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BUCKINGHAM 389 Ports (*) and Constable of Dover and Queenborough Castles, i6 July 1450. He was a zealous Lancastrian, in which cause he was slain at the battle of Northampton-C') He w., before 18 Oct. 1424, Anne,(=) loth da. of Ralph (Nevill), ist Earl of Westmorland,() being 4th da. by his 2nd wife, Joan Beaufort, the legitimated da. o{ ]ohn " of Gaunt," Dvkz of Lan- caster. He d. as above, 10 July 1460, and was hir. in the Grey Friars at Northampton. His widow m., in 1467, before 25 Nov., Walter (Blount), ist Baron Mountjoy, who d. i Aug. 1474. She ^. 20 Sep. 1480, and was l^ur. at Pleshy, Essex. Her will, not dated, pr. 31 Oct. 1480. [Humphrey Stafford, styIe<J Earl of Stafford, s. and h. ap. He m. Margaret, da. (and in her issue h.) of Edmund (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, by Eleanor, 2nd da. of Richard (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick. He J. v.p., being slain on the Lancastrian side at the first battle of St. Albans, 22 May 1455. His widow m. Sir Richard Darell.] DUKEDOM IL EARLDOM. VL 2 and 3. Henry (Stafford), Duke of 1460 Buckingham, i^c, grandson and h., being posthumous and only s. and h. of Humphrey Stafford, j/vA'^ Earl of Stafford, by Mar- 1483. garet, his wife abovenamed, i?. 4 Sep. 1455. Constable of Nottingham Castle 17 June 1460. K.B., 26 May 1465 at the coronation of Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV; K.G., 1474. Having been of great service in securing the accession of Richard III, at whose coronation, 6 July 1483, he was present,('=) he re- ceived numerous grants of most important offices from him, being Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1483, and was, 15 July 1483, acknowledged as (here- ditary) Lord High Constable.(*) His fidelity, however, to that King (*) He bought this office from the 2nd Lord Say and Sale, who held it in fee. V.G. C") With him were slain Thomas (Percy), Lord Egremont, father of his daugh- ter's husband, and Viscount Beaumont. V.G. (•=) Another Sir Humphrey Stafford (of Grafton), whose wife, Eleanor, was living 24 May 1449, was a contemporary. [Patent Roll). A Papal dispensation to con- tract marriage, dated 7 Id. Aug. 1408, possibly refers to them. V.G. {^) He was one of the 13 relatives of this Earl who all sat together in the House of Lords, viz. 5 sons, 4 grandsons, and 4 sons-in-law. For a list of these see note sub Westmorland, and for similar cases see ante, p. 264, note "a." V.G. (*) For a list of the 35 peers there present see note sub Humphrey, Lord Dacre (of Gillesland) [1473]. (^ By royal letters, two days previously, he had been acknowledged as " a cosyn and heir of blood to Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford " and had grant of such lands of that Earl as had come into the hands of the Crown by the marriage of Lady Mary Bohun, one of the two daughters and coheirs of the said Earl, with Henry IV. The other da. (whose issue alone was, after 147 i, remaining) m. Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham abovenamed, of whom this Duke was the great- great-grandson and representative. G.E.C. For the great offices of State see Appendix D to this volume. In Feb. 1473/4 the heralds decided that as heir to Thomas, the Duke might " beire his cootte alone." V.G.