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]

1. Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford died in 1457/58.
2. Lord (Sir) Henry Stafford died on 4 Oct. 1471.
3. John (Stafford), 1st Earl of Wiltshire was born on 24 Nov. 1420; died on 8 May 1473.
4. Lady Anne Stafford died circa 14 April 1472.
5. Lady Joan Stafford
6. Lady Katharine Stafford died on 26 Dec. 1476.

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 5th Earl of Stafford
• Decoration: 1399; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Decoration: 1402; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1403; Constable of England

Edmund married Lady Anne (Plantagenet), of Gloucester in 1398. Anne (daughter of Thomas (Plantagenet), of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Lady Eleanor de Bohun) was born in April 1383; died on 16 Oct. 1438. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was sole heiress to her brother, Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham, and thus transmitted to her representatives the right of quartering the royal arms as differenced in the grant thereof to her said father.

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 16 July 1377; 1st Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377]
• Hereditary Title: 6 Aug. 1385; 1st Duke of Gloucester [E., 1385]

Notes:

Hereditary Title:
Created Earl of Buckingham at the coronation of Richard II.

This creation was subsequently confirmed by a Royal charter, with consent of Parliament, the limitation being to the grantee and his heirs.

Died:
He was murdered and, being attainted a few days later, all his honours were forfeited.

Thomas married Lady Eleanor de Bohun. Eleanor died on 2 Oct. 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Regnal Name: Edward III
• Hereditary Title: 7 Jan. 1327; King of England
• Coronation: 1 Feb. 1327, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Edward married Philippa (Avesnes), of Hainault on 24 Jan. 1328 in York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England. Philippa (daughter of William III (Avesnes), Count of Holland and Hainault) died on 15 Aug. 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]