Jacquetta de Luxembourg ^{1 2}

   Another name for Jacquetta was Jacquetta zu St. Pol.

  General Notes:

Jacquetta de Luxembourg (1415/1416 - May 30, 1472) was daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint Pol, Conversano et Brienne and his wife Margaret de Baux (Margherita del Balzo of Andria).

On April 22, 1433 she married John, Duke of Bedford (son of King Henry IV of England) at Therouenne. This marriage was childless. He died in the night of September 14/15, 1435.

Before March 23, 1436/1437, she married Sir Richard Woodville, who was the son of her dead husband's chamberlain. He was later created 1st Earl Rivers. They had sixteen children, among them Elizabeth Woodville who was to become the wife of King Edward IV of England, and mother of Elizabeth of York (in her turn mother of King Henry VIII) and of King Edward V.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Became: Duchess of Bedford. ... through marriage.

• Invested: Lady Companion, Order of the Garter, 1435.

Jacquetta married John of Lancaster, son of Henry IV Plantagenet and Mary de Bohun, on 22 Apr 1433 in Bishops Palace, Thérouanne, Flandre, France.¹ (John of Lancaster was born on 20 Jun 1389 and died on 14 Sep 1435.)

Jacquetta next married Sir Richard Wydevill between 16 Sep 1435 and 23 Mar 1436. (Sir Richard Wydevill was born circa 1405 and died on 12 Aug 1469.) The cause of his death was execution.