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RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 14421483)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 385 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 14421483) , statesman and
patron
  of literature, and author of the first
book
  printed on
English
  soil, was born probably in 1442. He was the son of
Richard
  de Wydeville and his wife, Jacquetta de Luxemburg, duchess of
Bedford
 . His father was raised to the peerage in his son's infancy, and was made
earl
  of Rivers in 1466. Anthony, who was knighted before he became of age, and fought at Towton in 1461, married the daughter of Lord Scales, and became a peer jure uxoris in 1462, two years after the death of that nobleman. Being lord of the Isle of
Wight
  at the time, he was in 1467 appointed one of the ambassadors to treat with the
duke
  of
' Rivers and Canals, 2nd ed. pp. 327342, and
plate
  to.


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