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Stafford, Edward (1477/8 - 1521)

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1478-02-03
Death Date: 1521-05-17

Notes

Under father's attainder from 2 Nov. 1483; restored Nov. 1485; ward of Margaret Beaufort, the King's mother 1485; found guilty of high treason & attainted 13 May 1521; beheaded; attainder confirmed 31 July 1523

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1490-12-14
    Union ended: n.d.

Primary Title

  • 3rd Duke of Buckingham

Titles

  • 9th Baron Stafford
    Assumed: 1485-11 (date restored)
    Vacated: 1521-05-13 (date attainted)
  • 8th Earl of Stafford
    Assumed: 1485-11 (date restored)
    Vacated: 1521-05-13 (date attainted)
  • 3rd Duke of Buckingham
    Assumed: 1485-11 (date restored)
    Vacated: 1521-05-13 (date attainted)
  • 7th Earl of Buckingham
    Assumed: 1485-11 (date restored)
    Vacated: 1521-05-13 (date attainted)
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1495
    Vacated: 1521-05-13 (date attainted)
  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1485
    Vacated: 1521

General Lands Note

Livery of lands 1498

Details of Offices

Began Ended
JP, Kent 1497/8 1506
JP, Surrey 1498/9 1506
JP, Gloucestershire 1500 1506
JP, Somerset 1502/3
JP, Shropshire 1502/3 1504
JP, Herefordshire 1502/3
JP, Staffordshire 1502/3 1504
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1503
JP, Warwickshire 1503
JP, Buckinghamshire 1503 1504
JP, Somerset 1504/5 1507
JP, Herefordshire 1504/5
JP, Warwickshire 1506 1507
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1506 1507
JP, Herefordshire 1506/7
JP, Buckinghamshire 1507
JP, Staffordshire 1508
JP, Somerset 1508
JP, Gloucestershire 1508
JP, Buckinghamshire 1509 1510
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1509 1511
JP, Staffordshire 1509 1511
JP, Herefordshire 1509 1510
JP, Somerset 1509
JP, Kent 1509 1510
JP, Warwickshire 1509 1511
Privy Councillor, England 1509 -11
JP, Gloucestershire 1509/10 1511
JP, Shropshire 1509/10 1511
JP, Surrey 1510/11 1512
Steward of George Hastings, 3rd Baron Hastings (of Hastings)' Lands, Wales 1511
JP, Somerset 1511/12 1515
JP, Buckinghamshire 1511/12
JP, Kent 1512
JP, Herefordshire 1512/13 1515
JP, Shropshire 1512/13 1514
JP, Gloucestershire 1512/13 1515
JP, Kent 1513/14 1515
JP, Surrey 1513/14 1515
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1514
JP, Buckinghamshire 1514
JP, Staffordshire 1514
JP, Warwickshire 1514 1515
JP, Kent 1517
JP, Surrey 1518
JP, Staffordshire 1520
JP, Surrey 1520
JP, Gloucestershire 1520
JP, Somerset 1520/1
JP, Herefordshire 1520/1

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Penshurst Place, Kent
  • Poulteney's Inn, London (city-county)
  • Red Rose Manor, London (city-county)
  • Bletchingly Manor, Surrey
  • Brecon Castle, Brecknockshire

Lands

  • Bedfordshire
  • Brecknockshire: Brecon Lordship
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cornwall
  • Essex: Writtle
  • Hampshire: Upper Clatford Manor
    Divested: 1520
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Kent: Edenbridge Manor
    Divested: 1520
  • Kent: Penhurst Manor
  • Monmouthshire: Colston Basset Manor
    Divested: 1520-05
    Sold
  • Monmouthshire: Newport Lordship
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottinghamshire: Colston Basset Manor
    Divested: 1520-05
    Sold
  • Nottinghamshire: Ratcliffe on Soar Manor
    Divested: 1519/20-02
    Sold
  • Oxfordshire: Stratton Audley Manor
    Divested: 1520
  • Suffolk: Helion Manor
    Acquired: 1506
  • Suffolk: Hengrave
    Divested: 1520-05
    Sold
  • Surrey: Chipstead, Effingham, Ockham, Titsey, Waldingham Manors; Parkley & Upwood Lands; Southwark Tenements
    Divested: 1520
  • Warwickshire: Tyseo, Whatcote, Wolford Magna & Parva Manors
    Divested: 1520-05
    Sold
  • Wiltshire: Knook Manor
    Divested: 1520

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Lydd (Unknown), Lydd, Kent Duke of Buckingham's Bearward
Performance - Booth Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer
Performance - Booth Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer/s
Performance - Worcester (Unknown), Worcester, Worcestershire Duke of Buckingham's Harper
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel
Performance - Town Hall, Grimsby, Lincolnshire Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s
Performance - New Romney (Unknown), New Romney, Kent Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels
Performance - Rye (Unknown), Rye, Sussex Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels
Performance - Cambridge (Unknown), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Duke of Buckingham's Trumpeters

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Harper Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Musicians 1
Duke of Buckingham's Trumpeters Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Musicians 1
Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer/s Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Bearward Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Performing Animals 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Brecon Castle Brecknockshire Private Residence
Thornbury Castle Gloucestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • 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
  • Harris, Barbara J.. Edward Stafford: Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478 -- 1521. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Rawcliffe, Carole. The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham 1394--1521. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978