Edmund Stafford KG (1378 - 1403)

Born 2 Mar 1378 in Staffordshire, England

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Died 21 Jul 1403 at age 25 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

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Edmund Stafford KG was killed in Action during the Percy Rebellion at the Battle of Shrewsburyl.

Edmund was born on 2 March 1377/8.^[1][2] He was the son of Hugh de STAFFORD and Philippe de BEAUCHAMP.

On 28 June 1398 he married Anne of Gloucester, widow of his brother Thomas: at Thomas's death in 1392 she was about 9, and too young for the marriage to Thomas to have been consummated, so there would have been no objection in church law to her marrying Edmund; and provision had been made for her to marry one of Thomas's younger brothers if Thomas died before his marriage was consummated.^[1][3] Edmund and Anne had three children:

• Philippa de Stafford
• Humphrey de Stafford
• Anne de Stafford

Edmund was made a Knight of the Bath on 11 October 1399.^[2][4]

On 23 October 1399 he agreed to the imprisonment of the deposed King Richard II.^[2]

Edmund was joint lieutenant of North Wales and Cheshire in 1402, and Constable of England the following year.^[1]

In April 1402/3 he was made a Knight of the Garter.^[2][4]

He was killed by Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas while fighting with the royalist forces of King Henry IV at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403.^[5] He was buried at Austin Friars, Stafford.^[1][2] Shakespeare has Douglas mention his killing of Edmund in Henry IV Part 1, Act V, Scene 3.

His heir was his one-year-old son Humphrey.^[5]

After Edmund's death his widow married William Bourchier.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2011, vol. IV, pp.76-7 STAFFORD 8
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Cokayne, G E, Complete Peerage, revised and enlarged, vol. 12 part 1, St Catherine Press 1953, pp.180-1
3. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, available online through some libraries
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Wikipedia: Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} J. L. Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV, Entries 804-856', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 18, Henry IV (London, 1987), pp. 268-294. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol18/pp268-294 [accessed 9 December 2020].

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013; see also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry:
  • Vol. I, pp. 481-482
  • Vol. II, pp. 538-539
  • Vol. IV, pp. 176-177 and 239
  • Vol. V, pp. 11, 13-14 and 454
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 2011; see also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry:
  • Vol. I, pp. 280-281
  • Vol. II, pp. 134-135
  • Vol. III, pp. 196 and 251-252
  • Vol. IV, pp. 74, 76 and 406
• Cokayne, G E, revised and enlarged by White, Geoffrey H. Complete Peerage, vol. 12 part 1, St Catherine Press 1953, pp.180-1
• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Company 1996, p.8 - Audley 10
• Medieval Lands: a prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley © Foundation for Medieval Genealogy & Charles Cawley 2000-2018, England, Earls Created 1207-1466, 4.C.4.f: Edmund de Stafford
• Marlyn Lewis
• Paget, Gerald. The Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, pub. Skilton, 1977, Vol. II, p. 424
• Robertson, Herbert. Stemmata Robertson et Durdin, pub. Mitchell and Hughes 1893-5, p. 247, Internet Archive

See also:

• Wikipedia: Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford