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See also:RIVERS, See also:ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND See also:EARL (c. 1442—1483) , statesman and See also:patron of literature, and author of the first See also:book printed on See also:English See also:soil, was See also:born probably in 1442 . He was the son of See also:Richard de Wydeville and his wife, Jacquetta de See also:Luxemburg, duchess of See also:Bedford . His See also:father was raised to the See also:peerage in his son's See also:infancy, and was made See also:earl of See also:Rivers in 1466 . See also:Anthony, who was knighted before he became of See also:age, and fought at See also:Towton in 1461, married the daughter of See also:Lord Scales, and became a peer jure uxoris in 1462, two years after the See also:death of that nobleman . Being lord of the Isle of See also:Wight at the See also:time, he was in 1467 appointed one of the ambassadors to treat with the See also:duke of ' Rivers and Canals, 2nd ed. pp . 327—342, and See also:plate to . |
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Earl Rivers accompanied Edward IV to France during his exile and returned with him when he triumphantly took the crown of England. In that year (1471) he was appointed governor to the new Prince of Wales, Edward's son, the future Edward V. Earl Rivers was a devout man who made many trips to shrines in Southern Italy. At the beginning of 1483 Edward nominated his brother of Gloucester as Protector. When Edward died, Richard ordered the arrest of Earl Rivers and several other high ranking knights and sent them to Sheriff Hutton under guard. They were all executed in June of that year, some say victims of Richard of Gloucester's usurpation of the English throne. It may well transpire, in future years, that the truth of the arrests and subsequent executions, without trial, will become known, as more historians find more documentation which has long since been hidden. For now all that can be said is that Earl Rivers lived the life of a courtier and knight but with his pious nature showing through his many pilgrimages to the sites of saints. His book, The Cordyal, is a translation of a French work based entirely on religious theories.
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