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Catherine Woodville was the youngest child born to Richard Woodville, 1st Earl of Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Dowager Duchess of Bedford (and at one time the second most important lady in the realm and the Lancastrian faction). Catherine was the sister of the Queen Consort of England Elizabeth Woodville, who was the wife of the first Yorkist King Edward IV. Because of her sister's marriage, she was one of the Queen's many sisters married off to secure alliances. At the age of seven, she was married off to Henry Stafford, who was later the Duke of Buckingham and was related to the Beaufort family (and in turn, Henry VII's mother Margaret). Through her first marriage, she was the mother of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (later executed by her great-nephew Henry VIII) and Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon (assumed mistress of Henry VIII). Her husband was executed by Richard III for a failed rebellion which included Margaret Beaufort and her son, Henry Tudor. By her sister, she was the maternal aunt of Elizabeth of York, Princess and then Queen of England, consort to Henry VII, King of England. When Henry VII won the throne, Catherine was married to the King's uncle, Jasper, now Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, as part of a series of marriages between Lancastarian men and York women, making her one of the senior women of the court. Unfortunately, this marriage did not produce any issue.