Miles Stapleton (1357 - 1419)

Born 23 Jun 1357 in Ingham Manor, Smallburgh, Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Ela (Ufford) Stapleton — married before 1376 in England

Descendants

Died 10 Apr 1419 at age 61 in Norfolk, England

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Biography

Son and heir to his father. He was a ward of the Queen at his father's death. He became Lord of Bedale & Cotherstone in Yorkshire, and Ingham in Norfolk, and others. In 1383 and 1400 he presented to the Church of Lamas, in Norfolk, where the arms of Sir Oliver de Ingham are still to be seen. In 1401 he was one of the knights of Norfolk and Suffolk summoned to attend a Council at Westminster, the next day after the Assumption, and again in 1403.

Richardson states Sir Miles Stapleton was born circa 23 June 1357 at Ingham, Norfolk, England, ^[1]

Family and Children

He married Ela Ufford, daughter of Sir Edmund de Ufford and Sybil de Pierrepoint.^[1] They had children:

• Sir Brian Stapleton, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Lord Ingham+8,2,4,7 b. c 1379, d. 7 Aug 1438.^[1]
• Ela Stapleton, born about 1381, married Robert de Braose.^[1]
• Edmund Stapleton.^[1]
• Emma Stapleton.^[1]

Will and Death

Sir Miles Stapleton left a Will dated 13 August 1414.

He died on 10 April 1419 and was interred in Ingham Priory, Norfolk.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} 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. I, pp. 497-498.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, vol. v, p. 35

• Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley &c., by Robert E.C. Waters, B.A., Barrister-at-law, London, 1878, p.339, which mistakenly gives his year of death as 1417.
• The Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 & 1613 made by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Clarencieux Cooke, and John Raven, Richmond Herald. Edited by Walter Rye, London, 1891, p.65.
• The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects by Messrs. John and John Bernard Burke, London, 1851, vol.2, pedigree CXVII.
• The Complete Peerage by G.E.Cockayne, edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, vol.ii, London, 1912, p.306 and notes.
• A summary pedigree for this family appears in Baronia Anglica Concentrata; or Baronies in Fee by Thomas Christopher Banks, London, 1844, p.267.
• Plantagenet Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.57.
• Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.166 and 213.
• Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999.
• Marlyn Lewis
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 Page 257-35
• Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 49-7