Sir Philip Stapleton of
Wighill
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and of
Warter
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According to the United Kingdom Cen ...
-on-the-Wolds,
Yorkshire (1603 – 18 August 1647) was an English
Member of Parliament, a supporter of the
Parliamentary cause during the
English Civil War. His surname is also sometimes spelt Stapylton or Stapilton.
Life
Born in Warter-on-the-Wolds, Yorkshire, he was the second son of Sir Henry Stapleton of Wighill (Wighill, Yorkshire, 1572 –
St. Andrews
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, 16 February 1630/1631) and wife Mary Forster (
Bamborough Castle
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The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as ''Din Guarie'' and may have ...
,
Northumberland, 30 March 1569 – St. Andrew Holborn Parish, London, Middlesex, 6 November 1656). He was admitted as a fellow commoner of
Queens' College, Cambridge
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in 1617.
In 1630 he was knighted.
He served as MP for
Hedon in the
Short Parliament
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Aft ...
(Apr 1640) and
Boroughbridge in the
Long Parliament (Nov 1640). In 1642 he was appointed parliamentary commissioner in
Yorkshire. When the civil war broke out he was made a colonel of horse and commander of the
Earl of Essex's bodyguard. He commanded a brigade of cavalry at the
Battle of Edgehill, one of two held in reserve until late in the day and whose charge against the flanks and rear of the Royal infantry almost secured a parliamentary victory but proved ultimately inconclusive. He also saw action at the
Battle of Chalgrove Field and at the
First Battle of Newbury. He was a member of the
Committee of Safety appointed in 1642 and of the
Committee of Both Kingdoms which replaced it in 1643.
However, he fell out of favour when he opposed the
Self-Denying Ordinance and the advancement of
Oliver Cromwell. In 1647 he was one of the
eleven members of Parliament impeached by the army, but managed to escape to
Calais
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, and died at a local Inn there later the same year of fever, perhaps plague, and was buried in Calais.
Family
Stapleton married twice, first in 1627 to Frances Hotham (1605–1636), daughter of
Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet, and wife Katherine Rodes, widow of John Gee,
Esq., of Beverley (1606–1627), with issue, by whom he had two sons:
* Robert Stapleton of Wighill (1629–1675), unmarried and without issue
* John Stapleton of Warter and of Wighill (Warter,
York,
East Riding of Yorkshire, 1630 – 1697/1706), married Elizabeth Mary Lawson (Isel,
Cumberland
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, 1635 –
Yorkshire, 1743), daughter of
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell, and wife Jane Musgrave, and had issue:
** Isabella Stapleton, wife of
Sir William Pennington, 1st Baronet of Muncaster, and had issue
** Thomas William Stapleton I (
Salford,
Lancashire, 1658 –
Middlesex County,
Colony of Virginia
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, 6 November 1706),
Medical Doctor
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, married Frances Needles (Poole, Yorkshire, 1663 – Colony of Virginia, 18 November 1697), and had issue, the Stapleton of
Virginia
His second wife was Barbara Lennard (
Hurstmonceaux
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The Herstmonceux Medieval Festival is held annually in August.
History
The name comes from Anglo-Saxon ...
,
Sussex
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, 1 April 1604 – ca. 1665), daughter of
Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre, and wife Chrysogona Baker. Their eight children were:
* Katherine Stapleton (Wighill, Yorkshire, 1632 – ?), unmarried and without issue
* Philipa Stapleton (York, Yorkshire, 1636 – 16 December 1646, bur.
London,
Middlesex)
* Henry Stapleton of Wighill (York, Yorkshire, 1639 – 1723), unmarried and without issue
* Elizabeth Stapleton (11 February 1640 – ?), unmarried and without issue
* Frances Stapleton (1641 – ?), unmarried and without issue
* Isabell Stapleton (York, Yorkshire, 1642 – 16 December 1646)
* Philip Stapleton of Wighill (
City of Westminster
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, London, Middlesex, 1645 – Wighill, Yorkshire, 9 November 1729/1734), married Margaret Gage (York, Yorkshire, 1655 – Middlesex, ca. 1743), daughter of
Sir Thomas Gage, 3rd Baronet
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of Firle Place, and wife Ann Cotton, and had issue, the Stapleton of Wighill
* Mary Stapleton (York, Yorkshire, ca. 1647 – London, Middlesex, 1704), who married
Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam
Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam (c.1640–1704) was an Irish nobleman and statesman; he was a leading Irish Jacobite, and a political figure of some importance during the Williamite War in Ireland.
Background
He was the only son ...
(Ireland, ca. 1640 – Ireland, 24 February 1704), who was a rather surprising choice of husband for a child of Sir Philip, as Thomas was an Irish
Roman Catholic and a staunch
Royalist; they had one surviving son.
References
* ''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''
Stapleton genealogy* Ken and Denise Guest, ''British Battles''
*
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1603 births
1647 deaths
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Lords of the Admiralty
Military personnel from Yorkshire
Eleven Members
English MPs 1640 (April)
English MPs 1640–1648
Parliamentarian military personnel of the English Civil War