William de Stafford

Abt 1255 - Aft 1338  (~ 84 years)

• Name	William de Stafford  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1255	of Sandon, Staffordshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1338  [2]
  Person ID	I13120	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	William de Stafford   d. 1258
  Mother	Auda de Vernon   d. Between 1276 and 1279
  Family ID	F4918	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cecily de Waure
  Children	+ 1. William de Stafford,   b. of Bramshall, Staffordshire, England d. Between 1326 and 1339
  Family ID	F8233	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "Knighted 1275/80; Knight of the Shire for Stafford 1290, 1298, 1306, 1307/8, 1311/2, 1313, and 1318. He supported Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and was taken prisoner following the rebel defeat at the battle of Boroughbridge, 16 Mar 1322. He was imprisoned at Alton Castle whence his grandsons tried to release him. He was pardoned 19 Mar 1323. In 1328, the Sheriff of Staffordshire referred to him as 'so old and infirm.'" [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.] Given by The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz as possibly, not certainly, a son of William de Stafford and Auda de Vernon.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.