• General Notes

  Name Suffix:<NSFX> Of Bramshall, Sir
  The following is excerpted from a post toSGM, 26 Feb 1999, by Kay Allen, AG:
  Note: I have included here the entire relevant part of the post, which I have then broken apart to include in the notes of the various descendants.
  
  From: G . EDWARD ALLEN (allenk@@pacbell.net)
  Subject: Re: STAFFORDs c.1200-1600
  Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
  Date: 1999/02/26
  
  According to Coll. Hist. Staffs. (Wm. Salt) 1933, pt. 2: 135, "Sir William de Stafford, the father of Gundrada, was of Bramshall, son and heir of Sir William de Stafford, the son, by a first marriage [this is confusing, as I have him as a yngr. son of Hervey and Millicent.  [Note by JW: I also have William I de Stafford as younger son of Hervey & Millicent]], of Hervey Bagot who married Millicent de Stafford, the heiress of the Stafford Barony."  The article continues that the 2nd William md. #1 Ermentrude, daughter and heir of Robert fitzWalkeline and Alina his wife. Ermentrude [sic. I think she meant William de Stafford] is said to have married by 1253 as 2nd wife Alda/Auda de Vernon.  The article implies that Wm. had only dtrs. by Ermentrude and the male line continued at Sandon until extinction.
  
  The article is "The De Stafford and Fitz Walkeline Families."
  
  Coll. His. Staffs. (Wm Salt) 1917/18: 9-10 has more on these Williams:
  
  Sir William de St. of Sandon and Bramshall and of Amblecoe was b. ca. 1255. He was MP for Staffs. 1290, 1298, 1296, 107/8, 1311/12, 1313, 1318.He was the son and H. of Sir William de S. of Bramshall, d. 1252/8, by his 2ndwife Auda (d. 1276/9) widow of Hugh Beauchamp of Bedford and eldest dtr. of Vernon of Sandon. The MP married before 1272, Cecily, dtr. and h. of Robert Waureof Amblecot.  He is the stammvater [I think this is German for ultimate ancestor?] of the Staffords of Sandon; of Seile, Derby.; of Grafton, Worc.; of Southwick, znoHants.; of Hook, Dorset; of Huncote; of Frome, Somerset; etc. He d. after 1339.
  
  His son William Jr. married Isabel Stafford, dtr. and h. of Robert de Stafford and Gundred de Stafford, dtr. of Sir William and his first wife Ermentrude fitzWalkeline.  They had five sons: James, John (of Bramshall), Edmund,William, and Walter.
  
  "The father, Sir William de Stafford 9c. 1225-58), hadmarried first Ermentrude, daughter and co-heiress of William FitzWalkelin, before 1252; and was the son and heir of Sir William de Stafford (c. 1195-1240), who was himself the second son of the whole blood of Hervy Bagot of Bramshall and melicent de Stafford, the heiress of the Stafford Barony. So that our Sir William, the first M.P. for Staffordshire, was second cousin to the contemporary Lord Stafford, and his grandsons, Sir James and Sir John, were fourth cousins ofthe great Earl Stafford whose sister and daughter they respectively married."
  
  By the way, it is said that a daughter of the Sir John and Margaret Staffordmarriage married a Trussell. Can anyone confirm or disprove this?
  
  Kay AllenAG

Details of William II De's family with Ermentrude Fitzwalkeline