COMPANION

Elizabeth Woodville

1437 - 1492

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Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile; c. 1437 – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from her marriage to King Edward IV on 1 May 1464 until Edward was deposed on 3 October 1470, and again from Edward's resumption of the throne on 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Woodville has received more than 8,850,969 page views. Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Elizabeth Woodville is the 98th most popular companion (down from 44th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 186th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Companion.

Elizabeth Woodville was the queen consort of King Edward IV of England. She was the mother of the Princes in the Tower and the grandmother of King Henry VII.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Elizabeth Woodville has had the most page views in the with 910,553 views, followed by Russian (133,815), and Spanish (55,406). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (276.36%), Simple English (165.34%), and Finnish (83.81%)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Elizabeth Woodville ranks 98 out of 784. Before her are Julia Domna, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Constance, Queen of Sicily, Caterina Sforza, Mary of Teck, and Carlos, Prince of Asturias. After her are Maria Luisa of Parma, Alexandra Feodorovna, Gala Dalí, Frederica of Hanover, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Pulcheria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1437, Elizabeth Woodville ranks 1. After her are Elizabeth of Austria, Isaac Abarbanel, Isabella of Bourbon, John IV, Duke of Bavaria, Annius of Viterbo, and Filippo Buonaccorsi. Among people deceased in 1492, Elizabeth Woodville ranks 6. Before her are Lorenzo de' Medici, Pope Innocent VIII, Piero della Francesca, Jami, and Casimir IV Jagiellon. After her are Gülbahar Hatun, Beatrice of Silva, Antoine Busnois, Sonni Ali, Jaume Huguet, and Christina Abrahamsdotter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Woodville ranks 312 out of 8,785. Before her are John Herschel (1792), Thomas Becket (1119), Harold Wilson (1916), Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486), Mary of Teck (1867), and Robert Fripp (1946). After her are Vivienne Westwood (1941), Frederick Sanger (1918), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Stanley Matthews (1915), Arthur Harden (1865), and Jon Lord (1941).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Woodville ranks 12. Before her are Catherine Howard (1523), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Elizabeth of York (1466), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), and Mary of Teck (1867). After her are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Margaret Tudor (1489), Mordred (null), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), Anne Hathaway (1556), and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862).

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