Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk

British duchess
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish duchess
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
isNoble
Work fieldRoyals
Gender
Female
Family
Mother:Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland
Father:Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Siblings:William Neville 1st Earl of Kent Richard Neville 5th Earl of Salisbury Edward Neville 3rd Baron Bergavenny George Neville 1st Baron Latimer Robert Neville Alice Neville Cecily Neville Duchess of York Eleanor Percy Countess of Northumberland
Spouse:John de Mowbray 2nd Duke of Norfolk
Children:John de Mowbray 3rd Duke of Norfolk
The details

Biography

Katherine Neville or Catherine de Neville (born c. 1400 – died after 1483) was the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364–1425) and Lady Joan Beaufort. Through her mother she was a granddaughter of John of Gaunt.
On 12 January 1412, Katherine was married at the age of 12 to John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1392–1432). Their only known child was John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1415–1461).
Katherine married for a second time to Thomas Strangeways (c. 1395-before 1442) - they had 2 daughters:
Joan Strangeways, who married Sir William Willoughby. Their daughter Cecily married Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. They were ancestors of Herbert Hoover, among many others.
Katherine Strangeways, who married Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor.
She married for a third time to John, Viscount Beaumont, who was killed in 1460.
Her fourth and last marriage was infamous, known by contemporaries as the "diabolical marriage". She married John Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. He was 19 years old at the time of their marriage, while she was 65. Nonetheless, she survived him, as he was executed in 1469 after the Battle of Edgecote, on the orders of her nephew Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, during a brief period of Lancastrian readeption. Whether or not she was forced into her final marriage against her will is unclear, but it added to the deep dislike of the Queen's family among the ruling class, which greatly weakened the Yorkist dynasty.
She was still alive in 1483, having survived all her children.

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