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	Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG (1435 - July 29, 1504), an English nobleman, inherited his father's titles, including that of king of the Isle of Man, in 1459.
		Stanley was a shrewd man, who managed to remain in favour with successive kings throughout the Wars of the Roses, right up until his death in 1504.
		Descendents of Thomas Stanley and Eleanor (or Alainor) Neville included George Stanley, Edward Stanley, and James Stanley, all of whom were also descended from the same Beauforts and John of Gaunt as the step-son who became Henry Tudor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Stanley,_1st_Earl_of_Derby (312 words)

	DERBY - LoveToKnow Article on DERBY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These earlier earls of Derby were also known as Earls Ferrers, or de Ferrers, from their surname; as earls of Tutbury from their residence; and as earls of Nottingham because this county was a lordship under their rule.
		Thomas also inherited the sovereign lordship of the Isle of Man, which had been granted by the crown in 1406 to his great-grandfather, Sir John Stanley; and this sovereignty remained in possession of the earls of Derby till 1736, when it passed to the duke of Atholl.
		Stanley served with the king in the French expedition of 1475, and with Richard of Gloucester in Scotland in 1482.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DERBY.htm (6225 words)

	STANLEY (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on STANLEY (FAMILY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 4th earl was summoned as Lord Strange, in his fathers lifetime, as was the 5th earl, but the barony fell into abeyance between his three daughters, who contested possession of the family estates with his brother, the 6th earl.
		Although the present wealth of the Stanleys is largely derived from the great industrial development of Lancashire, they were already a power to be reckoned with in that county and in Cheshire at the time of the Wars of the Roses, and have held a leading position ever since among English nobles.
		Their eldest son, Edward John Stanley, 2nd baron (1802-1869), entered the House of Commons in 1831 and became undersecretary to the home department in 1841, patronage secretary to the treasury from 1835 to 1841, paymaster-general in 1841, and under-secretary for foreign affairs from 1846 to 1852.
	23.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STANLEY_FAMILY_.htm (893 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		DERBY, THOMAS STANLEY, 1ST EARL OF [Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of] där´bē, 1435?-1504, English nobleman.
		During the Wars of the Roses, Stanley was ostensibly a supporter of the Lancastrian Henry VI, but he had Yorkist sympathies, having married Eleanor, sister of the Yorkist Richard Neville, earl of Warwick.
		In the battle of Blore Heath (1459), Stanley did not use his troops on the king's behalf; and in 1461, after the Yorkist Edward IV had become king, he was appointed chief justice of Cheshire.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:DerbyTh (202 words)

	Thomas STANLEY (1° E. Derby)
		In the Oct after the battle Lord Stanley was created Earl of Derby, and was constituted one of the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Steward of England on the 30th of that month--the day of the King's coronation.
		At the christening of Arthur, the new Earl of Derby was one of the two male sponsors, the other being the Earl of Oxford, Sir Walter's and Anne of Geierstein's John Philipson, who had led the van of Richmond's army at the battle of Bosworth.
		The prosperity of the Stanleys was at its height when one prominent member of the family was suddenly disgraced and hurled into the grave; the head of the house, however, escaping the blow which felled and made short work of his brother.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasStanley(1EDerby).htm (4647 words)

	Thomas, 1st Earl of Derby 1460-1504
		Thomas Stanley's forces remained on the edge and upon Richard's threat that he would execute George unless Thomas declare for him, replied that he had other sons and would not respond to flmail.
		The peerage was extinguished with the deprivation of the 5th Earl of Ferrers and Derby in 1297 for complicity with Simon de Montfort.
		Earl Thomas was busy with his duties both at court and in his own vast estates.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/people/lords/thomas2.htm (691 words)

	The Hinshaw Family Association
		Thomas must have been somewhat wealthy and held high social status, since his son William married into the family of Evan Houghton, a family with considerable wealth and noble blood.
		Thomas Henshawe of Lancaster had a son William Henshawe, who married Katherine Houghton in 1630 and had sons Joshua (born c1643) and Daniel (born c1644).
		Eleanor was the daughter and sole heir of John Henshaw of Henshaw, descendent of Thomas Henshaw of Henshaw, described in the College of Arms report under "Visitations C38-44b (Chesshire 1663)".
	www.rawbw.com /~hinshaw/england.htm (1745 words)

	pp268-275 Draper 'House of Stanley', 1864
		Edward Smith Stanley, the son of Lord Stanley, M.P., was born at Patten House,* Preston, on the 1 2th of September, 1752, and was registered at Preston on the 3rd of October.
		For many years Lord Derby attended personally the Preston and Liverpool races, and took great interest in the matches of his horses and cocks, and many were the well-earned guerdons in his lordship’s possession as proof of their superior pluck and bottom.
		The Countess of Derby died on the 23rd April, 1829, and was interred at Ormskirk.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/fulltext/hs1864/p268.htm (1018 words)

	Thomas Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, a fifteenth century English aristocrat,
		Thomas Bahnson Stanley, a 1950s governor of Virginia.
		Thomas Stanley (author) (1625-1678), an English author and translator
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Stanley (110 words)

	Search Results for "Derby"
		Derby, English horse race, (dar´be) (KEY), English horse race, instituted (1780) by the 12th earl of Derby and held annually at Epsom Downs, near London.
		4) Beaufort, Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby.
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	Richard III Society -- Nobility - more charts
		The rest of the Earls of Derby to present have been either father to son or grandfather to grandson, with one exception of a brother to brother with Edward Henry Stanley 15th Earl and Fredrick Arthur Stanley 16th Earl.
		Thomas De Mowbray was created Duke of Norfolk by Richard II in 1397, it had been and earldom so this was an upgrade for him.
		With petition from the Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, Viscount Stafford, the Barons Howard of Charlton, and Howard of Escrick, the title previously under attainder in 1572, was restored to Thomas.
	www.r3.org /life/medmisc/nobnew.html (2635 words)

	thePeerage.com - Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper and others
		He was the son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby and Eleanor Neville.
		She married Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, son of Sir George Stanley, Lord Strange of Knokin and Joan Strange, Baroness Strange, circa 1507.
		He was the son of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby and Dorothy Howard.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1379.htm (1855 words)

	AllRefer.com - Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of, British And Irish History, Biographies
		Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of[dAr´bE] Pronunciation Key, 1435?–1504, English nobleman.
		He managed to hold office continuously under both Edward IV and Richard III, becoming lord steward, a privy councilor, and constable of England : this despite his support of the brief Lancastrian restoration in 1471 and his marriage (1482) to Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry Tudor, the Lancastrian claimant to the throne.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DerbyTh.html (313 words)

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		She was descended from William Longespée (meaning 'Longsword'), Earl of Salisbury, natural son of Henry II, and from Robert Fitzroy of Caen, Earl of Gloucester, (1090/95-1147) natural son of Henry I. Badlesmere is about 5 miles south of Faversham in Kent.
		Father of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, who fought at Bosworth (1485) for Henry VII and of Sir William Stanley of Holt, who was said to have crowned Henry VII on the battlefield.
		Her father, Sir William ap Thomas, builder of Raglan Castle, fought at Agincourt (1415) and was known as 'The Blue Knight of Gwent'.
	www.eatongenealogy.com /blackeaton4.html (2283 words)

	Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
		Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of
		Bohun, Humphrey V de, 2d earl of Hereford and 1st earl of Essex
		Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st earl of
	www.infoplease.com /encyclopedia/1ukhistbio.html (663 words)

	Plays: The URL of Derby
		Lord Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby -- Thomas Stanley was created the 1st Earl of Derby by Henry VII as a direct result of the role he played in the founding of the Tudor dynasty.
		It is either Henry, the fourth Earl, Ferdinando the fifth Earl, or William the sixth Earl.
		George, Lord Archbishopp of Canterbury Gilbert, Earle of Shrewsberry Mary, Countesse of Shrewes- Elizabeth, Countesse of Derby Margarett, Countesse of Com-berland Henry, Earle of Huntingdon Edward, Earle of Beddford Lucy, Countesse of Bedford Marie, Countesse of Pembroke Richard, Earle of Clanrickard
	www.rahul.net /raithel/Derby/plays.html#wives (9229 words)

	Rivington
		Anglezark was held by the Earl of Derby and Earl of Cumberland until 1587, land taken from the Pilkington Knights after Bosworth field in 1485.
		The Pilkington Knights fought for Richard III in 1485 and the Stanley's opposed Richard III and fought for Henry VII.
		However the Stanley's later joined with the Pilkington's in 1487 to depose Henry VII in favour of the House of York.
	www.angelfire.com /in/rivington (11819 words)

	Descendants of William Newsom
		A few years after this the estate was conveyed to Thomas Wilson, the eldest son of Thomas Wilson, of Wrightington, gent., and Mary his wife.
		Thomas Wilson the younger (of Tunley and Newsham Hall), died in or about the year 1660, when Newsham Hall passed to his son Thomas, who died intestate and without issue in 1702, when the property went to Henry Wilson, the grandson of John Wilson, of Bretherton.
		It was during John Newsom's residence in Newsham Hall that Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, built Greenhalgh Castle six miles to the north (1490).
	www.edebby.com /genealogy/newsom1.htm (1956 words)

	Descendants of Sir Thomas de Stanley, Knt
		Sir Thomas was the third son of Sir John de Stanley K.G. and Isabel Latham.
		On this marriage to Matilda de Arderne, Sir Thomas became possessed of the estates of Elford, Haselour, Clifton Campville and Pipe Ridware in Staffordshire; Camplen super Wild in Gloucestershire; Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire; and Alford, Nether Alderley and Echells (in the Parish of Northenden) in Cheshire.
		Believed to be the forth wife of Sir John Stanley (died 1476) but she is not shown on the Arderne pedigree in the "History of Elford Church".
	www.genealogy.com /users/s/t/l/Rosemary-St-legermay-Surrey/FILE/0007page.html (1254 words)

	DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD III
		Prince Thomas of England, KG, 1st Duke of Clarence and Earl of Albemarle (cr 1412 Jul 9), born 1388, died 1421 Mar 22 sp; married 1412, Lady Margaret de HOLAND (Kent, E) (born 1385, died 1439 Dec 31).
		Prince Humphrey of England, KG, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Pembroke (cr 1414 May 16), born 1390 Aug or Sep, died 1447 Feb 23 spl; married 1st, 1422 (annulled 1428), as 3rd husband, Jacqueline of Holland; married 2nd, before 1431, Eleanor de COBHAM (Cobham of Sterborough, B).
		Prince James of Scotland, 1st Marquess of Ormond (cr 1478 Jan 29), 1st Duke of Ross (cr 1481 Jan 23), born 1476 Mar, died 1504 Jan 12 unm.
	www.angelfire.com /realm3/ruvignyplus (14428 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville was the French-born Jacquette of Luxembourg, widow of John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford (son of the English King Henry IV) when she married the “parvenu” Lancastrian, later Yorkist peer, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (whose origin, and descent from the Beauchamps of Lillesdon, Somerset and Ryme, Dorset.
		Joan Strange, Jacquette’s daughter, married George Stanley, generally known as Baron Strange, eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
		1st Earl of Orkney, by Janet Robertson; (illegitimate) James V, King of Scots, by Eupheme Elphinstone; James IV, King of Scots and Margaret Tudor of England; Henry VII, King of England and Elizabeth Plantagenet of York.
	www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/NEXUS/nexus_9_5_3.asp (3740 words)

	thePeerage.com - Eleanor Neville and others
		She was the daughter of Sir Richard de Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury.
		She married Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Jean Goushill, after 10 May 1457.
		She married Michael Addison, 3rd Viscount Addison, son of Sir Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison and Isobel Mackinnon Gray, on 22 August 1936.
	www.thepeerage.com /p227.htm (1116 words)

	1504 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		November 26 - Queen Isabella of Castile, queen of Castile (born 1451)
		Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)
		Stefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldavia (born 1434)af:1504
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1504 (423 words)

	Facts about thomas stanley 1st earl of derby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Facts about thomas stanley 1st earl of derby
		Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1459-1504), the second Baron Stanley, was born in 1459 and inherited his father's titles, including that of king of the Isle of Man, in 1459.
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	I18798: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Of Kent ( - )
		Descendants of Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Of Kent and Alice Fitzalan
		1 Margaret Beaufort = Thomas Stanley 1st Earl Of Derby
		3 Edmund Beaufort 1st Duke Of Somerset = Eleanor Beauchamp
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0029/I18798.html (214 words)

	Eleanor Neville
		+-- Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland
		She married Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
		Thomas, son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley & Joan Goushill, was born c1435.
	www.rawbw.com /~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?3210 (208 words)

	channel4.com - Monarchy - Margaret Beaufort - text only
		Despite this, the following year, at the age of 40, she married Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of Derby, who had made a career of switching sides during the Wars of the Roses.
		Her third husband Stanley, ostensibly a supporter of the York king, simply stood by with his troops and watched as Richard was defeated and died, and after the battle, he crowned his stepson.
		This well-documented study of Margaret Beaufort claims to be the first biography to explore the full range of archival sources related to her.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/M/monarchy/biogs/margaret_beaufort_t.html (726 words)

	Edward Henry Stanley
		Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of - Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of, 1826–93, British politician, son of the 14th...
		Man with a mission: to many, Henry Morton Stanley represents the archetypal Victorian explorer, but the reality was quite different.
		On the 100th anniversary of Stanley's death, Christian Amodeo discovers the truth behind the legend.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0919046.html (154 words)

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