Catherine Stafford, Countess of Westmoreland

• Katherine Stafford1,2
• F, #52834, b. circa 1499, d. 14 May 1555
• Father Sir Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke Buckingham, 8th Earl & 9th Lord of Stafford, Earl of Hereford & Northampton, Constable of England2 b. 3 Feb 1478, d. 17 May 1521
• Mother Eleanor Percy1,2 b. c 1476, d. 13 Feb 1530
• Katherine Stafford was born circa 1499 at of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England.3 She married Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmoreland, son of Sir Ralph Neville, Lord Neville and Edith Sandys, before June 1520; 18 children.1,2 Katherine Stafford died on 14 May 1555 at Holywell, Shoreditch, England.1 She was buried on 17 May 1555 at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, England.1
• Family Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmoreland b. 21 Feb 1498, d. 24 Apr 1549
• Children
  • Margaret Neville+4 b. c 1526, d. 13 Oct 1559
  • Elizabeth Neville5 b. c 1527, d. b 1550
• Citations
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 554.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 676.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XI, p. 256-7.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 22-23.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1758.htm#... _______________
• Lady Catherine Stafford1
• F, #14156, d. 14 May 1555
• Last Edited=9 Apr 2008
• Consanguinity Index=0.74%
• Lady Catherine Stafford was the daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Eleanor Percy.1 She married Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, son of Ralph Neville, Lord Neville and Edith Sandys, before June 1520.1 She died on 14 May 1555 at Shoreditch, London, England.1 She was buried on 17 May 1555 at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England.1
• As a result of her marriage, Lady Catherine Stafford was styled as Countess of Westmorland before June 1520. From before June 1520, her married name became Neville.1
• Children of Lady Catherine Stafford and Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland
  • Lady Margaret Neville+2 d. 13 Oct 1559
  • Lady Dorothy Neville+2 d. bt 17 Dec 1545 - 27 Jun 1547
  • Lady Mary Neville2
  • Lady Elizabeth Neville2
  • Lady Eleanor Neville+2
  • Lady Anne Neville+2
  • Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland+3 b. bt 1524 - 1525, d. 10 Feb 1563/64
  • Christopher Neville2 b. b 1540
  • Cuthbert Neville2 b. b 1541, d. a 1569
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 554. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 15. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/2, page 555.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1416.htm#i14156 _______________
• Catherine STAFFORD (C. Westmoreland)
• Born: ABT 1499, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
• Died: 14 May 1555, Holywell-in-Shoreditch, Middlesex, England
• Buried: Shoreditch, Middlesex, England
• Father: Edward STAFFORD (3° D. Buckingham)
• Mother: Eleanor PERCY (D. Buckingham)
• Married: Ralph NEVILLE (4° E. Westmoreland) BEF Jun 1520, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
• Children:
  • 1. Henry NEVILLE (5º E. Westmoreland)
  • 2. Margaret NEVILLE (C. Rutland)
  • 3. Dorothy NEVILLE (C. Oxford)
  • 4. Ralph NEVILLE (d. 1565)
  • 5. Thomas NEVILLE
  • 6. Christopher NEVILLE (Sir)
  • 7. George NEVILLE
  • 8. Edward NEVILLE
  • 9. Elizabeth NEVILLE
  • 10. Cuthbert NEVILLE
  • 11. Eleanor NEVILLE
  • 12. Mary NEVILLE
  • 13. Eleanor NEVILLE
  • 14. Anne NEVILLE
  • 15. Ursula NEVILLE
  • ¿16. William NEVILLE (Sir)?
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STAFFORD1.htm#Catherine STAFFORD (C. Westmoreland) ____________________
• Lady Katherine Stafford Neville
• Birth: unknown
• Death: May 14, 1555 Shoreditch, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Ralph Neville (1498 - 1549)
• Children:
  • Margaret Neville Manners (____ - 1559)*
  • Dorothy Neville de Vere (____ - 1548)*
  • Mary Neville Danby (____ - 1591)*
  • Anne Neville Greville (____ - 1583)*
• Burial: St Leonard Churchyard, Shoreditch, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 139537560
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=139537560 _________________
• Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland KG, (21 February 1498 – 24 April 1549) was an English peer and soldier. He was the grandson of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, and the father of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland.
• Ralph Neville, born 21 February 1498, was the son of Ralph Neville (d.1498) and Edith Sandys (d. 22 August 1529), daughter of Sir William Sandys of the Vyne by Edith Cheyney, daughter of Sir John Cheyney. He was the grandson of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, and Isabel Booth.[1]
• Neville had a brother who died young, and a sister, Isabel, who married firstly, Sir Robert Plumpton, and secondly, Lawrence Kighley, Esq.[2]
• After his father's death in 1498, Neville's mother, Edith, married Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy, who was beheaded on Tower Hill 30 June 1537 for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. She died at Stepney on 22 August 1529, and was buried at the Friars Observant, Greenwich.[3]
• Neville inherited the earldom of Westmorland as an infant at the death of his grandfather on 6 February 1499. On 9 July 1510, at about the age of twelve, his wardship was granted to Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.[4]
• As a young man, Westmorland was among those who attended King Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520 and at his meeting with Emperor Charles V at Gravelines in July. On 7 November 1520 he had livery of his lands.[5] .... etc.
• Westmorland died on 24 April 1549, aged 51, and was buried at Staindrop, Durham. His widow, Katherine, died 14 May 1555 at Holywell in Shoreditch, the house of her son-in-law, Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, and was buried 17 May 1555 at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch.[9]
• Westmorland was first betrothed to Elizabeth Stafford (c.1497 – 30 November 1558), the eldest daughter of his guardian, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, and Eleanor Percy, with whom he is said to have been in love, and whom he was to have married before Christmas 1512. However about that time Thomas Howard made suit for her, and Elizabeth married Howard, as his second wife, before 8 January 1513.[10] Westmorland married instead, before June 1520, Stafford's second daughter, Katherine (d. 14 May 1555). They had eighteen children, including:[11]
  • Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland, who married, at a triple marriage ceremony on 3 July 1536 at Holywell in Shoreditch, Anne Manners, the daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. Their son, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, married, about 1563/4, Jane Howard (buried 30 June 1593), the daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He took part with his uncles, Christopher Neville and Cuthbert Neville, in the Northern Rebellion of 1569, was attainted in 1571, whereby all his honours were forfeited, and fled to the continent, where he was involved for many years in plots on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots, against Queen Elizabeth. He died in exile at Nieuport in Flanders on 16 November 1601.[12]
  • Sir Thomas Neville.[13]
  • Edward Neville.[13]
  • Christopher Neville (fl. 1549–1575) of Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, fourth son, who married Anne Fulthorpe (d. after 1570), widow of Francis Wandesford, of Kirklington, Yorkshire, and daughter and heir of John Fulthorpe of Hipswell, Yorkshire. There were no issue of the marriage. He was attainted for treason in May 1571 for his part in the Northern Rebellion of 1569, and fled to the continent, where he died in exile.[14]
  • George Neville.[13]
  • Ralph Neville (d.1565).[citation needed]
  • Cuthbert Neville[13] (fl. 1549–1569) of Brancepeth, Durham. He took part in the Northern Rebellion of 1569 with his brother, was attainted, and died in exile in the Spanish Netherlands.[15]
  • Dorothy Neville[13] (d.1546), who married, at a triple marriage ceremony on 3 July 1536 at Holywell in Shoreditch, as his first wife, John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford,[16] and by him had a daughter, Katherine, who married Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor.
  • Mary Neville, who married Sir Thomas Danby of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire, eldest son of Sir Christopher Danby. Sir Thomas Danby appears to have participated with his brothers-in-law, Christopher Neville and Cuthbert Neville, in the Northern Rebellion of 1569.[17]
  • Margaret Neville (d. 13 Oct 1559), who married, at a triple marriage ceremony on 3 July 1536 at Holywell in Shoreditch, as his first wife, Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, and had issue.[18]
  • Elizabeth Neville, who married, as his first wife, Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre (d. 1 July 1566) of Gilsland, but died without issue. After Elizabeth Neville's death, Thomas Dacre married Elizabeth Leyburne (buried 18 September 1567), who, after Dacre's death, married, as his third wife, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.[19]
  • Eleanor Neville, who married, as his first wife, Sir Bryan Stapleton (d. 13 December 1606) of Carlton, Yorkshire, eldest son of Sir Richard Stapleton (c.1516 – 1585), 'one of the carpet knights made at the accession of Queen Mary', and Thomasin Amadas, the daughter of Robert Amadas, goldsmith and master of King Henry VIII's jewel house. After Eleanor Neville's death, Sir Brian Stapleton married Elizabeth Darcy,[20] the daughter of George Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy de Darcy.[21][22][23]
  • Anne Neville (buried 17 July 1583 at Alcester, Warwickshire), who married, about 1553, Sir Fulke Greville (1536-1606), de jure 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke, and by him had issue a son, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, friend of Sir Philip Sidney, and a daughter, Margaret Greville (1561–1631/2), who married Sir Richard Verney.[24]
  • Ursula Neville.[citation needed]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Neville,_4th_Earl_of_Westmorland _________________
• Links
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stafford,_3rd_Duke_of_Buckingham
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Percy,_Duchess_of_Buckingham
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dacre,_4th_Baron_Dacre

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Catherine Stafford was the daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd duke of Buckingham (February 3, 1478-x. May 17, 1521) and Eleanor Percy (1470-1530). Her older sister Elizabeth was to have married their father's ward, Ralph Neville, 4th earl of Westmorland (February 21, 1497-April 24, 1550), but when she married Thomas Howard instead, Catherine was betrothed to Westmorland. The wedding took place between April 1, 1516 and March 31, 1517. They had eighteen children, including Henry (1525-February 10, 1564), Margaret (d. October 13, 1559), Dorothy (d.1547), Ralph (d.1565), Thomas, Sir Christopher (d.1575+), George, Edward, Elizabeth (d.c.1553), Cuthbert (d.1569+), Eleanor, Mary (d. March 14, 1596), another Eleanor, Anne (d. July 17, 1583), Ursula, and Sir William of Chebsey. During the Pilgrimage of Grace, she reportedly "rather playeth the part of a knight than of a lady" in the absence of her husband. A letter from the countess to the earl of Shrewsbury, Lieutenant of the North, is extant. In 1540, she traveled to Belvoir Castle, Lincolnshire, for the birth of her first grandchild to her son Henry's young wife, Anne Manners. In a group wedding in 1536, Catherine's children Henry and Margaret had married two of the children of the earl of Rutland. Writing on April 25, 1544 from Brandspath (Brancepeth), she recommends her servant, Ninian Meuvill to be one of Shrewsbury's captains. She was involved, peripherally, in her sister's ongoing battle with her husband, Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, since the duchess called upon her former sweetheart for assistance. Catherine's reaction to this is not recorded. In a letter of 1552 to her daughter Margaret, countess of Rutland, she thanked Margaret for furthering the marriage of her sister. The ceremony was to take place from Margaret's home. In her widowhood, Catherine lived with Eleanor Paston, dowager countess of Rutland, at Holywell, the house the Rutlands kept in London. Both countesses were buried in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. Portrait: memorial at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch erected by her granddaughter, Lady Adeline Neville in 1591. She shares it with Eleanor Paston and Margaret Neville, both countesses of Rutland, and her goddaughter and granddaughter, Catherine Neville, Lady Constable, whose bequest in her will made its construction possible; another effigy is at Staindrop, Durham, with her husband.

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