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| | Humphrey Stafford 1st Duke of Buckingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Born at Stafford, Staffordshire, England, on the 15th of August, 1402 Humphrey Staford son of Edmund (5th earl Stafford) was created the first Duke of Buckingham, a new creation from the 14th of Sepember in 1444, having previously been recognized as Earl of Buckingham by right of his mother, Anne Plantagenet, Countess of Stafford. |
 | | Stafford had been Lieutenant-General of Normandy between 1430 - 1432 and was created, in 1431 the Count of Perche, a province in English-occupied Normandy during king Henry VI's imperial habit of conferring native fiefdoms on his leading supporters during the English occupation of France. |
 | | Humphrey Staford became Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle (and Queensborough, on the Isle of Sheppey), in 1450. |
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