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Biography. Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham KG (15 August 1402 – 10 July 1460), an English nobleman, great grandson of King Edward III on his mother's side, was best known as a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and in the Wars of the Roses.
When Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born on 15 August 1403, in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edmund Stafford 5th Earl of Stafford, was 25 and his mother, Anne of Gloucester, was 21. He married Anne Neville Duchess of Buckingham on 14 October 1424, in England. They were the parents of at least 6 ...
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. by William Bond, published by Philip Yorke, after Joseph Allen. stipple engraving, published 1 August 1798. 11 1/4 in. x 8 1/8 in. (287 mm x 207 mm) paper size.
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford, KG, of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses.
Anne was born around 1408, a daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, and his second wife Lady Joan Beaufort, the legitimised daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. Sometime before October 1424 she married Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham , heir of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford , and one of the wealthiest men in England.
Stafford returned to the French campaign during the 1430s and for his loyalty and years of service, he was elevated from Earl of Stafford to Duke of Buckingham. Around the same time, his mother died. As much of his estate—as her dower—had previously been in her hands, Humphrey went from having a reduced income in his early years to being one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners ...
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