STAFFORD. 211 Earldom. 3 and 4- Thomas (Stafford), Earl op Staf jjj FORD, &c, 2d but 1st surr. a. and h., aged 18, when he sue. ■ 13S6 t/ie P ecra 9 e ' u l 3 ^ 8 > kniyhud 23 April 1390, in which Baiony. ' year he was found one of the coheirs of Ralph (Basset), TV Loud Basset de DbaTTOH.(*J He served in an expedition J to France, 1391-92. He m. in 1392, Anne, da. of '1 nomas (Plantagenkt), Duke of Gloucester (6th s. of Ed. III.) by Eleanor, da. and coheir of Humphrey (de Bohun), Earl of Hereford, &c. He d. s.p., 4 July 1392, and was bur. At .Stone afsd. Will dat. 7 Oct. 1391. His child-widow (then aged 9) m. in 139S, his hr. Edmund, the 4th Earl, whom see. Earldom.! IV. Barony. V. Earldom. V. Barony. VI, 1392. 4 and 5. William (Stafford), Earl of Staf- ford, &c, br. and h , b. about 1377, being aged 14 and upwards, when he sue. to the Peerage in 1392. He d. umii. 6 April 1395, being still in ward to the King. 5 and G. Edmund (Stafford), Earl of Staf- ford, &c, br. and h., b. about 1378, being 17 when he sue. 1395 P e, rage in April 1395, was sum. to Pail., 19 Aug. ' 1399 ; K.B., 12 Oct. 1399, at the coronation of Hen. IV. ; Joint Lieut, of North Wales, 1402 : K.G. (probably in April) 1402; L. High Constable, 1403. He m. 1398 Anne, the childless widow of his eldest brother, Thomas, 3d Earl of Stafford, da. and eventually sole h. of Thomas (Plantagenet, called "of Woodstock"), Duke of Gloucester (6th and yst. s. of Edward III.), by Eleanor, da. and coheir of Humphrey (de Bohun), Eahl of Hereford, &c. He was slain when in command of the van of the Royal army at Shrewsbury, 21 July 1403, aged about 25,( b ) and was bur. at the Friars Augustine, Stafford. ( ,: ) Admon. 19 May 1405, at Lambeth. His widow, who was b. April 13S3, m. Sir William Bourchier, Count of Ku, in Normandy (so er. 10 June 1419), who d. 28 Slay 1420. She d. 16 Oct. 143S, and was bur. in Llauthony Abhey, near Gloucester. Will, in which she styles herself " Countess of Stafford, Buckingham, Hereford, and Northampton," dat. the day of her death. Earldom. VI. Barony. VII. 1403. 3 E i/> <s, o G sad 7. HuMrnREV (Stafford), Earl~| g _ of Stafford, &c, only s. and h., aged one year ' when he sue. to the peerage in July 1403. He appears to have been in right of his mother( d ) con- sidered EARL OK BUCK INGHAM (") and was or. 14 Sep. 1444, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, having previously beeu er. in or before 13 Feb. 1443/4, COUNT OF l'ERCHE, in Normandy.(f) He was slain on the Lancastrian side at the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460. [HiniPiiREY Stafford, styled Earl of Stafford, 1st s. and h. •ft, d. v.p., being slain on the Lancastrian side at the first battle of St. Albans, 22 Hay 1455.] m Viz., " son of Hugh, son of Ralph, son of Margaret, sister of Ralph Basset, father /b'?< fatUer " f the Bllitl Ralph, who d. the preceding year." [Dugdalc]. U " Maj&fe probitatis juvenis." [T. Otterbourne " Chron., p. 242.] ( c ) Dugdale states that the monuments to the Stafford family in Stone Priory were, removed in the dissolution (1538-39) to the Friars Augustine, Stafford, where some Bad originally been placed, but that all these " fair and costly tombs " were destroyed ,**mff tr , 0ction of tllat l' Iace sllort| y afterwards. U luis lady, however, did not die till Oct. 1438. In her will of that date sha "tyles herself Countess of Stafford, Buckingham, &c. }J £ ee vo '- », p. 63, note " n," sub " Buckingham." IMhomas (de Montacute), Earl of Salisbury, who had been cr. 26 April 1419, uidnt op Perche, in Normandy, d. s.p.m., 1428, when that dignity became extinct. A3 to these Norman Earldoms see vol. iii, p. 292, note " a," sub " Eu."
