Humphrey Stafford (died 1413)

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Arms of Stafford of Hook and Southwick: Or, a chevron gules a bordure engrailed sable, first adopted by Sir Humphrey Stafford (d.1413)[1] being the arms of their ancestor William de Stafford of Bramshall near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, a younger son of Millicent de Stafford (sister and heiress of Robert III de Stafford (d.1193/4) of Stafford Castle, feudal baron of Stafford) by her husband Harvey I Bagot (d. 1214)

Sir Humphrey Stafford,(c. 1341 – 31 October 1413), of Southwick, Wiltshire; Hooke, Dorset; and Bramshall, Staffordshire, was a member of the fifteenth-century English gentry. He held royal offices firstly in the county of his birth, and later in the west country, particularly Devon and Dorset,[2] and has been called 'one of the wealthiest commoners in England' of the period.[3]

  1. ^ William Henry Hamilton Rogers, The Strife of the Roses & Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890., Chapter 5: "With the Silver Hand",Stafford of Suthwyke, Archbishop and Earl [1]
  2. ^ "Stafford, Sir Humphrey I (d. 1413), of Southwick in North Bradley, Wilts. and Hooke, Dorset. – History of Parliament Online".
  3. ^ Jacob, E. F., Essays in Medieval History (Manchester, 1968), 36.