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STAFFORD FAMILY
II. GRAFTON LINE
William STAFFORD of Broomshull
Born: BEF 1214
Father: Hervey BAGOT (B. Stafford)
Mother: Millicent de STAFFORD
Married: Aditha VERNON
Children:
1. William STAFFORD

William STAFFORD
Father: William STAFFORD of Broomshull
Mother:Aditha VERNON
Married: Ermentrude FITZWAKELIN
Children:
1. William STAFFORD

William STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1259
Died:AFT 1307
Father:William STAFFORD
Mother:Ermentrude FITZWAKELIN
Married: Isabella de STAFFORD
Children:
1. John STAFFORD (Sir)

John STAFFORD (Sir)
¿Born: ABT 1315, Wickham, England?
Died: ABT 1370
Notes: of Scales, Knt. of Amblecote and Bramshall, Stafford. Sir John Stafford, son of William Stafford, of Bromshull, county Stafford, and a descendant of Hervey Bagot and Milicent Stafford; which Sir John married Margaret, youngest daughter of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, and left issue, Sir Humphrey, his heir, a distinguished soldier in the martial reign of King Edward III, and one of the retinue of the Black Prince, who married the dau. and heir of John Grenvil; and Ralph, who married Maud, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Hastang, and was ancestor of the Staffords of Grafton, county Worcester, and of the Staffords of Blatherwycke, county Northampton. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 501, Stafford, Barons Stafford, of Suthwyk, Earl of Devon].
Father: William STAFFORD
Mother: Isabella de STAFFORD
Married 1: Elizabeth de SOMERVILLE
Children:
1.Matilda (Maud) STAFFORD
Married 2: Margaret STAFFORD
Children:
2.Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
3. Margaret STAFFORD
4. Ralph STAFFORD
5. Joan STAFFORD

Matilda (Maud) STAFFORD
Notes: Memorial Brass in Clifton Campville Church, 1360, is believed to be that of Maud, wife of Sir Richard Stafford.
Father: John STAFFORD (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth de SOMERVILLE
Married: Richard STAFFORD (Sir Knight) ABT 1357

Margaret STAFFORD
Born: 1356, Wichham, Norfolk, England
Died: BEF 6 Apr 1418, Over Peover, Cheshire, England (Inq. Date)
Father: John STAFFORD (Sir)
Mother: Margaret STAFFORD
Married 1: John de WARREN (Sir Knight) 1371, Poynton,Cheshire,England
Children:
1. Nicholas de WARREN (b. ABT 1375) (m. Alice de Winnington)
2. Margaret de WARREN
3. Isabel de WARREN
Married 2: John MAIWARING (Sir Knight)AFT 1390

Ralph STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1354, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England
Died: 1 Mar 1410, Hastings
Notes: Steward of the Household to Edward III.
Father: John STAFFORD (Sir)
Mother: Margaret STAFFORD
Married: Maud HASTINGS ABT 1383, Chebsey, Stafford, England
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
2. Joan STAFFORD

Joan STAFFORD
Father: Ralph STAFFORD
Mother: Maud HASTINGS
Married: Nicholas BEKE

Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Born: 1370 / 1384, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Died: 20 Feb 1419
Father: Ralph STAFFORD
Mother: Maud HASTINGS
Married 1: Elizabeth BURDETT (b. 1375 - d. 1434) ABT 1398, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)

Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
 
Born: 1400, Grafton, Worcestershire, England 
Died: AFT 1467, Bromgrade, Worcester, England
Notes: Governor of Calais. Commissioner 1436. His wife brought Blatherwyke to the Staffords.
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth BURDETT
Married: Eleanor AYLESBURY (b. 1407 - d. AFT 1467) (dau. of Thomas Aylesbury and Catherine Pabenham) ABT 1426, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
Children:

Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton alabaster effigy Bromsgrove, Worcestershire


1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
2. Elizabeth STAFFORD
¿3. Anne STAFFORD (B. Clinton of Marstoke)?
¿4. William STAFFORD (Sir)?

Elizabeth STAFFORD
Born: 1435, Beauchamp Court, Worcestershire, England
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor AYLESBURY
Married: Richard BEAUCHAMP (2º B. Powis) (b. 1436 - d. ABT 19 Apr 1475/ Jan 1503) (son of John de Beauchamp and Margaret Ferrers) 27 Jan 1466, Private Chapel, Beauchamp Court, Worcestershire, England
Children:
1. Anne BEAUCHAMP(m. Sir Richard Lygon)
2. Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP(m. Robert Willoughby, 1º B. Willoughby of Broke)
3. Margaret BEAUCHAMP (m. William Reade)

Anne STAFFORD (B. Clinton of Marstoke)
Born: ABT 1447, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Died: AFT 1508 / BEF 1522
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor AYLESBURY
Married 1: William BERKELEY (Sir Knight)
Children:
1. Catherine BERKELEY
2. Richard BERKELEY of Stoke Gifford
3. John BERKELEY
Married 2: John CLINTON (6° B. Clinton of Marstoke) AFT 1471, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Children:
4. John CLINTON
Married 3: Thomas WILLICOTE
Married 4: Richard WILLOUGHBY 4 Aug 1488

Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1427, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Died: 8 Jul 1486, Tyburn
Notes: executed by order of King Henry VII for siding with Richard III.
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor AYLESBURY
Married: Catherine FRAY (b. 1437 - d. 1482) (dau. of Sir John Fray, Chief Baron of the Exchecker, and Agnes Danvers) 1452, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Children:
1. Anne STAFFORD (B. Latimer)
2. Joyce STAFFORD
3. Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke

Anne STAFFORD (B. Latimer)
Born: ABT 1471, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Died: AFT 1513
Buried: Well, Yorkshire, England
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine FRAY
Married: Richard NEVILLE (2º B. Latimer) 1490, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Children:
1. John NEVILLE (3° B. Latimer)
2. Dorothy NEVILLE
3. Elizabeth NEVILLE
4. Margaret NEVILLE
5. William NEVILLE
6. Catherine NEVILLE (b. 17 Jan 1498/99)
7. Susan NEVILLE
8. Thomas NEVILLE (Sir)
9. Joan NEVILLE (b. 7 Mar 1503/1504)
10. Humphrey NEVILLE (b. 11 Aug 1505)
11. Marmaduke NEVILLE (b. ABT 1506 - d. AFT 1542)
12. Marmaduke NEVILLE
13. George NEVILLE (b. 29 Jul 1509 - d. 1567)
14. Christopher NEVILLE (b. 2 Oct 1511)
15. Christopher NEVILLE (b. 2 May 1513 - d. AFT 1542)
¿16. Anne NEVILLE?

Joyce STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1460, Grafton, Worcestershire, England
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine FRAY
Married: Marmaduke CONSTABLE (Sir Knight) ABT 1480, Burton, Yorkshire, England
Children:
1. Eleanor CONSTABLE (B. Berkeley)
2. Marmaduke CONSTABLE of Everingham (Sir Knight)
3. Robert CONSTABLE of Nuneaton (Sir Knight)
4. Agnes CONSTABLE
5. John CONSTABLE of Knowlton (Sir)
6. William CONSTABLE of Hatfield
7. Catherine CONSTABLE

Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
 
Born:ABT 1461, Blatherwick,Northumberland,England
Died: 1545
Notes: In 1521 regained the Manor of Milton Keynes. Humphrey's father was executed at Tyburn as a traitor after the Battle of Bosworth field. At this time, his lands were taken from him and granted to Sir Edward Poynings. Sir Humphrey gradually restored the family to royal favour. He received a pardon from Henry VIII,and in 1515 was granted a partial restoration of his land. At the time of his fathers death, Sir Humphrey was only eight years old, but was betrothed to Margaret Fogge, dau. of Sir John. In 1532 he made a settlement of the manor on his further marriage with Joan, widow of William Lane. On his death in 1545 another Humphrey inherited Milton Keynes.
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine FRAY
Married: Margaret FOGGE
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
2. William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)

Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Died:1548
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Mother: Margaret FOGGE
Married: Margaret TAME
Children:
1. Anne STAFFORD
2. Humphrey STAFFORD (Sir)
3. John STAFFORD

Anne STAFFORD
Born:BEF 1513, England
Died:AFT 1613, England
Notes: her husband, Anthony Cope of Bedhampton, was denounced by Justices 1569 for refusing to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Mother:Margaret TAME
Married:Anthony COPE of Bedhampton (Sir Knight)(b. 1509 - d. 1586)
Children:
1. Anne COPE
2. George COPE
3. Jane COPE
4. Elizabeth COPE
5. Margaret COPE
6. Stephen COPE
7. Anthony COPE
8. John COPE
9. John COPE
10. Edward COPE

Humphrey STAFFORD (Sir)
Died: 1574
Notes:in 1555 he and his wife Elizabeth leased the site of the manorof Milton Keynes for twenty-one years to Laurence Woodall and his son Richard. This arrangement ended in a quarrel, as Thomas Digby alleged that Richard Woodall had transferred his interests to him rather than his son Thomas. In 1563 the manor retuned to Sir Humphrey.
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Mother:Margaret TAME
Married: Elizabeth ?

John STAFFORD
Died: 1595
Notes: inherited Milton Keynes in 1574.
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Mother:Margaret TAME
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Sudbury
2. William STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
¿3. Robert STAFFORD?

Robert STAFFORD
Father:John STAFFORD
Mother:¿?
Married: Jane SPENCER

William STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Notes: came to an arrangement with his brother whereby William took the manor of Milton Keynes. On his demise in 1606 his son William, then a minor held the manor. In 1637 William's first son Edward held the manor, dying the following year leaving the manor to his brother Charles; who was succeeded by his younger brother William in 1643. He did not enjoy the profits of the estate. It was mortgaged for £6000 in 1634 to Sir Lewis Watson (who became Lord Rockingham) and John Loddington. Parliament were ignorant of this fact and granted Sir John Corbett the estate in recompense for losses caused by the kings troops. Corbett and Rockingham fought out their case in the Chancery and in 1652 it was referred to Parliament . Corbett pleading the Act of Oblivion. Rockingham died in1653 and his son Edward Watson and John Loddington joined William Stafford in levying for Milton Manor. Henry Stafford,son of William,was sued whilst a minor in1669 by Dr. Lewis Atterbury with regard to the glebe lands. In 1667 Henry Stafford conveyed the manor to Heneage Finch and his son Daniel.
Father:John STAFFORD
Mother:¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1.William STAFFORD of Blatherwycke

William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Born: BEF 1512, Chebsey, Staffs., Rochford, Essex & London
Died: 5 May 1556, Geneva
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke
Mother: Margaret FOGGE
Married 1: Mary BOLEYN ABT 1533
Children:
1. Son STAFFORD (b. 1535 - d. 1545)
Married 2: Dorothy STAFFORD AFT Jul 1543
Children:
2. Edward STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
3. John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)
4. William STAFFORD
5. Elizabeth STAFFORD
6. Ursula STAFFORD

Edward STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Born: ABT 1552
Died: 1604
Buried: Westminster Abbey
Notes: Ambassador in Paris.
Father: William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD
Married 1: Roberta CHAPMAN
Children:
1. William STAFFORD
2. Dau. STAFFORD
3. Dau. STAFFORD
Married 2: Douglas HOWARD (B. Sheffield of Butterwick) 29 Nov 1579
Children:
4. Son STAFFORD
5. Son STAFFORD

John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)
Born: 1 Apr 1553, Bobbing Court, Bobbing, Kent, England
Died: 28 Sep 1624
Father:William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Mother:Dorothy STAFFORD
¿Married 1: Bridget CLOPTON(b. ABT 1554)?
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD
Married 2: Millicent GRESHAM
Children:
2. Thomas STAFFORD
Married 3: Anne MOODY
Married 4: Susan WYNNARD ABT 26 Oct 1607

Humphrey STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1574
Father: John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)
Mother: Bridget CLOPTON
Married: Lucy EYRE
Children:
1. Alice STAFFORD
2. Gertrude STAFFORD

Alice STAFFORD
Born: 1610
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD
Mother: Lucy EYRE
Married: Anthony SAVAGE
Children:
1. Alice SAVAGE
2. Dorothy SAVAGE

Thomas STAFFORD
Born: 5 May 1580
Died: 1607
Father: John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)
Mother: Millicent GRESHAM
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Thomas STAFFORD (b. 1605)

Elizabeth STAFFORD
 
Born: ABT 1557
Notes: Lady of the bedchamber of Queen Elizabeth.
Father: William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD
Married 1: William DRURY of Hawsted (Sir)
Children:
1. Robert DRURY of Hawstead (Sir)
2. Charles DRURY
3. Frances DRURY
4. Elizabeth DRURY (C. Exeter)
5. Susannah DRURY (d. 1607, while hunting, in Lincolnshire)
6. Diana DRURY (V. Wimbledon)
7. Dorothea DRURY (d. infancy at age 4 months)
Married 2: John SCOTT (Sir) AFT 1589

William STAFFORD
Born: 1554
Died: 1612
Father: William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD
Married: Anne GRYME
Children:
1. William STAFFORD
2. Dorothy STAFFORD

Ursula STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1553, Bobbing Court, Kent, England
Notes: Richard Drake obtained a Court appointment as Equerry to Queen Elizabeth in 1577, and bought an estate in Esher. He received a ransom of 2,500 pounds for a distinguished Spanish prisoner who was captured after the defeat of the Armada and housed with Richard Drake for four-and-a half years until his exchange with an English prisoner in the hands of the Spaniards. The family of Drake of Shardeloes in Buckinghamshire are descendants of this Richard.
Father: William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)
Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD
Married: Richard DRAKE (Esq.)
Children:
1. Francis DRAKE

Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
Died: 31 Oct 1413
Father: John STAFFORD (Sir)
Mother: Margaret STAFFORD
Married 1:Elizabeth AUMARLE (w. of John Maltravers)
Married 2:Alice GREVILLEABT 1365
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook

Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
Born:ABT 1379, Hooke, Dorset, England
Died:27 May 1442
Father:Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
Mother:Alice GREVILLE
Married: Elizabeth MALTRAVERS(b. ABT 1380 - d. 1442) (dau. of John Maltravers and Elizabeth Aumarle) BEF Oct 1397
Children:
1. Alice STAFFORD
2. Richard STAFFORD of Southwick
3. John STAFFORD
4. William STAFFORD (d. 1450, during Cade's Rebellion)
5. Humphrey STAFFORD of Southwick

Alice STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1391
Died: BEF 24 Apr 1448
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
Mother:Elizabeth MALTRAVERS
Married 1: Edmund CHENEY
Children:
1. Elizabeth CHENEY
2. Anne (Agnes) CHENEY
Married 2: Walter TALBOYS (Sheriff of Lincoln) BEF 1432
Children:
3. William TALBOYS (Sir Knight)
4. Eleanor TALBOYS

Richard STAFFORD of Southwick
Died: ABT 1427
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
Mother:Elizabeth MALTRAVERS
Married: Maud LOVELL
Children:
1. Avice STAFFORD

Avice STAFFORD
Born: 4 Dec 1423, Woodsford, Dorset
Died: 3 Jun 1457
Father: Richard STAFFORD of Southwick
Mother: Maud LOVELL
Married: James BUTLER (1° E. Wiltshire) BEF 4 Jul 1428

John STAFFORD
Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook
Mother:Elizabeth MALTRAVERS
Married: Anne BOTREAUX (dau. of William Botreaux, 1º B. Botreaux, and Elizabeth Daubeney)
Children:
1. Humphrey STAFFORD

William STAFFORD (Sir)
Born: ABT 1420, Bishop's Frome, Herefordshire, England
Died: 18 Jun 1450, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
¿Father: Humphrey STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor AYLESBURY?
Married: Catherine CHIDIOCKE (dau. of Sir John Chidiocke and Catherine Lumley) 11 Mar 1435/1436
Children:
1. Margaret STAFFORD

Margaret STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1445
Father: William STAFFORD (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: George de VERE (Sir)
Children:
1. George de VERE
2. John de VERE (14° E. Oxford)
3. Dorothy de VERE (B. Latimer)
4. Elizabeth de VERE
5. Ursula de VERE

Elizabeth STAFFORD
Father: William STAFFORD of Bradfield
Mother: ¿?
Married: Henry FORTESCUE of Faulkbourne (Esq.) BEF 1546
Children:
1. Francis FORTESCUE
2. Son FORTESCUE
3. Son FORTESCUE
4. Son FORTESCUE
5. Catherine FORTESCUE
6. Dau. FORTESCUE
7. Dau. FORTESCUE
8. Dau. FORTESCUE
9. Dau. FORTESCUE

William STAFFORD
Born: 1500
Died: 1556
Married: Anne LANGFORD (b. 1500) (dau. of John Langford andCatherine Norreys)
Children:
1. Thomas STAFFORD
2. John STAFFORD (b. ABT 1531)
3. George STAFFORD (b. ABT 1532)
4. Humphrey STAFFORD (b. ABT 1533) 
5. Elizabeth STAFFORD (b. ABT 1534)
6. Margery STAFFORD (b. ABT 1535)
7. Mary STAFFORD (b. ABT 1536)

Thomas STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1530
Died: 1584
Father: William STAFFORD
Mother: Anne LANGFORD
Married: Anne BEST
Children:
1. Eleanor STAFFORD
2. Reade STAFFORD
3. Anne STAFFORD
4. Elizabeth STAFFORD
5. Edward STAFFORD
6. Francis STAFFORD (b. ABT 1565)
7. Edmund STAFFORD

Eleanor STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1550
Father: Thomas STAFFORD
Mother: Anne BEST
Married: Francis WELLESBORNE (b. 1526 - d. 5 Nov 1602, West Hanney, Berkshire) (son of Oliver Wellesborne and Joan Humphrey) (m.2 Alice Martin) 1565
Children:
1. Frances WELLESBORNE (b. ABT 1566 - d. 1631) (m. Paul Ambrose Crooke)
2. Catherine WELLESBORNE(b. ABT 1567)
3. Anne WELLESBORNE (b. ABT 1568) (m. Edward Clarke)

Reade STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1555
Died: 1605
Father: Thomas STAFFORD
Mother: Anne BEST
Married:Mabel STAVERTON 1570(dau. Richard Staverton and Anne Norreys)

Anne STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1557
Father: Thomas STAFFORD
Mother: Anne BEST
Married: Son FABIAN

Elizabeth STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1559
Father: Thomas STAFFORD
Mother: Anne BEST
Married: John BERRY

Edward STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1563
Father: Thomas STAFFORD
Mother: Anne BEST
Married: Mary FORSTER (b. ABT 1594 - d. 1668) (dau. of William Forster and Mary Steward) (m.1 Elias Ashmole - m.2 Thomas Hamley - m.3 Thomas Mainwaring) 1620
Children:
1. Edward STAFFORD(b. ABT 1622)(m. Elizabeth Chichester)
2. Humphrey STAFFORD
3. William STAFFORD(b. ABT 1626)(m. Elizabeth Anderson)
4. Mary STAFFORD(b. ABT 1628 - d. ABT 1630)
5. Anne STAFFORD(b. ABT 1630 - d. ABT 1632)

Edmund STAFFORD
Born: ABT 1567
Father: Thomas STAFFORD
Mother: Anne BEST
Married: Anne DOCKWRAY

Jane STAFFORD
Born: 1572, Tottenhoe, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: John SAVAGE
Mother: Anne WASHINGTON
Married: Thomas Arthur SAVAGE 1590, Walgrange, Staffordshire, England
Children:
1. Elizabeth SAVAGE (b. 1592)
2. Thomas SAVAGE