Sir Miles Stapleton, KG (c. 1408 – 1 October 1466) was

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of Ingham,

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and ''de jure''

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of Ingham, Norfolk, and Lord of the Manor of

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Family

Sir Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Brian Stapleton, of Ingham (1379–1438),

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, a veteran of the

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, and Cecily Bardolf (d. 1432), daughter to

William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf and 3rd Baron Damory (21 October 1349 – 29 January 1386) of Wormegay, Norfolk, was an extensive landowner in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Surrey. He was the son of John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf and ...

, of Wormegay, Norfolk, and Agnes de Poynings. He did homage for his paternal inheritance on 2 February 1440. Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge,

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, of

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, Norfolk by

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, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen

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. They had no issue. He married secondly in 1438, Katherine de la Pole (1416–1488; buried in Rowley Abbey, Oxfordshire), daughter and heiress to Sir Thomas de la Pole (aft. 1397–1433), who died in

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while a hostage for his brother William, son to

Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367 – 17 September 1415) was an English nobleman who supported Henry IV (reigned 1399–1413) against Richard II (reigned 1377–1399) during the turmoils of the late 14th century. He died during t ...

. They had two known daughters, the eldest, Elizabeth Stapleton, married before March 1464, Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The younger daughter, Jane (or Joan) Stapleton (d. 1519), married Sir Christopher Harcourt of Great Ashby, ( Ashby Magna), Leicestershire (d. 1474) and remarried John Hudleston (Huddleston), of

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, appointed sheriff of Cumberland by the Duke of Gloucester and keeper and bailiff of the king's woods and chases in Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, steward of Penrith and warden of the west marches.

Activities

He was a

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for

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, and for Norfolk also, and was

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in 1440. In 1441–2 Sir Miles Stapleton and Thomas Tudenham were summoned as Knights and M.P.'s for Norfolk to attend the Privy Council. In 1442 he also had a Royal Commission for the Safekeeping of the seas.Lee-Warner, M.A., Rev. James, ''The Stapletons of Ingham'' in "Original papers of the Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society, Norwich, 1875", p.204. Stapleton was in the French wars, where he single-handedly took seven prisoners, for whom he was given a safe-conduct dated 22 June 1436/7 to take them into Flanders "pro finantiis suis" probably to get money for their ransoms. The following year he and his brother, Bryan Stapleton of Crispings, in

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, & Hasilden, Norfolk, received the thanks of the Privy Council in connection with a riot at

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. Stapleton is mentioned in the 1449 poem '' Amoryus and Cleopes'', as the patron of its author John Metham.

Arms and burial

His

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are recorded as ''Argent, a lion rampant sable''. Stapleton was buried in Ingham Priory, Norfolk, where there was once a monumental brass (now lost).

References

Bibliography

* Hervey, William, Clarenceaux King of Arms, and John Raven, Richmond Herald, ''The Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 & 1613''. * Banks, Sir T.C., Bt., ''Baronia Anglica Concentrata; or Baronies in Fee'', London, 1844, p. 267, where a summary pedigree appears for this family. * Burke, John, and John Bernard, ''The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects'', London, 1851, vol.2, pedigree CXVII. * Waters, Robert E.C, B.A., barrister of the

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,''Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley'' &c., London, 1878, vol.1, pps: 140 and 255. * Flower, William,

Norroy King of Arms Norroy and Ulster King of Arms is the Provincial King of Arms at the College of Heralds with jurisdiction over England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland. The two offices of Norroy and Ulster were formerly separate. Norroy King of Arms is ...

, ''The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4'', London, 1881, p. 295. * Rye, Walter, ''Norfolk Families'', part II, Norwich, 1912, p. 845. * Carr-Calthrop, Christopher William, CBE., M.D., ''Notes on the Families of Calthorpe & Calthrop'', etc., Third edition, London, 1933, p. 43. * Oxford University Press, ''The Dictionary of National Biography'', Compact Edition, Oxford, 1975. * Richardson, Douglas, ''Plantagenet Ancestry'', Baltimore, Md., 2004, pps: 57 and 771. * Richardson, Douglas, ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', Baltimore, 2005, pps. 41 and 896. *

External links

Stapleton @ Britannia.com
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