Sir Robert Stapylton

circa 1548 - 1606  (~ 58 years)

• Heraldry

  Arms of Stapylton, of Wighill, co. York (Baronets, of Myton, co. York) Argent a lion rampant Sable

  
  

• Name	Robert Stapylton  [1]
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	circa 1548  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Office	1569  [3]
  	Captain of the City of York
  	In the Earl's rebellion in 1569. An attack of the rebels was apprehended (Memorials of the Rebellion, by Sir C. Sharpe). [3]
  Office	From 1580 to 1581  [3]
  	High Sheriff of Yorkshire
  	While he was Sheriff, he met the judges with seven score men in livery (Camden's Britannia). [3]
  Residence	Wighill, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Buried	3 Oct. 1606	Wighill, Yorkshire, England   [3]
  Person ID	I1585	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	27 Feb. 2020

  
  

  Family 1	Catherine Constable,   d. circa 1580
  Children	+ 1. Jane Stapleton,   bur. 6 May 1656, Masham, Yorkshire, England
  Last Modified	30 March 2019
  Family ID	F928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Olive Sherrington,   d. 1646
  Children	1. Robert Stapylton   2. William Stapylton   3. Edward Stapylton + 4. Olive Stapylton,   bapt. 18 May 1586, Lacock, Wiltshire, England ,   bur. 5 June 1656, Otley, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 70 years) + 5. Ursula Stapylton,   bapt. 10 July 1587, Chelsea, Middlesex, England ,   bur. 9 Nov. 1623, Lacock, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 36 years)   6. Mary Stapylton   7. Grace Stapylton
  Last Modified	10 Feb. 2020
  Family ID	F869	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He built a new house at Wighill about 1580. [3] He came under the ban of Star Chamber for his quarrel with Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (Strype's Annals). [3] 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." [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Joseph Foster, (London, 1874), volume 1, Pedigree of Dyneley, of Bramhope. [S46] Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Joseph Foster, (London, 1874), volume 2, Pedigree of Stapleton of Carleton,—Lord Beaumont,—and Stapylton of Wighill, Myton, Norton, &c. "9 years old at his father's death" [S46] Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Joseph Foster, (London, 1874), volume 2, Pedigree of Stapleton of Carleton,—Lord Beaumont,—and Stapylton of Wighill, Myton, Norton, &c.