John Stanley (1292 - abt. 1346)

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Descendants

John Stanley was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Biography

John was the son and heir William Stanley and John Baumville.^[1]

The Chester Plea-roll of 4 Edward II (1311) records the conviction of this John with his father William, for the latter's oppression as Forrester of Wirral, and his office was taken from him, though afterwards restored. John, son of William de Stanlegh, is recorded as entering into a recognisance in 1313-14.

Notes

"The House of Stanley" by Peter Edmund Stanley (Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, 1998) is the first family history of the Stanleys in a while. Although it is lavishly illustrated with charts, photographs and drawings, it is also disappointing by its lack of an index and also by the lack of more specific documentation than a generalized bibliography.

However, there is one generation which seems to differ from other accepted sources and is particularly intriguing by its claim. This would be that of John Stanley/de Stanleigh (circa 1285-1346) of Stanleigh and Stourton (Storeton). Sources such as Seacombe (_History of the House of Stanley_) and Foster (_Pedigrees of the County Families of England:Lancashire_) give John's wife as Mabel/Mabella, daughter of Sir James Hausket of Stourton Parva. The author argues that this cannot be as from 1300-50 Stourton Parva was held by heirs of Sir Phillip de Bamville (grandfather of John) and that there was no family surnamed Hauskett associated with Stourton Parva or Little Parva during this period.

[BUT was de Bamville the superior or the feuar?]

The author further states that a Charter dated 13 Feb 1310 (no further identification given) given at Sefton in Lancashire endows John with the manors of Stanleigh and Over Elkeston in Staffordshire to be held by the said John and his wife Emma. The witnesses were: Sir Robert de Lathom of Lathom and Knowsley, Sir Ralph Bykerstaffe (Sheriff of Lancashire), Alan Norris of Formby and Speke, Thomas de Osbaldeston, William Blundel and Roger de Haverburgh.

Stanley suggests Emma may have been a Molyneux because of the location of the Charter, but ultimately decides she was a daughter of Sir Robert de Lathom, because when John Stanley's grandson Sir John Stanley married Isabel de Lathom in 1385, a papal dispensation was obtained owing to the prohibitive degree of consanguinity "third cousins once removed" (Ormerod).

Sources

1. ↑ Round, John Horace, "Peerage and Pedigree, Studies in Peerage Law and Family History", Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1910, Vol. II, Archive.org, p. 34

• The House of Stanley, by Peter Edmund Stanley, Edinburgh, 1998.
• The Complete Peerage by G.E.Cockayne, revised and enlarged by Geoffrey H. White, F.S.A., &c., vol.xii, London, 1953, p.247.
• Peerage and Pedigree by J. Horace Round, M.A., LL.D., vol.2, London, 1910, p.34-5.

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