John Staunton, Esq.

• John Staunton, Esq.1,2
• M, #85280, b. circa 1375
• John Staunton, Esq. was born circa 1375 at of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England.3 He married Joan Meinhill, daughter of Sir Ralph de Meinhill and Joan, circa 1400.3,1,2
• Family Joan Meinhill b. c 1367
• Child
  • Margaret Staunton+4,1,2 b. c 1410, d. b 1435
• Citations
• 1.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 27.
• 2.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 626.
• 3.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 652.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2838.htm#... _______________________
• John de Staunton1
• M, #283702
• Last Edited=10 May 2008
• John de Staunton lived at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, England.1
• Child of John de Staunton
  • 1.Margaret de Staunton+1
• Citations
• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1416. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p28371.htm#i283702 ________________________
• Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical (1812) Vol. IV.
• https://archive.org/details/peerageofengland04colluoft
• https://archive.org/stream/peerageofengland04colluoft#page/92/mode/1up
• But to return : HUGH Shirley, son and heir of Sir Thomas, by Isabel Basset, succeeded his father ; and was, as before mentioned, by the will of the late Lord Basset his uncle, acknowledged by him to be his nephew and right heir ; in 7 Rich II. he confirmed the manors of Shirley and Hoone, in com. Derby, and that of Etingdon, in com. Warwick, to his mother Isabel, then the wife of Sir Gerard Braybroke, Knt. these manors having been assigned to be for her dower by Sir Thomas Shirley, his father. This Sir Hugh was made Chief Warden of Higham Ferrers Park, by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster ; and in 22 Rich. II. constituted Constable of Donnington-Castle, by Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, afterward King Henry IV. On March 27th, 1400, being then a Knight, he was made Grand Falconer to King Henry IV. for the Kingdom of Ireland. He was killed at the battle of Shrewsbury,(o) on the part of King Henry IV. being one of those who was habited as the King, and taken for him by the opposite party. By Beatrix his wife, sister and heir to John de Braose, or de Breus, of West-Neston (now called Wiston), in Sussex, heir male of the ancient family of that name, Barons of Brember, in Sussex, and of Brecknock, Abergavenny, and Gower, in Wales, he had issue three daughters ; Isabel, wife of Sir John Cokayne, of Ashbourne ; Elizabeth ; and Nichola ; also
• RALPH, his son and heir, then twelve years of age ; who, in 5 Henry V. was retained to serve that King in person in his army in Guyen, with six men at arms, and eighteen archers ; and the next year, with eight men at arms, and sixteen archers, and was about that time knighted ; for in 8 Henry V. being then Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, he was then styled a Knight. He was one of the chief Commanders under King Henry V. at the battle of Agincourt, as appears by an ancient Roll in the office of Arms ; and was often a great actor in the subsequent Wars of the said King Henry V. in France ; as is evidently proved by diverse instruments of accord made between the said King and Sir Ralph Shirley ; in one of which, dated 1416, after agreement had for the number and pay of his soldiers, &c. the King granted to him all the prisoners that he or his soldiers should take, only reserving to himself, the French King, his
  • (o) The Spirits of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blount, are in my arms." Prince of Wales's Speech in Shakespeare's Henry IV.
• https://archive.org/stream/peerageofengland04colluoft#page/93/mode/1up
• adversary; the Dauphin, his son ; and all other Kings, his adversary's assistants, giving to him only the third part of the ransom of the captive Kings, by him or his soldiers taken. To this Sir Ralph, the feoffees of Ralph Lord Basset, released all their right to the estates he claimed as heir to that Barony. In 1432, he resided at Radcliffe upon Soar ; and died at his government and charge in France, about 1443. His body was brought to England, and buried in the Collegiate Church of the Newark, at Leicester. His second wife was Alice, daughter of Sir John Cokayne, Knt. who died 1466, without issue.
• By his first wife, Joan, daughter and heir of Thomas Basset, of Brailsford, co. Derb. he had a daughter, Beatrix, wife of John Brome, of Badesley Clinton, co. Warw. and
• RALPH, who was Constable of Melbourn Castle, and of the castle in the Peak of Derbyshire : and died in 1466, "seised of many goodly manors, fair possessions, and large territories in the several counties of Leicester, Derby, Warwick, and Nottingham." He was buried in the church of Brailesford, where his tomb still remains.
• His first wife was Margaret, daughter and sole heir of John de Staunton, of Staunton Harald, in Leicestershire (whereby he obtained that estate, still the chief seat of the family), by Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir Ralph Meynell, of Langley Meynell (with which family a former match of Shirley has been already, mentioned). By this marriage he had issue John, his son and heir, hereafter mentioned.
• His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Blount, Knt. and sister to Walter Blount, Lord Montjoy ; by whom he had Ralph Shirley, Esquire of the Body to King Henry VII. ancestor to the Shirleys of Wiston, of Sussex ; of whom an account will be given in an accompanying note, this branch having been of considerable eminence.(p)
• His third wife was Lucia, daughter of Sir John Aston, of
  • (p) .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/peerageofengland04colluoft#page/94/mode/1up
• Atherton, Knt, widow, first, of Sir John Byron, of Clayton and Colwich ; and, secondly, of Sir Barton Entwissel, Knt. Viscount of Brykbeke, in Normandy. She died in Feb. 1481 ; and lies buried at Braylesford.
• John, son and heir, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton, co. Notts, and dying 1485, left issue, .... etc. _______________________________
• A gentry community: Leicestershire in the fifteenth century, c.1422- c.1485 By Eric Acheson
• http://books.google.com/books?id=0HhSjk4yZ6YC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq...
• Pg. 248
• When Hugh Shirley died in 1403 his estate included manors in Warwickshire, Suffolk, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Stemmata Shirleiana, p. 37). Under the terms of the will of Hugh's maternal uncle, the third and last Ralph, lord Basset of Drayton, Hugh was to receive the basset inheritance provided he assumed the name and arms of Basset (Stemmata Shirleiana, pp. 34, 376). As this bequest was made at the expense of lord Basset's true heirs, Thomas earl of Stafford and Alice Chaworth, Hugh and his son, Sir Ralph I, did not have immediate and peaceful seisin of the property in question (G.E.C., II, pp. 3-4, n.f.). On 8 August 1424, however, Basset's last surviving feoffee, John Brown, released to Sir Ralph I numerous manors including the manors of Ragdale, Dunton Basset, Willow and Radcliff-on-Wreake in Leicestershire (C.A.D., v, A11388). Sir Ralph nust have had de facto tenure of these manors before 1424 for he was appointed to Leicestershire's bench of JPs between 1514 and 1422, and . . . . Nevertheless, Sir Ralph Shirley expanded the estate he inherited by a judicious marriage to Joan, daughter and heir of Thomas Bassett, thereby adding the manor of Brailsford to the family holdings in Derbyshire (Dugdale, I, p. 622). Joan Bassett was dead before 1419, by which date Sir Ralph had taken Alice Cockayne as his second wife (H.M.C. Rut., IV, p. 52). Alice died in 1466 (E149/219/9). The removal of the family's caput to Leicestershire was achieved through the marriage in 1423 of Sir Ralph's son and heir, Ralph II, to Margaret, daughter of John, and sister and heir of Thomas Staunton of Staunton Harold (L.R.O. 26D53/254: E149/127/12). At the time of their marriage, Ralph II was about fifteen years old while his wife was barely eighteen years. Margaret bore a son, John, who was born before 1426 but she must have died soon after this date. Ralph II's second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Blount, was dead by 1457, but she had borne him five daughters and a son (L.R.O. 72'30/1/37; L.R.O. 26D53/192-3; Village Notes, IV, pp. 296-7). By 1458, Ralph II was married for the third time, to Lucy Ashton, widow of Sir Bertram Entwistle (L.R.O. 26D53/195; Stemmata Shirleiana, p. 49). Ralph Shirley II was an esquire of the chamber during the 1440s (E101/409/9, fos. 36v-7; E101/409/11, fo. 39; E101/409/16, fo. 35), but his career seems to have been otherwise undistinguished. He died in 1466, a few months after the death of his step-mother, Alice Cockayne (C140/19/18 MS 3). He was succeeded by his son John who, of all the fifteenth-century Shirleys, managed to made do with only one wife. John had married Eleanor Willoughby of Nottinghamshire by 1456 and she presented him with a large family of twelve children (L.R.O. 26D53/1947; Stemmata Shirleina, p. 51). .... etc. ____________________________
• 'Shirley1'
• ((A)) Ralph Shirley of Ettington, Shirley and Staunton (constable of Melbourne Castle)
• m1. Margaret Staunton (dau of John de Staunton of Staunton Harold)
  • ((i)) John Shirley of Ettington, etc. (d 1485)
  • m. Eleanor Willoughby (dau of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton)
    • ((a)) Sir Ralph Shirley of Ettington, Shirley and Staunton (d 1517)
    • m1. Elizabeth Walsh (dau of Thomas Walsh of Wanlep)
    • m2. Jane Sheffield (dau of Sir Robert Sheffield)
• m2. Elizabeth Blount (dau of Sir Thomas (not John) Blount)
  • ((ii)) Ralph Shirley of Westneston (Wiston) - continued below
  • m. Jane Belingham (dau of Thomas Belingham of Lemyster)
  • ((iii))+ other issue - Elizabeth, Alice, Sauch. (sic), Ann, Margaret
• m3. Lucia Aston or Assheton (dau of Sir John Assheton of Atherton)
• ((B)) .... etc.
• Main source(s):
• (1) For upper section : BP1934 (Ferrers), Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Shirley)
• (2) For lower section : Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, Shirley)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4as/shirley1.php _____________________________

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From CLINTON, Sir Thomas (d.1415), of Amington, Warws. and Hunton, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993

Clinton left no male issue, and all his property in Kent passed to his nephew, Lord William. He may, however, have been the father of one of his second wifes daughters: Anne, later wife of Robert Francis of Foremark, Derbyshire. (Her other daughters - Margaret who later married Ralph, son of Sir Ralph Shirley*, and Elizabeth, wife of William Haselridge of Noseley - were the issue of her first husband, John Staunton.) Two of the wills of Clintons widow have survived, dated 1453 and 1457.7