Humphrey Stafford

1427 - 1486  (~ 60 years)

• Name	Humphrey Stafford
  Birth	Between 1426 and 1427	of Grafton, Worcestershire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Jul 1486	Tyburn, Middlesex, England
  Burial	Church of the Grey Friars, London, England   [1]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  1. Humphrey Stafford ,   b. Between 1426 and 1427, of Grafton, Worcestershire, England d. 8 Jul 1486, Tyburn, Middlesex, England  (Age ~ 60 years) ▻ Katherine Fray ,  m. Aft 1462   2. Elizabeth Stafford ▻ Richard Beauchamp ,  m. 27 Jan 1447   3. Anne Stafford   d. Aft 1502 ▻ William Berkeley
  Person ID	I18724	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Humphrey Stafford,   b. 1400, of Grafton, Worcestershire, England d. 7 Jun 1450, Sevenoaks, Kent, England (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Eleanor Aylesbury,   b. Abt 1406   d. Aft 1475 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	Aft 2 Jan 1424  [1]
  Family ID	F11653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Fray,   b. Abt 1447   d. 12 May 1482 (Age ~ 35 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1462  [1]
  Children	1. Humphrey Stafford,   b. 1 May 1478, of Cotered, Hertfordshire, England d. 22 Sep 1545 (Age 67 years)   2. Anne Stafford   bur. Well, Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F11616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2019

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

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