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  STAFFORD (TOWN) - LoveToKnow Article on STAFFORD (TOWN)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Another offshoot from the main line was that of the Staffords of Clifton (Co. Stafford), founded by Sir Richard, younger brother of the ist earl of Stafford, who was closely associated with him in French warfare and negotiation, fought, like him, at Crecy, and acted as seneschal of Gascony (1361-1362).
His son, Henry Stafford Howard (1658-1719), who, but for his father's attainder, would have inherited the barony and the viscounty, was created earl of Stafford in 1688, his mother being created countess of Stafford at the same time; he was succeeded by his nephew William (c.
Stafford is described as a borough in Domesday Book, and at the time of the survey it Was the chief place in the county though many of the houses were wasted.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STAFFORD_TOWN_.htm   (2861 words)

  
 Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Ralph Stafford (24 September 1301 - 31 August 1372, also Ralph de Stafford) was an English soldier and nobleman, and became a founding Knight of the Garter in 1348.
Stafford was summoned to Parliament as the 2nd Baron Stafford from 1337 to 1350.
He was married to Margaret (1293-1342), daughter of the Earl of Gloucester, and survived by at least one daughter, Joan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Stafford,_1st_Earl_of_Stafford   (157 words)

  
 Earl Stafford
Earl continued his studies at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, in New York with Milton Kaye, and at the Paris Conservatoire with Aldo Ciccolini and Franco Ferrara.
Earl was appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor for the RWB in 1984.
Internationally, Earl has appeared with the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Theatre Harmony Orchestra of Moscow and the National Orchestra of Peru.
www.rwb.org /company/artistic/earl.html   (214 words)

  
 A History of the Stafford Family
Staffords, from the Encyclopedia Britannica: The famous English House was founded in England by Robert, a younger brother of Ralph de Tosney, of a noble Norman House, who was standard bearer of the Dutchy.
Stafford states in Stafford Genealogy: There was only one Stafford family in England, no matter how lowly in worldly goods or station a man might be who bore that name, it was definitely known that he was a member of that great parent family designated by it.
Edmond, fifth Earl of Stafford, married Lady Ann Plantagenet, eldest daughter of Thomas, Duke of Buckingham, youngest son of Edward III, by whom he had only one son, Humphrey, sixth Earl of Stafford, who in consequence of his near alliance to the Crown, was created in 1444 Duke of Buckingham.
www.johnstafford.org /docum/MarcusHist.html   (1245 words)

  
 The History in England
Hugh’s son Thomas Stafford, (3rd) Earl of Stafford, married in 1392 Anne, daughter and heiress of Thomas (of Woodstock), Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III.
Humphrey Stafford I (born in 1402), (6th) Earl of Stafford, son of Edmund and Anne and grandson of Eleanor, was created Duke of Buckingham in 1444, as stated above.
Henry Stafford (1454-83), son of Humphrey Stafford II (Earl of Stafford), and grandson of Humphrey Stafford I, (1st) Duke of Buckingham in the right of his mother Anne, was born of a double line of royal blood.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
Afterwards Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland.
770 (inv 1878) Benjamin (D'Israeli), Earl of Beaconsfield.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterlist.htm   (13903 words)

  
 GLOUCESTER, U.S.A. - LoveToKnow Article on GLOUCESTER, U.S.A.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
GLOUCESTER, U.S.A. - LoveToKnow Article on GLOUCESTER, U.S.A. successively the wife of Thomas, 3rd earl of Stafford, Edmund, 5th earl of Stafford, and William Bourchier, count of Eu.
Its situation on a navigable river, arid the foundation in 681 of the abbey of St Peter by ^Sthelred favored the growth of the town; and before the Conquest Gloucester was a borough governed by a portreeve, with a castle which was frequently a royal residence, and a mint.
The first overlord, Earl Godwine, was succeeded nearly a century later by Robert, earl of Gloucester.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GL/GLOUCESTER_U_S_A_.htm   (1163 words)

  
 UNITECH Leadership, Earl W. Stafford, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Earl W. Stafford is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Systems and Technology, Inc. (UNITECH®), headquartered in Centreville, Virginia.
Stafford served as the assistant Department of Defense (DoD) Liaison Officer to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Stafford is founder and President of 100x, Inc. a non-profit, Christian organization focused on promoting collaboration among local churches.
www.unitech1.com /about_leadership_ews.htm   (480 words)

  
 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914, to Ruby Mayher and Earl Ingersoll Stafford.
In 1944 while in California Stafford met and married Dorothy Frantz, the daughter of a minister of the Church of the Brethren.
Stafford wrote "personal" poetry says Judith Kitchen, while Glen Love described Stafford's poetry as a "communicative process." Although his father appears more often in his poetry, Stafford has stated that his mother's presence and behavior influenced his writing.
www.unl.edu /plains/publications/resource/stafford.html   (1892 words)

  
 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402-1460) was best-known as a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and in the Wars of the Roses.
He was the son of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, and Anne of Gloucester, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock and a grand-daughter of Edward III of England.
When Humphrey was a small child his father died and he became 6th Earl of Stafford, inheriting a large estate with lands in more than a dozen counties.
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 Froissart: Sir John Holland kills Lord Ralph Stafford
In time morning, the lord Ralph Stafford was buried in the church of a village near the spot where he fell: he was attended by all the barons, knights, and squires related to him that were in the army.
After the funeral, the earl of Stafford, with full sixty of his own relations, and others connected with his son, mounted their horses, and went to time king, who had already received information of this unfortunate event.
He performed the expedition to Scotland, as I shall relate to you; and, during that whole time, the earl of Stafford seemed to have forgotten the death of his son, in which conduct all the barons thought he showed great wisdom.
www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/MUHLBERGER/FROISSART/STAFFORD.HTM   (940 words)

  
 GENUKI: Stafford
Earl Talbot is lord of the manor and owner of most of the soil.
'The Staffords, Earls of Stafford & Dukes of Buckingham, 1394-1521'
Stafford Union comprised the 20 parishes and townships of Baswich, Bradley, Brockton, Castle Church, Colwich, Ellenhall, Fradswell, Gayton, Haughton, Hopton-and-Coton, Ingestre, Marston, Ranton, Salt-and-Enson, Seighford, Stafford (St Mary & St Chad), Stowe, Tixall, Weston-on-Trent, and Whitgreave.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/STS/Stafford   (1200 words)

  
 Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
22 May 1455), generally known by his courtesy title of Earl of Stafford was the son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Anne Neville (d 1480), sister of Cecily, Duchess of York.
He fought for Lancaster at the First Battle of St Albans in 1455, dying of his wounds shortly after.
His son and heir was Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humphrey,_Earl_Stafford   (112 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry was the son of Lord Humphrey II Stafford, the 7th Earl of Stafford (1424-1458) who was seriously wounded at the first battle of St. Albans in 1455 but died three years later of plague in the year 1458.
It was with the help of Duke Henry Stafford that the Protector (Richard the Duke of Gloucester) arrested Rivers and Grey in an alleged conspiracy and gained possession of the king's person and with Henry’s aid that Richard was raised to the throne.
Thomas' younger brother Edward (1535-1603), (3rd) Baron Stafford, was judge at the trial of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, in 1586.
home.earthlink.net /~stafford_genealogy/npr29.htm   (3822 words)

  
 Britannia Biographies: John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
John was the son of the Earl of Stafford.
Archbishop Chicheley recommended Stafford to Pope Eugenius IV as his successor on the grounds of "his high intellectual and moral qualifications, the nobility of his birth, the influence of his relations and his own almost boundless hospitality".
Stafford was accordingly translated to Canterbury in 1443.
www.britannia.com /bios/abofc/jstafford.html   (213 words)

  
 CHAPTER V
He appears as a feoffee in Suffolk of Humphrey, Earl of Strafford, 12 September 1426, and with his father was pardoned 19 October 1427 for acquiring the land in Sapiston.
It seems possible that Elizabeth was originally a tenant of the Stafford; but Henry was serving as steward of their lordship of Desning by Gazeley in Suffolk about 1442, when the clerk who drew up the list of salaries and pensions notes in the margin that he was dead.
Stafford of Blatherwick in the county of Northampton, a lady of the bed chamber and privy chamber to Queen Elizabeth, whom they had the honour of entertaining at their manor of Hawstead during her Majesties progress in 1578.
www.genealogysource.com /druryhistpt5.htm   (6390 words)

  
 UMass Amherst Foundation: News
While Stafford was not yet focused on telecommunications, he still remembers his days on campus as being some of the most stimulating and productive of his early career.
Indeed, Stafford says that the university helped him to pursue his studies during a pivotal – and not always easy – period of his life.“I was married with a child when I was at UMass,” Stafford says.
If Stafford’s success today, nearly a quarter-century later, is any indicator, he was indeed right in choosing UMass Amherst – just as he is right to be proud of his alma mater.
www.umass.edu /foundation/news/news_stafford.html   (430 words)

  
 Vol II File 24: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James
Of this Robert de Stafford, who lived till the time of King Henry I., nothing further is known than his founding an Augustine priory, at Stone, in Staffordshire, upon the spot where Enysan de Waltone, one of the companions of the Conqueror, had killed two nuns and a priest.
Hugh Stafford, 3rd Baron Stafford and 2nd Earl of Stafford, followed in the footsteps of his father in those martial times, and came very early into action, for at the age of seventeen he was in the wars of France, and again when he attained majority, being then in the retinue of the Black Prince.
Thomas de Stafford was in the wars of France, in the 15th year of King Richard II, under the conduct of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, whose daughter, Anne Plantaganet, he had married, but d.s.p.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~pmcbride/james/f041.htm   (1836 words)

  
 Volpe Transportation Center: The Spirit of Innovation in Transportation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Earl W. Stafford is the President and founder of Universal Systems and Technology, Inc. (UNITECH), which provides high quality information technology, telecommunications, information engineering, simulation and training, system integration, and business support systems services.
Stafford managed business operations for a small, aviation-related company and served in the U.S. Air Force in air traffic control, communications, computers, and navigation.
Stafford received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts and an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University, and is a graduate of the Executive Education program at Harvard Graduate School of Business.
www.volpe.dot.gov /spirit/bios/stafford.html   (126 words)

  
 Des and Sue's Home Page
Adhered to Edward II during the Earl of Lancasters rebellion.
In 1350, after the death of his wife he was created Earl of Stafford, with respect to the great estates he now possessed.
Was joint Marshal with the Earl of Warwick.
homepages.paradise.net.nz /desheap/England/English201-250.htm   (964 words)

  
 Buckinghams Retinue: Stafford History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Edmund, 5th Earl of Stafford, commanded vanguard of Henry IV's army against Harry Hotspur, was killed during the battle.
Fought with his son, Humphrey Earl of Stafford, was wounded defending the King but both were spared after being defeated.
Humphrey Stafford, future Yorkist Earl of Devon and part of the Southwick branch was apparently present on the side of the Yorkists.
www.bucks-retinue.org.uk /staffordhistory.html   (305 words)

  
 Kalaidjian/Roof/Watt, Understanding Literature, 1/e - Poetry
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas to Ruby Mayher and Earl Ingersoll Stafford, William Stafford grew up in a working-class family and graduated from high school in 1933 during the middle of the Depression era.
The next year Stafford moved to Portland, Oregon to accept a teaching position at Lewis and Clark College where he would remain for the rest of his professional career until 1980.
Stafford's first volume of verse, Traveling Through the Dark, was not published until the poet was forty-eight, but it won him the National Book Award in 1963.
college.hmco.com /english/kalaidjian/understanding_lit/1e/students/poetry/stafford.html   (448 words)

  
 The Stafford Family’s Amazing Symmetry
In the twelfth century the Stafford family was in danger of dying out because Sir Robert III Stafford a knight who accompanied King Richard I the Lion hearted on a crusade to the Holy Land was killed in the year 1189 in the attempt to re-conquer Jerusalem.
Robert III and his wife Basila had no children; Sir Robert III Stafford was the last male in the Stafford family at that time, and with his death it seemed that the Stafford surname would cease to exist.
Young Hervy and his descendents are usually given most of the attention of historians and genealogists and considered to be the “Main Line” branch of the Stafford family due to their pedigree, wealth and historical importance.
www.johnstafford.org /Ancient/confluence/AmazingSymmetryandConfluenceoftheStaffordFamily.htm   (2184 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is characteristic both of arbitrary nature of copyhold system and of debt-of-honor feeling of a manor that the steward, on duchess Eleanor's death in 1400, ordered seizure of all these holdings, and that in same year Edmund, Earl of Stafford, new lord, confirmed them.
Joan died in autumn, and in Dec, 1400, first court of Edmund de Stafford, earl of STafford, hsuband of Anne, dau and now heiress of Eleanor, late duchess of Gloucester.
On Feb 19, 1405, Stephen Rede of Great Waltham produced in court a letter dated at Pleshey, under seal of Anne, countess of Stafford, emanciapting him, with his issue and all goods and chattels, so taht he and issue are for ever to be free and exonerated of chivagio.
www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/hgarrett/researchfiles/pub/waltham.er   (3664 words)

  
 The Campaign for Amherst
Earl W. Stafford is chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Systems and Technology (UNITECH), a company he founded in 1988.
Stafford is a 1976 graduate of the Isenberg School of Management, received an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University, and attended the Executive Education Program at Harvard Graduate School of Business.
Stafford attended UMass Amherst and upon graduation served 20 years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.
www.umass.edu /campaign/committee.html   (1088 words)

  
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Margaret Stafford, daughter of Sir Ralph, Earl of Stafford by his 1st wif e; married Sir John de Stafford, Knight, son of William, of Bramshall, c o.
Edmund de Stafford, 1st Lord (Baron) Stafford, so created by writ of summo ns 6 Feb 1298/9 to Parliament; born 15 July 1273; married by 1298 Margare t, sister and ultimate coheir of Ralph Basset, (1st?) Lord (Baron) Bass et (of Drayton), and died by 12 Aug 1308.
Edmund de Stafford, who, having distinguished himself in the Scottish war s, was summoned to parliament as a Baron, by King Edward I, from 6 Februar y, 1299, to 26 August, 1308, the year of his decease.
www.maslandtech.com /familytree/np5.htm   (639 words)

  
 Ralph 1st Earl of Stafford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was the exploits of Ralph, created 1st Earl of Stafford during the initial outbreak of the Hundred Years War, which catapulted the family into the great nobility.
This wealth came from the estates of the childless Gilbert De Clare, Earl of Hereford and Gloucester, whose possessions were divided up between his three surviving sisters in 1317.
From his parents he inherited a further £200 a year and received an annuity of 1,000 marks a Earl of Stafford.
www.bucks-retinue.org.uk /ralphhistory.html   (439 words)

  
 March, earls of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Earl takes on mission to glorify Goodwood; the CITY interview.
Earl Dodge Osborn, Founder of EDO Corporation, Inducted into Long Island Technology Hall of Fame.
Earl W. Stafford is president and chief executive officer of Universal Systems and Technology Inc., an information technology company in Fairfax, Va.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/i/ix1-m1arch-ea.asp   (702 words)

  
 Poet: William Stafford - All poems of William Stafford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark: I am surprised how the poem is always misread.
The whole premise of the poem is thus false, and the dilemma inauthentically presented.
Stafford was a man who understood nature and creatures, and so I have to wonder what was he thinking in creating this bit of fiction.
www.poemhunter.com /william-stafford/poet-8068   (364 words)

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