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Stafford, Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478-1521), political rival of Henry VIII of England.
The eldest son of Henry Stafford, 2nd duke of...
Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1454?-1483), English nobleman prominent during the reign of Richard III.
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 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buckingham's mother was Margaret Beaufort (~1427-1474), daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset.
Buckingham's paternal grandfather was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was the grandson and senior descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.
Buckingham was born in 1454 during the reign of Henry VI.
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 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When Henry VII ascended the throne, the attainder was reversed and the wardship of the young duke was given to the King's mother Margaret Beaufort.
Stafford, with his royal blood and numerous connections by descent or marriage with the rest of the aristocracy, became a leader of the disaffected nobles.
Stafford was tried before a panel of 17 peers, but with the king's mind already decided, convinction was certain, and he was executed on Tower Hill.
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Buckingham was thus first-cousin-once-removed of Edward IV and Richard III, and second cousin of Edward V.
Buckingham's paternal grandfather was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who was a grandson of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III.
Buckingham's maternal grandfather Edmund Beaufort was a grandson of John of Gaunt, the youngest son of his son John Beaufort.
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 Duke of Buckingham: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Duke of Buckingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His son, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was restored to the title upon Henry VII's ascension to the throne in 1485, but he was ultimately executed for treason in 1521 due to his opposition to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief advisor.
Buckingham, who continued in office as chief minister into the reign of James's son, Charles I, was responsible for a policy of war against Spain and France, and was assassinated by a Puritan fanatic in 1628 as he prepared an expedition to relieve the Huguenots of La Rochelle.
Dukes of Buckingham and Normanby (Peerage of the Unitd Kingdom)
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 Henry VII of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder of the Tudor dynasty.
Henry was a fiscally prudent monarch who restored the fortunes of an effectively bankrupt exchequer (Edward IV's treasury had been emptied by his wife's Woodville relations after his death and before the accession of Richard III) by introducing efficiently ruthless mechanisms of taxation.
Henry's elder daughter Margaret was married first to James IV of Scotland, and their son became James V of Scotland, whose daughter became Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham was born on 3 Feb 1477/1478.
Elizabeth married Henry VII Tudor, King of England son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and Margaret de Beaufort on 18 Jan 1485/1486 in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Henry was born on 28 Jan 1456/1457 in Pembroke Castle, Wales.
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 Edward STAFFORD (3° D. Buckingham)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Henry VII ascended the throne, the attainder was reversed and the wardship of the young Duke was given to the King's mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
Despite his high status and royal bloodlines, Buckingham was not a courtier except by royal command; his preference was to live in high estate in the west of the realm, exercising his authority as warden of the Welsh Marches.
Stafford, with his royal blood and numerous connections by descent or marriage with the rest of the aristocracy, became a leader of the disaffected nobles excluded from high offices.
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 Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jasper was the third son of Owen Tudor and the former queen Katherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V.
It was thanks to him that Henry acquired the tactical awareness that made it possible to defeat the far more experienced Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
She was also the widow of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
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 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham : Henry Stafford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The new Duke eventually became a ward of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, consort of IV of England">Edward IV of England.
He was recognized as Duke of Buckingham in 1465 and married the next year to the queen's sister Catherine (or Katherine) Woodville -- she was 24, and he was 12.
Buckingham had inherited a great deal of property from his great-great-grandmother, Eleanor de Bohun, wife of Thomas of Woodstock and daughter of the Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northhampton.
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 Station Information - Duke of Buckingham
The titles Earl, Marquess, and Duke of Buckingham have been created several times in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.
The title of Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.
Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos (Peerage of the United Kingdom)
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 WARS OF THE ROSES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Henry regained his sanity, he was urged by his wife and her favorites to throw York and his allies out of the Government.
Margaret was married to Henry VI in 1445.
Henry was born to Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort, though his father was killed before his birth and his mother was only 13.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stafford Edward 3rd Duke of Buckingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: Edward II
Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: Edward VI
Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: Edward the Confessor
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 Duke of Buckingham
He was succeeded by his grandson, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who aided III of England">Richard III in his usurpation in 1483, but who then led a revolt against Richard and was executed later that same year.
His son, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was restored to the title upon VII of England">Henry VII's ascension to the throne in 1485, but he was ultimately executed for treason in 1521 due to his opposition to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief advisor.
His son, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was a notable advisor in the reign of II of England">Charles II, and, along with Lord Ashley[?] made up the protestant axis of the famous Cabal.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10726
Henry de Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland was the son of Sir Henry Percy, Lord Percy and Elizabeth de Mortimer.
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham was the son of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford and Margaret Beaufort.
Anne of Woodstock, Countess of Buckingham was the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and Lady Eleanor de Bohun.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Henry Constable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Constable, Henry (1562-1613), English poet and papal envoy to Scotland.
Henry II (of France) (1519-1559), king of France (1547-1559), second son of King Francis I, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Constable : English constables: Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
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 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (February 3, 1477/8–May 17, 1521) was an English nobleman.
As a young man, Stafford was made a Knight of the Garter (1495), and had various ceremonial roles at the royal court.
Henry, who later recovered some of the forfeited estates and was created Baron Stafford
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 Encyclopedia: Henry Stafford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1454 - November 2, 1483) played a major role in Richard III of England's rise and fall.
Edward's son Edward V was thus Buckingham's second cousin.
Her maternal grandfather Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was the brother of Buckingham's paternal grandmother (also named Anne Neville) making Buckingham the Queen's second cousin.
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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.
Henry Stafford was a part of royalty and an heir of fame and fortune.
Henry was restored in blood and succeeded to parts of his father's possessions after Edward VI ascended to the throne, and was made Baron Stafford in a new creation in 1547.
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 Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born 1402 in Staffordshire, England, and died July 10, 1460 in Battle of Northampton, England.
He was the son of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, and Anne Plantagenet (Anne of Gloucester), daughter of Thomas of Woodstock and a grand-daughter of Edward III of England.
When Henry 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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 Genealogy - pafg1965 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham [Parents] was born on 4 Sep 1455 in Abergavenney, Monmouthshire, England.
Henry Stafford Earl of Wiltshire was born in 1479.
Richard De Neville 2nd Baron of Latimer [Parents] was born in 1468 in Latimer, Buckinghamshire, England.
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 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 married Margaret Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset.
His son and heir was Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
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 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
UKE OF Son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
Ward in the care of Margaret Beaufort inhis youth.
Executed on trumped-up charges of treason by Henry VIII.
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 HENRY BEAUFORT, 3RD DUKE OF SOMERSET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436 - 1464) was an important Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses.
Somerset was the son of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
Thus he was first cousin to Margaret Beaufort and to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and uncle to Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
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 Signature of Henry Stafford the 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Henry was the son of Lord Humphrey II Stafford, the 7
was Henry’s        great-grandmother.)  The Woodville family had designs on the throne of England and needed the support of the Bohun family thus the Queen indicated she would support the Bohun’s in their legal fight for Henry Stafford’s substantial inheritance.
After all, it was Henry who led the movement to have Richard crowned, and served as the master of ceremonies at Richard's coronation.
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 The War of the Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1460 he succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Buckingham, and six years later he was married to Catherine Woodville, sister-in-law of the Yorkist king Edward IV.
Upon Edward's death on April 9, 1483, Buckingham moved to help Richard, duke of Gloucester, usurp the throne of the dead king's son and successor, the 12-year-old king Edward V. Buckingham arrested several members of Edward V's party and arranged for the seizure of Edward and his younger brother.
The plan called for the elevation of the exiled Lancastrian Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, to the kingship, but Buckingham may have intended ultimately to seize the crown for himself.
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 Ancestors of Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Henry VII ascended the throne, the attainder was revers ed and the wardship of the young Duke was given to the King's mother Marga ret, Countess of Richmond.
As a young man, Stafford was made a Knight of t he Garter (1495), and had various ceremonial roles at the royal court.
Although the charges were probably false, Stafford was tried befo re a panel of 17 peers, but with the king's mind already decided, convinct ion was certain, he was executed at Tower Hill on 17th May 1521.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10756
Humphrey Stafford was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Woodville.
Anne Stafford is the daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Woodville.
Elizabeth Stafford was the daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Woodville.
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