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| John of Lancaster @Wikipedia |
(1389-1435)
1st Duke of Bedford
1414-1435
Duke of Bedford 1414
Earl of Kendal 1414
Earl of Richmond 1414
Governor of Normandy 1422-1432
Constable of England 1403
Husband of:
1. Anne de Bourgogne (1404-1432), mar 1423
2. Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415-1472), mar 1433
Jacquetta's 1st husband.
"The woman thus accused was Jacquetta (christened Jacqueline) de Luxembourg, widow of John, Duke of Bedford, the eldest surviving uncle of King Henry VI of England and at the time of their marraige the next in line for the throne. He was so taken with 17-year-old Jacquetta that in 1433 he married her with indecent haste five months after the death of his first wife Anne, the sister of the Duke of Philippe of Burgundy, thereby deeply offending a crucial English ally in the endgame of the Hundred Years War." (Battle Royal)
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| Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers |
Jacquetta's 2nd husband.
"After Bedford died two years later, childless Jacquetta was granted permission to enjoy her generous dower lands on condition she not remarry without a royal licence. This she omitted to obtain in 1437, when she secretly married the famously handsome 32-year-old Sir Richard Woodville, by whom she was pregnant. While she risked losing her dower, technically he committed treason by changing the legal status of a member of the royal family without the king's permission." (Battle Royal)
"If the noble councillors believed Richard had married Jacquetta for her money, they could not have been more wrong. Theirs was a lasting passionate relationship, and she bore him fourteen children over the next twelve years. Given how dangerous childbirth was, that Jacquetta's dower was for her life only and how politically exposed he would become if she died, Richard would certainly have restrained his enthusiasm if cold calculated played any part in the marriage. The couple returned to France, he to pursue his military career and she to attempt to secure her income from lands in Normandy that consituted a major part of her Bedford dowe.
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