William Stanley (abt. 1386 - abt. 1427)

Born about 1386 in Wirral Forest, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Blanche (Arderne) Stanley — married about 1402 in England

Descendants

Died about 2 Feb 1427 at about age 41 in Hooton, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Sir William Stanley was a member of the aristocracy in England.

William was the son of William Stanley and Margery Hooten.^[1]

Research Notes

Stanley-488 and Stanley-50 were father and son but have been merged into one.

Disambiguation note on William Stanleys of Hooton, following Richardson (father-to-son succession, 8 generations, earliest first)

• Wm Stanley, of Storeton, m Alice Massey
• Sir Wm Stanley-488 of Storeton, d 1427/8, m Margery de Hooton (heiress)
• Sir Wm Stanley-50, of Hooton, dvp by 1424, m2 Blanche Arderne merge Stanley-1352
• Wm Stanley-4027 Esq, b abt 1405, d aft 1456, m Mary Savage
• Wm De_Stanley-3 Esq, b abt 1425, d 1465/6, m Alice Houghton
• Sir Wm Stanley-417, b abt 1445, d 1512, m2 Agnes Grosvenor
• Sir Wm Stanley-1404, b abt 1474-5, d aft 1528 m Anne Harrington
• Sir Wm Stanley-1407..., younger brother Peter Stanley-1406 is father of Anne Stanley-3531 who marries Sutton

• William (Stanley-50) parents.

On 10 January 1376, when William was only eight years old, his marriage to Margery, daughter and heiress of Sir William Hooton of Hooton, Cheshire was arranged by his father and the father of the bride. The actual ceremony took place ten years later, in 1386. (S6). Recorded in Ryland Charters housed in the John Rylands Library at Manchester University.

• On the tenth of Richard II or 1386

On the tenth of Richard II, he married Margery the only daughter of William de Hooton, of Hooton, in the hundred of Wirral, and county of Chester; and by her had issue a son, named William, who is styled Lord of Stanley, Stourton, and Hooton, and grand ranger in chief of Wirral, in the county of Chester. (S1b). ^[2]

Therefore, William's birth date is within the year or after 1368.

Maud DeStanley 1375 -

William STANLEY 1385 - 1465

Catherine Stanley 1403 -

William Stanley 1405 - 1466

Agnes Stanley 1406 - 1445

Elizabeth Stanley 1407 - 1408

Katherine STANLEY 1408 - 1460

Isabel Stanley 1420 -

Sources

1. ↑ Rylands, John Paul, ed. "The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including those from the Visitation of Cheshire made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald, with an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, Made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms, and a Fragment to the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy fo the Office of Arms", London: private, 1882, Archive.org, p. 212
2. ↑ http://www.themorrisclan.com/GENEALOGY/STANLEIGH%20William%20and%20Margery%20Hooton.html

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