Other Events:

• Decoration: 1461; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Office: 1469; Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall
• Hereditary Title: 5 Jan. 1469/70; 1st Earl of Wiltshire [E., 1470]
• Office: 1471; Chief Butler of England
• Decoration: 1472; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)

Notes:

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

Office:
For life

John married Constance Green circa 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward (Stafford), 2nd and last Earl of Wiltshire was born on 7 April 1470; died on 24 March 1498/99.

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:

• 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: 17 Oct. 1388; 4th Lord Neville [E., 1295]
• Hereditary Title: 29 Sept. 1397; 1st Earl of Westmorland [E., 1397]
• Decoration: circa 1403; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)

Notes:

Decoration:
In place of Edmund, Duke of York, who died 1 August 1402.

Ralph married Lady Joan Beaufort. Joan (daughter of John (Plantagenet), of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Katharine de Roet) died on 13 Nov. 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Will: 10 May 1440

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:

• Decoration: circa April 1360; Knighthood
• Decoration: 1369; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Will: 31 Aug. 1386, Middleham, Yorkshire, England
• Hereditary Title: 5 Aug. 1367 – 17 Oct. 1388; 3rd Lord Neville [E., 1295]

Notes:

In October 1367, he had writs of livery of his father's lands in England and Scotland, after doing homage.

He was a captain under his father at the battle of Nevill's Cross, 17 October 1346.

Decoration:
After a skirmish near Paris.

Will:
With codicil at Newcastle, four days before his death.

Directs his burial at Durham with his 1st wife (cp. Hist. Dun. Script. Tres, loc. cit.), and mentions his younger son Thomas.

He was a benefactor of his father's chantry at Sheriff Hutton (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1367–70, page 366); the Friars Minors of Richmond (Idem, 1381–85, page 234); the Carthusian houses of Hull and Coventry (Cal. Close Rolls, 1377–81, page 229, and his will); Sherburn Hospital, co. Durham (Surtees, Hist. of Durham, volume i, page 287), and Durham Hall, Oxford (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1381–85, pages 239, 371–2). His munificent gifts to Durham Cathedral, including an alabaster foundation for the shrine of St. Cuthbert, made in London and shipped to Newcastle in cases, are detailed in Hist. Dun. Script. Tres, pages 135, 136.

John married Hon. Maud de Percy. Maud (daughter of Henry (de Percy), 2nd Lord Percy and Hon. Idoine de Clifford) died before 18 Feb. 1378/79; was buried in Durham Cathedral, Durham, Co. Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 1st Duke of Lancaster
• Hereditary Title: King of Castile and Leon

John married Katharine de Roet on 13 Jan. 1396/97 in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Katharine (daughter of Sir Payne Roet, of Hainault) died on 10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Angel Choir, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Beaufort children were legitimated by papal bull in September 1396 and by royal patent the following February.