Ralph de Stafford b. 24 Sep 1301 Amington in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England d. 31 Aug 1372 Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England: NH genealogy

Nielsen Hayden genealogy

1301 - 1372 (70 years)

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Name	Ralph de Stafford [1, 2, 3]
Birth	24 Sep 1301	Amington in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
Baptism	St. Edith's, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England [4]
Gender	Male
Death	31 Aug 1372	Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England [5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17]
Burial	Tonbridge, Kent, England [15, 18, 19]
Person ID	I4777	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others \| Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW
Last Modified	5 Aug 2021

Father	Edmund de Stafford, b. 15 Jul 1273, of Castle near Stafford, Staffordshire, England d. Bef 12 Aug 1308 (Age < 35 years)
Mother	Margaret Basset d. 17 Mar 1337
Marriage	Bef 1299 [14, 16, 18, 19, 20]
Family ID	F143	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Katherine de Hastang d. Bef 6 Jul 1336

Marriage Bef 9 Feb 1327 [18]

Children

+	1. Margaret de Stafford d. Aft 22 Aug 1373
+	2. Joan de Stafford

Family ID F5881 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 15 Jun 2018

Family 2 Margaret de Audley, b. Abt 1323 d. Aft 28 Jan 1348 (Age ~ 25 years)

Marriage Bef 6 Jul 1336 [14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21]

Children

+	1. Beatrice de Stafford d. 13 Apr 1415
+	2. Elizabeth de Stafford d. 7 Aug 1375
+	3. Hugh de Stafford, b. Bef 1342 d. 16 Oct 1386, Isle of Rhodes (Age > 44 years)

Family ID F2074 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 7 May 2020

Notes

Earl of Stafford. Steward of the Royal Household, 6 Jan 1341 to 29 Mar 1345, when he assumed the position of Seneschal of Aquitaine. King's lieutenant in Gascony, 1350 and onward. One of the 26 founding members, and the fifth knight, of the Order of the Garter. As a young man he supported the plot to free the young Edward III from his mother's lover, Roger Mortimer; he was subsequently a close member of Edward III's retinue for the rest of his life. He was also a notably competent soldier and diplomat in the Hundred Year's War.

Fought at Crécy.

Summoned to Parliament by writ 29 Nov 1336 to 25 Nov 1350.

"He [...] sensationally abducted Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Margaret de Clare, who was worth at least £2314 a year, more than ten times his own estates. Her parents filed a complaint with King Edward III of England, but the King supported Stafford's actions. In compensation, the King appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh the 1st Earl of Gloucester. [Wikipedia]

Sources

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[S830] Paul C. Reed, "Another Look at Joan de Harley: Will Her Real Descendants Please Rise?" The Genealogist 10:35, Spring 1989, p. 35.
[S5884] Douglas Richardson, 5 Aug 2021, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.
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[S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., date only.
[S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.
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[S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001., date only.
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[S4444] Brandon Fradd, "The Stafford Marriage of Edmund Lowe: An Addition to the Ancestry of Christopher Batt¹, Immigrant to New England." The Genealogist 17:86, Spring 2003., date only.
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[S4444] Brandon Fradd, "The Stafford Marriage of Edmund Lowe: An Addition to the Ancestry of Christopher Batt¹, Immigrant to New England." The Genealogist 17:86, Spring 2003.
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[S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001.
[S4124] James L. Hansen, "The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William¹ Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 69:129, Jul 1994.