Elizabeth Woodville was the first commoner AND the first English woman to marry an English King (in the most super secret sexy wedding ever??), but more importantly for Halloween reasons, was maybe descended from a mythical Luxembourgese mermaid-witch-goddess.
References:
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman
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