Ellen Stafford

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Or Eleanor.

Family/Spouse: Anthony Cope. Anthony (son of John Cope and Bridget Raleigh) was born in of Adstone, Northamptonshire, England; died between 6 Jun 1558 and 20 Dec 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ellen married Thomas Barlow before 1568. Thomas was born in of Huncote in Narborough, Leicestershire, England; died after 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Stafford Barlow was born in of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England; died after 1638.

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Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1547-48. Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII.

Humphrey married Margaret Tame after 10 Feb 1526. Margaret (daughter of Edmund Tame and Agnes Greville) died after Jan 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Margaret Fogge after 1490. Margaret (daughter of John Fogge and Alice Haute) died before 1532. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was in some manner kinswoman to Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492), wife of Edward IV.

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• Alternate birth: of Rayton, Gloucestershire, England

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Knight of the body to Henry VIII. Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1505 and 1513. Steward of Cirencester Abbey.

Edmund married Agnes Greville. Agnes (daughter of John Greville and Joan Scote) died in 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia:

Sir Humphrey Stafford, and his brother Thomas Stafford, joined by Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, led the inauspicious Stafford and Lovell Rebellion in 1486.

The conspirators hoped to restore the Yorkist monarchy. While Lord Lovell went to Yorkshire, the brothers Stafford went to the Midlands. On 23 April 1486, after a failed attempt to seize Henry VII in York, Lord Lovell escaped to Burgundy. In the meantime, the Stafford brothers's rebellion in Worcester had failed, in part due to lack of planning and in part due to the fact that King Henry had some support in that area.

During this time Henry was on a nationwide tour of the country. As soon as he advanced towards Worcester in order to eliminate Yorkist support, on 11 May 1486 the Stafford brothers again fled to sanctuary, this time at Culham.

Despite the fact that Stafford had sought sanctuary at the church in Culham, King Henry VII decided to force Stafford to kiss his feet. Stafford was forcibly removed from his sanctuary on the night of 13 May by John Barrowman and one follower. Henry then ordered the execution of Humphrey Stafford of Grafton, but pardoned the younger Thomas Stafford.

The arrest prompted a series of protests to Pope Innocent VIII over the breaking of sanctuary; these resulted in a Papal bull in August which severely limited the rights of sanctuary, excluding it completely in cases of treason, thereby vindicating the King's actions.

Humphrey was executed at Tyburn on 8 July 1486.

Humphrey married Katherine Fray after 1462. Katherine (daughter of John Fray and Agnes Danvers) was born about 1447; died on 12 May 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Treasurer of the Household to Edward IV. Privy councilor; keeper of the writs. Knight of the shire for Kent. Burgess to Parliament for Canterbury.

John married Alice Haute. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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cFrom Wikipedia ("John Tame", retrieved 12 Sep 2018):

"John Tame (c. 1430 - 8 May 1500) of Cirencester and of Beauchamp Court (or "Warwick Court") in the parish of Fairford, both in Gloucestershire, England, was a wealthy wool producer and merchant who rebuilt the surviving St. Mary's Church, Fairford, the former structure of which had been built by one of the Beauchamp Earls of Warwick in the 15th century. The 28 magnificent Fairford stained glass windows he installed in the church are considered amongst the finest and most complete in England. He and his son Sir Edmund Tame (d. 1534) so fostered the trade transacted at Fairford, that it came to rival that of the nearby long-established town of Cirencester, which increase was remarked upon by his contemporary the antiquary John Leland (d. 1552): 'Fairford never flourished afore the cumming of the Tames into it.'"

John married Alice Twynyho. Alice (daughter of John Twynyho) died on 20 Dec 1471. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1434

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The pedigree on page 260 of "Miscellaneous Pedigrees" in the Harleian edition of the 1623 Visitation of the County of Gloucester gives the father of Agnes who married Edmund Tame as "Sr Edw. Grevell." That this is a mistake was demonstrated by I. E. Gray in "The Greville-Tame Marriage" (citation details below), in which Gray reports discovering a 1501 business letter from "John Grevyll" that refers to Edmund Tame as his son-in-law.

John married Joan Scote. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1423-24, 1426, 1447, 1449. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1427-28. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1423-24, 1430-01. Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1431-32. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1437-38. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1438-39. Sheriff of Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches, 1446-47.

With his brother William, he led a force of royal loyalists in an attempt to suppress the rebellion of Jack Cade. The royal contingent was ambushed by a larger group of rebels at Sevenoaks and he and his brother were both killed. Cade took the expensive clothing and armor of Humphrey Stafford as his own.

Humphrey married Eleanor Aylesbury after 2 Jan 1424. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Aylesbury and Katherine Pabenham) was born about 1406; died after 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 15 Jun 1481

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Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Knight of the shire for Hertfordshire, 1419 and 1420.

"One of the most influential lawyers to serve the Crown during the first half of the 15th century, Fray rose from relative obscurity to become chief baron of the Exchequer, and thus provides us with a particularly striking example of the 'self-made man' whose success was achieved through a combination of talent, hard work and personal ambition. Nothing is known for certain about his early life, although he may well have been the son of the John Fray who appears in 1384 as the owner of property in both Great Waltham, Essex, and the Hertfordshire village of Cottered (where he either bought or inherited land of his own). [History of Parliament]

John married Agnes Danvers. Agnes (daughter of John Danvers and Alice Verney) died in Jun 1478; was buried in Church of St. Bartholomew the Less, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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After the death of John Fray she married John, Lord Wenlock, who was killed at Tewkesbury in 1471, then Sir John Say, who predeceased her by just a few weeks. She is depicted, along with two of her daughters by John Fray, in a stained-glass window at Long Melford church in Suffolk.

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From Wikipedia ("John Twynyho", retrieved 12 Sep 2018):

"John Twynyho (c.1440 - 30 September 1485) (alias Twynyhoe, Twynihoe, etc.) of Cirencester, Bristol, and Lechlade, all in Gloucestershire, was a lawyer and wealthy wool merchant who served as Recorder of Bristol, as a Member of Parliament for Bristol in Gloucestershire in 1472-5 and in 1484 and for the prestigious county seat Gloucestershire in 1476. In 1478 he was Attorney General to Lord Edward (the future King Edward V), eldest son and heir of King Edward IV."

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Knight of the shire for Gloucestershire Apr 1414, 1419, May 1421, 1422, 1423, 1425, 1427. Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1405, 1415-17, 1426.

John married Joyce Cokesey before 1427. Joyce (daughter of Walter Cokesey and Maud Harcourt) was born about 1406; died on 19 Jul 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1397

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Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1415.

From Wikipedia:

Stafford's early life has been described by 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 the Prince of Wales' retinue. He probably fought with him at the Battle of Shrewsbury (21 July 1403), and by 1404, he had received a Royal pardon for the murder and exoneration by the King's council. His father and uncle (Humphrey Stafford (died 1413) provided securities for him. However, he was soon further embroiled in law-breaking and violence. In 1405, William, Lord Abergavenny accused him of illegally entering Bergavenny's manor and forest of Feckenham, including illegally hunting and fishing, and beating up his reatiners. At least one of those servants succeeded in having Stafford bound over to keep the peace with him.

In 1410, Stafford was elected MP for Worcestershire, and a year later his father died, leaving him a patrimony based there, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. Following his father's death, he again agreed to join the Prince of Wales' army in Calais, although probably did not leave until early 1412. Rawcliffe notes that at some point around this time, Stafford had patched up relations with some of his earlier adversaries. For example, the earl of Warwick appointed him deputy Sheriff of Worcestershire in November 1411, and when he was elected MP in 1415 his running mate was the same retainer of Lord Bergavenny that had successfully had him bound-over ten years earlier.

Stafford joined the second royal campaign to France in 1417, during which campaign in Normandy he was appears to have been knighted. It also seems that it was on this campaign that Humphrey Stafford died on 20 February 1419.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Burdet before 1400. Elizabeth (daughter of John Burdet and Katherine Arderne) died before 1419. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1369, of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England

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"Knighted 14 Aug 1378 while serving at sea in the retinue of Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham. Knight of the Shire for Buckingham, 1391 and 1397; Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, 1399-1404, for Cambridgeshire, 1401-07, and for Huntingdonshire, 1405-07. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1412-13." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Thomas married Katherine Pabenham before Dec 1399. Katherine (daughter of Laurence Pabenham and Elizabeth d'Engaine) was born about 1372; died on 17 Jun 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Jul 1436

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1393, of Calthorpe in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

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Knight of the shire for Oxfordshire 1420, Dec 1421, 1423, 1435.

Escheator for Oxfordshire and Berkshire 6 Nov 1424 - 24 Jan 1426.

John married Alice Verney before Sep 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan de Cobington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia ("William Greville", retrieved 12 Sep 2018):

"William Greville (died 1 October 1401) (alias Grevel, Graville, Grevill, etc.), of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire and a Citizen of the City of London, was a prominent wool-merchant and is the ancestor of the present Greville Earls of Warwick. The Latin inscription on his ledger stone in Chipping Campden Church, which he rebuilt at his own expense, describes him as flos mercatorum lanar(iorum) tocius (totius) Angli(a)e, "the flower of the wool-merchants of all England". [...] He was amongst the richest and most influential wool merchants of his era and was the leading purchaser of wool from the Cotswold Hills."

William married Mary. Mary died in 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Maud Harcourt. Maud (daughter of Thomas Harcourt and Maud de Grey) died between 26 Nov 1413 and Sep 1414. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]