Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham

1478 - 1521  (43 years)

• Name	Edward (Stafford)  [1]
  Suffix	3rd Duke of Buckingham
  Birth	3 Feb. 1477/78	Brecknock Castle, Brecknock, Brecknockshire, Wales   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	29 Oct. 1485  [1, 2]
  	Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
  Decoration	circa 1499  [1, 2]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  Office	1509  [2]
  	Bearer of the Crown
  	At Henry VIII's coronation [2]
  Office	1509  [1, 2]
  	Lord High Constable
  	For Henry VIII's coronation [1, 2] 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). [2]
  Office	1509  [2]
  	Lord High Steward of England
  	At Henry VIII's coronation [2]
  Office	1509  [1, 2]
  	Privy Councillor (P.C.)
  Hereditary Title	Nov. 1485 – May 1521  [1, 2]
  	3rd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
  Hereditary Title	Nov. 1485 – May 1521  [2]
  	4th Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
  Hereditary Title	Nov. 1485 – May 1521  [3]
  	8th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
  Hereditary Title	Nov. 1485 – May 1521  [3]
  	9th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]
  Hereditary Title	Nov. 1485 – May 1521  [2]
  	Count of Perche [Normandy, 1431]
  Death	17 May 1521	Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England   [1, 4]
  	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). [1]
  Burial	Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England   [4]
  Person ID	I768	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	13 Aug. 2018

  
  

  Father	Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham,   b. 4 Sept. 1455   d. 2 Nov. 1483 (Age 28 years)
  Mother	Lady Katharine Woodville
  Family ID	F421	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Eleanor Percy   d. 13 Feb. 1530
  Marriage	circa 14 Dec. 1490  [1]
  Children	1. Henry (Stafford), 1st Baron Stafford,   b. 18 Sept. 1501, Penshurst, Kent, England d. 30 April 1563, Caus Castle, Westbury, Shropshire, England (Age 61 years) + 2. Lady Catherine Stafford   d. 14 May 1555, Holywell, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England + 3. Lady Mary Stafford
  Family ID	F424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 March 2020

  
  

• Photos

  Portrait of Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham Portrait of Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Oil on canvas. Unknown artist. Height: 74 cm (29.1 in); Width: 62.5 cm (24.6 in) Scanned from Tomas P. Campbell, Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court (Yale University Press, 2007), ISBN 9780300122343.

  
  

  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 had licence to castellate his manor of Thornbury, 9 July 1510. [2] He held a command in the right wing at Therouenne in 1513. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Charles Mosley (ed.), BP 2003, (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 3, page 3707. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 390. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume XII/1, page 182. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 391.