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Ralph de Stafford

Male 1301 - 1372  (70 years)


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  • Name Ralph de Stafford  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 24 Sep 1301  Amington in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
    Baptism St. Edith's, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Male 
    Death 31 Aug 1372  Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17
    Burial Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 18, 19
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    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, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2021 

    Father Edmund de Stafford,   b. 15 Jul 1273, of Castle near Stafford, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 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 Find all individuals with events at this location (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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    2. [S830] Paul C. Reed, "Another Look at Joan de Harley: Will Her Real Descendants Please Rise?" The Genealogist 10:35, Spring 1989, p. 35.

    3. [S5884] Douglas Richardson, 5 Aug 2021, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    4. [S72] Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage.

    5. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., date only.

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    17. [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.

    18. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    19. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

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