Stafford, Ralph de (1301 - 1372)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1301-09-24

Death Date: 1372-08-31

Parents

Mother: Basset, Margaret ( - 1337)

Father: Stafford, Edmund de (1273 - 1308)

Marriages/Other Unions

Audley, Margaret ( - 1348)
Type: marriage
Union began: n.d.
Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

From Audley, Margaret ( - 1348)
Male offspring: Stafford, Hugh de (1342 - 1386)
From Audley, Margaret ( - 1348)
Female offspring: Stafford, Beatrice de ( - 1415)
From Audley, Margaret ( - 1348)
Female offspring: Stafford, Joan de ( - 1397)

Primary Title

1st Earl of Stafford

Titles

1st Earl of Stafford
Assumed: 1350/1-03-05
Vacated: 1372-08-31
2nd Baron Stafford
Assumed: 1308-08-12
Vacated: 1372-08-31

Details of Offices

	Began	Ended
Steward of the King's Household, England	1340/1 -1 -6	1345 -03 -29
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex	1343

Details of Properties

Residence

Madeley, Staffordshire
Stafford Castle, Staffordshire

Lands

Essex
Kent
London (city-county)
Surrey

Event Naming Patron

Event Type	Date	Location	Troupe
Performance	1370 - 1371	Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent	Earl of Stafford's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name	Patron	Troupe Type	# of events
Earl of Stafford's Minstrel/s	Stafford, Ralph de (1301 - 1372)	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.