Elizabeth Woodville, Countess Rivers and 8th Baroness Scales (died 1473), born Elizabeth de Scales, was the sole heir of the 7th Baron Scales.

Family

Elizabeth first married Henry Bourchier, second son of the 1st Earl of Essex

Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex

Henry Bourchier, 5th Baron Bourchier, 1st Viscount Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex, KG , was the eldest son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu and Anne of Gloucester...

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Upon Bourchier's death Elizabeth remarried to the 2nd Earl Rivers

Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers

Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers was an English nobleman, courtier, and writer.He was the eldest son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Like his father, he was originally a Lancastrian, fighting on that side at the Battle of Towton, but later became a Yorkist...

, brother of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville was Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Edward IV from 1464 until his death in 1483. Elizabeth was a key figure in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. Her first husband, Sir John Grey of Groby was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans...

, wife of King Edward IV

Edward IV of England

Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death. He was the first Yorkist King of England...

. Rivers was declared Lord Scales in Elizabeth's right and had summons to Parliament by that title.

Lord and Lady Rivers had no children and when Lady Rivers died her husband remarried to Mary, daughter of Henry Fitz-Lewis, but, again, no issue was forthcoming.

Lord Rivers was beheaded by King Richard III

Richard III of England

Richard III was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty...

 at Pontefract

Pontefract

Pontefract is an historic market town in West Yorkshire, England. Traditionally in the West Riding, near the A1 , the M62 motorway and Castleford. It is one of the five towns in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield and has a population of 28,250...

 on 24 June 1483.

Lord and Lady Rivers's lands were left to Lord Rivers's brother, Edward Woodville, but the Barony of Scales fell into abeyance

Abeyance

Abeyance is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. In law, the term abeyance can only be applied to such future estates as have not yet vested or possibly...

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