Sir Humphrey Stafford, Kt., Sheriff of Northamptonshire

HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Blatherwycke, Dodford, and Kirby,

Northamptonshire, Chebsey, Staffordshire, etc., Sheriff of

Northamptonshire, 1547–1548, Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII,

son and heir by his father’s 1st marriage. He married by settlement

dated 10 Feb. 1526 MARGARET TAME, daughter of Edmund Tame, Knt., of

Fairford, Gloucestershire, by his 1st wife, Agnes, daughter of Edward

Greville, Knt. They had two sons, Humphrey, Knt., and John, Esq., and

three daughters, Anne (wife of Anthony Cope, Knt.), Frances (wife of

Thomas Smith, Knt.), and Ellen (or Eleanor). His wife, Margaret, was

co-heiress in 1544 to her brother, Edmund Tame, Knt., by which she

inherited the manor of Rendcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1545 he demised

the manor of Chebsey, Staffordshire to his brother, William Stafford,

Knt. In 1546 he sold the manor of Dodford, Northamptonshire and all

the lands belonging to Dodford and Farthingstone [Dodford Wood etc.],

excepting a rent-charge of £64. 2s. 11-½d. per annum, to John Wyrley,

Gent. In 1547 he presented to the church of Blatherwycke,

Northamptonshire. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD died 8 May 1548, and was

buried in Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire. His widow, Margaret,

married (2nd) (as his 3rd wife) JOHN COPE (or COOPE), Knt., of Canons

Ashby, Northamptonshire, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1545–1546,

Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire, 2nd son of William Cope,

Esq., of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Cofferer to King Henry VIII, by his

wife, Jane, daughter of John Spencer, Esq., of Hodnell, Warwickshire.

He was born before 1513. They had no issue. He was knighted before

March 1550. SIR JOHN COPE died 22 Jan. 1557/8. He left a will proved

21 May 1558 (P.C.C. 25 Noodes). His wife, Margaret, survived him.

References:

Kimber & Johnson, Baronetage of England 1 (1771): 50–55 (sub Cope).

Bigland, An Account of the Parish of Fairford in the County of

Gloucester (1791): 12, 19–27. Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of

Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275–280 (Tame arms: a Griffin and a lion

crowned Countersalient). Rudge, Hist. of the County of Gloucester 1

(1803): 255, 309. Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822–

1830): 349–356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Nicolas,

Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 749 (will of Anthony Cope). Gentleman’s

Mag. n.s. 26 (1846): 31–33. Whellan, Hist., Gazetteer, and Directory

of Northamptonshire (1849): 442. Lee, Hist. of the Town and Parish of

Tetbury (1857): 79. Warwickshire Antiqs. Magazine Pt. 8 (1859): 148

(Verney pedigree: “… [Thame] ux. Sr. Hump: Stafford of Blatherwick

Kt.). Holt, Tames of Fairfield (1870). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6

(1870): 250–251. Grosart, Complete Poems and Translations in Prose of

Humfrey Gifford Gentleman (1875): 167. Chitting & Phillipot, Vis. of

Gloucester 1623, 1569 & 1582–3 (H.S.P. 21) (1885): 260 (1623 Vis.)

(Tame pedigree: “Margerett [Tame] ux. Humfrey Stafford Knight sonn and

heire of Sr Humfrey of Blatherwick in com. Northampton.”) (Tame arms:

Argent, a dragon vert and a lion azure, crowned gules, combatant.”).

List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898):

94. Macklin, Brasses of England (1907): 239. Ward Brasses (Cambridge

Manuals of Science & Literature) (1912): 136. Gifford, A Posie of

Gilloflowers (1933): xiii. Adams, Living Descendants of Blood Royal 2

(1959): 239, 659. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 119–124. An Inventory of

the Hist. Monuments in the County of Northampton 6 (1975): xvii. VCH

Gloucester 8 (2001): 42–69; 11 (1976): 264–269.

Hmphrey Stafford1

M, #407954, b. 1506, d. 1548

Last Edited=28 Nov 2009

    Hmphrey Stafford was born in 1506.1 He was the son of Sir Humphrey Stafford and Margaret Fogge.1 He married Margaret Tame, daughter of unknown Tame.1 He died in 1548.1

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Edmund, 5th Earl of Stafford, commanded vanguard of Henry IV's army against Harry Hotspur and was killed during the battle.

1st Battle of St. Alban's, 22nd May 1455

Humphrey, 1st Duke of Buckingham, commander-in-chief of the Lancastrian forces for Henry VI. Fought with his son, Humphrey Earl of Stafford, was wounded defending the King but both were spared after being defeated.

Ludford Bridge

Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham also fought here in support of the King.

The Battle of Northampton, 10th July 1460

Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, commanding the Lancastrian force in a defensive position with it's back to the river Nene. Due to the betrayal of Lord Grey the Yorkist's are victorious and the Duke is killed defending the king. Humphrey Stafford, future Yorkist Earl of Devon and part of the Southwick branch was apparently present on the side of the Yorkists. Also some conjecture as to the presence of one John Stafford, who is recorded as slaying one Sir William Lucy after the Battle.