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Feudal barony of Stafford
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[[File:Stafford Castle Winter 2916.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Stafford Castle]], seat of the feudal barony of Stafford]]
The '''feudal barony of Stafford''' was a [[English feudal barony|feudal barony]] the ''[[caput]]'' of which was at [[Stafford Castle]] in [[Staffordshire]].
==Descent==
[[File:Stafford arms.svg|thumb|Arms of the Stafford family, adopted at the start of the age of [[heraldry]] (c.1200-1215): ''Or, a chevron gules'']]
The descent of the feudal barons of Stafford was as follows:
*[[Robert de Stafford]] (c.1039–c.1100) (''alias'' '''Robert de Tosny/Toeni''', etc.)<ref>Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.81</ref> an Anglo-Norman nobleman who arrived in England during or shortly after the [[Norman Conquest]] of 1066 and was awarded by King [[William the Conqueror]] 131 manors in his newly conquered kingdom, predominantly in the county of Staffordshire.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2QBV9VW Saxon owner or governors, – Leofric, Algar; – notices in Domesday Book, – Edwin and Morcar's revolt. – Robert De Stafford and his property]</ref> He built [[Stafford Castle]] as his seat. His 131 landholdings are listed in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086. By his wife, believed to have been Avice de Clare, he left a son and heir:
*Nicholas I de Stafford (d.circa 1138),<ref>Sanders</ref><ref>https://ift.tt/2Qmhs3i Stafford]</ref> eldest son and heir, 2nd feudal baron of Stafford, the descent from whom was as follows (all successive feudal barons of Stafford):<ref>Sanders, p.81</ref>
*Robert II de Stafford (d.1177/85), son and heir;
*Robert III de Stafford (d.1193/4), son and heir, died without issue.
*Millicent de Stafford, sister and heiress, wife of Harvey I Bagot (d.1214). Harvey "had to pay so heavy a fine to Coeur de Lion for permission to marry this heiress, and obtain livery of her lands, that he was forced to sell Drayton — one of her manors — to the canons of St. Thomas".<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref> Her younger son was William Stafford of "Broomshull" ([[Bramshall]] near [[Uttoxeter]], Staffordshire, a Bagot possession<ref>Wars of the Roses A Gazetteer- 2
By Michael Ryan Jones[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GNPEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=bagot+Bramshall,+Stafford&source=bl&ots=5K168DC6p9&sig=ACfU3U2VDJSPOYrrvtITjD-Z1C3-aUBwvw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi29P_s4-XmAhVNPcAKHf1NBQg4ChDoATAHegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=bagot%20Bramshall%2C%20Stafford&f=false]</ref><ref>''Branselle'' (Bramshall) is listed in the Domesday Book as a possession of Robert of Stafford (as tenant-in-chief) whose own tenant was "Bagot" (https://ift.tt/2QKH48O seems to have remained in another branch of the Bagot family as the estate of Sir John Bagot (c.1358-c.1437), MP, of Blithfield and Bagots Bromley, Staffs., centred upon Blymhill, Bramshall and Bagots Bromley ([[History of Parliament]] biog[http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/bagot-sir-john-1358-1437]</ref><ref>"The Erdeswyks had for many years been mesne tenants of Stafford family property in Bramshall" (biog. ERDESWYK, Hugh (c.1386-1451), of Sandon, Staffs.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/erdeswyk-hugh-1386-1451])</ref>), ancestor of several prominent Stafford lines, most notably Stafford of [[Hooke Court|Hooke]] in Dorset, Stafford of [[Southwick, Wiltshire|Southwick]] in the parish of [[North Bradley]], Wiltshire and Stafford of [[Grafton, Worcestershire|Grafton]] in the parish of [[Bromsgrove]], Worcestershire.
[[File:Stafford arms.svg|thumb|Arms of Stafford, adopted at the start of the age of heraldry (c.1200-1215), probably by Harvey II de Stafford (d.1237) (son of Harvey I Bagot (d.1214) by his wife the heiress Millicent de Stafford), said to be the founder of the Stafford family<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref>: ''Or, a chevron gules'']]
*Henry/Harvey II de Stafford (d.1237), son and heir of his mother, who adopted his maternal surname in lieu of his patronymic and married Pernel, daughter of [[William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby]] (d.1190). He is said to be the founder of the Stafford family "one of the loftiest of our English houses, which rose to the highest point of splendour only to fall to the other extreme of reverse."<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref>
*Harvey III de Stafford (d.1241), son and heir, who died without issue.
*Robert IV de Stafford (d.1261), brother and heir;
*Nicholas II de Stafford (1255-1282), son and heir.
*[[Edmund de Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford]] (1272/3-1308), son and heir, summoned to parliament by writ on 6 February 1299 by [[Edward 1|King Edward I]], by which he is deemed to have become the 1st [[Baron Stafford]]. He married Margaret Basset, daughter of [[Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton]] (d.1299) of [[Drayton Bassett]] in [[Staffordshire]]. His younger son was Richard Stafford, ancestor of the Staffords of Clifton, barons by writ in 1371, which family expired early in the following century.<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref>
*[[Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford|Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford]] (1301–1372), KG, son and heir, created [[Earl of Stafford]] in 1351, one of the Founder Knights of the Garter, who married Margaret de Audley, daughter and heiress of [[Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester]] (d. 1347).<ref>Sanders, p.81</ref> Ancestor of [[Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham|Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford]] (1402-1460), of Stafford Castle.
*Alan de Stafford<ref>Cawley, Charles, England, Earls 1207-97, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm]</ref>
*Roger de Stafford<ref>Cawley</ref>
*Jordan de Stafford<ref>Cawley</ref>
*Nigel de Stafford<ref>tudorplace</ref>
*Robert de Stafford<ref>tudorplace</ref>>
==Landholdings==
The first feudal baron held 131 manors as listed in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, a high proportion lying in [[Staffordshire]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2QBV9VW Saxon owner or governors, – Leofric, Algar; – notices in Domesday Book, – Edwin and Morcar's revolt. – Robert De Stafford and his property]</ref> They included [[Barlaston]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2sJcbcX Barlaston Yesterday] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and [[Bradley, Staffordshire|Bradley]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2FjsO1C Stafford Borough Council – History of Stafford] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> in Staffordshire and part of [[Duns Tew]] in [[Oxfordshire]].<ref></ref>
==End of the Stafford family==
The feudal barony descended with the ownership of [[Stafford Castle]], which eventually passed out of the Stafford family.
The peak of the Stafford family was reached by [[Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham]] (1477–1521), who was executed for treason in 1521, on whose death "the princely House of Stafford fell to rise no more".<ref>Cleveland</ref> [[Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland|Cleveland]] relates the descent of his progeny into obscurity and poverty as follows:</br>
:''His only son, stripped alike of lands and dignities, received back a small fraction of its splendid possessions, with a seat and voice in parliament as a baron, and this title was borne by several generations. Edward, fourth Lord Stafford, "basely married to his mother's chambermaid," was succeeded by his grandson Henry, with whom the direct line terminated in 1637; and the claim of the last remaining heir, Roger, was rejected by the House of Lords on account of his poverty. This unfortunate man, the great-grandson of the last Duke, was then sixty-five, and had sunk into so abject a condition that he felt ashamed of bearing his own name, and long passed as Fludd, or Floyde, having, it is supposed, assumed the patronymic of one of his uncle's servants, who had reared and sheltered him in early life. He was compelled to surrender his barony to Charles I, and died unmarried in 1640; leaving an only sister, Jane, who in spite of her Plantagenet blood married a joiner, and had a son gaining a poor livelihood as a cobbler in 1637 at Newport in Shropshire".
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:English feudal baronies]]
[[Category:Stafford]]
The '''feudal barony of Stafford''' was a [[English feudal barony|feudal barony]] the ''[[caput]]'' of which was at [[Stafford Castle]] in [[Staffordshire]].
==Descent==
[[File:Stafford arms.svg|thumb|Arms of the Stafford family, adopted at the start of the age of [[heraldry]] (c.1200-1215): ''Or, a chevron gules'']]
The descent of the feudal barons of Stafford was as follows:
*[[Robert de Stafford]] (c.1039–c.1100) (''alias'' '''Robert de Tosny/Toeni''', etc.)<ref>Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.81</ref> an Anglo-Norman nobleman who arrived in England during or shortly after the [[Norman Conquest]] of 1066 and was awarded by King [[William the Conqueror]] 131 manors in his newly conquered kingdom, predominantly in the county of Staffordshire.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2QBV9VW Saxon owner or governors, – Leofric, Algar; – notices in Domesday Book, – Edwin and Morcar's revolt. – Robert De Stafford and his property]</ref> He built [[Stafford Castle]] as his seat. His 131 landholdings are listed in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086. By his wife, believed to have been Avice de Clare, he left a son and heir:
*Nicholas I de Stafford (d.circa 1138),<ref>Sanders</ref><ref>https://ift.tt/2Qmhs3i Stafford]</ref> eldest son and heir, 2nd feudal baron of Stafford, the descent from whom was as follows (all successive feudal barons of Stafford):<ref>Sanders, p.81</ref>
*Robert II de Stafford (d.1177/85), son and heir;
*Robert III de Stafford (d.1193/4), son and heir, died without issue.
*Millicent de Stafford, sister and heiress, wife of Harvey I Bagot (d.1214). Harvey "had to pay so heavy a fine to Coeur de Lion for permission to marry this heiress, and obtain livery of her lands, that he was forced to sell Drayton — one of her manors — to the canons of St. Thomas".<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref> Her younger son was William Stafford of "Broomshull" ([[Bramshall]] near [[Uttoxeter]], Staffordshire, a Bagot possession<ref>Wars of the Roses A Gazetteer- 2
By Michael Ryan Jones[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GNPEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=bagot+Bramshall,+Stafford&source=bl&ots=5K168DC6p9&sig=ACfU3U2VDJSPOYrrvtITjD-Z1C3-aUBwvw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi29P_s4-XmAhVNPcAKHf1NBQg4ChDoATAHegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=bagot%20Bramshall%2C%20Stafford&f=false]</ref><ref>''Branselle'' (Bramshall) is listed in the Domesday Book as a possession of Robert of Stafford (as tenant-in-chief) whose own tenant was "Bagot" (https://ift.tt/2QKH48O seems to have remained in another branch of the Bagot family as the estate of Sir John Bagot (c.1358-c.1437), MP, of Blithfield and Bagots Bromley, Staffs., centred upon Blymhill, Bramshall and Bagots Bromley ([[History of Parliament]] biog[http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1386-1421/member/bagot-sir-john-1358-1437]</ref><ref>"The Erdeswyks had for many years been mesne tenants of Stafford family property in Bramshall" (biog. ERDESWYK, Hugh (c.1386-1451), of Sandon, Staffs.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/erdeswyk-hugh-1386-1451])</ref>), ancestor of several prominent Stafford lines, most notably Stafford of [[Hooke Court|Hooke]] in Dorset, Stafford of [[Southwick, Wiltshire|Southwick]] in the parish of [[North Bradley]], Wiltshire and Stafford of [[Grafton, Worcestershire|Grafton]] in the parish of [[Bromsgrove]], Worcestershire.
[[File:Stafford arms.svg|thumb|Arms of Stafford, adopted at the start of the age of heraldry (c.1200-1215), probably by Harvey II de Stafford (d.1237) (son of Harvey I Bagot (d.1214) by his wife the heiress Millicent de Stafford), said to be the founder of the Stafford family<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref>: ''Or, a chevron gules'']]
*Henry/Harvey II de Stafford (d.1237), son and heir of his mother, who adopted his maternal surname in lieu of his patronymic and married Pernel, daughter of [[William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby]] (d.1190). He is said to be the founder of the Stafford family "one of the loftiest of our English houses, which rose to the highest point of splendour only to fall to the other extreme of reverse."<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref>
*Harvey III de Stafford (d.1241), son and heir, who died without issue.
*Robert IV de Stafford (d.1261), brother and heir;
*Nicholas II de Stafford (1255-1282), son and heir.
*[[Edmund de Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford]] (1272/3-1308), son and heir, summoned to parliament by writ on 6 February 1299 by [[Edward 1|King Edward I]], by which he is deemed to have become the 1st [[Baron Stafford]]. He married Margaret Basset, daughter of [[Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton]] (d.1299) of [[Drayton Bassett]] in [[Staffordshire]]. His younger son was Richard Stafford, ancestor of the Staffords of Clifton, barons by writ in 1371, which family expired early in the following century.<ref>Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll</ref>
*[[Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford|Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford]] (1301–1372), KG, son and heir, created [[Earl of Stafford]] in 1351, one of the Founder Knights of the Garter, who married Margaret de Audley, daughter and heiress of [[Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester]] (d. 1347).<ref>Sanders, p.81</ref> Ancestor of [[Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham|Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford]] (1402-1460), of Stafford Castle.
*Alan de Stafford<ref>Cawley, Charles, England, Earls 1207-97, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm]</ref>
*Roger de Stafford<ref>Cawley</ref>
*Jordan de Stafford<ref>Cawley</ref>
*Nigel de Stafford<ref>tudorplace</ref>
*Robert de Stafford<ref>tudorplace</ref>>
==Landholdings==
The first feudal baron held 131 manors as listed in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, a high proportion lying in [[Staffordshire]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2QBV9VW Saxon owner or governors, – Leofric, Algar; – notices in Domesday Book, – Edwin and Morcar's revolt. – Robert De Stafford and his property]</ref> They included [[Barlaston]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2sJcbcX Barlaston Yesterday] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and [[Bradley, Staffordshire|Bradley]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2FjsO1C Stafford Borough Council – History of Stafford] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> in Staffordshire and part of [[Duns Tew]] in [[Oxfordshire]].<ref></ref>
==End of the Stafford family==
The feudal barony descended with the ownership of [[Stafford Castle]], which eventually passed out of the Stafford family.
The peak of the Stafford family was reached by [[Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham]] (1477–1521), who was executed for treason in 1521, on whose death "the princely House of Stafford fell to rise no more".<ref>Cleveland</ref> [[Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland|Cleveland]] relates the descent of his progeny into obscurity and poverty as follows:</br>
:''His only son, stripped alike of lands and dignities, received back a small fraction of its splendid possessions, with a seat and voice in parliament as a baron, and this title was borne by several generations. Edward, fourth Lord Stafford, "basely married to his mother's chambermaid," was succeeded by his grandson Henry, with whom the direct line terminated in 1637; and the claim of the last remaining heir, Roger, was rejected by the House of Lords on account of his poverty. This unfortunate man, the great-grandson of the last Duke, was then sixty-five, and had sunk into so abject a condition that he felt ashamed of bearing his own name, and long passed as Fludd, or Floyde, having, it is supposed, assumed the patronymic of one of his uncle's servants, who had reared and sheltered him in early life. He was compelled to surrender his barony to Charles I, and died unmarried in 1640; leaving an only sister, Jane, who in spite of her Plantagenet blood married a joiner, and had a son gaining a poor livelihood as a cobbler in 1637 at Newport in Shropshire".
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:English feudal baronies]]
[[Category:Stafford]]
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