House of Woodville

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The House of Woodville was a prominent English noble family of the 15th century, best known for producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to King Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses.

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Label Occurrences
House of Woodville canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English noble family
late medieval English dynasty
activePeriod 15th century
associatedConflict Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED
coatOfArmsFeature a fess between three cinquefoils
country Kingdom of England
declinePeriod late 1480s
familyPatriarch Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers NERFINISHED
gainedInfluenceThrough marriage alliance with King Edward IV
historicalReputation controversial due to rapid rise and political influence
influencedSuccessionOf English throne in late 15th century
knownFor producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of Edward IV
language Middle English
lostPowerAfter accession of Richard III
maritalAlliance House of Buckingham through Katherine Woodville NERFINISHED
House of Grey through Elizabeth Woodville’s first marriage
House of York through Elizabeth Woodville
matriarch Jacquetta of Luxembourg NERFINISHED
memberExecutedBy Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick NERFINISHED
memberExecutedDuring Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED
memberHeldOffice Lord Great Chamberlain of England NERFINISHED
Lord High Treasurer of England NERFINISHED
memberHeldTitle Bishop of Salisbury NERFINISHED
Earl Rivers NERFINISHED
Queen consort of England
notableMember Anne Woodville NERFINISHED
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers NERFINISHED
Elizabeth Woodville NERFINISHED
Jacquetta of Luxembourg NERFINISHED
John Woodville NERFINISHED
Katherine Woodville NERFINISHED
Lionel Woodville NERFINISHED
Mary Woodville NERFINISHED
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers NERFINISHED
opposedBy Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick NERFINISHED
some Yorkist nobility
originRegion Northamptonshire NERFINISHED
perceivedByRivalsAs upstart family of relatively modest origins
politicalAlignment Yorkist faction during the Wars of the Roses
principalSeat Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire NERFINISHED
producedQueenConsortOf Edward IV of England NERFINISHED
relatedHouse House of Lancaster NERFINISHED
House of Tudor NERFINISHED
House of York NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
socialRise rose rapidly in status after Elizabeth Woodville’s marriage to Edward IV

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: House of Woodville
Description of subject: The House of Woodville was a prominent English noble family of the 15th century, best known for producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to King Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Elizabeth Woodville house House of Woodville