Sir Ralph de Stafford

1301 - 1372  (70 years)

• Name	Sir Ralph de Stafford  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	24 Sep 1301	Stafford, Staffordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1308
  	2nd Lord Stafford
  Occupation	13 Jan 1326
  	Knight Banneret
  Occupation	10 Feb 1341
  	Steward of the King's Household
  Occupation	23 Apr 1348
  	One of the 25 Original Knights of the Garter
  Occupation	15 Mar 1351
  	1st Earl of Stafford
  Died	31 Aug 1372	Tunbridge Castle, Stafford, Kent, England
  Buried	Tunbridge Priory, Stafford, Kent, England (at the feet of Margaret's parents)
  Person ID	I5420	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Edmund de Stafford,   b. 15 Jul 1273, Madeleye (Madeley), Staffordshire, England ,   d. 1308, Clifton, Staffordshire, England  (Age 34 years)
  Mother	Margaret Basset,   b. Abt 1275, Drayton, Staffordshire, England ,   d. 17 Mar 1337, Pipe Ridware, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Married	Bef 1298	England
  Family ID	F2790	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Audley,   b. Abt 1312, Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. 7 Sep 1349, Tunbridge Castle, Stafford, Kent, England  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	Bef 6 Jul 1336	Stafford, Staffordshire, England
  Children	1. Catherine de Stafford,   b. Aft 1337, Tunbridge, Stafford, Kent, England ,   d. 25 Dec 1361, Coleshill Manor, Arden, Warwickshire, England  (Age ~ 23 years)   2. Sir Hugh de Stafford,   b. 1342, Stafford, Staffordshire, England ,   d. 16 Oct 1386, Rhodes, Grèce  (Age 44 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F2778	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume XII/1, pp. 174-177. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 21, 138 & 488. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 60:55-32 & 78:81-33.