Jaquetta married John (Plantagenet), 1st Duke of Bedford on 20 April 1433. John (son of Henry IV (Plantagenet), King of England and Lady Mary de Bohun) was born on 20 June 1389; died on 15 Sept. 1435. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jaquetta married Richard (Widville), 1st Earl Rivers in 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edward IV (Plantagenet), King of England on 1 May 1464. Edward (son of Richard (Plantagenet), 3rd Duke of York and Lady Cecily Neville) was born on 28 April 1442 in Rouen, Normandy; died on 9 April 1483 in Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Henry (son of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford and Lady Margaret Beaufort) was born on 4 Sept. 1455; died on 2 Nov. 1483. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jasper (Tudor), 1st Duke of Bedford. Jasper (son of Sir Owen Tudor and Catherine (de Valois), of Valois) was born in Abt. 1431 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England; died on 21 Dec. 1495; was buried in Dec. 1495 in Keynsham Abbey, Keynsham, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Richard Wingfield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Coronation: 25 Nov. 1487

Elizabeth married Henry VII (Tudor), King of England on 18 Jan. 1485/86. Henry (son of Edmund (Tudor), 1st Earl of Richmond and Lady Margaret Beaufort) was born on 28 Jan. 1456/57 in Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 21 April 1509 in Richmond, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Regnal Name: Edward V
• Hereditary Title: 26 June 1471; Earl of Chester
• Hereditary Title: 26 June 1471; Prince of Wales
• Decoration: 18 April 1475; Knighthood
• Decoration: 15 May 1475; Knight of the Garter (K.G.)

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 28 May 1474; 1st Duke of York [E., 1474]
• Decoration: 18 April 1475; Knighthood
• Decoration: 15 May 1475; Knight of the Garter (K.G.)

Notes:

"Opposition to Richard III's seizure of power surfaced quickly, and in July 1483 there was an unsuccessful conspiracy to rescue the two princes from the Tower. But by September Richard's opponents had adopted Henry Tudor as their claimant for the throne, which strongly implies that they believed Edward V and his brother to be dead. The fate of the princes has been the subject of considerable controversy, but their murder on Richard's orders late in the summer of 1483 remains the most probable explanation for their disappearance. The lack of any public statement about their death meant that uncertainties persisted. No pretender emerged in Richard III's own brief reign, but in the 1490s Perkin Warbeck's claims to be Richard, duke of York, gained considerable backing, not all of it factitious."
--Oxford D.N.B. (Rosemary Horrox)

Richard married Anne (Mowbray), suo jure Countess of Norfolk on 15 Jan. 1477/78 in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Anne (daughter of John (Mowbray), Duke of Norfolk) was born in 1472; died in 1481. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Dartford, Kent, England; Nun

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]

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]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: Prince of Wales

Arthur married Katherine (Ivrea), Infanta of Aragon on 14 Nov. 1501 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. Katherine (daughter of Ferdinand (Ivrea), King of Aragon and Isabella (Ivrea), Queen of Castile) was born on 16 Dec. 1485 in Palace of the Archbishop of Toledo, Alcal; died on 7 Jan. 1536 in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married James IV (Stewart), King of Scotland on 8 Aug. 1503. James was born on 17 March 1472/73; died on 9 Sept. 1513 in Flodden Field, Branxton, Northumberland, England; was buried in Richmond, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Archibald (Douglas), 6th Earl of Angus on 6 Aug. 1514. Archibald was born circa 1489. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry Stewart, Lord Methven in March 1525/26. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Regnal Name: Henry VIII
• Hereditary Title: 31 Oct. 1494; Duke of York [E., 1494]
• Hereditary Title: Oct. 1502; Duke of Cornwall [E., 1502]
• Hereditary Title: Feb. 1503; Earl of Chester
• Hereditary Title: Feb. 1503; Prince of Wales
• Coronation: 24 June 1509, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Notes:

Christened:
By Richard Fox, then Bishop of Exeter

Henry married Katherine (Ivrea), Infanta of Aragon on 11 June 1509 in Franciscan Church, Greenwich, Kent, England. Katherine (daughter of Ferdinand (Ivrea), King of Aragon and Isabella (Ivrea), Queen of Castile) was born on 16 Dec. 1485 in Palace of the Archbishop of Toledo, Alcal; died on 7 Jan. 1536 in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Anne Boleyn in Jan. 1533. Anne (daughter of Thomas (Boleyn), 1st Earl of Wiltshire and Lady Elizabeth Howard) was born circa 1500 in Norfolk, England; died on 19 May 1536 in Tower Green, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Jane Seymour on 30 May 1536 in Queen's Closet, Whitehall, London, Middlesex, England. Jane (daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth) was born in 1508/09; died on 24 Oct. 1537 in Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Anne (von der Marck), of Cleves on 6 Jan. 1540. Anne (daughter of John III (von der Marck), Duke of Juliers-Cleves and Maria (Jülich), of Jülich-Berg) was born on 22 Sept. 1515; died on 16 July 1557 in Chelsea Manor, Chelsea, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Katherine Howard on 28 July 1540 in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, England. Katherine (daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper) was born between 1518 and 1524; died on 13 Feb. 1542 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Katherine Parr on 12 July 1543 in Queen's Closet, Hampton Court Palace, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. Katherine (daughter of Sir Thomas Parr and Maud Green) was born in 1512; died on 5 Sept. 1548 in Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Chapel, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 18 Sept. 1501 – 17 May 1521; Earl of Stafford [courtesy title]
• Office: 1532; Recorder of Stafford
• Hereditary Title: 1547; 1st Baron Stafford [E., 1547]
• Office: 23 Feb. 1553/54; Chamberlain of the Exchequer
• Office: 1559; Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
• Office: 24 Sept. 1560; Ranger of the Forest of Cannock

Notes:

As Henry Stafford he was granted by the King, 20 Dec. 1522, several of the estates in Staffordshire and elsewhere, forfeited by his father. This grant was confirmed by Act of Parliament, 14 and 15 Hen. VIII.

Though still "corrupted in blood," he received a further grant of the castle and manor of Stafford, 15 July 1531, being there described as Henry, Lord Stafford, by which style he was thereafter generally known.

In a petition for restoration of blood, 1529, he states that Wolsey had turned him out of his house in Sussex, where he had lived three years, and thereby compelled him "to board at an abbey this four years' day with his wife and seven children."

On 5 Dec. 1532 he paid £20 as a fine to be excused from being Knight of the Bath. He wrote to Cromwell from Stafford, 2 Oct. 1538, that he had removed "the idol called of ignorant persons Saint Erasmus" and had "so used it that no man shall thereby offend in idolatry hereafter."

He was admitted to Gray's Inn, 1528.

He was a Bencher, Middle Temple, before 1551.

His letter-book, 1545–53, with other MS. collections on his family history, is penes Lord Bagot. In 1548 he published The true dyfferes between ye regall power and the ecclesiasticall power (a translation of Fox's work of 1534), with a handsome dedication to Protector Somerset. His translation of two epistles of Erasmus was published in 1553, though no copy can now be traced (Strype, Eccles. Mem., volume iii, pt. 1, page 180). He also translated from the French by Treherne a work on forests, which is extant in Stowe MS. 414, folios 203–26. An epitaph by him on his sister, the Duchess of Norfolk, in Lambeth church, is printed in Horace Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, ed. Park, volume ii, pages 10–11.

Admon. was granted 23 June 1563, to Ursula, his relict.

Birth:
The Register from which this date is taken was begun by Edward, Lord Stafford, 2 Jan. 1568/9, and forms part of the Stafford MSS. penes Lord Bagot, calendared in Hist. MSS. Com., 4th Rep., pages 325–28. Henry is confused with his uncle "Lord Harry of Stafforth" (created Earl of Wiltshire, 27 Jan. 1509/10) by Gairdner in The Paston Letters, volume iii, page 404, note 1.

Hereditary Title:
By Act of Parliament (Nov.–Dec. 1547) 1 Edw. VI, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

He was summoned to Parliament accordingly, 24 Nov. (1548) 2 Edw. VI, being placed last among the Barons.

On 12 Feb. 1557/58, by resolution of the House of Lords, he was restored to the precedency of his ancestors, Barons Stafford, and was placed after Lord Talbot.

This creation of 1547 was unquestionably a new one, nor were there any words therein to give it the precedence due to the old Barony. The limitation to heirs male of the grantee was also different from that of the Barony created by the writ of 1298/99; yet as was often the case (see The Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., volume I, Appendix C), the House of Lords allowed the grantee the precedency enjoyed by his ancestor.

It seems almost certain that "Henricus Stafford, armiger," who had been M.P. for Stafford, Jan. 1544/45 to Jan. 1546/47, and was re-elected to this Parliament, 13 Oct. 1547, was his bastard brother, another Henry Stafford, or, less probably, his son Henry, later 2nd Lord Stafford.

Office:
In consideration of his service in the late rebellion of the Duke of Northumberland he was granted, 10 July 1554, Thornbury Castle and other lands in co. Gloucester and elsewhere, formerly belonging to his father.

Henry married Lady Ursula Pole in Feb. 1518/19. Ursula (daughter of Sir Richard Pole and Saint Margaret (Plantagenet), suo jure Countess of Salisbury) died on 12 Aug. 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Mary married George (Neville), 5th Lord Bergavenny circa June 1519. George (son of George (Neville), 4th Lord Bergavenny and Margaret Fenne) was born circa 1469; died in 1535; was buried in Birling, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]