EDWARD STAFFORD

	FEBUARY 3, 1473	Brecknock Castle, Breconshire, Wales
	14 Dec 1490 Wales	ELEANOR PERCY
	CHILDREN	MARY STAFFORD Henry Stafford Margaret Stafford Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Stafford
	PARENTS	HENRY STAFFORD KATHERINE WYDEVILLE
	1521	EXECUTED Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England
Duke of Buckingham Earl of Stafford EDWARD (STAFFORD), DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM [1444], EARL OF STAFFORD [1351], EARL OF BUCKINGHAM [1377?] and BARON STAFFORD [1298], also Count of Perche in Normandy, son and heir, born 3 February 1477/8, at Brecknock Castle. K.B. (as Duke of Buckingham) 29 October 1485, though not formally restored to his honours till November 1485 by Act of Parliament. K.G. circa 1499. He was appointed to act at the coronation of Henry VIll, in 1509 (for the day only], as Lord High Constable., office he laid claim, as his hereditary right, in 1514. He also officiated at the coronation as LORD HIGH STEWARD of England and Bearer of the Crown. P.C., 1509. He had licence to castellate his manor of Thornbury 9 July 1510. He held a command in the right wing at Therouenne In 1513. In right of his representation of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham abovenamed (the 6th and youngest son of Edward III), he appears to have entertained some notions of his possible right to the Crown, and having incurred the enmity of Cardinal Wolsey, then Chief Minister, was accused and found guilty, on very flimsy grounds, of high treason 13, and executed on Tower Hill, 17 May 1521, and was buried at Austin Friars, London, aged 43, the attainder being confirmed in Parliament 31 July 1523, when all his honours became forfeited. He married [contract 14 December 1490] Eleanor, 1st daughter of Henry [Percy], 3rd Earl of Northumberland, by Maud, daughter of William [Herbert], Earl of pembroke. She died 13 February 1530/31, and was buried at the Greyfriars, London. Will dated 24 June 1528, directing her heart to be buried there and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol. [Complete Peerage II:390-91, XIV:121]

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