George Stanley Esq (abt. 1440 - abt. 1509)

Born about 1440 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor (Sutton) Stanley — married after 1471 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1509 at about age 69 in Hammerwich and Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

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Biography

This profile is part of the Stanley Name Study.

George Stanley was son of Thomas Stanley^[1] and his second wife Elizabeth Langton. He was born in about 1440.^[2][3][1] His birth county is not known: his father had lands in Staffordshire and Cheshire.^[4][5]

George married Elenor Sutton, widow of Henry Beaumont and daughter of John Sutton, 1st Lord Dudley, and Elizabeth Berkeley: her first husband died on 16 November 1471, so they will have married after that year.^[2][3] They had at least two children:

• John^[1][2][3]
• Anne, who married John Wolseley^[2][3] and who is wrongly named in the Staffordshire Record Society edition of Staffordshire Visitations as Elizabeth^[1]

George was

• Escheator for Staffordshire in 1469-70^[6][7]
• Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1473-4.^[8]
• Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire from 1485^[6]
• Commissioner of gaol delivery for Staffordshire^[2][3]

He may have been a Member of Parliament in 1489-90, 1495-6 or 1504.^[6]

In 1485 and 1499^[9] George and his wife were involved in legal actions involving William Gascoigne relating to properties in Yorkshire.^[2][3]

George died in 1508/9. He was buried in Lichfield Cathedral. His wife survived him, dying in about 1513.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} H Sydney Grazebrook (ed.). The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire in 1614 and 1663-64, Staffordshire Record Society, 1885, p. 277, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, p. 362-363, WOLSELEY 10
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol V, p 389-390, WOLSELEY 14
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. II, pp. 104-105, ELFORD 9, Google Books
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, pp. 486-487, ELFORD 13
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Josiah C Wedgwood. Staffordshire Parliamentary History, Vol. I, William Salt Archaeological Society, 1919, p. 270, footnote, Internet Archive
7. ↑ The National Archives, ref. E 136/209/23, Discovery Centre catalogue entry
8. ↑ List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest T8mes to A.D. 1831, HMSO, 1898 (Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1963), p. 128, Internet Archive
9. ↑ The National Archives, ref. STAC 1/1/37, Discovery Centre catalogue entry

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 5 June 2022 and was reviewed the same day by Thiessen-117.

George Stanley Esq is in trails from Gateway Ancestor Dannett Abney to Magna Carta Surety Barons Saher de Quincy (MCA I:3-4 ABNEY), Henry de Bohun and Wiliam Malet. These trails were badged in June and July 2022 and are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

George Stanley Esq is in a Richardson-documented trail between Gateway Ancestor Mary Wolseley and Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (Magna Carta Ancestry, IV:362-365 WOLSELEY) that was badged by the Magna Carta Project in June 2022. This profile was also identified by the Project as being in a trail from Wolseley-16 to surety baron Henry de Bohun that was badged in June 2022. These trails have been set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".