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Mother. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford. Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham KG (4 September 1455 [ 1 ] – 2 November 1483) was an English nobleman known as the namesake of Buckingham's rebellion, a failed but significant collection of uprisings in England and parts of Wales against Richard III of England in October 1483.
Died: Nov. 2, 1483, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Eng. Henry Stafford, 2nd duke of Buckingham (born c. 1454—died Nov. 2, 1483, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Eng.) was a leading supporter, and later opponent, of King Richard III. He was a Lancastrian descendant of King Edward III, and a number of his forebears had been killed fighting the Yorkists in the Wars ...
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Apr 29, 2017 · Posted on April 29, 2017. In 1457 Margaret Beaufort, shown here in later life, along with her brother-in-law Jasper Tudor left Pembroke Castle. They were on their way to arrange a marriage. The groom in question was Henry Stafford. He was the second son of the Duke of Buckingham. The pair married on the 3rd January 1458 at Maxstowe Castle.
- Theory 1: Richard III Murdered The Princes
- Theory 2: Henry Stafford Killed The Boys
- Theory 3: Henry VII Slew The Brothers
- Theory 4: Margaret Beaufort Killed The Princes
- Theory 5: The Boys Survived
For hundreds of years, it has been popularly held that the ‘Princes in the Tower’ were murdered on the orders of their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1452-1485). On the death of Edward IV(1442-1483), King of England, in April 1483, his brother Richard became Lord Protector of the realm. The king was survived by his two young sons. Far from bei...
After the death of Edward IV in April 1483, the Duke of Buckingham, Henry Stafford (1455-1483), supported the Duke of Gloucester in his successful royal coup. By November Richard had had him killed. He was attained (executed and stripped of lands and titles) for his leading role in the failed ‘Buckingham’s Rebellion’ of that autumn. What had made H...
Henry VII (1457-1509) was the great progenitor of the Tudor royal dynasty and a talented king, nicknamed ‘The Huckster King’ for his shrewd handling of overseas trade deals. After his famous victory at Bosworth in 1485, Henry was clearly determined that he and his descendants should possess the throne. Dispatching his enemies on the battlefield and...
Lady Margaret Beaufort has often been touted as a suspect killer because of her evident determination to get her son Henry Tudor’s backside onto the throne. One hypothesis that has been put forward says that Margaret secretly had the boys killed or hidden and then, with the princes out of the way and with the blame shifted on to Richard, she was sa...
In 1674, builders at the Tower unearthed the skeletal remains of two people, 10ft below the foot of a staircase. These were declared to be the bones of the princes and were reinterred in Westminster Abbey a few years later, despite Tyrrell’s confession to More that the bodies had been moved from there. A controversial 1933 analysis of these remains...
In that year the barony of Stafford was granted toWilliam Howard (1614-1680), who after two months was created Viscount Stafford; he was beheaded in 1680, and his son was created earl of Stafford in 1688, a title which became extinct in 1762; but in 1825 the descent to the barony of 1640 was established, to the satisfaction of the House of Lords, in the person of Sir G. W. Jerningham, in whose ...
Buckingham was beheaded in Salisbury on the following day of 2nd of November 1483. His widow, Catherine Woodville was later married to Henry Tudor's uncle, Jasper Tudor. Buckingham's eldest son, Edward Stafford (1478-1521), eventually succeeded him as Duke, his attainder was removed in 1485. He was executed for treason by Henry VIII in 1521.
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Feb 25, 2019 · Sir Henry Stafford’s will. Posted on February 25, 2019. Henry Stafford was the second son of Humphrey Stafford, First Duke of Buckingham. I’ve posted about him before. The post can be found here. Henry was Margaret’s second husband (discounting John de la Pole). Their marriage began when she was fourteen and covered the period of Henry ...
