Sir Thomas Stanley 
Sir Thomas was born about 1392 in Elford, Staffordshire, England. Sir Thomas' father was Sir John Stanley and his mother was Isabel de Lathom. His paternal grandparents were Sir William Stanley and Alice Massey; his maternal grandparents were Sir Thomas de Lathom and Joan Venables. He had a brother named Sir John. He was the younger of the two children. He died in 1463.General Notes
The Stanley family is very extensive and has been described in detail in a recent book by Peter Edmund Stanley entitled 'The House of Stanley from the 12th Century', a piece de resistance of genealogy. Chapter XLII deals with the Stanleys of Elford in Staffordshire. Here were learn that Sir Thomas Stanley was the third son of Sir John Stanley of Lathom in Lancashire. Sir Thomas was High Sheriff of Staffordshire from 1433 to to 1438, and a privy councillor from 1453-54. He married firstly in 1438 to Maud the daughter and heiress of Sir John Arderne who lived from 1378-1408. As a consequence Sir Thomas acquired extensive lands of the Arderne family in Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and Cheshire. The Cheshire estates were at Aldford, Nether Alderley and Etchells near Northenden. The direct male line died out in 1508 on the death of his grandson, Sir John Stanley. It is said that Henry Tudor stayed at Sir John's house at Elford en route from Lichfield to the Battle of Bosworth field at which he defeated Richard III and became Henry VII. Sir John sold the estates of Aldford, Etchells and Nether Alderley to Sir William Stanley of Holt ( see below) and these estates were forfeited to the crown in 1495. In 1602, Nether Alderley was purchased by Sir Thomas Stanley of Over Alderley.
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- b.~ 1231 in Stanley, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1261 in Stanley, Staffordshire, England d.1326
- b.~ 1292 in Hooton, Cheshire, England d.1361
- b.~ 1231 in Wyroll, Cheshire, England d.4 FEB 1283/84
- b.~ 1261 in Stourton, Satfford, England d.> 1334
- b.~ 1235 in Pulford, Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1330 in Storeton, Cheshire, England d.1398
- b.~ 1252 in Stourton Parva, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1366 in Hooton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1290 in Storeton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1356 in Wirrel Forest, Stafford, England d.6 JAN 1412/13 in Ardee, Dublin, Ireland
- b.~ 1251 in Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1276 in Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1307 in Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England d.1349
- b.~ 1339 in Timperley, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1301 in Timperley, Cheshire, England d.> 1349
- b.~ 1392 in Elford, Staffordshire, England d.1463
- b.~ 1198 in Dalton, Lancaster, England d.Sep 1286 in Lancaster, England
- b.~ 1224 in Latham, York, England
- b.~ 1228 in Lancaster, England
- b.1300 in Lathom, England d.17 Sep 1370
- b.~ 1226 in Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1252 in Latham, York, England
- b.~ 1325 in Lathom, England d.20 MAR 1380/81
- b.1242 in Derby, Lincolnshire, England d.1279
- b.20 Jun 1271 in Cardiff, Wales d.Aug 1312 in Gascony, France
- b.~ 1245 in Brecknock, Brecon, Wales d.20 FEB 1312/13
- b.~ 1305 in Chartley Castle, Stafford, England
- b.< 1252 in Bicknor, Kent, England d.27 Dec 1280
- b.21 Dec 1276 in Bicknor, Kent, England d.29 Jun 1375 in London, England
- b.1244 in Derby, England d.09 May 1281
- b.~ 1364 in Knowsley, Lancaster, England d.26 Oct 1414
- b.1245 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England d.> 1292
- b.~ 1263 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England d.1311
- b.~ 1245 in Dutton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1296 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England d.1368
- b.~ 1241 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.> 1325
- b.~ 1280 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.1350
- b.~ 1250 in Dacre, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1334 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1225 in Lancaster, England
- b.~ 1260 in Lea Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England d.~ 1341
- b.~ 1233 in Lancaster, England
- b.1310 in Lea Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1247 in Amounderness, Lancashire, England d. in Kendall, Westmorland, England
- b.~ 1273 in Lea Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England d.~ 1330 in Mollington, Banastre, Cheshire, England
- b.1247 in Mollington, Banastre, Cheshire, England d.1298
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Children
Sir John Stanley
Sir John was born in 1423 in Latham, Staffordshire, England. He died at the age of 51 in 1474.
They had a son named George.
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