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Alice STAFFORD, Heiress Of Hook & Southwick[1]
1391 - Bef 1448 (57 years)-
Name Alice STAFFORD [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Suffix Heiress Of Hook & Southwick Birth 1391 Hooke, Dorset, England 
[7] Gender Female FamilySearch ID LKG6-BN8 TitleOfNobility [7] Baroness _UID 96E79B021CAF4BA7A28D0293047BFC6177CF Death Bef 24 Apr 1448 Southwick, Westbury, Wiltshire, England [2, 3, 4] Burial All Saints Churchyard, Westbury, Wiltshire, England [7] Person ID I13443 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 13 Dec 2022
Father Humphrey STAFFORD, Of Hook & Southwick, Sir, b. Abt 1380, Southwick, Westbury, Wiltshire, England d. 27 May 1442, Hooke, Beaminster, Doresetshire, England (Age ~ 62 years) Mother Elizabeth MALTRAVERS, Heiress Of Hook, b. 1378, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England d. 1422, Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England (Age 44 years) Marriage Oct 1397 [5] Family ID F3093 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Edmund CHEYNEY, Of Brook & Ottery, Sir, b. 1401, Brooke, Westbury, Wiltshire, England d. 1430, Ottery St. Mary, Honiton, Devonshire, England (Age 29 years) Children 1. Elizabeth CHENEY, b. Feb 1424, Poyntington, Somerset, England d. Abt 1502 (Age ~ 77 years)2. Anne CHEYNEY, Heiress Of Brooke, b. 26 Jul 1428, Brooke, Westbury, Wiltshire, England d. 10 Jun 1470 (Age 41 years)3. Cecily CHENEY, b. 1430, Westbury, Wiltshire, England d. 9 Jun 1431 (Age 1 year)Family ID F1841 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Dec 2022
Family 2 Walter TAILBOYS, 6th Baron Kyme, Sheriff Lincoln, b. Abt 1391, Kyme, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England d. 13 Apr 1444 (Age ~ 53 years) Alt. Marriage 1415 Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham, England [7] Marriage Bef 1432 2ND Husband, 2ND Wife [2, 4] Children 1. Lady Margaret TAILBOYS, b. 1410, Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham, England d. 1492, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England (Age 82 years)2. Sir William TAILBOYS, b. 1415, Kyme, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England d. 26 May 1464, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England (Age 49 years)3. Eleanor TAILBOYS, b. 1416, Kyme, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England d. Yes, date unknown4. Elizabeth TAILBOYS, b. 1442, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England d. 9 Nov 1545, Thetford Abbey, Norfolk, England (Age 103 years)5. Sir Robert TAILBOIS, Lord of Kyme, b. 1451, England d. 30 Jan 1493, England (Age 42 years)6. Gilbert TAILBOIS, b. 1455, Kyme, Llincolnshire, England d. 1466, Kyme, Lincolnshire, England (Age 11 years)7. Eleanor TAILBOYS, b. 1466, Kyme, Lincolnshire, England d. 11 Feb 1503, Tower of London, Middlesex, England (Age 37 years)Family ID F6869 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Dec 2022
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Notes - Alice, heiress of Stafford Earls of Devon, dead by 24 Apr 1448, widow of Sir Henry Cheyney, Knight, and daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford. [Ancestral Roots]
Note: Alice was widow of Edmond, not Henry Cheyney - see notes from Doug Gentile below.
Note: Burke's Peerage, p. 832, on the history of the Earldom of Devon, states "Subsequently a member of the Stafford family who were for a while Dukes of Buckingham (see Stafford, Baron) was created Earl of Devon in 1469 by Edward IV. On joining an uprising in the North of England, however, he was executed later the same year, having held the title exactly three months." This is the only Stafford Earl of Devon (the rest were almost all Courtenay family), which makes the "Earls" plural in the above citation from AR a little bit of an exageration. On p. 2680, Stafford, Baron, Burke's lists Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, b. 15 Aug 1402 (too late to be Alice's father), d. 10 July 1460. There were no Humphrey's listed before him and no one was listed who was Earl of Devon or died in 1469 (It is very small text with the 1st Duke's family going on for 2 long pages, and I have been known to miss things, but I did search thoroughly). Who the Humphrey cited above is or his relationship to the "Stafford Earls of Devon" or Dukes of Buckingham or Earls/Barons of Stafford is a mystery.
Subsequent Note: According to Doug Gentile, soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup, in a 20 Oct 1999 posting, Humphrey's ancestry is:
1. Humphrey Stafford of Hooke, Knight, c1380-27 May 1442; m. Oct 1397
....Elizabeth Mautravers d, c1426, daughter & heir of Sir John Mautravers of Hooke. (I spell it Maltravers)
2. Humphrey Stafford of Southwick in North Bradley, Wiltshire, Knight, c1343-15 Oct 1413; m1. c1365
3. Alice Greville, b. c1345, daughter & heir of Sir John Greville of Southwick in North Bradley, Knight.
....m2. 1386-8, Elizabeth d'Aumarle, 2nd daughter & coheir of Sir William d'Aumarle of Woodbury, Knight
4. Sir John Stafford of Bramshall, Knight, c1302-c Aug 1373, m1. c1327
....Elizabeth Somerville, c1320-1341, daughter and coheir of Sir Philip Somerville of Wychnor, c1278-1355
5. m2. c1342 Margaret Stafford, daughter of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl Stafford, 1301-1372.
Note: Doug Gentile states that Alice had children by Edmund (NOT Henry) Cheyney of Brook in Westbury, Knight, 1401-1430; and that she was the de facto eventual heiress of Humphrey, even though he had 4 sons and 2 daughters. One of the sons, William, had a son Humphrey, who became Earl of Devon 7 May 1469. but dsp.
- Alice, heiress of Stafford Earls of Devon, dead by 24 Apr 1448, widow of Sir Henry Cheyney, Knight, and daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford. [Ancestral Roots]
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Sources - [S579] Jim Weber.
- [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 108-9 (Reliability: 3).
- [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 224-35 (Reliability: 3).
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VII:359 (Reliability: 3).
- [S44] Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at groups - google.com, Doug Gentile, 20 Oct 1999 (Reliability: 3).
- [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, VII:478 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Alice STAFFORD, person ID LKG6-BN8. (Reliability: 3).
- [S579] Jim Weber.