Collishaw’s “living death mask” is placed directly opposite the Armada Portrait, conjuring the idea that Elizabeth is looking in a mirror, with an alternate version of herself reflected back. Their mother Jacquetta of Luxembourg married Richard Woodville because she loved him, even though he was the chamberlain of her late husband. At the time, her daughter, Elizabeth of York, was Queen of England as the wife of the Tudor King Henry VII. Elizabeth was a key figure in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. Elizabeth Woodville will always live in the shadow of her elder sons’ uncertain fate. Elizabeth Woodville ; Portrait as Queen of England c. 1472. Elizabeth was crowned queen on 26 May 1465. Elizabeth Woodville was the first child born to a marriage of scandal. In May of 1487, for unknown reasons, Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, the widow of King Edward IV, was compelled to give up all of her lands and possessions and retire to Bermondsey Abbey beside Southwark. After her father’s death and her uncle Richard’s usurpation, Elizabeth was the sole Yorkist heir to the English throne. Elizabeth was a key figure in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. Elizabeth Woodville, Elizabeth Wydeville, Elizabeth Widvile was the Queen consort of Edward IV, King of England, from 1464 until his death in 1483. Her legendary blonde beauty entranced the young king to the extent that he married her in spite of tradition, in spite of advice, perhaps even in spite of himself. So, though the Woodville family certainly had connections Elizabeth was not considered nobility, a fact which would come to be quite significant later in her life. queen elizabeth woodville or wydville (1437-1492) Jacquetta of Luxemburg, the fair young widow of the old warlike Duke of Bedford , took for her second spouse his favourite knight, the brave and handsome Sir Richard Woodville , when she came to England in 1435 to claim her dower. King Edward IV is remembered by many for his role in the Wars of the Roses, the 30-year struggle between the Houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, and for his relationship with Elizabeth Woodville. When Elizabeth Woodville died in 1492, she was buried with little of the pomp and circumstance befitting a woman of her rank. The End of Elizabeth Woodville. None of their sons inherited their father’s throne. The elder, Edward, had been born in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey in 1470, during the period when his father was out of power and in exile following his overthrow by Warwick in favour of Henry VI Edward later returned to England and Warwick was killed … After her father's death and her uncle Richard's usurpation, Elizabeth was the sole Yorkist heir to the English throne. Elizabeth Woodville died in 1492 after spending the last years of her life in Bermondsey Abbey. Elizabeth Woodville, Elizabeth Wydeville, Elizabeth Widvile was the Queen consort of Edward IV, King of England, from 1464 until his death in 1483. Her mother was Jacquetta of Luxembourg, the widow of King Henry V of England’s younger brother, the Duke of Bedford. Her first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans. She and Richard are depicted as bitter enemies, and Margaret curses Elizabeth with having her husband and children killed, as Margaret's husband and son were killed by Elizabeth's husband's supporters.