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William Stanley
- Preferred Name: William Stanley[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Gender: M
- Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: 7th Lord of Stanley, Sourton and Hooton
- Death: 1398 in , , Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305
- Birth: 1327 in Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305
- FSID: GQBX-LW3
- Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Stourton
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
WILLIAM de Stanley (-after 1362). m [735][ALICE, daughter of HAMON [Hugh] de Mascy of Timperley, Cheshire & his wife ---].
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Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley and Hooton1,2,3
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
M, #10928, d. June 1398
Father John Stanley, Lord of Stanley & Stourton d. b 1362
Mother Mabel Hausket
Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley and Hooton was born at of Stanley & Stourton, Staffordshire, England. He married Alice Massey, daughter of Hamon de Massey and Matilda Tymperly.2,3 Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley and Hooton died in June 1398.
Family
Alice Massey
Children
Henry Stanley
Margaret Stanley+ b. c 1315
Sir John Stanley, Lord Lieutenant & Justiciary of Ireland, Justice of Chester, Governor of the City & County of Chester, Constable of Windsor Castle+4,2,3 b. 1350, d. 6 Jan 1414
Matilda Stanley+5 b. c 1358
Sir William Stanley+ b. c 1362, d. Feb 1428
Ellin Stanley+ b. c 1375
Memorial
There was presumably an estate at STANLEY in the late 12th century when there was mention of Adam of Stanley. (fn. 81) There was certainly an estate there c. 1200 when Adam de Audley, lord of Horton,
=== My 17th GGF ===
=== Important Events: ===
Pardoned: for escaping from Winchester Castle, 1389. where he had been imprisoned on suspicion of abducting Agnes, a damsel of the queen's chamber (Patent Rolls).
Hooton Hall (1315 KB)
From The History of the House of Stanley from the Conquest to the Death of the Right Honourable Edward, Late Earl of Derby, in 1776 by John Seacomb (Manchester, 1821), courtesy of books.google.com
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• Acquired: the Manor of Hooton, 1396.
• Fined: for his part in the Percy Rebellion, 1404.
• Pardoned: for participation in Percy Rebellion 1402-1408, 1413.
• Knighted: on battlefield after Battle of Agincourt, 1415. Source: The House of Stanley from the 12th Century
by Peter Stanley at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourpage/history.htm
=== BIOGRAPHY: Forester of Wirral, claimant ===
BIOGRAPHY: Forester of Wirral, claimant of the masterforestership, in a plea to a quo warranto before Jordan de Macclesfield, Justice in Eyre for Cheshire.
=== LORD OF STOURTON. ===
LORD OF STOURTON.
=== Notes for line of Stanley... ===
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When Sir Knight William, 7th Earl of Stourton, DeStanley was born in 1322 in Storeton, Cheshire, England, his father, Sir, was 39 and his mother, Lady, was 32. He married Lady Alice Massey in 1357 in Timperley, Cheshire, England. They had one child during their marriage. He died on June 23, 1398, in Stourton, Staffordshire, England, having lived a long life of 76 years.
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#JohnStanleydiedafter1314A
JOHN de Stanley, son of WILLIAM de Stanley & his wife Joan de Bamville (-after 1314).
m [434][MABEL, daughter of JAMES Hawkset of Stourton Parva & his wife ---].
John & his wife had two children:
1. WILLIAM de Stanley (-after 1362). m [435][ALICE, daughter of HAMON [Hugh] de Mascy of Timperley, Cheshire & his wife ---].
a) WILLIAM de Stanley (-1398). m ---. The name of William’s wife is not known. William & his wife had one child:
i) WILLIAM de Stanley ([1368]-). His lands were forfeited for his participation in the rebellion of Henry Percy "Hotspur" in 1403[436]. Ancestor of the STANLEY family of Wirral[437].
b) ALICE de Stanley . m (1340) RANDLE le Roter of Kingsley, Staffordshire.
c) JOHN de Stanley (-before 28 Jan 1414). He was deputy in Ireland for Robert de Vere Marquess of Dublin 1386-1388, and was Lieutenant of Ireland 1399 to 1401[438]. m (1385 or before, dispensation 24 Dec 1398[439]) ISABEL, daughter of THOMAS de Lathom of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire & his first wife ---. John & his wife had two children:
i) JOHN de Stanley (-27 Nov 1437). m ISABEL, daughter of JOHN de Haryngton of Hornby Castle, Lancashire & his wife ---. John & his wife had one child:
(a) THOMAS Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire (1405 or before-11 Feb 1459). He was summoned to parliament 15 Jan 1456, whereby he is held to have become Lord Stanley.
- see below.
ii) THOMAS Stanley of Elford, Staffordshire . Ancestor of the STANLEY family of Elford Pipe, Staffordshire[440].
2. JOHN Stanley of Greswithin, Cumberland (-after 1347). Ancestor of the STANLEY family of Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland[441].
Preferred Parents:
Father: John de Stanley, b. 1285 in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England d. 1361 in Stourton Castle, Kinver, Staffordshire, England
Mother: Emma de Lathom, b. 1290 in Lancashire, England d. 1334 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Family 1: Alice Massey, b. 1330 in Timperley, Cheshire, England d. ABT 1419 in Storeton, Cheshire, England
- m. ABT 1357 in Of Timperley, Cheshire, England
- m. 1352 in , , Cheshire, England
- John Stanley KG, b. 1 NOV 1362 in Newton, Cheshire, England d. 6 JAN 1414 in Ardee, County Louth, Ireland
- William Stanley IV, b. BET 1368 AND 1372 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England d. 2 FEB 1428 in Lathom St James, Lancashire, England
Family 2: Alice Massey, b. 1331 d. 1380
Sources:
- Title: Millennium File
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7249&h=100411852&indiv=try;
- Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#_Toc21501831;
Note: WILLIAM de Stanley (-after 1362). m [735][ALICE, daughter of HAMON [Hugh] de Mascy of Timperley, Cheshire & his wife ---].
a) WILLIAM de Stanley (-1398). m ---. The name of William’s wife is not known. William & his wife had one child:
i) WILLIAM de Stanley ([1368]-). His lands were forfeited for his participation in the rebellion of Henry Percy "Hotspur" in 1403[736]. Ancestor of the STANLEY family of Wirral[737].
b) ALICE de Stanley . m (1340) RANDLE le Roter of Kingsley, Staffordshire, son of ---.
c) JOHN de Stanley (-before 28 Jan 1414). He was deputy in Ireland for Robert de Vere Marquess of Dublin 1386-1388, and was Lieutenant of Ireland 1399 to 1401[738]. m (1385 or before, dispensation 24 Dec 1398[739]) ISABEL, daughter of THOMAS de Lathom of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire & his first wife ---. John & his wife had two children:
i) JOHN de Stanley (-27 Nov 1437). m ISABEL, daughter of JOHN de Haryngton of Hornby Castle, Lancashire & his wife ---. John & his wife had one child:
(a) THOMAS Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancashire (1405 or before-11 Feb 1459). He was summoned to parliament 15 Jan 1456, whereby he is held to have become Lord Stanley.
- see below.
ii) THOMAS Stanley of Elford, Staffordshire . Ancestor of the STANLEY family of Elford Pipe, Staffordshire[740].
- Title: History of the House of Stanley - Seacombe
- Title: G.E. Cokayne - The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom
Author: Gloucester, U.K., p. XII/1:247
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9289&h=6867537&indiv=try;
- Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
Author: Citations [S2767] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. XII/1, p. 247; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 784; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 75. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 88. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 25. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 677-678. [S11597] Ancestry.com, Information submitted by seancthorne.
Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p364.htm#i10928;
Note: Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley and Hooton1,2,3
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
M, #10928, d. June 1398
Father John Stanley, Lord of Stanley & Stourton d. b 1362
Mother Mabel Hausket
Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley and Hooton was born at of Stanley & Stourton, Staffordshire, England. He married Alice Massey, daughter of Hamon de Massey and Matilda Tymperly.2,3 Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley and Hooton died in June 1398.
Family
Alice Massey
Children
Henry Stanley
Margaret Stanley+ b. c 1315
Sir John Stanley, Lord Lieutenant & Justiciary of Ireland, Justice of Chester, Governor of the City & County of Chester, Constable of Windsor Castle+4,2,3 b. 1350, d. 6 Jan 1414
Matilda Stanley+5 b. c 1358
Sir William Stanley+ b. c 1362, d. Feb 1428
Ellin Stanley+ b. c 1375
- Title: Charles Mosely - Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Ed
Author: p. 815
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