Humphrey Stafford

Abt 1384 - 1419  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Humphrey Stafford
  Birth	Abt 1384	of Grafton, Worcestershire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Feb 1419  [1, 3]
  Person ID	I18782	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Ralph Stafford,   b. of Grafton, Worcestershire, England d. 1 Mar 1410
  Mother	Maud Hastang,   b. 2 Feb 1359, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England d. Bef 1410 (Age < 50 years)
  Marriage	Aft 20 Aug 1373  [1]
  Family ID	F11660	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Burdet   d. Bef 1419
  Marriage	Bef 1400  [2]
  Children	1. Humphrey Stafford,   b. 1400, of Grafton, Worcestershire, England d. 7 Jun 1450, Sevenoaks, Kent, England (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F11654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2018

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

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