Robert de Waure

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Stafford. William (son of William de Stafford and Auda de Vernon) was born about 1255 in of Sandon, Staffordshire, England; died after 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Stafford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1370
• Alternate death: Bef 1372

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Staffordshire, 1339-40. Knight of the Order of the Hospital. Fought in the king's division at Crécy.

John married Margaret de Stafford before 1337. Margaret (daughter of Ralph de Stafford and Katherine de Hastang) died after 22 Aug 1373. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1355, of Stafford, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Worcestershire 1383, 1384, 1401; knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1404.

Ralph married Maud Hastang after 20 Aug 1373. Maud (daughter of John Hastang and Maud Trussell) was born on 2 Feb 1359 in Chebsey, Staffordshire, England; was christened on 2 Feb 1359 in Chebsey, Staffordshire, England; died before 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Warwickshire Oct 1383; Wiltshire Nov 1384; Dorset Sep 1388, Jan 1390, 1391, 1393; Somerset 1394; and Dorset 1395, Jan 1397, 1399, 1401, Jan 1404, 1406, 1407, and 1410.

Sheriff of Staffordshire 1 Nov 1383 to 11 Nov 1384, 1 Dec 1388 to 15 Nov 1389, Somerset and Dorset 18 Nov 1386-7, 21 Oct 1391 to 18 Oct 1392, 22 Nov to 19 Dec.1405, and 29 Nov 1410 to 10 Dec 1411.

Called one of the wealthiest commoners in England of his time.

"In 1388, Humphrey Stafford was caught up in the crisis of the Lords Appellant, being required by them to take oaths of loyalty to the regime in Dorset. It was at this time – in a possibly related incident – that members of the Cornish gentry conspired to assassinate him, eventually managing to shoot him 'with a certain engine called a "gunne" so that his life was despaired of.' However, since at the same time he loaned King Richard II 100 marks, and later received a royal appointment to assess the Appellants' forfeited lands there, the king clearly did not see Stafford as a major player in the rebellion locally. Following Richard II's deposition by Henry Bollingbroke in 1399, Stafford does not seem to have lost royal favour by his previous support for the old king; indeed, within a few weeks of Henry's coronation he was referred to as a 'King's Knight' and was granted the royal manor of Seavington, Somerset. By now Stafford was, in E.F. Jacob's words, 'a shire knight of standing and influence,' and of all the gentry in the county, Humphrey was 'at their head for wealth.' His estates were valued in the 1412 tax assessment at around £570 per annum." [Wikipedia, accessed 25 Sep 2020]

Humphrey married Alice Grenville before 1365. Alice (daughter of John de Grenville) was born about 1344; died before 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Elizabeth d'Aumarle between Jun 1386 and Jan 1388. Elizabeth (daughter of William d'Aumarle and Agnes) was born about 1345; died on 17 Oct 1413; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Burdet before 1400. Elizabeth (daughter of John Burdet and Katherine Arderne) died before 1419. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Tuchet before 1398. John (son of John Tuchet and Maud) was born on 23 Apr 1371 in of Ashwell, Rutland, England; died on 19 Dec 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Lowe. Edmund was born between 1358 and 1366 in of Whittington, Staffordshire, England; died after 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Staffordshire 1403-04; Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1415-16. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire in 1406 and knight of the shire for Dorset ten times between Apr 1414 and 1432.

He was Knight of the Body to Henry V at his coronation in 1413. In his later years he was styled Sir Humphrey "of the silver hand," because of his use of an artificial limb after the loss of one of his own.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Maltravers before Oct 1397. Elizabeth (daughter of John Mautravers and Elizabeth d'Aumarle) was born about 1378; died before Jan 1420; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1423-24, 1426, 1447, 1449. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1427-28. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1423-24, 1430-01. Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1431-32. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1437-38. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1438-39. Sheriff of Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches, 1446-47.

With his brother William, he led a force of royal loyalists in an attempt to suppress the rebellion of Jack Cade. The royal contingent was ambushed by a larger group of rebels at Sevenoaks and he and his brother were both killed. Cade took the expensive clothing and armor of Humphrey Stafford as his own.

Humphrey married Eleanor Aylesbury after 2 Jan 1424. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Aylesbury and Katherine Pabenham) was born about 1406; died after 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Luttrell before 1423. John (son of Hugh Luttrell, Mayor of Bordeaux and Katherine Beaumont) was born between 1394 and 1398 in of Dunster, Williton, Somerset, England; died on 30 Jul 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Escheator of Stafforshire in 1424. Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1440-41.

Family/Spouse: Alice Butnore. Alice (daughter of William Butnore) died after 1448. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Edmund Cheyne before 1424. Edmund (son of William Cheyne and Cecily Strecche) was born on 4 Dec 1401 in of Avon in Bremhill, Wiltshire, England; died on 30 May 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Walter Tailboys before 1432. Walter (son of Walter Tailboys and Margaret) was born in of Goltho, Lincolnshire, England; died on 13 Apr 1444. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Richard Beauchamp on 27 Jan 1447 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. Richard (son of John Beauchamp and Margaret Ferrers) was born about 1435 in of Powick, Worcestershire, England; died on 19 Jan 1503 in Broomhill, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Berkeley. William (son of Maurice Berkeley and Ellen Montfort) was born about 1436 in of Weoley in Northfield, Worcestershire, England; died in 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Humphrey married Katherine Fray after 1462. Katherine (daughter of John Fray and Agnes Danvers) was born about 1447; died on 12 May 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He fought at the battle of Wakefield, 30 Dec 1460. That he died less than two months later suggests that his death was a result of injuries in the battle. That he was posthumously attainted indicates that he must have fought on the Yorkist side.

James married Elizabeth Courtenay between 1450 and 1451. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Courtenay and Elizabeth Hungerford) was born in Exeter, Devon, England; died on 1 Sep 1493; was buried in Dunster, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Robert Grey before 1447. Robert (son of Reynold Grey and Joan Astley) was born about 1420 in of Whittington, Staffordshire, England; died before 20 Jun 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Willoughby before 4 Mar 1445. John (son of John Willoughby and Jane Welby) was born about 1422 in of Kirton-in-Holand, Lincolnshire, England; died between Dec 1475 and Aug 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]