Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, titular King of Mann, KG (c. 1405 – 11 or 20 February 1459), of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire, was a Privy Councillor,

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, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland (1431–36), Chief Steward of the

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for

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, Constable & Justice of

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, Chamberlain of

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(1455), and from 15 January 1456 was summoned by Writ to Parliament as Lord Stanley.

Life

Stanley was the son of Sir John Stanley, of Liverpool, Lathom, and Knowsley (in Huyton), Lancashire, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harington (or Haverington) of Farleton (in Melling), Lancashire. He represented

in the

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in 1427, 1433, 1439, 1442, 1447, 1449, 1450, 1453, 1455. In 1424 he was attacked in his father's tower at

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by Sir Richard Molyneaux, who was arrested. His family had long associations with the governance of Ireland, his grandfather Sir John Stanley, K.G., having been both Justiciar and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (and who died there), and in 1429 he was sent to Ireland and called a Parliament in that Kingdom in 1432. In 1437, he succeeded to the title of

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upon the death of his father, John Stanley. During the Parliament at Westminster in 1450-1 the House of Commons demanded his removal from the Royal presence with others of the Duke of Suffolk's party.Richardson, Douglas, 2007, p. 771.

Marriage and issue

He married Joan Goushill (1401–1466), eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham in Nottinghamshire, by his wife

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, a daughter of

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. By his wife he had four sons and three daughters: *

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(1435–1504), KG, eldest son and heir, who in 1485 was created

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by King Henry VII following his decisive assistance in the

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. He married twice, firstly to Eleanor de Neville, secondly to Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. * William Stanley (c.1435–1495), KG, 2nd son, invested as a

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in 1487 by King Henry VII, but executed by that king in 1495 for treason for his alleged part in the

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conspiracy. *Sir John Stanley, ancestor of the Barons Stanley of Alderley; *James Stanley,

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; *Elizabeth Stanley, wife successively of Sir Richard Molyneux (d.1459), killed in the Battle of Blore Heath, and Thomas Strange; *Margaret Stanley, wife successively of Sir William Troubeck (d.1459), killed in the

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; Sir John Boteler, and Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor, her grandson was Sir William Griffith of

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, Chamberlain of North Wales;GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN, Caernarfonshire., Dictionary of Welsh Biography
/ref> *Katherine Stanley, wife of Sir John Savage, of Clifton, Cheshire. Of their many sons, the eldest, Sir John Savage, KG, was the commander of the left wing of Henry Tudor's army at the

in 1485; another, Sir Christopher Savage of Aston-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, fell at the

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, and another, Thomas Savage, was

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Death and burial

He died on 11 February 1459 and was buried in

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, near his home at Lathom, Lancashire, where his wife was later buried also. , -

References

* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley, Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron 1400s births 1459 deaths 15th-century English nobility 1 Knights of the Garter

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