Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk
| Lady Katherine Neville | |
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| Duchess of Norfolk Countess Beaumont |
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| Spouse | John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk Thomas Strangeways John, Viscount Beaumont John Woodville |
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Issue Joan Strangeway Catherine Strangeway |
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| Noble family | House of Neville |
| Father | Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland |
| Mother | Joan Beaufort |
| Born | c. 1400 |
| Died | Aft. 1483 |
Katherine Neville or Catherine de Neville (born c. 1400 – died after 1483[1]) was the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364–1425), and Joan Beaufort (c. 1379-1440), daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by his mistress (later, 3rd wife) Katherine Swynford.[2]
On 12 January 1412, Katherine was married at the age of 12 to John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392–1432). Their only known child was John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1415–1461).
Katherine married for a second time to Thomas Strangeways (c. 1395-before 1442) [3] - they had 2 daughters:
- Joan Strangeways, who married Sir William Willoughby. Their daughter Cecily married Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley.[4] They were ancestors of Herbert Hoover,[5] among many others.
- Catherine Strangeways,[1] who married Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor.
She married for a third time to John, Viscount Beaumont, who was killed in 1460.
Her fourth and last marriage was infamous, known by contemporaries as the "diabolical marriage"[1] - she married John Woodville, brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV. He was 19 years old at the time of their marriage - she was 65. Nonetheless, she survived even him; he was executed in 1469 during the brief period of time that her nephew Richard, Earl of Warwick, usurped the authority of the crown. Whether or not she was forced into this final marriage against her will is unclear. She was still alive in 1483, having survived all the descendents of her first marriage.[1]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d Neville family
- ^ Green., 82
- ^ Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004
- ^ Bruce Harrison, The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort, Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc, pp 15, 34
- ^ Descent of Herbert Clark Hoover from Edward III
- thepeerage Accessed December 13, 2008
- Neville family Accessed December 13, 2008
- 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 December 13, 2008
- Oxford History of England, 1399–1485, 485ff.
