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Henry (Stafford), 1st and last Earl of Wiltshire

Henry (Stafford), 1st and last Earl of Wiltshire

Male circa 1479 - 1523  (~ 44 years)

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  1. 1.  Henry (Stafford), 1st and last Earl of WiltshireHenry (Stafford), 1st and last Earl of Wiltshire was born circa 1479 (son of Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Katharine Woodville); died in March 1522/23.

    Other Events:

    • Decoration: 1505; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Hereditary Title: 28 Jan. 1509/10; 1st Earl of Wiltshire [E., 1510]
    • Office: by 1520; Privy Councillor (P.C.)

    Henry married Cicely (Bonville), suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville between 22 Nov. 1503 and 18 Oct. 1505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of BuckinghamHenry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham was born on 4 Sept. 1455 (son of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford and Lady Margaret Beaufort); died on 2 Nov. 1483.

    Other Events:

    • Office: 17 June 1460; Constable of Nottingham Castle
    • Decoration: 26 May 1465; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
    • Decoration: 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Office: 1483; Warden of the Cinque Ports
    • Office: July 1483; Lord High Constable
    • Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 2nd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
    • Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 3rd Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
    • Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 7th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
    • Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 8th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]

    Notes:

    He was beheaded without trial and attainted, 2 Nov. 1483, for conspiring on behalf of the future Henry VII.

    Decoration:
    At the coronation of Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV.

    Office:
    Recognised as hereditary

    Henry married Lady Katharine Woodville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Lady Katharine Woodville (daughter of Richard (Widville), 1st Earl Rivers and Jaquetta (de Luxembourg), of Luxembourg).
    Children:
    1. Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham was born on 3 Feb. 1477/78 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknock, Brecknockshire, Wales; died on 17 May 1521 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England.
    2. 1. Henry (Stafford), 1st and last Earl of Wiltshire was born circa 1479; died in March 1522/23.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Humphrey Stafford, Earl of StaffordHumphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford (son of Humphrey (Stafford), 1st Duke of Buckingham and Lady Anne Neville); died in 1457/58.

    Notes:

    Died:
    He died "on or after 17 Dec 1457 and possibly after 19 Jan 1457/8."

    Humphrey married Lady Margaret Beaufort. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Lady Margaret Beaufort (daughter of Edmund (Beaufort), 1st Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp).
    Children:
    1. 2. Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham was born on 4 Sept. 1455; died on 2 Nov. 1483.

  3. 6.  Richard (Widville), 1st Earl Rivers

    Richard married Jaquetta (de Luxembourg), of Luxembourg in 1436. Jaquetta (daughter of Peter (de Luxembourg), Count of St. Pol) died on 30 May 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Jaquetta (de Luxembourg), of Luxembourg (daughter of Peter (de Luxembourg), Count of St. Pol); died on 30 May 1472.
    Children:
    1. Elizabeth Woodville was born circa 1437; died on 8 June 1492 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England; was buried on 12 June 1492 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
    2. 3. Lady Katharine Woodville


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Humphrey (Stafford), 1st Duke of BuckinghamHumphrey (Stafford), 1st Duke of Buckingham was born on 15 Aug. 1402 (son of Edmund (Stafford), 5th Earl of Stafford and Lady Anne (Plantagenet), of Gloucester); died on 10 July 1460 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Grey Friars, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.

    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]


  2. 9.  Lady Anne NevilleLady Anne Neville (daughter of Ralph (de Neville), 1st Earl of Westmorland and Lady Joan Beaufort); died on 20 Sept. 1480; was buried in Pleshy, Essex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Probate: 31 Oct. 1480

    Children:
    1. 4. 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.

  3. 10.  Edmund (Beaufort), 1st Duke of SomersetEdmund (Beaufort), 1st Duke of Somerset was born in 1406 (son of John (Beaufort), Earl of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset and Lady Margaret Holand); died on 22 May 1455 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: Regent of France

    Edmund married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp. Eleanor died on 12 March 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Lady Eleanor Beauchamp died on 12 March 1467.
    Children:
    1. 5. Lady Margaret Beaufort

  5. 14.  Peter (de Luxembourg), Count of St. Pol
    Children:
    1. 7. Jaquetta (de Luxembourg), of Luxembourg died on 30 May 1472.



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