Humphrey de Stafford 
Humphrey was born in 1439 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Humphrey's father was William de Stafford and his mother was Katherine Chadwick. His paternal grandparents were Humphrey de Stafford and Elizabeth Dunham; his maternal grandfather was Sir John Chadwick. He was an only child. He died at the age of 30 on August 17th, 1469 in Executed by order of King Edward IV.General Notes
On the death of his father, he being ten years of age, succeeded to his estate and to that of his cousin Humphrey, son of Sir John. He early adopted the Yorkish course and fought at the battle of Towton, March 29, 1461, being Knighted by Edward IV, on the field. Other honors soon followed. April 24, 1464, he was created Baron. He was appointed to bear the great seal to George Neville, Archbishop of York, in 1465. He was executed by order of Edward IV for quarreling with Pembrake and causing him to be defeated. He was executed Aug. 17, 1469, by the sheriff of Devonshire and Somerset. He left no issue by his wife Isabel. She m. Thomas Bourchier, son of Henry first, Earl of Essex.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1243 d.1293
- b.17 Jul 1273 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England d.12 Aug 1308 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1248
- b.24 Sep 1301 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England d.31 Aug 1372 in Tonbridge Castle, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1242 in Drayton Basset, Stafford, England d.31 Dec 1299 in Drayton Basset, Stafford, England
- b.~ 1283 in Drayton Basset, Stafford, England d.17 MAR 1335/36 in Bur Tysoe, Warwick, England
- b.~ 1239 in Drayton, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1345 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England
- b.1267 in Audley, Staffordshire, England d.12 Apr 1326
- b.1289 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England d.10 Nov 1347 in Tunbridge, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1275 in Wigmore, England d.1338
- b.1325 in Tonbridge, Stafford, England d.16 Sep 1345
- b.02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England d.07 Dec 1295
- b.Oct 1292 in Tunbridge, Staffordshire, England d.09 Apr 1342 in France
- b.1272 in D'Acres, Palestine d.26 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1380 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England d.1429
- b.~ 1350 in Hook, Dorsetshire, England
- b.1439 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England d.17 Aug 1469 in Executed by order of King Edward IV
- b.~ 1340 in Hook, Dorsetshire, England
- b.~ 1390 in Hook, Dorsetshire, England
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