Elizabeth Lucy

Also known as: Elizabeth Lucie / dame Elizabeth Lucie / ladie Elizabeth Lucie · Role: lady · First appears: Edward IV 4

Life events

c. 1483 · Elizabeth Lucy confessed she and Edward IV had never been betrothed.(Edward V 14)
- With: Edward IV
- “she confessed that they were neuer ensured.”
c. 1483 · Shaw preached that Edward IV was Elizabeth Lucie's husband, making his children bastards.(Edward V 15 · 📍 Paules crosse)
- With: John Shaw Edward IV
- “According to this deuise doctor Shaw the sundaie after, at Paules crosse in a great audience (as alwaie assembled great number to his preaching) he tooke for his theame; Spuria vitilamina non agent radices altas, that is to saie; Bastard slippes shall neuer take déepe root.”
c. 1483 · Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Lucie was declared unlawful, challenging their children's legitimacy.(Edward V 16)
- With: Edward IV
- “the king (leaning his verie wife dame Elizabeth Lucie) was neuer lawfullie maried vnto the quéene their mother”

engaged with Edward IV “But yet the duchesse of Yorke his moother letted this match as much as in hir laie: & when all would not serue, she caused a precontract to be alleged, made by him with ladie Elizabeth Lucie.”

with Edward IV (The king fathered a child with Elizabeth Lucy.) “dame Elizabeth Lucie, whome the king had also not long before gotten with child”

married with Edward IV “king Edward was neuer lawfullie married vnto the quéene, but was before God husband vnto dame Elizabeth Lucie”

married with Edward IV (The passage calls Elizabeth Lucie the king's wife while contrasting her with the queen, whom it says he was not lawfully married to.) “the king (leaning his verie wife dame Elizabeth Lucie) was neuer lawfullie maried vnto the quéene their mother”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.