John (Stafford), 1st Earl of Wiltshire

1420 - 1473  (52 years)

• Name	John (Stafford)  [1]
  Suffix	1st Earl of Wiltshire
  Born	24 Nov. 1420  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	1461  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
  Office	1469  [1]
  	Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall
  	For life [1]
  Hereditary Title	5 Jan. 1469/70  [1]
  	1st Earl of Wiltshire [E., 1470]
  Office	1471  [1]
  	Chief Butler of England
  Decoration	1472  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  Died	8 May 1473  [1]
  Person ID	I747	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	11 Aug. 2018

  
  

  Father	Humphrey (Stafford), 1st Duke of Buckingham,   b. 15 Aug. 1402,   d. 10 July 1460, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Lady Anne Neville,   d. 20 Sept. 1480
  Married	Before 18 Oct. 1424  [2]
  Family ID	F408	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Constance Green
  Married	circa 1458  [1]
  Children	1. Edward (Stafford), 2nd and last Earl of Wiltshire,   b. 7 April 1470,   d. 24 March 1498/99  (Age 28 years)
  Last Modified	11 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F411	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry		Arms of Stafford quartering Arms of Thomas of Woodstock (Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Stafford, Baron Stafford) Quarterly, 1st and 4th, quarterly France Modern and England within a bordure Argent (THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK); 2nd and 3rd, Or a chevron Gules (STAFFORD).
  		Arms of Stafford (Earl of Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, Baron Stafford) Or a chevron Gules. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 958.

  
  

• Notes

  He participated in the Yorkist victory over the Lancastrians at Hexham, 15 May 1464. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 3, page 3708. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 389.