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Henry Stafford

Henry Stafford[1]

Male 1455 - 1483  (28 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Henry Stafford  [2, 3
    Birth 4 Sep 1455  Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Nov 1483  Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Burial Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I114004  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2000 

    Father Earl Humphrey II Stafford,   b. Abt 1424, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 May 1455, Battle Of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years) 
    Mother Margaret Beaufort,   b. Abt 1437, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1474 (Age 37 years) 
    Marriage 1455 
    Family ID F45845  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Katherine Wydeville,   b. 1449, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1497 (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage Feb 1465-1466  [2, 5, 6
    Children 
    +1. Duke Edward Stafford,   b. 3 Feb 1477, Brecknock Castle Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 May 1521, Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
     2. Earl Henry II Stafford,   b. Abt 1479, Brecknock Castle, Brecknockshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1523 (Age 44 years)
    +3. Anne Stafford,   b. Abt 1493, Ashby, Leceistershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Stoke Pogis Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Elizabeth Stafford,   b. 1479, Brecknock Castle, Brecknockshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 11 May 1532 (Age 53 years)
    +5. Humphrey Stafford   d. 1569
    Family ID F45681  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

  • Notes 
    • - Took part in plot to place Earl of Richmond (Henry Tudor) on the throne.

      - Accordingly, he was executed without benefit of legal trial.

      - Supported usurpation of Richard III, but turned against him & was executed.

      - Richard III's Chief Justice of North & South Wales, Great Chamberlain.

      - May have been responsible for the murder of the "Tower Princes".

      - If so, he acted w/out Richard III's knowledge.

      - If so, he acted to implicate Richard III for their murders.

      - His plot was aimed at putting himself on the throne, not Henry Tudor.

      Duke Of Buckingham Acceded: 1460 as Duke. Richard III's Lord Constable of England.
      2nd Earl of Stafford

  • Sources 
    1. [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Stafford of Buckingham, Stafford of Stafford, Stafford of Wiltshire (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S188] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996), 1st ed, pp 5-8, "Audley" (Reliability: 0).

    3. [S15] Desmond Seward, Wars of the Roses, (Penguin Books, New York 1995 ,), Houses of Lancaster, Beaufort & Tudor Genealogy Table (Reliability: 0).

    4. [S15] Desmond Seward, Wars of the Roses, (Penguin Books, New York 1995 ,), "Who's Who" Persons in the Text Besides the Five (Reliability: 0).

    5. [S188] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996), 1st ed, pp 244-246 "Saint Leger" (Reliability: 0).

    6. [S158] Sharon Kay Penman, Sunne in Splendour, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1982 ,), p 110 (Reliability: 0).



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