Other Events:

• Decoration: 29 Oct. 1485; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Decoration: circa 1499; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1509; Bearer of the Crown
• Office: 1509; Lord High Constable
• Office: 1509; Lord High Steward of England
• Office: 1509; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 3rd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 4th Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 8th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 9th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; Count of Perche [Normandy, 1431]

Notes:

He had licence to castellate his manor of Thornbury, 9 July 1510.

He held a command in the right wing at Therouenne in 1513.

Office:
For Henry VIII's coronation

He laid claim to this office, as his hereditary right, in 1514. He claimed the Lord High Constableship as heir of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who, it was stated, "held the manors of Harlefield, Newnam, and Whytenhurst [Haresfield, Newnham, and Wheatenhurst], in the county of Gloucester of the King by the service of being Constable of England." The judges decided that the office should "have continuance in the Duke notwithstanding that one of the three manors has come to the hands of our Lord the King; for otherwise it will ensue that the Duke will have the two other manors without doing any service for them, and so the Duke is compellable at the pleasure of the King to do and exercise the office." For an account of the confusion into which the judges were led by their misconception of the nature of the tenure of this office, which was not in fact attached to the manors but was an office held in fee; and of the confusion worse confounded in which Law Lords and Counsel in modern peerage cases have been involved owing to their blind acceptance of the decision in this case, see J. H. Round's Peerage and Pedigree (vol. i, pp. 147–166), where an amusing exposure of legal methods is given in the article termed "The Muddle of the Law." See also Appendix D in The Complete Peerage, volume II (1912).

Office:
At Henry VIII's coronation

Office:
At Henry VIII's coronation

Died:
Beheaded for High Treason, having made an enemy of Wolsey and endangered his position by his vanity, especially his loquacity in reminding hearers of his descent from Edward III, following which his titles were forfeited by attainder (Parliamentary ratification 31 July 1523).

Edward married Lady Eleanor Percy circa 14 Dec. 1490. Eleanor (daughter of Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Maud Herbert) died on 13 Feb. 1530; was buried in Greyfriars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry (Stafford), 1st Baron Stafford was born on 18 Sept. 1501 in Penshurst, Kent, England; died on 30 April 1563 in Caus Castle, Westbury, Shropshire, England; was buried on 6 May 1563 in Worthen, Shropshire, England.
2. Lady Catherine Stafford died on 14 May 1555 in Holywell, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England; was buried on 17 May 1555 in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.
3. Lady Mary Stafford

Other Events:

• Office: 17 June 1460; Constable of Nottingham Castle
• Decoration: 26 May 1465; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Decoration: 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1483; Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Office: July 1483; Lord High Constable
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 2nd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 3rd Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 7th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 8th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]

Notes:

He was beheaded without trial and attainted, 2 Nov. 1483, for conspiring on behalf of the future Henry VII.

Decoration:
At the coronation of Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV.

Office:
Recognised as hereditary

Henry married Lady Katharine Woodville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
He died "on or after 17 Dec 1457 and possibly after 19 Jan 1457/8."

Humphrey married Lady Margaret Beaufort. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Jaquetta (de Luxembourg), of Luxembourg in 1436. Jaquetta (daughter of Peter (de Luxembourg), Count of St. Pol) died on 30 May 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: Earl of Stafford
• Office: 1442–51; Captain of Calais and Lieutenant of the Marches
• Office: 1430–32; Lieutenant-General of Normandy
• Decoration: 1421; Knighthood
• Office: 1424; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Decoration: 22 April 1429; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Hereditary Title: 1431; Count of Perche [Normandy, 1431]
• Hereditary Title: Before 1438; jure matris Earl of Buckingham
• Office: 1439; Seneschal of Halton
• Hereditary Title: 14 Sept. 1444; 1st Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
• Office: 1446; Ambassador to France
• Office: 1450; Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Office: 16 July 1450; Constable of Dover and Queenborough Castles

Notes:

On 22 May 1447, he had a grant of special precedence given him "before all Dukes who might thenceforward be created, excepting descendants of the King's body."

Hereditary Title:
He is called "Earl of Buckingham and Stafford," when created a Duke (1444) according to the recital of that creation in the Parliamentary settlement of his precedency. In an indenture 13 Feb. (1443/4) 22 Hen. VI he is styled "The Right Mighty Prince Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham, Hereford, Stafford, Northampton, and Perche, Lord of Brecknock and Holderness." He did not, however, add thereto the title of "Earl of Essex," though his grandfather, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham, had assumed that title, (as well as those of Hereford and Northampton) having married the daughter and co-heiress of Humphrey (de Bohun), Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton. The Earldom of Perche was a foreign title and the Lordships of Brecknock and Holderness were not peerage dignities.

Hereditary Title:
The precedency belonging (chronologically) to this creation was interfered with by the creation of the Dukedom of Warwick, 5 April following, with precedence next after the Duke of Norfolk and before that of the Duke of Buckingham. The controversy thus raised was settled by Parliament giving to each Duke alternately, year and year about, the precedency. It was, however, terminated by the death, sine prole mascula, of the Duke of Warwick, 11 June 1446. See as to Precedency of Peers by Royal Warrant, The Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., volume I (1910), Appendix C.

Office:
He bought this office from the 2nd Lord Saye and Sele, who held it in fee.

Died:
He was a zealous Lancastrian, in which cause he was slain at the Battle of Northampton. With him were slain Thomas (Percy), Lord Egremont, father of his daughter's husband, and Viscount Beaumont.

Humphrey married Lady Anne Neville before 18 Oct. 1424. Anne (daughter of Ralph (de Neville), 1st Earl of Westmorland and Lady Joan Beaufort) died on 20 Sept. 1480; was buried in Pleshy, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Probate: 31 Oct. 1480

Other Events:

• Occupation: Regent of France

Edmund married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp. Eleanor died on 12 March 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]