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Stafford, Edmund (1377/8 - 1403)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1378-03-02
Death Date: 1403-07-21

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Woodstock, Anne of (1382 - 1438)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1396
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 5th Earl of Stafford
  • Knight of the Bath
  • Knight of the Garter

Titles

  • 5th Earl of Stafford
    Assumed: 1395-04-06
    Vacated: 1403-07-21
  • 6th Baron Stafford
    Assumed: 1395-04-06
    Vacated: 1403-07-21
  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1399-10-11
    Vacated: 1403
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1402-04
    Vacated: 1403-04

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Staffordshire 1397
JP, Staffordshire 1397
Commissioner of Array, Staffordshire 1399
JP, Staffordshire 1399
JP, Staffordshire 1401
JP, Essex 1401 1402
JP, Shropshire 1401
Lieut, North Wales 1401/2 -1 -15 Held jointly
Lieut, Cheshire 1401/2 -1 -15 Held jointly
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Staffordshire 1402
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Derbyshire 1402
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Leicestershire 1402
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Warwickshire 1402
Commander of Vanguard, Royal Army, England 1403 -7 -21
Constable of England, England 1403 -7 -21
JP, Oxfordshire 1403

Lands

  • Kent
  • Shropshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Shrewsbury (Unknown), Shrewsbury, Shropshire Earl of Stafford's Entertainers
Performance - Shrewsbury (Unknown), Shrewsbury, Shropshire Earl of Stafford's Minstrel/s
Performance - Blackmere, near Whitchurch, Shropshire Earl of Stafford's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Stafford's Minstrels Stafford, Edmund (1378 - 1403) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Stafford's Entertainers Stafford, Edmund (1378 - 1403) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Stafford's Minstrel/s Stafford, Edmund (1378 - 1403) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.