Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford
Edmund Stafford ( born March 2, 1378 Staffordshire, England; † fallen on July 21, 1403 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England) was an English nobleman.
Life
He was the eighth of nine children of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and Philippa de Beauchamp of. He married on June 13, 1398 Anne of Gloucester, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, the son of King Edward III. Eleanor de Bohun and the. She was his elder brother died in 1392, Thomas Stafford, 3rd Earl of Stafford, the widow. He resigned after the death of his elder brother William also on April 6, 1395 to its successor. In 1399 he was Lord High Constable of England, also since 1399 Knights of the Bath and 1402 Knight of the Garter.
Edmund Stafford was, on the part of King Henry IV fighting, at the age of 25 years at the Battle of Shrewsbury. He is buried in Stafford in the Austin Friars Church.
Family and descendants
With Anne, he had the following three children:
- Anne Stafford (* 1400, † September 24, 1432 )
- Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (* August 15, 1402; † July 10, 1460 at the Battle of Northampton ) ∞ before October 18, 1424 Anne Neville (c. 1411 Westmorland, England; † September 20, 1480 Raby, Durham, England)
- Phillipa Stafford († as a child)
Itemization
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- Earl
- Constable (England)
- Knight of the Order of the Garter
- Carrier of the Bath
- English
- Born in 1378
- Died in 1403
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