Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born 1402 in Staffordshire, England, and died July 10, 1460 in Battle of Northampton, England. He was best-known as a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and in the Wars of the Roses.
He was the son of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, and Anne Plantagenet (Anne of Gloucester), daughter of Thomas of Woodstock and a grand-daughter of Edward III of England. He married Anne de Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville and Joan Beaufort.
When Henry was a small child his father died and he became 6th Earl of Stafford, inheriting a large estate with lands in more than a dozen counties. In 1444 he was created 1st Duke of Buckingham for his military services in France.
Humphrey had two sons, who married first cousins with the same name. The eldest, Humphrey Earl of Stafford (d. 1455), married Margaret Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. The younger, Lord Henry Stafford (d. 1481), married Margaret Beaufort, daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and widow of Edmund Tudor. His eldest son having already died, Humphrey was succeeded by his grandson Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
| Notes: Knight of the Garter. Created 14 Sep 1444, as also earlier 1431 Count of Perche, Normandy (part of Henry VI's policy of conferring native fiefs on his leading supporters in English-occupied France), having apparently already been recognized as Earl of Buckingham in right of his mother, KG (1429), PC (1424); knight 1421, Lt-General of Normandy 1430-32; Seneschal of Halton 1439, Captain of Calais and Lt of the Marches 1442-51, Ambassador to France 1446, Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover and Queensborough Castles 1450; was killed fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Northampton. [Burke's Peerage] |
Henry Stafford, born 1454 in Buckingham, England; died 1471. He married Margaret Beaufort. Notes for Margaret Beaufort:
Margaret Beaufort's marriages: 1. John de la Pole, 2. Edmund Tudor, 3. Henry Stafford, 4. Thomas Stanley.
Joanne Stafford, born in England. She married William John Knevett.
Humphrey Stafford, born Abt. 1424 in Staffordshire, England; died 1458
in Northampton, England.
Richard Stafford, born Abt. 1426 in Staffordshire, England.
John Stafford, born Abt. 1427 in Buckingham, England; died May 08, 1473.
He married Constance Green Abt. January 19, 1456/57 in Maxstoke Castle,
Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England.
Edward Stafford, born Abt. 1428 in Staffordshire, England.
Margaret Stafford, born 1435 in Buckingham, England. She married Robert
Dunham.
Catherine Stafford, born Abt. 1437; died December 26, 1476. She married
John Talbot 1467 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
George Stafford, born Abt. 1439 in Staffordshire, England.
Joan Stafford, born Abt. 1442 in Staffordshire, England.
She married (1) William John Knevett. She married (2) William de Beaumont.
William Stafford, born Abt. 1444 in Staffordshire, England.
Anne Stafford, born Abt. 1446; died April 1472. She married (1) Reynold
de Cobham. She married (2) Aubrey de Vere. She married (3) Thomas Cobham.
Elizabeth Stafford, born Abt. 1446 in Staffordshire, England.