaumont, in 1442, who was killed in 1460 at the battle of Northampton. He was also the first viscount in England.

Fourth marriage

Her fourth and last marriage in 1465 was infamous, known by contemporaries as the "diabolical marriage". She married John Woodville, brother of

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. Chronicler William Worcester referred to the match as being rotting revenge for both parties "vindicta Bernardi inter cosdem postem putrit". He was 19 years old at the time of their marriage, while she was about 68. Nonetheless, she survived him, as he was executed in 1469 after the Battle of Edgecote, on the orders of her nephew

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, during a Lancastrian rebellion against

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. Whether or not she was forced into her final marriage against her will is unclear, but the unsavoury details added to the deep dislike of the Queen's family among the ruling class, which greatly weakened the

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dynasty.

Death

She was still alive in 1483, having survived all her children. She was last seen in public at the

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of her nephew,

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.Ross p.93

Ancestry

Footnotes

References

* *Green, Mary Anne Everett. ''Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain, From the Commencement of the Twelfth Century to the Close of the Reign of Queen Mary.'' London: H. Colburn, 1846
googlebooks
Retrieved 13 December 2008 *Oxford History of England, 1399–1485, 485ff. *Kennedy, Maev. ''The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered''. Germany, Wiley, 2015 *Richardson, Douglas ''Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', 2nd Edition, 2011

External links

our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com. Accessed 24 November 2022.

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Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Ch ...