Bryan Stapleton

Sir Bryan Stapleton KG (c. 1322 – 1394) was an English medieval knight from Yorkshire.

Life

He was the younger brother of

Stapleton was made a knight of the Garter in 1382; in the following year he and Salisbury escorted King Richard II's young bride, Anne of Bohemia, to Calais; and in 1383 he held a muster there of the troops led by Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich for a campaign in Flanders. He participated in the following negotiations with embassies from France and Flanders, leading to the truce of Leulinghen. He served on the Scottish border between 1386 and 1388, when he was both a commissioner to take evidence and a witness in Lord Scrope's dispute with Sir Robert Grosvenor mentioned above.

In 1376 Stapleton bought Wighill, where he died on 25 July 1394. His will, written in French, was dated 16 May the same year, and is published in Testamenta Eboracensia (i. 198 sq.). He directed that his body should be buried at Helaugh Priory, beside his wife, who had died before him.^[1]

Family

He inherited Carlton and Kentmere from a cousin.^[1]

Before 1360 Stapleton married Alice, widow of Sir Stephen Waleys of Helaugh and daughter and coheiress of Sir John de St. Philibert. He left two sons, of whom, the elder, Brian, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William de Aldeburgh, 1st Baron Aldeburgh, and was the ancestor of the Stapletons of Carlton, died before him; the younger, Sir Miles (died 1400), was the ancestor of the Stapletons of Wighill.^[1]

Brian Stapleton, his young grandson, succeeded him, and fell near Alençon in 1417, fighting in the retinue of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury.^[1]

References

• Rawcliffe, Carole. "Stapleton, Sir Brian".
  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26299. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Stapleton, Brian de" . Dictionary of National Biography
  . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.