Dorothy Stafford
Dorothy Stafford | |
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Ursula Pole | |
Occupation | Mistress of the Robes to Mary I |
Dorothy Stafford, Lady Stafford (1 October 1526 – 22 September 1604) was an English noblewoman, and an influential person at the court of Queen
Family
Dorothy Stafford was born on 1 October 1526,
Marriage and issue
About 1545 Dorothy Stafford married her distant cousin,
Sir William Stafford's first wife,
Sir William Stafford and Dorothy Stafford had three sons and three daughters:[5][6]
- Douglas Sheffield (1547–1608), daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and sister of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham.[7]
- William Stafford (1554–1612), conspirator, who about 1593 married Anne Gryme (d. 1612), daughter of Thomas Gryme of Antingham, Norfolk, by whom he had a daughter, Dorothy Stafford, and a son, William Stafford (1593–1684).[8]
- Sir John Stafford of Marlwood Park (January 1556 – 28 September 1624), Thornbury, Gloucestershire, who married firstly, Bridget Clopton (d. March 1574), the daughter of William Clopton of Kentwell Hall, by whom he had a son,[9][10] and secondly, on 29 January 1580, Millicent Gresham (buried 24 December 1602), the daughter of Edmund Gresham (buried 31 August 1586) and Joan Hynde, by whom he had no issue.[11]
- Sir John Scott.
- Ursula Stafford (b. 1553), who married Elizabeth I, third son of John Drake (d. 1558), esquire, of Ash in Musbury, Devonshire, and brother of Bernard Drake, by whom she had a son, Francis Drake (d. 1633).[13][14]
- Dorothy Stafford, who likely died in infancy.[15]
On 23 September 1545 Sir William Stafford was knighted in Scotland by
Dorothy Stafford and her family were staunch Protestants, and during the reign of Mary I went into exile at Geneva, where they were befriended by the Protestant reformer, John Calvin, who stood as godfather to their youngest son, John, on 4 January 1556.[16] On 5 May 1556, Sir William Stafford died, and Dorothy moved with her young children to Basel.
Elizabeth I's court
In January 1559, following the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, Dorothy and her children returned to England, where she was received at court. Calvin had strongly opposed their departure, having wanted to keep his godson in
She held her post at court until the Queen's death in 1603,[18] having served her for 40 years. Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth Stafford, was a Lady of the Bedchamber, and her son-in-law, Richard Drake, served as the Queen's Equerry. Her late husband's two stepchildren by Mary Boleyn also held influential posts at court.
Death
Dorothy died on 22 September 1604, and was buried in
Here Lyeth the Lady Dorothy Stafford, Wife and Widow to Sir William Stafford, Knight, Daughter to Henry, Lord Stafford, the only son of Edward, the last Duke of Buckingham: Her mother was Ursula, Daughter to the Countesse of Salisbury, the only Daughter to George, Duke of Clarence, Brother to King Edward the Fourth. Shee continued a true Widow from the Age of 27 till her Death. She served Queen Elizabeth 40 Yeeres, lying in the Bedchamber, esteemed of her, loved of all, doing good, all she could, to every Body, never hurt any; a continual Remembrancer of the Suits of the Poor. As she Lived a religious Life, in great Reputation of Honour and Vertue in the World, so she ended in continual fervent Meditation, and hearty Prayer to God. At which Instant, as all her Life, so after her Death, she gave liberally to the Poore, and died aged 78, the 22. of September 1604. In whose Remembrance, Sir Edward Stafford, her sonne, hath caused this Memorial of her to be in the same Forme and Place as she herselfe long since required him.
Ancestry
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Notes
- ^ Kathy Lynn Emerson, A Who's Who of Tudor Women retrieved on 2 December 2009
- ^ Emerson
- ^ Barbara Jean Harris, Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521, p.73, Google Books, retrieved 3-12-09
- ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 64.
- ^ Richardson states that they had four sons, including Sir Edward, William, and Sir John, and two daughters, Ursula, who married Richard Drake, esquire, and Elizabeth, who married Sir William Drury and Sir John Scot; Richardson IV 2011, p. 64.
- ^ Adams 2006.
- ^ McDermott 2004.
- ^ Holmes 2004.
- ^ The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993 Page: 231
- ^ Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS Page: 50–51
- ^ Gower 1883, pp. 167–8; Nichols 1846, pp. 142–4.
- ^ Lipscomb 1847, pp. 153–4.
- ^ Adams states that two daughters likely died in infancy; however Richardson and other sources state that Ursula married Richard Drake.
- ^ Bridgeman 1883, pp. 18, 36; Ormerod 1819, p. 334.
- ^ Adams 2006.
- ^ Emerson
- ^ Anne Somerset, Ladies in Waiting, p.66, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984
- ^ Emerson
- ^ Adams 2006.
- ^ John Strype's, A Survey of the City of London and Westminster, retrieved 2-12-09
References
- Adams, Simon (2006). "Stafford, Dorothy, Lady Stafford (1526–1604)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69753. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Bridgeman, G.T.O. (1883). "Some Account of the Parish of Church Eaton in the County of Stafford". In Wrottesley, George (ed.). Collections for a History of Staffordshire. Vol. IV, Part II. London: Harrison and Sons. pp. 1–124. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- Gower, Granville Leveson (1883). Genealogy of the Family of Gresham. London: Mitchell and Hughes. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- Holmes, Peter (2004). "Stafford, William". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26217. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Hughes, Jonathan (2004). "Stafford, Mary (c.1499–1543)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70719. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Lipscomb, George (1847). The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham. Vol. III. London: J. & W. Robins. pp. 153–4. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- McDermott, James (2004). "Stafford, Sir Edward (1552–1605)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26203. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Nichols, John Gough, ed. (1846). The Topographer and Genealogist. Vol. I. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. pp. 142–4. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- Ormerod, George (1819). The History of the County Palatine and City of Cheshire. London: Lackington, Hughes. p. 334. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966386. Retrieved 14 March 2013.)
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