Another CP Additon: Death date of Katherine Wydeville

[Douglas Richardson]

Dear Newsgroup:

Katherine Wydeville, sister of Queen Elizabeth Wydeville, married
(1st) Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, (2nd) Jasper Tudor, Duke of
Bedford, and, (3rd) Richard Wingfield, K.G. Complete Peerage provides
a good account of her first two husbands in vol. 2 (1912), pp. 389-390
(sub Buckingham) and pg. 73 (sub Bedford).

Curiously, in neither the Buckingham account or Bedford account in
Complete Peerage is a death date provided for Duchess Katherine. This
is quite odd given Katherine's high birth and prominent marriages. A
modern history of the Dukes of Stafford states only that Duchess
Katherine Wydeville died in 1497. Unfortunately it provides no source
for this death date [see the book, The Staffords, by Carole Rawcliffe,
published in 1978].

Checking further, it appears that Duchess Katherine Wydeville died 18
May 1497, which date is indicated by the well researched and
documented book, Glamorgan County History, edited by T.B. Pugh, vol. 3
(1971), pg. 688. In this case, the editor kindly cited the actual
source for Katherine Wydeville's death date, it being Worcester County
Record Office, Berrington MS. No. 558.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

E-mail: royala...@msn.com