Brought Up of Nought by Lynda J. Pidgeon

Author:Lynda J. Pidgeon [Pidgeon, Lynda J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78155-743-3
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

A Series of Marriages

However, Worcester has not quite finished with reporting people’s displeasure; at the feast of Pentecost 1466, the king made Lord Rivers an earl ‘to the honour of the queen and displeasure of the community of the realm’.26, 27, 28 This is in contrast to Rivers earlier elevation to baron by Henry VI, which caused no comment at all. However, as with his appointment as treasurer of the exchequer, no other chronicle records discontent at Rivers's promotion to earl at this time. In September, William, the son and heir of Lord Herbert, married Mary Wydevile, once more allegedly incurring Warwick’s displeasure.29, 30 The indenture for the marriage had been drawn up on 20 March 1466. It was between Richard, Lord Rivers, Anthony, Lord Scales, and Sir John Wydevile, and William, Lord Herbert, Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, Sir Richard Herbert, and Thomas Herbert, esquire. They witnessed that Lord Rivers and Lord Herbert ‘at the instance of our sovereign lord the king’ agreed to the marriage of William Herbert and Mary Wydevile. Herbert was to grant his son and Mary and the ‘heires of their bodyes’ the manor of Dunster and other lands in Somerset and Suffolk worth £400 a year. Lord Rivers, for his part, would pay £1,666 13s 4d. If William died before the marriage was made ‘or after that marriage had and afore fleshly knowledge betweene them’, then Mary was to marry Walter, the next heir. Rivers would meet all the costs of the marriage. After they married, they were to live with Lord Herbert until William reached the age of twenty-one. Rivers was also to persuade the king to grant to Herbert the castle town and lordship of Haverfordwest, paying to the king 100 marks a year for the same. Also that, if the king granted William and Mary the manor of Kilpeck, then Lord Rivers would ask the king to grant the reversion to Herbert of the third part of the Forest of Dean, which Jacquetta held in dower. Rivers would pay all the costs for the grants. Lord Rivers, Scales, Sir John, and Sir Richard Wydevile bound themselves to the agreement in the sum of £2,000. The marriage was an expensive one for the Wydeviles, especially given their income. Edward was rewarding Herbert cheaply, mainly at the expense of the Wydeviles, who might have hoped to retain Jacquetta’s dower property after her death.

The Herberts and their household felt themselves honoured by this marriage. The Welsh poet Hywel Swrdwal wrote a celebratory poem about the knighting of William at Windsor and his ensuing marriage:

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