Stafford, Hugh de (1342 - 1386)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 4
Properties - 4
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 2
Legend

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Born / Died

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

Siblings

Female

Stafford, Beatrice de ( - 1415)
Stafford, Joan de ( - 1397)

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Offspring

From Beauchamp, Phillipa de ( - 1386)

  1. Female offspring: Stafford, Margaret (d. 1396)
  2. Female offspring: Stafford, Katherine (d. 1419)

Primary Title

2nd Earl of Stafford

Titles

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

Details of Offices

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

Lands

  • Essex
  • Kent
  • Surrey
  • Sussex

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1385-1385 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. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)