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Stafford, Hugh de (1342 - 1386)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1342
Death Date: 1386-10-16

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Beauchamp, Phillipa de ( - 1386)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 2nd Earl of Stafford

Titles

  • 2nd Earl of Stafford
    Assumed: 1372-08-31
    Vacated: 1386-10-16
  • 4th Baron Audley
    Assumed: 1358
    Vacated: 1386-10-16
  • 3rd Baron Strafford
    Assumed: 1372-08-31
    Vacated: 1386-10-16
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1375-11 (knighted after this date and before April 1376)
    Vacated: 1386-10-16

Details of Offices

Began Notes
King's Councillor, England 1376 -4 -30 King's 'continual councillor'; reappointed to Council 22 June 1377
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, King's Bench, England 1383

Lands

  • Essex
  • Kent
  • Surrey
  • Sussex

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Abbot's Hall, Boxley, near Maidstone, Kent Earl of Stafford's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Stafford's Minstrels Stafford, Hugh de (1342 - 1386) 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.