Other Events:

• Residence: Wighill, Yorkshire, England
• Office: 1569; Captain of the City of York
• Office: From 1580 to 1581; High Sheriff of Yorkshire

Notes:

He built a new house at Wighill about 1580.

He came under the ban of Star Chamber for his quarrel with Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (Strype's Annals).

Sir John Harrington said "he was a man well spoken, properly seen in languages, a comely and good personage, had scarce an equal, and, next to Sir Philip Sidney, no superior in England."

Office:
In the Earl's rebellion in 1569. An attack of the rebels was apprehended (Memorials of the Rebellion, by Sir C. Sharpe).

Office:
While he was Sheriff, he met the judges with seven score men in livery (Camden's Britannia).

Family/Spouse: Catherine Constable. Catherine died circa 1580. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jane Stapleton was buried on 6 May 1656 in Masham, Yorkshire, England.

Family/Spouse: Olive Sherrington. Olive (daughter of Sir Henry Sherrington) died in 1646; was buried in Lacock, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Stapylton
2. William Stapylton
3. Edward Stapylton
4. Olive Stapylton was christened on 18 May 1586 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England; was buried on 5 June 1656 in Otley, Yorkshire, England.
5. Ursula Stapylton was christened on 10 July 1587 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England; was buried on 9 Nov. 1623 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England.
6. Mary Stapylton
7. Grace Stapylton