Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sir Richard De STAFFORD Birth: Abt 1339 Death: Before 1380
  2. Edmund De STAFFORD, Bishop Of Exeter Birth: 1344 Death: Abt 3 Sep 1419 in Clyst
  3. Sir Thomas De STAFFORD Death: Before 1398
  4. Katherine De STAFFORD Birth: Before 1338
  5. Maud De STAFFORD

Marriage:
Children:
  1. Sir Nicholas De STAFFORD Birth: 1331 Death: 1394
  2. John De STAFFORD Birth: 1333

Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Cox, Anthony, Vernon chantries and benefactions to monasteries, in Derbyshire Miscellany, Local History Bulletin of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society, vol 17 no 6 (Autumn 2006). pp138-157. Available at https://derbyshireas.org.uk/DM17-06.pdf. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Cox VERNON p[0-9]*].
  3. Richardson, Douglas, Richard Stafford. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 8/26/1999. Subject: Richard Stafford's wife - Camville or Vernon?. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/NeIgTiGRZEI/m/2C7swdYjJ6oJ. Author address: dcrdcr4 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 8/26/1999].
  4. Richardson, Douglas, Maud, 2nd wife of Sir Richard de Stafford. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 9/9/2020. Subject: C.P. Addition: Maud, 2nd wife of Sir Richard de Stafford, Lord Stafford. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/YnDxyO-mNBM/m/7_SxH9tjAQAJ. Author address: celticprince at gmail dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 9/9/2020-152319].
  5. Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
  6. Roskell, J S, History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421. Wolfboro Falls, NH: Alan Sutton, 1992. NYPL JFE 95-5018. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v[1-4]p[0-9]*].
  7. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1[pc][0-9]*].
  8. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p[0-9]*].
  9. Bevan, Rosie, Early de Vernon pedigree. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 9/2/2005. Subject: King's Kinsfolk: Richard II's kinsman, Edmund Staffiord. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/00OjYdbx7vc/m/adkkyv7muicJ. Author address: rbevan at paradise dot net dot nz. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 9/2/2005-122619].
  10. Wedgwood, Josiah, Staffordshire Parliamentary History, 1917, in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 3rd series, volume 1917-8, London: Harrison and Sons, 1918. Available at https://archive.org/details/collectionsforhi191719183staf. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1305, second son [Ref: Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p82]
abt 1305, younger son [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132],
parents:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p7, Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p82]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p133, Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p84]
1380 [Ref: Cox VERNON p141, Douglas Richardson SGM 8/26/1999, HoP 1386-1421 v4p442]
Sources with Information about marriage to Isabella De VERNON
date:
1337 [Ref: Burke Peerage p2039, Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p82]
before 1339 [Ref: Cox VERNON p141]
before 16 Mar 1339, as first marriage of Richard [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132]
before 3 Feb 1339 [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 9/9/2020-152319]
first marriage of Richard [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p8],
names:
[Ref: Rosie Bevan SGM 9/2/2005-122619],
child:
[Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 8/26/1999, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p135, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p137, Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p83]
Sources with Information about marriage to Maud Griffith
date:
1351-7 [Ref: Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p83]
by 1357 [Ref: Cox VERNON p141]
second marriage of Maud [Ref: Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p45]
second marriage of Richard [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p8]
settlement dated 6 Nov 1371 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p133]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 8/26/1999, HoP 1386-1421 v4p442, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p137, Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p83]
Research Notes:
Lord Stafford [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p7]
Lord Stafford of Clifton [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p442]

Knt, of Pipe, Bushbury, and Bridgeford (in Seighford), Staffordshire, Chipping Campden, Aston Subedge, Charingworth (in Ebtington), and Ullington (in Pebworth), Gloucestershire, Chilcote, Derbyshire (now Leicestershire), Norton (in Hales), Shropshire, and in right of his 1st wife, of Clifton-Campville, Haselor, Haunton, and Stotford, Staffordshire, Magna Sheepy, Leicestershire, Arrow, Bramcote (in Polesworth), and Grendon, Warwickshire, and in right of his 2nd wife, of Tatenhill, Staffordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132]
of Clifton Campville, co Stafford, Sibbertoft, co Northampton, and Campden and Aston, co Gloucester [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 8/26/1999]
Knt [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p7]

K.B. [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p8]

1337: obtained Pipe from his mother, who had obtained it in 1334 from her son Sir James de Pipe [Ref: Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p83]

Steward of Edward the Black Prince [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132]

1341: Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132]

DNB is not only incomplete as to his record, but absolutely wrong as to his marriages [Ref: Wedgwood StaffordshireParl v1p85]

1361: Seneschal of Gascony [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p132]

8 Jan 1370/1 to 20 Oct 1379: summoned to Parliament, by writs directed "Richardus de Stafford, le Piere." [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 9/9/2020-152319]



Pedigree of Sir Richard De STAFFORD
                                                       /-----Bagod
                                              /-----Hervey BAGOT
                                     /-----Hervey BAGOT
                            /-----Hervey De STAFFORD
                           |        |                           /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
                           |        |                  /-----Nicholas De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
                           |        |                 |         \-----Avice
                           |        |         /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
                           |        |        |        |         /-----Ralph De LIMESY, Baron Of Cavendish
                           |        |        |         \-----Maud MOOLTE
                           |        |        |                  \-----(Unk)
                           |         \-----Millicent De STAFFORD
                           |                  \-----Avice
                   /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
                  |        |                                    /-----Henry De FERRERS, Baron Of Tutbury
                  |        |                           /-----Robert FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
                  |        |                          |         \-----Bertha
                  |        |                  /-----Robert De FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
                  |        |                 |        |         /-----Andre I De Vitre
                  |        |                 |         \-----Hawise
                  |        |                 |                  \-----Agnes Of Mortain
                  |        |         /-----William FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
                  |        |        |        |                  /-----William PEVEREL, Baron Of Peverel
                  |        |        |        |         /-----William PEVERIL, Baron Of Peverel
                  |        |        |        |        |         \-----Adeline
                  |        |        |         \-----Margaret PEVERIL
                  |        |        |                 |         /-----William I De LANCASTER, Baron Of Kendal
                  |        |        |                  \-----Avice De LANCASTER
                  |         \-----Pernell De FERRIERS
                  |                 |                           /-----William De BRAOS, Baron Of Bramber
                  |                 |                  /-----Philip De BRAOS, Baron Of Bramber
                  |                 |         /-----William De BRAOS, Baron Of Bramber
                  |                 |        |        |         /-----Johel De TOTENEIS, Baron Of Barnstaple
                  |                 |        |         \-----Aenor De TOTENEIS
                  |                 |        |                  \-----(Unk Dau) Of Picquigny
                  |                  \-----Sibyl De BRAOISE
                  |                          |                  /-----Walter FITZ ROGER
                  |                          |         /-----Miles FITZ WALTER, Earl Of Hereford
                  |                          |        |         \-----Berthe De BALLON
                  |                           \-----Bertha Of Hereford
                  |                                   |         /-----Bernard De NEUFMARCHE, Lord Of Brecon
                  |                                    \-----Sibyl De NEUFMARCHE
                  |                                             \-----Nesta
          /-----Nicholas De STAFFORD
         |        |                                             /-----Roger Fitz CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |                                    /-----Robert CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |                           /-----Roger CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |                  /-----Robert CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |         /-----Thomas CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |         \-----Alice CORBET
         |                 |                                    /-----Roger De VAUTORT, Baron Of Trematon
         |                 |                           /-----Ralph De VAUTORT, Baron Of Trematon
         |                 |                  /-----Reginald De VAUTORT, Baron Of Trematon
         |                 |         /-----Roger De VAUTORT, Baron Of Trematon
         |                  \-----Isabel De VAUTORT
         |                           \-----Alice
 /-----Edmund De STAFFORD, Lord Stafford
|        |                  /-----Walter De LANGLEY
|        |         /-----Sir Geoffrey De LANGLEY
|        |        |         \-----Emma De LACY
|         \-----(Unk) De LANGLEY
|                 |                                    /-----(Unk) De HAGET
|                 |                           /-----Alfred De BRIGHTWELL
|                 |                  /-----Richard De BRIGHTWELL
|                 |         /-----Robert De BRIGHTWELL
|                  \-----Matilda De BRIGHTWELL
Sir Richard De STAFFORD
|                                                               /-----Ralph BASSET
|                                                      /-----Richard BASSET, Justiciar Of England
|                                             /-----Ralph BASSET
|                                            |        |         /-----Geoffrey RIDEL
|                                            |         \-----Maud RIDEL
|                                            |                  \-----Geva Of Chester
|                                    /-----Ralph BASSET
|                                   |         \-----Alicia
|                           /-----Ralph BASSET
|                  /-----Ralph BASSET
|         /-----Ralph BASSET, Lord Basset Of Drayton
|        |        |                           /-----John De SOMERY
|        |        |                  /-----Sir Ralph De SOMERY, Baron Of Dudley
|        |        |                 |        |                  /-----Fulk PAYNEL
|        |        |                 |        |         /-----Ralph PAYNEL, Baron Of Dudley
|        |        |                 |        |        |         \-----Beatrix
|        |        |                 |         \-----Hawise De PAYNELL
|        |        |                 |                 |         /-----Robert FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
|        |        |                 |                  \-----(Unk Dau) De FERRERS
|        |        |                 |                           \-----Hawise
|        |        |         /-----Sir Roger De SOMERY, Baron Of Dudley
|        |        |        |        |                  /-----William Le GROS
|        |        |        |        |         /-----William Le GROS
|        |        |        |         \-----Margaret Le GROS
|        |        |        |                 |                  /-----Gilbert GIFFARD, Marshal
|        |        |        |                 |         /-----John Fitz GILBERT The Marshal
|        |        |        |                 |        |         \-----(Unk dau) De VENOIZ
|        |        |        |                  \-----(Unk dau) Marshall
|        |        |        |                          |         /-----Walter De SALISBURY, Baron Of Chitterne
|        |        |        |                           \-----Sibyl De SALISBURY
|        |        |        |                                    \-----Sibyl De CHAWORTH
|        |         \-----Margaret De SOMERY
|        |                 |                                    /-----William D'AUBIGNY, Baron Of Buckenham
|        |                 |                           /-----William D'AUBIGNY, Earl Of Arundel
|        |                 |                          |         \-----Maud Le BIGOD
|        |                 |                  /-----William D'AUBIGNY, Earl Of Sussex And Arundel
|        |                 |                 |        |         /-----Godfrey I The Bearded Duke Of Brabant
|        |                 |                 |         \-----Adeliza Of Louvain, Queen Dowager Of England
|        |                 |                 |                  \-----Ida Of Chiny
|        |                 |         /-----William D'AUBIGNY, Earl Of Arundel
|        |                 |        |        |                  /-----Hasculf De St JAMES, Baron Of Field Dalling
|        |                 |        |        |         /-----James De St HILARY, Baron Of Field Dalling
|        |                 |        |        |        |         \-----Matilda
|        |                 |        |         \-----Maud St. HILLARY
|        |                 |        |                  \-----Aveline
|        |                  \-----Nichole D'AUBIGNY
|        |                          |                           /-----Ranulph III De MESCHINES, Earl Of Chester
|        |                          |                  /-----Ranulf De GERNON, Earl Of Chester, Vicomte D'Avranches
|        |                          |                 |         \-----Lucia Of East Angies
|        |                          |         /-----Hugh Of Kevelioc, Earl Of Chester
|        |                          |        |        |         /-----Robert The Consul De CAEN, Earl Of Gloucester
|        |                          |        |         \-----Maud De CAEN
|        |                          |        |                  \-----Maud FITZ HAMOND
|        |                           \-----Mabel Of Chester
|        |                                   |                  /-----Amauri IV De MONTFORT, Count Of Evereux
|        |                                   |         /-----Simon De MONTFORT, Count Of Evreux
|        |                                   |        |         \-----Agnes De Garlande
|        |                                    \-----Bertrade De MONTFORT
|        |                                             \-----Maud
 \-----Margaret BASSET
         |                                                      /-----Hugh De BERGES
         |                                             /-----Ansketil De BERGES
         |                                            |         \-----(Unk) De QUENIBOROUGH
         |                                    /-----Geoffrey Le DESPENSER
         |                                   |         \-----Rohese
         |                           /-----Thomas Le DESPENSER
         |                  /-----Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER
         |                 |         \-----Recuara
         |         /-----Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER, Justiciar Of England
          \-----Hawise Le DESPENSER
                  |                                    /-----Gilbert BASSET
                  |                           /-----Thomas BASSET
                  |                          |        |         /-----Robert De Oilly, Baron Of Hook Norton
                  |                          |         \-----Edith
                  |                          |                  \-----Edith SIGULFSSON
                  |                  /-----Sir Alan BASSET
                  |                 |        |                  /-----Reginald De DUNSTANVILLE
                  |                 |        |         /-----Alan De DUNSTANVILLE
                  |                 |        |        |         \-----Adelisa De INSULA
                  |                 |         \-----Adeliza De DUNSTANVILLE
                  |         /-----Sir Philip BASSET, Justiciar Of England
                  |        |        |                           /-----Rainald De NORTHBROOK
                  |        |        |                  /-----Stephen De GAI
                  |        |        |         /-----Phillip De GAI
                  |        |        |        |        |         /-----Walter PIPARD
                  |        |        |        |         \-----Aline PIPARD
                  |        |         \-----Aline De GAI
                  |        |                  \-----Sedzilia
                   \-----Aline BASSET
                           |                                    /-----Godfrey II Count Of Louvain
                           |                           /-----Godfrey III Count Of Louvain
                           |                          |         \-----Luitgarde Of Sultzbach
                           |                  /-----Godfrey De LOUVAINE
                           |                 |        |         /-----Louis Count Of Loos And Rienack
                           |                 |         \-----Imaine Of Loos
                           |                 |                  \-----Agnes Of Metz
                           |         /-----Matthew De LOUVAINE, Baron Of Little Easton
                           |        |        |                  /-----William Fitz ROBERT, Baron Of Little Easton
                           |        |        |         /-----Robert De HASTINGS, Baron Of Little Easton
                           |        |        |        |         \-----Hawise De GUERRES
                           |        |         \-----Delicia (Alice) De HASTINGS
                           |        |                 |         /-----Roger De FLAMVILLE
                           |        |                  \-----Maud De FLAMVILLE
                           |        |                           \-----Juetta De ARCHES
                            \-----Hawise De LOUVAINE
                                     \-----Muriel (Amy)



Descendants of Sir Richard De STAFFORD
1. Sir Richard De STAFFORD m1. Isabella De VERNON m2. Maud Griffith m3.
m. Isabella De VERNON father: Sir Richard De VERNON mother: Maud De CAMVILLE
m. Maud Griffith father: Sir Rhys Hen Ap Gruffudd mother: Joan SOMERVILLE

2nd generation

4. Sir Thomas De STAFFORD m. Alice SULNEY
m. Alice SULNEY father: Sir Alfred SULNEY
5. Katherine De STAFFORD m. Sir Thomas De ARDERNE
m. Sir Thomas De ARDERNE father: Sir John ARDERN mother: Ellen WASTENEYS

3rd generation

9. Thomas De STAFFORD m1. Isabel BAGOT m2. Katherine GRESLEY
m. Isabel BAGOT father: Sir William BAGOT mother: Margaret WHATTON
m. Katherine GRESLEY father: Sir John GRESLEY mother: Elizabeth CLARELL
10. Sir John De ARDERNE m. Margaret PILKINGTON
m. Margaret PILKINGTON father: Sir Roger PILKINGTON

4th generation

12. Maud ARDERNE m. Thomas STANLEY
m. Thomas STANLEY father: Sir John STANLEY, K.G. mother: Isabel De LATHOM

5th generation

13. Anne STANLEY m. Sir John GRESLEY
m. Sir John GRESLEY father: Sir John GRESLEY mother: Elizabeth CLARELL
14. Sir John STANLEY m1. Cecily ARDERNE m2. Elizabeth VERNON m3. Anne HORNE
m. Cecily ARDERNE
m. Elizabeth VERNON father: Sir Richard VERNON mother: Benedicta LUDLOW
m. Anne HORNE father: Robert HORNE mother: Joan FABIAN