Katherine married for a second time to Thomas Strangeways (c. 1395-before 1442)[3] - they had 2 daughters:
Joan Strangeways, who first married Sir William Willoughby, before 20 July 1461. Their daughter Cecily married Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley.[4] They were ancestors of Herbert Hoover,[5] among many others.[6] Joan married for a second time to William Berkeley in November 1468; they had one son, Thomas, and one daughter, Katherine.[6]
She married for a third time to John, Viscount Beaumont, in 1442, who was killed in 1460 at the battle of Northampton.[7] He was also the first viscount in England.
Her fourth and last marriage in 1465 was infamous, known by contemporaries as the "diabolical marriage".[8] She married John Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth. Chronicler William Worcester referred to the match as being rotting revenge for both parties "vindicta Bernardi inter cosdem postem putrit".[7] He was 19 years old at the time of their marriage, while she was about 68. 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 Lancastrian rebellion against Edward IV. Whether or not she was forced into her final marriage against her will is unclear, but the unsavoury details added to the deep dislike of the Queen's family among the ruling class, which greatly weakened the Yorkist dynasty.[9]
Green, Mary Anne Everett. Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain, From the Commencement of the Twelfth Century to the Close of the Reign of Queen Mary. London: H. Colburn, 1846. googlebooks Retrieved 13 December 2008
Oxford History of England, 1399–1485, 485ff.
Kennedy, Maev. The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered. Germany, Wiley, 2015
Richardson, Douglas Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
