Thomas STANLEY

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Thomas Stanley, K.B., Earl of Derby, son and heir of George Stanley, Lord Strange, by Joan daughter and heiress of John le Strange, Lord Strange, of Knokyn. He was born before 1485 and was grandson and heir of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. He succeeded to the Earldom ofDerby, and later succeeded his mother as Lord Strange (of Knokin), and Mohun (of Dunster). He attended King Henry VIII in the French expedition in 1513, was at the battle of Spurs on 18 Aug 1513, and attended the Emperor Charles V at Dover in 1520.

Thomas married Anne HASTINGS before 1503. Anne (daughter of Edward HASTINGS, Knt. and Mary HUNGERFORD) died on 17 Nov 1550. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret STANLEY died after Jan 1533/4.

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In consequence of his marriage, he was summoned to Parliament from 15 Nov 1482 by writs directed 'Georgio Stanley de la Strange', whereby he became Lord Strange. He was in hostage to King Richard III, and ran great risk of his life through his father's treachery to that King. George Stanley, Lord Strange, died aged about forty-three on 4 or 5 Dec 1503, being said to have been poisoned at a banquet, at Derby House, St. Paul's Wharf, London, and was buried (with his mother) at St. Jame's Garlickhithe.

George married Joan LE STRANGE before 26 Feb 1481. Joan (daughter of John LE STRANGE and Jacquette WOODVILLE) was born about 1463; died on 20 Mar 1513/4 in Colham Green, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On her father's death on 15 Oct 1477, she became Baroness Strange of Knokyn, and Mohun of Dunster 'suo jure'.

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• Fact: 1st Earl of Derby
• Fact 1: 1st Lord Stanley

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He betrayed the cause of King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth on 22 Aug. 1485, and is said to have set that King's crown on the head of his step-son, the victorious Henry VII. He was created Earl of Derby on 27 Oct. 1485. On 24 June 1495, he received a visit lasting nearly a month from the King and Queen, at Knowsley and at Lathom "Thomas Stanley, erle of Derby and lord Stanley" died testate aged sixty-nine at Lathom on 29 July 1504, and was buried with his ancestors at Burscough Priory, co. Lancaster.

Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby. This eminent man was summoned to parliament in the first year of Edward IV., and married Eleanor, daughter of the Earl of Salisbury and sister to Earl of Warwick, the famous "kingmaker," by whom he had six sons. The fifth of these named Edward, commanded the left wing of the English army at the battle of Flodden in 1513, which proved so fatal to the Scottish army. it was to him that the dying Marmion appealed in the famous lines of Scott's poem,

"Charge, Chester, charge; on, Stanley, on,
Were the last word of Marmion."

For his service on that occasion the king bestowed upon him the title of Baron Monteagle, in allusion to the crest of the family.

The wife of Lord Thomas having died, he married for his second wife a very distinguished lady, no less a personage than Margaret of Lancaster, mother of Henry VII. She had already been twice married, first to the Earl of Richmond, who died in 1456, father to Henry; and secondly to Sir Henry Stafford, the great Duke of Buckingham. Her third marriage to Lord Stanley was anything but a match for love, and it is said that it was contracted with the express stipulation that he should never occupy her bed.

it was now near the close of the terrible wars of the Roses for the English crown, between the rival houses of York and Lancaster. Lord Stanley had been an adherent of the White Rose of the House of York, but his present wife's son, Henry, Earl of Richmond, was the head of the House of Lancaster, and claimant of the throne. The usurping King Richard III., who, to secure his crown, had murdered the young King Edward V., and his brother the Duke of York and buried them under the stairs of the Tower, sought by honors and blandishments to attach the Stanleys to his side. At his coronation, July 6, 1473, Stanley's wife, the Countess of Richmond, bore the train of the queen. But all was in vain. The cruelties of Richard alienated his people, and prepared them for a revolution which should place Henry on the throne, and bring the fatal rivalry between York and Lancaster to an end by Henry's marriage with Elizabeth, Princess of York. To this scheme Lord Stanley gave his assent, but privately. When Henry's forces approached from the South, Stanley's men, of whom he had some five thousand, first marched in advance of them, as if retreating, but when they reached the battlefield at Bosworth, they went over to Henry's side. Richard, perceiving the defection, made a desperate charge upon his foes, cut his way to Henry's standard, killed Sir William Brandon, the standard bearer, and was directing a deadly thrust at his rival, when Lord Stanley came to the rescue. Richard's troops fled at once, and he was thrown from his horse, and dispatched with many wounds. Stanley picked up hi blood stained and battered crown, and placed it on Henry's head, proclaiming him King of England. For these eminent services the new monarch advanced Lord Stanley, 27 Oct. 1485, to the dignity of the Earl of Derby, and constituted him one of the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Steward of England on the day of his coronation. His lordship, the March following had a grant of the high office of Constable of England for life. He had no children by his second marriage, and dying in 1504, was succeeded by his grandson.

Thomas married Alianor NEVILLE after 10 May 1457. Alianor (daughter of Sir Richard DE NEVILLE, K.G. and Alice MONTAGU) was buried in St. James, Garlickhithe, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Jacquette WOODVILLE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Jacquette Wydeville

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Lord Stanley of Lathom and Knowsley
• Fact 2: Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• Fact: 1432, Member of Parliament
• Fact 1: 1456, Knight of Garter

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He was summoned to Parliament on 15 Jan. 1455/6 by write directed 'Thome Stanley militi domino de Stanley', whereby he is held to have become Lord Stanley.

Thomas married Joan GOUSHILL. Joan (daughter of Sir Robert GOUSHILL, Esq. and Elizabeth FITZ ALAN) was born about 1401; died after 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: 4th Earl of Salisbury

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He was Warden of the Wes march of Scotland, and Constable of Pontefract Castle. "Richard Nevil, earl of Salisbury" was killed testate at the battle of Wakefield on 30 Dec 1460 (or was captured after the battle and beheaded after at Pontefract), and was buried at Bisham.

Richard married Alice MONTAGU before Feb 1420/1. Alice (daughter of Thomas MONTAGU, K.G. and Alianor II DE HOLAND) was born about 1408; died between 03 Apr and 09 Dec 1462. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: Bef Feb 1462/3

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Richard Wydeville
• Fact: 1st Earl Rivers

Richard married Jacquetta Of LUXEMBOURG before 23 Mar 1436/7. Jacquetta (daughter of Pierre Of LUXEMBOURG and Marguerite DE BAUX) was born in 1415; died on 30 May 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]