Sir Edward Stanhope, of Rampton & Houghton, Kt.

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64. Sir Thomas Stanhope married Mary Jerningham, daughter of John Jerningham of Somerleyton, in Suffolk.

Their elder son, Sir Edward Stanhope, obit. 1511, of Rampton and Houghton, was a principal commander of the army that beat Simnel's followers, at Stoke, in 1487. Ten years later, Sir Edward Stanhope fought against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath, and was knighted on the field of battle. In 1502, he was Steward of Wakefield and Constable of Sandale Castle, in the county of York. Like his predecessors, he was also Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. On the 4th. October, 1509, he 'imparked 240 acres at Houghton by enclosing them with a paling for the purpose of rearing wild animals' (Nottingham Enclosures Commission, 1517).

68. Sir Edward Stanhop's first wife was Adelina Clifton, Mary Jerningham's second-cousin, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, obit. 1491, of Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, esquire to King Edward IV. and Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Richard III, and Alice de Neville, widow of Richard Thurland; daughter of Thomas de Neville, 1405-1485, and (n.b.) Elizabeth Babington (Thoroton's original History of Notts, p. 392, 1677).

His second wife, Elizabeth Bourchier, was daughter of Foulk Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Waren, and great-great granddaughter of King Edward III. Elizabeth Bourchier married (2) Sir Richard Page of Beechwood, Hertfordshire, who 'shared with Sir Michael Stanhope the supervision of the King'  (Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI., p. 89, 2002)

69. Sir Edward Stanhope and Adelina Clifton had issue:

• (1) Richard Stanhope, obit. 1528, of Rampton, who died without male issue. He married Elizabeth Strelley, not her sister Anne (see Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. viii. pp. 264-273, 1843, which quotes from an epitaph in the old church of Kingston-upon-Soar, Nottinghamshire). Elizabeth Strelley was one of the four daughters and co-heirs of John Strelley. By this marriage, the Stanhope family became connected to the families of Somerville and Shipley.
• (2) John Stanhope.
• (3) Elizabeth Stanhope.
• (4) Marianne Stanhope.
• (5) Sir Michael Stanhope, born c. 1496.

By his second wife, Elizabeth Bourchier, Sir Edward Stanhope was father of

• Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset, 1497-1587, the wife of Protector Somerset, 1500-1552. (Foulk Bourchier's wife, Anne, was sole heir of Thomas Plantagenet of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, younger son of Edward III.).

notes

From STANHOPE, Michael (by 1508-52), of Shelford, Notts., Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks. and Beddington, Surr.

Family and Education
b. by 1508, 2nd s. of Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton, Notts. by Adelina, da. of Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton, Notts.

"Michael Stanhope was born into a well established Nottinghamshire family. His father, who fought at Stoke in 1487 and at Blackheath ten years later, was afterwards a knight of the body, constable of Sandal castle and steward of the town and lordship of Wakefield: he died in 1511 and was succeeded by his eldest son, whose own death without male issue in 1529 gave Michael Stanhope the patrimony. Stanhope was in the Earl of Rutland’s service by 1532, when he received a livery on the earl’s behalf, but it was the marriage of his half-sister Anne to the royal favourite Sir Edward Seymour which set the course of his career. His first post in the royal stables was a modest one but from 1540, when he became an esquire of the body, his rise was swift.4. ..."

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