Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley

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Biography

Last updated 22 May 2024

In 1430/1431, Thomas Stanley was a knight and the Lieutenant of Ireland. He was known as Sir Thomas of Latham and Knowsley (Lancashire). On 6 December 1437, he was appointed Constable of Chester Castle. Sir Thomas was appointed Controller of the Household, Chamberlain of North Wales, and co-Forester of Macclesfield on 26 April 1439. On 1 December 1443, he and the Earl of Suffolk were appointed as Justices of the counties of Chester and Flint as well as North Wales, and on 11 December 1448, the two of them were appointed jointly Chief Stewards of the Duchy of Lancaster. In the Rolls of Parliament, he is identified in 1455 as Thomas Stanley, knight, Lord Stanley, King’s Chamberlain. Lord Stanley was elevated to Knight of the Garter on 14 May 1457.

From Wikipedia contributors, "Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley," < Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia > (accessed May 23, 2024).

Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, titular King of Mann, KG (c. 1405 – 11 or 20 February 1459), of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire, was a Privy Councillor, Comptroller of the Royal Household, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland (1431–36), Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, Constable & Justice of Chester, Chamberlain of North Wales, Lord Chamberlain (1455), and from 15 January 1456 was summoned by Writ to Parliament as Lord Stanley.[1]

Stanley was the son of Sir John Stanley, of Liverpool, Lathom, and Knowsley (in Huyton), Lancashire, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harington (or Haverington) of Farleton (in Melling), Lancashire.[2] He represented Lancashire in the House of Commons in 1427, 1433, 1439, 1442, 1447, 1449, 1450, 1453, 1455.

In 1424 he was attacked in his father's tower at Liverpool by Sir Richard Molyneaux, who was arrested. His family had long associations with the governance of Ireland, his grandfather Sir John Stanley, K.G., having been both Justiciar and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (and who died there), and in 1429 he was sent to Ireland and called a Parliament in that Kingdom in 1432.

In 1437, he succeeded to the title of King of Mann upon the death of his father, John Stanley.

During the Parliament at Westminster in 1450-1 the House of Commons demanded his removal from the Royal presence with others of the Duke of Suffolk's party.[3]

Marriage and issue

He married Joan Goushill (1401–1466),[4] eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoveringham in Nottinghamshire, by his wife Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk, a daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel. By his wife he had four sons and three daughters:

1. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435–1504), KG, eldest son and heir, who in 1485 was created Earl of Derby by King Henry VII following his decisive assistance in the Battle of Bosworth. He married twice, firstly to Eleanor de Neville, secondly to Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.
2. William Stanley (c.1435–1495), KG, 2nd son, invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1487 by King Henry VII, but executed by that king in 1495 for treason for his alleged part in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy.
3. Sir John Stanley, ancestor of the Barons Stanley of Alderley;
4. James Stanley, Archdeacon of Chester;
5. Elizabeth Stanley, wife successively of Sir Richard Molyneux (d.1459), killed in the Battle of Blore Heath, and Thomas Strange;
6. Margaret Stanley, wife successively of Sir William Troubeck (d.1459), killed in the Battle of Blore Heath; Sir John Boteler, and Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor, her grandson was Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn Castle, Chamberlain of North Wales;[5]
7. Katherine Stanley, wife of Sir John Savage, of Clifton, Cheshire. Of their many sons, the eldest, Sir John Savage, KG, was the commander of the left wing of Henry Tudor's army at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485; another, Sir Christopher Savage of Aston-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, fell at the Battle of Flodden, and another, Thomas Savage, was Archbishop of York.

Death and burial

He died on 11 February 1459 and was buried in Burscough Priory,[3] near his home at Lathom, Lancashire, where his wife was later buried also.

Burscough Priory ruins

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Genealogy

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B. LORDS STANLEY

THOMAS Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire, son of JOHN de Stanley & his wife Isabel de Haryngton (1405 or before-11 Feb 1459). He was summoned to parliament 15 Jan 1456, whereby he is held to have become Lord Stanley.

m JOAN Goushill, daughter and co-heiress of ROBERT Goushill of Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire & his wife Elizabeth FitzAlan of Arundel (-after 1459).

Thomas & his wife had three children:

• 1. THOMAS Stanley ([1435]-Lathom 29 Jul 1504, bur Burscough Priory, Lancashire). He succeeded his father in 1459 as Lord Stanley and Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man. He was created Earl of Derby 27 Oct 1485 by his stepson King Henry VII. EARLS of DERBY.
• 2. WILLIAM Stanley (-executed Tower Hill 16 Feb 1495). He was beheaded for participating in the Perkin Warbeck plot[785]. m firstly ---. m secondly (before 7 Dec 1471) as her third husband, ELIZABETH Hopton, widow firstly of ROGER Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire and secondly of JOHN Tiptoft Earl of Worcester, daughter of THOMAS Hopton of Hopton, Shropshire & his wife Eleanor Lucy of Newington, Kent and Richard's Castle, Herefordshire (-22 Jun 1498).
• 3. JOHN Stanley . Ancestor of the Barons STANLEY of Alderley[786]. m ELISABETH Weever, daughter of THOMAS Weever of Weever, Cheshire & his wife ---.

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Origins

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• JOHN de Stanley, son of WILLIAM de Stanley & his wife Joan de Baumville (-after 1314). m [277][MABEL, daughter of Sir JAMES Hawkset of Stourton Parva & his wife ---]. =John & his wife had two children:
  • 1. WILLIAM de Stanley (-after 1362). m [278][ALICE, daughter of HAMON [Hugh] de Mascy of Timperley, Cheshire & his wife ---].
    • a) WILLIAM de Stanley (-1398). m ---. The name of William´s wife is not known. William & his wife had one child:
      • i) WILLIAM de Stanley ([1368]-). His lands were forfeited for his participation in the rebellion of Henry Percy "Hotspur" in 1403[279]. Ancestor of the STANLEY family of Wirral[280].
    • b) ALICE de Stanley . m (1340) RANDLE le Roter of Kingsley, Staffordshire.
    • c) JOHN de Stanley (-before 28 Jan 1414). He was deputy in Ireland for Robert de Vere Marquess of Dublin 1386-1388, and was Lieutenant of Ireland 1399 to 1401[281]. m (1385 or before, dispensation 24 Dec 1398[282]%29 ISABEL, daughter of THOMAS de Lathom of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire & his first wife ---[283]. John & his wife had two children:
      • i) JOHN de Stanley (-27 Nov 1437). m ISABEL, daughter of Sir JOHN de Haryngton of Hornby Castle, Lancashire & his wife ---. John & his wife had one child:
        • (a) THOMAS Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire (1405 or before-11 Feb 1459). He was summoned to parliament 15 Jan 1456, whereby he is held to have become Lord Stanley.

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4. Thomas Stanley, Knt., of Lathom and Knowlsey, co., Lancaster, Lieutenant of Ireland, Chamberlain of North Wales, Knight of the Shire for Lancashire, 1st Lord Stanley (1456), K.G. (1457), b. in or before 1405, d. 11 Feb. 1458/9.[7] Faris notes that he and his wife had four sons and three daughters. They were ancestors of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother, in at least five different lines.[8] The eldest son, Thomas, was 1st Earl of Derby, a title still carried by his successors. He m. Joan Goushill, b. about 1401 (aged 2 years at her father’s death in July 1403), living 1460,[9] daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Goushill, of Hoverinham, co. Nottingham, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 4th Earl of Arundel. This couple was ancestral to Oliver Mainwaring in two different lines:

through their son, John, below;
through their daughter Katherine, wife of John Savage.

References

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  • 2. Richardson, Douglas, 2007, p. 770.
  • 3. Richardson, Douglas, 2007, p. 771.
  • 4. Joan died shortly before 27 April 1466
  • 5. GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN, Caernarfonshire., Dictionary of Welsh Biography < link >
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