Joyce Horde

Not the daughter of Johanna Drake

Joyce Stapleton

• Born about 1426
• Died after 1489
• Daughter of John Stapleton II and Margery (Unknown) Stapleton
• Sister of Joan (Stapleton) Walwyn and Mary (Stapleton) Acton
• Wife of Thomas Horde — married about 1443

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"Alan Horde, Esq., Bencher of the Middle Temple, son of John Hord and grandson of Thomas Hord of Bridgnorth, co. Salop, by Joyce, d. and coh. of Sir John Stapleton of Stapleton, Knt. Will d. 1553."

Source: Arnold Harris Hord, The Hord Family of Virginia, re-printed from William Smith Ellis, "Hoard or Howard of Ewell and Guilford, Co. Surrey", as printed in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, new series, vol. IV, 1884, edited by Dr. Joseph Jackson Howard

Family

iv). Joyce Stapleton b:1426 – d: 1489 (m: 1443 Thomas Horde/Whorewood) of Horde Park, Bridgnorth, Sheriff of Salop 1488 b: 1426 d: 11th June 1488)

Children:

• i) Alice b: circa 1443 m: Lacon
• ii) Anne b: after 1443 m: Charlton
• iii) Maria (Margaret) b: circa 1443 m: Cornwall
• iv) John b1446 d: May 31, 1494 m: Alice (Maria) Bulkeley b: 1447 d: 1525
• v) Jane b: circa 1465 m: Gifford d: December 8, 1491 (26 yrs Childbirth)

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https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/ATZuXKVc/re-john-staplet...

"MARGARET DEVIOCK, daughter and heiress, evidently born before 1380. She married before 1400 (as his 1st wife) JOHN STAPLETON (or STEPULTON), Esq., of Stapleton, Shropshire, Dormington, Herefordshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Shropshire, 1421, 2nd son of John Stapleton, of Stapleton and Oaks (in Pontesbury), Shropshire, by Katherine, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of Edward Burnell, of Langley, Shropshire. They had one son, Leonard, Esq., and two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. He married (2nd) MARGERY _____. They had three daughters, Joyce (wife of Thomas Horde), Joan (wife of Thomas Walwyn), and [Mary?] (wife of Walter Acton)."

Transactions of the Shropshire (1914), p. 221 “De Banco, Easter, 10 Edw. 4., No. 343.

SALOP. John Leghton, Richard Bondes & Joan his wife, Robert Cresset & Christine his wife,– Robert Mountfort & Thomas Acton were summoned at the suit of Thomas Horde & Joyce his wife in a plea that they should permit a partition to be made of the manors of Stepulton, Armegrove & Folhampton which formerly belonged to John Stepulton, Armiger, the father of the said Joyce, and of whom she was one of the heirs, between the said Joyce & the Said John Leghton son & heir of Elizabeth, daughter and the second of the heirs of the said John Stepulton and the said Richard & Joan the daughter and the third heir of the said John Stepulton & Robert Cresset and Christine the daughter of Margaret, the daughter and the fourth heir of the said John Stepulton, and the said Robert Mountfort in right of Mary late his wife and another of the heirs of the said Margaret, & Thomas Acton in right of Mary late his wife, the daughter and fifth heir of the said John Stepulton.”

References

• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... Page 92. GoogleBooks
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stapleton-394
• http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/pedigree.cfm?pid=157920
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/232977/I59657/joyce-stapleton/ahnentafel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgnorth
• http://thepeerage.com/p32803.htm#i328030