Stafford, Edward (1477/8 - 1521)

Biographical Overview

Titles - 6
Properties - 27
Total events naming patron - 12
Troupes - 8
Venues - 2
Bibliographic Sources - 6
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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. Percy, Eleanor ( - 1530)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: after 1490-12-14
    Union ended: n.d.

Primary Title

3rd Duke of Buckingham

Titles

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

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
JP, Kent 1497/8 1506
JP, Surrey 1498/9 1506
JP, Gloucestershire 1500 1506
JP, Staffordshire 1502/3 1504
JP, Somerset 1502/3 n.d.
JP, Shropshire 1502/3 1504
JP, Herefordshire 1502/3 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1503 n.d.
JP, Warwickshire 1503 n.d.
JP, Buckinghamshire 1503 1504
JP, Somerset 1504/5 1507
JP, Herefordshire 1504/5 n.d.
JP, Warwickshire 1506 1507
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1506 1507
JP, Herefordshire 1506/7 n.d.
JP, Buckinghamshire 1507 n.d.
JP, Staffordshire 1508 n.d.
JP, Gloucestershire 1508 n.d.
JP, Somerset 1508 n.d.
JP, Somerset 1509 n.d.
JP, Warwickshire 1509 1511
JP, Herefordshire 1509 1510
JP, Buckinghamshire 1509 1510
JP, Kent 1509 1510
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1509 1511
JP, Staffordshire 1509 1511
Privy Councillor, England 1509-11 n.d.
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 n.d.
JP, Somerset 1511/12 1515
JP, Buckinghamshire 1511/12 n.d.
JP, Kent 1512 n.d.
JP, Shropshire 1512/13 1514
JP, Gloucestershire 1512/13 1515
JP, Herefordshire 1512/13 1515
JP, Kent 1513/14 1515
JP, Surrey 1513/14 1515
JP, Staffordshire 1514 n.d.
JP, Buckinghamshire 1514 n.d.
JP, Warwickshire 1514 1515
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1514 n.d.
JP, Kent 1517 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1518 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1520 n.d.
JP, Staffordshire 1520 n.d.
JP, Gloucestershire 1520 n.d.
JP, Herefordshire 1520/1 n.d.
JP, Somerset 1520/1 n.d.

General Lands Note

Livery of lands 1498

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
    (Performance Venue)
  • Thornbury Castle, Gloucestershire
    (Performance Venue)

Lands

  • Bedfordshire
  • Brecknockshire: Brecon Lordship
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cornwall
  • Essex: Writtle
  • Hampshire: Upper Clatford Manor
    Divested: By 1520
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Kent: Edenbridge Manor
    Divested: By 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: by 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: by 1520
  • Warwickshire: Tyseo, Whatcote, Wolford Magna & Parva Manors
    Divested: 1520-05
    Sold
  • Wiltshire: Knook Manor
    Divested: By 1520

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1520-1521 Lydd (Unknown), Lydd , Kent Duke of Buckingham's Bearward
Performance 1509-1510 Booth Hall, Shrewsbury , Shropshire Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer
Performance 1509-1510 Booth Hall, Shrewsbury , Shropshire Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer
Performance 1503-1504 Guildhall, Cambridge , Cambridgeshire Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer/s
Performance 1518-1518 Worcester (Unknown), Worcester , Worcestershire Duke of Buckingham's Harper
Performance 1515-1515 Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury , Kent Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel
Performance 1499-1500 Town Hall, Grimsby , Lincolnshire Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s
Performance 1512-1513 New Romney (Unknown), New Romney , Kent Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s
Performance 1510-1510 Guildhall, Plymouth , Devon Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels
Performance 1512-1512 Rye (Unknown), Rye , Sussex Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels
Performance 1515-1515 Dover (Unknown), Dover , Kent Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels
Performance 1518-1519 Cambridge (Unknown), Cambridge , Cambridgeshire Duke of Buckingham's Trumpeters

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Duke of Buckingham's Bearward Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Performing Animals 1
Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 2
Duke of Buckingham's Entertainer/s Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Harper Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Musicians 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrel/s Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 2
Duke of Buckingham's Minstrels Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Entertainers/Minstrels 3
Duke of Buckingham's Trumpeters Stafford, Edward (1478 - 1521) Musicians 1

Owned Venues

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

Bibliographic Sources

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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. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)
Rawcliffe, Carole. The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham 1394–1521. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 3rd ser 11. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978.