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Margaret Stafford
- Preferred Name: Margaret Stafford[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]
- Alternate Name: Margaret Neville
- Alternate Name: 1st Earl of Westmorland Neville KG PC
- Alternate Name: Margaret Stafford
- Alternate Name: De Goushill
- Gender: F
- Birth: 1 JUN 1364 in Brancepeth, Durham, England at LATI: N4.7377 LONG: E1.6553
- Burial: JUN 1396 in St. Brandon Churchyard, Durham, England at LATI: N4.7643 LONG: E1.571 with note:
- After her marriage, Lady Margaret de Stafford was styled as Baroness Neville.: 17 OCT 1388 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baroness Neville
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Westmorland
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baroness of Mauley
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady Neville17 OCT 1388
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Westmoreland
- FSID: LZZ2-H1W
- Death: 9 JUN 1396 in Castle Raby, Durham, England at LATI: N4.5833 LONG: E1.7833
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess
- MARR: JUN 1382 with note: GEDCOM data
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Margaret de Stafford
Birthdate: May 1364
Birthplace: Durham, County Durham, England
Place of Burial: St Mary Churchyard, Staindrop, County Durham, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and Philippa de Beauchamp Countess of Stafford
Wife of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Mother of
Maud de Neville, Baroness Mauley; Anne Neville, the elder; Alice Lancaster; Lady Philippa de Neville, Baroness Dacre; Elizabeth de Neville; Sir Ralph Neville; Anastasia de Neville; Lady Margaret Scrope, Baroness Scrope of Bolton and Sir John Neville, Kt.
Sister of Ralph Stafford; Joan (Stafford) Holland; Thomas Stafford, 3rd Earl of Stafford; Humphrey Stafford; Katherine de Stafford, Countess of Suffolk; William Stafford, 4th Earl of Stafford; Earl Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford and Sir Hugh Stafford
source: geni.com
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#HumphreyStafforddied1460A as of 4/4/2016
MARGARET (-9 Jun 1396, bur Brancepath). A mid-15th century manuscript records t
=== !NAME:11615-2.ftw, 11615-2.ftw !NAME:Wor ===
!NAME:11615-2.ftw, 11615-2.ftw !NAME:World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, INC., Release date: August 22, 1996 !BIRTH:11615-2.ftw, 11615-2.ftw !BIRTH:Yelverto.ged, Yelverto.ged !BIRTH:World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, INC., Release date: August 22, 1996 !DEATH:Yelverto.ged, Yelverto.ged !DEATH:World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, INC., Release date: August 22, 1996 !BURIAL:Yelverto.ged, Yelverto.ged !BURIAL:Knevett.ged, Knevett.ged
=== !Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal De ===
!Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal Descent Together with Their Paternal Ancestry by Joseph Foster p 12 1883 Edition: !The Oxford Illistrated History of the British Monarchy by Cannon and Griffith.
=== Note: death date of Margaret: ===
“Dugdale’s gives the death date of Margaret Stafford, above wife as 9 June 1370, wich is obviously in error and conclusively proven as such by the fact that there is a record of her receiving her father’s rigng at his death in 1386. Another claim that she died in 1386 is undoubetdly in error, and probably arrived at by misconstruing her father’s death date for hers.”
[From submitted family group record at Archive Records in Salt Lake City.]
=== This individual has the following other ===
This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Hugh /STAFFORD/ (AFN:9BC7-VK) and Phillippi /BEAUCHAMP/ (AFN:9FXX-QQ)
=== My 20th ===
Great Grandmother
=== ENDOWMENT: PLAC SLAKE SEALING_CHILD: PLA ===
ENDOWMENT: PLAC SLAKE SEALING_CHILD: PLAC JRIVE
=== !Note: Dugdale's gives the darth date o ===
!Note: Dugdale's gives the darth date of Margaret as 9 june 1370, which is obviously in error and conclusively proven as sush by the fact that there is a record of her receiving her father's ring at his death in 1386. Another claim that she died i 1386 is undoubtly in error, and probably arrived at by misconstruing her father's death date for hers.
=== This individual has the following other ===
This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Hugh /STAFFORD/ (AFN:9BC7-VK) and Phillippi /BEAUCHAMP/ (AFN:9FXX-QQ) This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Hugh /STAFFORD/ (AFN:9BC7-VK) and Phillippi /BEAUCHAMP/ (AFN:9FXX-QQ)
=== Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
Twentieth Great Grandmother
Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother
=== Baroness Nevill ===
Baroness Nevill
Family 1: Ralph de NEVILLE, b. 15 SEP 1363 in Raby Castle, Durham, England d. 21 OCT 1425 in Raby Castle, Durham, England
- m. 1382 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2031880465
- Title: Living Descendants of Blood Royal, vol 1
Author: Adams Prof. Arthur, Ph.D., Compiler and Editor, Living Descendants of Blood Royal, vol 1 (London: World Nobility and Peerage, 1959), pp. 254, 656; portable document format (.pdf), (http://www.Archive.org : accessed 17 June 2015.
Page: Citation documents death of Margaret de Stafford
- Title: Margaret de Stafford Neville, "Find A Grave Index" [cenotaph]
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TWLC : 18 July 2020), Margaret de Stafford Neville, 1396; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TWLC;
Note: This is a cenotaph, and should not be linked to the parents or parents. It is linked to the actual burial, which is linked to the parents and husband.
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2022580047
- Title: John Neville, Lord Neville of Raby, and Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages, pgs. 386-387 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages, pgs. 386-387
Note: John Neville, Lord Neville of Raby, and Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages, pgs. 386-387 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: John Neville, Lord Neville of Raby, and Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages, pgs. 386-387 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2851841584
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9289&h=6787746&indiv=try;
- Title: John Neville, Lord Neville, and Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 297-298 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 297-298
Note: John Neville, Lord Neville, and Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 297-298 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: John Neville, Lord Neville, and Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 297-298 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2676700743
- Title: Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 40, pgs. 273-277 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 40, pgs. 273-277
Note: Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 40, pgs. 273-277 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 40, pgs. 273-277 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: * Agnes Mrs Goushill -
Author: Jim Weber ; www.rootsweb.com - file - jweber
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741111
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Not Given, GEDCOM File : emsuggs.ged
Note: ABBR GEDCOM File : emsuggs.ged
Not Supplied
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244726019
- Title: Margaret de Stafford Neville, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGR-WT7F : 16 December 2021), Margaret de Stafford Neville, ; Burial, Brancepeth, Durham Unitary Authority, County Durham, England, St Brandon Churchyard; citing record ID 134553095, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGR-WT7F;
Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134553095/margaret-neville
Margaret de Stafford Neville
BIRTH May 1364 Brancepeth, Durham Unitary Authority, County Durham, England
DEATH 1396 (aged 31–32) Staindrop, Durham Unitary Authority, County Durham, England
BURIAL St Brandon Churchyard
Durham, Durham Unitary Authority, County Durham, England
MEMORIAL ID 134553095
Margaret de Stafford was born in Brancepeth, County Durham, England. She was the second daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and Philippa de Beauchamp.Margaret married Ralph de Neville in 1382. She and Ralph de Neville were parents of eight children. She died at Raby Castle, and is interned in St Brandon Church, County Durham, England. The contract for their marriage was signed before 1370, and as a result of her marriage, she became known as Lady Neville on 17 Oct 1388.
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/25946808;
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Universal Genealogy, 57 W. South Temple Suite 350, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, Page number: ALIAS: 4984-5346
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2639320817
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitzrichard -
Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Originaldata: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;, Ancestry.com, Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Treefiles. This source citation points you to a current version of thosefiles. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed orchanged information since this source citation was created.
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247302412
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: AFN, Page number: 8XJ0-72
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741127
- Title: Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 2, pgs. 345-346 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 2, pgs. 345-346
Note: Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 2, pgs. 345-346 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 2, pgs. 345-346 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: * Agnes Mrs Goushill -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
- Title: Hugh de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the Dictionary for National Biography, Vol. 53, pgs. 458-459 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Dictionary for National Biography, Vol. 53, pgs. 458-459
Note: Hugh de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the Dictionary for National Biography, Vol. 53, pgs. 458-459 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Hugh de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the Dictionary for National Biography, Vol. 53, pgs. 458-459 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 393-394 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 393-394
Note: Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 393-394 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 393-394 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: GEDCOM File : 2746994.ged, Page number: 55
Note: ABBR GEDCOM File : 2746994.ged
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244726020
- Title: Ralph de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphStafforddied1372B;
Note: Ralph de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphStafforddied1372B [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Ralph de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphStafforddied1372B [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Hugh de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 161-163 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 161-163
Note: Hugh de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 161-163 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Hugh de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pgs. 161-163 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphNevilledied1425B [See document in the Memories section]
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphNevilledied1425B;
Note: Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphNevilledied1425B [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#RalphNevilledied1425B [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: * Agnes Mrs Goushill -
Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Originaldata: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;, Ancestry.com, Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Treefiles. This source citation points you to a current version of thosefiles. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed orchanged information since this source citation was created.
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247302412
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2680860794
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan Fitz Richard [Countess Of Westmoreland] -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA Ancestral File is a collection of genealogical information taken from Pedigree Charts and Family Group Records submitted to the Family History Department since 1978. The information has not been verified against any official records. Since the information in Ancestral file is contributed, it is the responsibility of those who use the file to verify its accuracy.
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2824422834
- Title: Stafford family in Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/ageneralandhera02burkgoog/page/n7/mode/2up;
Note: Stafford family in Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, pgs. 487-489 ~https://archive.org/details/ageneralandhera02burkgoog/page/n7/mode/2up [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Stafford family in Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, pgs. 487-489 ~https://archive.org/details/ageneralandhera02burkgoog/page/n7/mode/2up [See document in the Memories section]
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