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Lady Catherine Stafford

Female - 1555


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  1. 1.  Lady Catherine Stafford (daughter of Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Eleanor Percy); died on 14 May 1555 in Holywell, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England; was buried on 17 May 1555 in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.

    Catherine married Ralph (Neville), 4th Earl of Westmorland before June 1520. Ralph was born on 21 Feb. 1497/98; died on 24 April 1549; was buried in Staindrop, Co. Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Lady Mary Neville
    2. Lady Anne Neville

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of BuckinghamEdward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham was born on 3 Feb. 1477/78 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknock, Brecknockshire, Wales (son of Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Katharine Woodville); died on 17 May 1521 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Decoration: 29 Oct. 1485; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
    • Decoration: circa 1499; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Office: 1509; Bearer of the Crown
    • Office: 1509; Lord High Constable
    • Office: 1509; Lord High Steward of England
    • Office: 1509; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
    • Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 3rd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
    • Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 4th Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
    • Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 8th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
    • Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 9th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]
    • Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; Count of Perche [Normandy, 1431]

    Notes:

    He had licence to castellate his manor of Thornbury, 9 July 1510.

    He held a command in the right wing at Therouenne in 1513.

    Office:
    For Henry VIII's coronation

    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).

    Office:
    At Henry VIII's coronation

    Office:
    At Henry VIII's coronation

    Died:
    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).

    Edward married Lady Eleanor Percy circa 14 Dec. 1490. Eleanor (daughter of Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Maud Herbert) died on 13 Feb. 1530; was buried in Greyfriars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Lady Eleanor PercyLady Eleanor Percy (daughter of Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Maud Herbert); died on 13 Feb. 1530; was buried in Greyfriars, London, Middlesex, England.

    Other Events:

    • Will: 24 June 1538

    Notes:

    Will:
    She directed that her heart be buried at the Greyfriars, London, and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol.

    Children:
    1. Henry (Stafford), 1st Baron Stafford was born on 18 Sept. 1501 in Penshurst, Kent, England; died on 30 April 1563 in Caus Castle, Westbury, Shropshire, England; was buried on 6 May 1563 in Worthen, Shropshire, England.
    2. 1. Lady Catherine Stafford died on 14 May 1555 in Holywell, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England; was buried on 17 May 1555 in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.
    3. Lady Mary Stafford


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  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. 5.  Lady Katharine Woodville (daughter of Richard (Widville), 1st Earl Rivers and Jaquetta (de Luxembourg), of Luxembourg).
    Children:
    1. 2. 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. Henry (Stafford), 1st and last Earl of Wiltshire was born circa 1479; died in March 1522/23.

  3. 6.  Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of NorthumberlandHenry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland was born circa 1449 (son of Henry (Percy), 3rd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings); died on 28 April 1489 in Cock Lodge, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Office: 24 June 1470; Warden of the East and Middle Marches
    • Office: 1474; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
    • Office: 14 Aug. 1474; Sheriff of Northumberland
    • Decoration: 18 Aug. 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Will: 27 July 1485
    • Office: 30 Nov. 1483 – 22 Aug. 1485; Lord Great Chamberlain of England
    • Hereditary Title: 25 March 1470 – 28 April 1489; 4th Earl of Northumberland [E., 1377 or 1416]
    • Hereditary Title: Feb. 1483/84 – 28 April 1489; Lord Poynings [E., 1337]
    • Probate: 9 Aug. 1491

    Notes:

    When the Earldom of Northumberland was granted to "Sir John Neville of Montagu, Knight," in May 1464, Percy was committed to the Fleet prison, and removed, after September 1465, to the Tower, whence he was discharged 27 October 1469, having done fealty to Edward IV.

    In 1467–8 he was in the charge of the Earl of Pembroke, and living in his house.

    Following his discharge from the Tower, he appears to have remained in touch with the King until the Earldom was restored to him at York, 25 March 1470.

    The following day, as Sir Henry Percy, Kt., he had a grant of the custody of his father's forfeited estates in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and London. Neville had surrendered his grant so far as it concerned Northumberland, by the King's command, 22 February.

    The Earl recovered possession as from 2 March 1469/70 (possibly the date of his coming of age), by the Act reversing his father's attainder, 1472.

    He attended a Council at Canterbury in June 1470.

    On 24 June 1470, as Henry Percy, son of the late Earl, he was constituted Warden of the East and Middle Marches towards Scotland, three months before Edward IV's flight. He was so constituted by patent dated 17 July; a patent of the following day calls him Earl of Northumberland.

    He retained the Wardenship under successive Kings till his death.

    He held numerous other official appointments in the North—e.g. Commissioner to treat with the Scots, 1471–73, 1483, 1484, 1488; of array in the Northern counties, 1472; Justice of the Forests North of Trent and constable of Bamborough Castle, 5 June 1471; constable of Dunstanborough and Knaresborough Castles; constable and porter of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5 March 1473/74. By Henry VII he was made bailiff of Tyndale, Northumberland, in 1486.

    On his return in 1471, Edward IV, landing in the North, produced a letter, as of summons, from the restored Earl, which eased his progress towards recapture of the throne.

    In 1475 he took part in Edward IV's expedition to France.

    He was in command at the capture of Berwick, 1482, and made Governor thereof, 1483. His prowess was commended by the Commons in Parliament.

    He bore the sword Curtana at the Coronation of Richard III, 7 July 1483.

    He deserted Richard III on Bosworth Field.

    Office:
    "The Earl was made sheriff of Northumberland for life, 14 Aug. 1474, and (by Henry VII) during pleasure, 12 Feb. 1487/8."

    Hereditary Title:
    "The death of his mother, in Feb. 1483/4, made him, according to modern doctrine, Lord Poynings [1337]."

    Died:
    "Being employed to levy in the North an unpopular tax and to inquire into disturbances in the city of York, he was murdered by the rabble at his manor house, Cock Lodge, near Topcliffe, Yorks, 28 Apr. 1489, aged about 40 ..."

    Henry married Lady Maud Herbert circa 1476. Maud (daughter of William (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux) died before 27 July 1485; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Lady Maud HerbertLady Maud Herbert (daughter of William (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux); died before 27 July 1485; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    For an account of the opening of her tomb, 15 September 1671, see Gough's Sepul. Mon., volume ii, pt. 3, page 311, and Allen's Hist. of York, volume ii, page 158.

    Children:
    1. Henry Algernon (Percy), 5th Earl of Northumberland was born on 14 Jan. 1477/78.
    2. 3. Lady Eleanor Percy died on 13 Feb. 1530; was buried in Greyfriars, London, Middlesex, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  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. 9.  Lady Margaret Beaufort (daughter of Edmund (Beaufort), 1st Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp).
    Children:
    1. 4. Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham was born on 4 Sept. 1455; died on 2 Nov. 1483.

  3. 10.  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. 11.  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. 5. Lady Katharine Woodville

  5. 12.  Henry (Percy), 3rd Earl of NorthumberlandHenry (Percy), 3rd Earl of Northumberland was born on 25 July 1421 (son of Henry (Percy), 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville); died on 29 March 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Decoration: 19 May 1426; Knighthood
    • Hereditary Title: 1446; jure uxoris Lord Poynings [E., 1337]

    Notes:

    He was attainted 4 November 1461, and the attainder was reversed in the Parliament of 1472–73 upon his son's petition.

    Hereditary Title:
    He was summoned to Parliament, vita patris, from 14 December (1446) 25 Hen. VI to 26 May (1455) 33 Hen. VI, by writs directed Henrico de Percy ch[ivale]r Domino de Ponynges.

    Died:
    He was slain ex parte Regis Henrici at the Battle of Towton.

    Henry married Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings On or before 25 June 1435. Eleanor (daughter of Hon. Sir Richard de Poynings and Eleanor Berkeley) was born circa 1422; died in Feb. 1483/84. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings was born circa 1422 (daughter of Hon. Sir Richard de Poynings and Eleanor Berkeley); died in Feb. 1483/84.

    Other Events:

    • Hereditary Title: 2 Oct. 1446 – Feb. 1483/84; de jure suo jure (5th) Baroness Poynings [E., 1337 or 1348]

    Notes:

    She and her husband had licence to enter into her inheritance in November 1446.

    Children:
    1. 6. Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland was born circa 1449; died on 28 April 1489 in Cock Lodge, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England.

  7. 14.  William (Herbert), 1st Earl of PembrokeWilliam (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke

    William married Anne Devereux. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 15.  Anne DevereuxAnne Devereux (daughter of Sir Walter Devereux).
    Children:
    1. 7. Lady Maud Herbert died before 27 July 1485; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England.



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