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Hace 3 días · Sir Humphrey Stafford was created Lord Stafford of Southwick in 1464 and Earl of Devon in 1469. Shortly afterwards he fell under the king's displeasure through having refused to assist the Earl of Pembroke in suppressing Sir John Conyers' rebellion, and was beheaded and attainted on 24 August 1469.
Hace 4 días · About the middle of the 15th century what was described as the manor of Rickerscote was settled on Avice, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Stafford, eldest son of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Hook (Dors.), with other manors including Littywood in Bradley.
Hace 2 días · They were held by Hugh Stafford at his death in 1420 when they passed to his nephew Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford, who was created Duke of Buckingham in 1444 and killed in 1460. In 1467 the manors were apparently held by Humphrey's widow Anne and her husband, Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy.
Hace 1 día · Some of the most important nobles in the South West included the Courtenays Earl of Devon, William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville, and Humphrey Stafford, earl of Devon whose wider influence stretched from Cornwall to Wiltshire.
Hace 4 días · Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
Hace 5 días · First to be explored is how the earldom of Norfolk came into being – how the fortunes of the Bigod family were made. By 1107, Morris shows, the Bigods had become 'barons of the first rank' (p. 1) and by 1166 were the fifth richest family in England.
Hace 2 días · Staffordshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county in the Midlands of west-central England. It extends north from the West Midlands metropolitan county (centred on Birmingham) and is bordered by Shropshire to the west, Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire to the northeast, Warwickshire.
