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Humphrey Stafford (other)
Humphrey Stafford may refer to: Stafford of Hooke & Southwick *Humphrey Stafford (died 1413), of Southwick, Wiltshire & Hooke, Dorset *Humphrey Stafford (died 1442), of Hooke, Dorset ("With the Silver Hand") *Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon, 1st Baron Stafford of Southwick (1439?–1469) Stafford of Grafton *Humphrey Stafford (died 1419), of Grafton, Worcestershire * Humphrey Stafford (died 1450), of Grafton, Worcestershire * Humphrey Stafford (died 1486), of Grafton, Worcestershire Stafford of Stafford Castle * Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford (1425?–1458), of Stafford Castle, Staffordshire * Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402–1460), of Stafford Castle, Staffordshire See also *Stafford (surname) * *Humphrey (other) *Stafford (other) Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, England. Stafford may also refer to: Places Other places in England * Stafford, Dolton, Devon * Stafford (UK Parliament constituency) * Stafford Castle * St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford (died 1413)
Sir Humphrey Stafford,( 1341 – 31 October 1413), of Southwick, Wiltshire; Hooke, Dorset; and Bramshall, Staffordshire, was a member of the fifteenth-century English gentry. He held royal offices firstly in the county of his birth, and later in the west country, particularly Devon and Dorset, and has been called 'one of the wealthiest commoners in England' of the period.Jacob, E. F., ''Essays in Medieval History'' (Manchester, 1968), 36. Early life and career Humphrey Stafford was born some time after 1341, the eldest son of Sir John Stafford of Amblecote and his second wife, Margaret Stafford (a daughter of Ralph, 1st Earl of Stafford, a distant relation). Ralph Stafford was his brother. His first official positions ranged from tax assessor for Wiltshire (1379), JP for the same county a year later, Sheriff of Staffordshire (1383–4), and Member of Parliament for Warwickshire during the October 1383 parliament. Prior to his long parliamentary career, he was primarily a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford (died 1442)
Sir Humphrey Stafford (''c.'' 1379 – 27 May 1442) ''"With the Silver Hand"'', of Hooke, Dorset, Hooke in Dorset and of Southwick, Wiltshire, Southwick in the parish of North Bradley in Wiltshire was a member of the English gentry in the South West England, south west of England, where he was a Member of Parliament multiple times and an important royal official. Early life and marriage Son and heir of Sir Humphrey Stafford (died 1413), he had been knighted by 1397. Some time before then he had married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Maltravers of Hooke, Dorset. Elizabeth's mother, also called Elizabeth, had already wed Humphrey's father, and the younger Elizabeth was intended to marry John, Lord Lovell, but King Richard II of England, the king, Richard II, forbade the match. The newly-weds received the Manorialism, manor of Perton, Staffordshire as a residence from Humphrey's father, where they lived until 1413 (when both Humphrey's father and Elizabeth's mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl Of Devon
Sir Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon, 1st Baron Stafford of Southwick (''ca.'' 143917 August 1469)Michael Hicks, ‘Stafford, Humphrey, earl of Devon (c.1439–1469)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. was a dominant magnate in South West England in the mid-15th century, and a participant in the Wars of the Roses. A distant relative of the Earls of Stafford, Humphrey Stafford became the greatest landowner in the county of Dorset through fortunes of inheritance. Later, Stafford was one of several men promoted rapidly through the nobility by King Edward IV, to fill the power vacuum left by dead or forfeit Lancastrians. In the West Country it was particularly the forfeitures of the Lancastrian Courtenay family that benefited Stafford. In 1469 he received the Courtenay title of Earl of Devon. Stafford held the comital title for only three months. In July he was sent north to quell a rebellion instigated by the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford (died 1419)
Sir Humphrey Stafford (''b''. 1384-1419) of Grafton in Worcestershire, was a prominent member of the fifteenth-century English gentry in Worcestershire, for which county he was Member of the English Parliament in 1415. Early life and career Humphrey Stafford was the eldest son and heir of Ralph Stafford (died 1410), and came from a family with a strong tradition of military service for the English crown. Sometime before 1400 he had married Elizabeth Burdet, of Huncote, Leicestershire. His marriage brought him a substantial landed estate in both that county, and also in Wiltshire. Stafford's early life has been described Carol Rawcliffe as being 'full of violent incident.' In early 1401, he was suspected of the murder of a Worcestershire man, but although the earl of Warwick was sent to arrest him, he appears to have avoided capture. His father entered into bonds to keep the peace with the victim's family, and within a coupe of years, Humphrey Stafford was a member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford (died 1450)
Sir Humphrey Stafford (died 1450), of Grafton in the parish of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was an English nobleman who served as Governor of Calais. He was the second son and eventual heir of Sir Humphrey Stafford (1384-1419) of Grafton, a Member of the English Parliament in 1415, by his wife Elizabet Burdett. His elder brother was John Stafford (died 1422) of Grafton, whose heir he was. He married Eleanor Aylesbury (died 1478), daughter and heiress of Thomas Aylesbury of Blatherwyke and Milton Keynes.The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Volume 4 By George Lipscomb, p.24/ref> By Eleanor he had the following known issue: *Richard Stafford *Sir Humphrey Stafford (died 1486), Humphrey Stafford (c.1427-1486) of Grafton, son and heir, who took part in the War of the Roses on the Yorkist side and having fought for King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth (1485), was executed by the victorious King Henry VII, following his role in the Stafford and Lovell reb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford (died 1486)
Sir Humphrey Stafford (c. 1427 – 8 July 1486) of Grafton Manor in Worcestershire, was an English nobleman who took part in the War of the Roses on the Yorkist side. He was executed by Henry VII following his fighting for Richard III and his role in the Stafford and Lovell rebellion. Origins Humphrey Stafford was born in about 1427 in Grafton, Worcestershire, the son of Sir Humphrey Stafford (1400–1450) who was slain in 1450 in Jack Cade's Rebellion. Career Humphrey Stafford inherited Grafton and Upton Warren in 1449–50. He fought at the Battle of Bosworth with Richard III. Stafford and Lovell rebellion Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother Thomas Stafford, joined by Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, led the inauspicious Stafford and Lovell Rebellion in 1486. After a Yorkist defeat at The Battle of Bosworth, Sir Humphrey Stafford, with Thomas Stafford and Lord Lovell, sought sanctuary together at Colchester where they planned the rebellion. The conspirators hope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford, Earl Of Stafford
Humphrey Stafford ( – 22 May 1458), generally known by his Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom, courtesy title of Earl of Stafford, was the eldest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Anne Stafford, Duchess of Buckingham, Lady Anne Neville (d. 1480). Biography His maternal grandparents were Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland. His maternal uncles included (among others) Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (father of ''Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Warwick, the Kingmaker''), Robert Neville (bishop), Robert Neville who was first Bishop of Salisbury and then Bishop of Durham, William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent and Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny. His most prominent maternal aunt was Cecily Neville, wife of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and mother to among others Edward IV of England, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Richard III of England, Anne, Duchess of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke Of Buckingham
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford, (December 1402 – 10 July 1460) of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses. Through his mother he had royal descent from King Edward III, his great-grandfather, and from his Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, father, he inherited, at an early age, the earldom of Stafford. By his marriage to a daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Ralph, Earl of Westmorland, Humphrey was related to the powerful Neville family and to many of the leading aristocratic houses of the time. He joined the English campaign in France with Henry V of England, King Henry V in 1420 and following Henry V's death two years later he became a councillor for the new king, the nine-month-old Henry VI of England, Henry VI. Stafford acted as a peacemaker during the partisan, factional politics of the 1430s, when Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford (surname)
Stafford is an English surname originating from Staffordshire which may derive from Anglo-Saxon meaning 'landing stage by the ford'. The Staffords may also refer to the people of Staffordshire. see also: de Stafford, de Staffort People People with this surname include: * Stafford (baseball), 19th century baseball player(s) with an unknown given name *Abi Stafford, American ballet dancer and sister of Jonathan *Alexander Stafford, British politician *Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon (1483–1544), mistress of Henry VIII who was prosecuted for adultery with his friend, William Compton *Barbara Stafford ** Barbara Stafford (born 1953), American legislator **Barbara Maria Stafford (born 1941), American art historian and writer *Drew Stafford (born 1985), American professional ice hockey player * Edmund Stafford (other) ** Edmund Stafford (1344–1419) Bishop of Exeter ** Edmund Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (1272–1308), British nobleman who was summoned to parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey (other)
Humphrey is a given name and a surname. Humphrey may also refer to: Animals * Humphrey (cat) (1988–2006), cat employed at 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's residence * Humphrey (chimpanzee), featured in several books and documentaries * Humphrey the Whale, a humpback whale that deviated from its migration path and swam into San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River Places in the United States * Humphrey, Arkansas, a city * Humphrey, Idaho, an unincorporated community * Humphrey, Nebraska, a city * Humphrey, New York, a town * Humphrey, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Humphrey Township, Platte County, Nebraska Other uses * Humphrey Center, administration building at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, United States * Humphrey Coliseum, a multi-purpose arena in Starkville, Mississippi, United States * Humphrey Go-Bart, a shuttle bus service that connected UC Berkeley with Berkeley BART station, United States * Humphrey School of Public Affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
