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. Alice STAFFORD Death: Before 24 Apr 1448
  2. Sir Richard STAFFORD Death: Abt 1427
  3. (Unk) STAFFORD
  4. Thomas STAFFORD Death: After 1426
  5. Humphrey STAFFORD Death: After 1426
  6. Sir John STAFFORD Birth: 2 Death: 5 Nov 1427
  7. William STAFFORD Birth: 3 Death: 18 Jun 1450 in Sevenoaks, Kent

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. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 02 Bass-Canning. London: St Catherine Press, 1912. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 2 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo02coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP II [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 04 Dacre-Dysart. London: St Catherine Press, 1916. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 4 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo04byucoka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP IV [Ap][p0-9].*].
  4. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 07 Hussee-Lincolnshire. London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VII [Ap][p0-9].*].
  5. Richardson, Douglas, Alice Stafford wife of William Boteler, Edmund Cheyne and Walter Tailboys. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 8/22/2014. Subject: C.P. Addition: Alice Stafford [died c.1448], wife of William Boteler, Knt., de jure 6th Lord Sudeley, Edmund Cheyne, Knt., and Walter Tailboys, Knt.. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/4AxyYYp99cM/m/NlqHx4nSkuUJ. Author address: royalancestry at msn dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas Richardson SGM 8/22/2014-053915].
  6. Faris, David, Plantagenet ancestry of seventeenth century colonists: the descent from the later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701, second edition. Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999. NYPL APR (New England) 01-1513. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Faris PA2 p[0-9ivxc]*].
  7. 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]*].
  8. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2005. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson MCA p[0-9]*].
  9. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Baltimore, MD: Genelogical Publishing Co, 2004. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson PA p[0-9]*].
  10. 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]*].
  11. 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 v2p[0-9]*].
  12. 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 v4p[0-9]*].
  13. 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]*].
  14. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
abt 1379 (age 23 in 1413) [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]
abt 1379 [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439, Richardson MCA p570],
parents:
[Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p437, HoP 1386-1421 v4p439, Richardson MCA p570, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p679, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p71]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: CP IV p327(b), HoP 1386-1421 v4p441, Richardson MCA p570, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p681]
1442 [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p441, Richardson MCA p570, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p681]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth MAUTRAVERS
date:
before Oct 1397 [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439, Richardson MCA p570, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680],
names:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p72],
child:
[Ref: CP IV p327(b), Douglas Richardson SGM 8/22/2014-053915, HoP 1386-1421 v4p439, HoP 1386-1421 v4p441, Richardson MCA p15, Richardson MCA p570, Richardson PA p181, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p337, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p166, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p681, Richardson RoyalAnc v5p111, Weis AR7 #224]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Perton, Bramshall, and Littywood (in Bradley), Staffordshire, Burmington, Warwickshire, Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, Amblecote (in Old Swinford), Worcestershire, etc, and in right of his wife, of Long Wittenham, Berkshire, Hooke Dorset, Alberstone (in Brading), Hampshire, Compton Dundon, Kingdon Cary, and Mieeld Chinnock, Somerset, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]
Knt, of Hooke, Dorset, Perton, Staffordshire, and Southwick (in North Bradley, Wiltshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p166]
Knt, of Hooke, Dorset, Perton, Amblecote, etc, Staffordshire, and Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v5p111]
Knt, of Perton, Bramshall, and Littywood (in Bradley), Staffordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p72]
Knt, of Perton, Ablecote, etc, Staffordshire, Hooke, Dorset, and Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p337]
Knt, of Perton, Amblecote, Bramshall, and Littywood (in Bradley), Staffordshire, Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, and Hooke, Dorset [Ref: Richardson MCA p570]
Knt, of Perton, Staffordshire, and Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire [Ref: Richardson PA p181]
of Hook and Southwick [Ref: CP IV p327(b)]
of Hooke, Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]
of Hook, Dorset [Ref: Burke Peerage p181, CP II p132, Faris PA2 p23, Richardson PA p100]
Knt [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p71]

heir of his father [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439, Richardson MCA p570, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

Sheriff of Staffordshire and of Somerset and Dorset [Ref: Richardson MCA p570]
Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire and for Dorset [Ref: Richardson MCA p570]

before Oct 1397: knighted [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439, HoP 1386-1421 v4p440]

King's knight [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

5 Nov 1403-22 Oct 1404: Sheriff of Staffordshire [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1403-4: Sheriff of Stafford shire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

1406: Member of Parliament for Staffordshire [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1406: Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

1413: Knight of the Body to King Henry V at his coronation [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

Apr 1414: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

in later years, styled "Sir Humphrey of the silver hand" apparently because of his use of an artifical limb after losing one of his own [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

1414, 1417, 1419-22, 1426-7, 1432: Knight of the Shire for Dorset [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

Nov 1414: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1 Dec 1415-30 Nov 1416: Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1415-6, ?1423-4: Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p680]

1417: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1419: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1420: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

May 1421: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1422: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1426: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1427: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

1432: Member of Parliament for Dorset [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

five sons (four of which d.v.p), two daughters [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p439]

known as Sir Humphrey Stafford of the silver hand, apparently because of his use of an artificial limb after losing one of his own in a bellicose engagement [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p440]

will dated 14 Dec 1441 [Ref: HoP 1386-1421 v4p441]



Pedigree of Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
                                                                /-----Hervey BAGOT
                                                       /-----Hervey BAGOT
                                              /-----William De STAFFORD
                                             |        |         /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
                                             |         \-----Millicent De STAFFORD
                                             |                  \-----Avice
                                     /-----William De STAFFORD
                            /-----Sir William De STAFFORD
                           |        |                           /-----Richard De VERNON
                           |        |                  /-----Warin De VERNON, Lord Of Shipbrook
                           |        |                 |         \-----Avice AVENEL
                           |        |         /-----Warine De VERNON, Lord Of Shipbrook
                           |        |        |        |         /-----William MALBANK
                           |        |        |         \-----Auda MALBANK
                           |         \-----Aude De VERNON
                           |                 |         /-----Ralph De ANDEVILLE
                           |                  \-----Margaret De ANDEVILLE
                   /-----Sir William De STAFFORD
                  |        |         /-----Robert WAURE
                  |         \-----Cecily WAURE
          /-----Sir John De STAFFORD
         |        |                                             /-----Hervey BAGOT
         |        |                                    /-----Hervey BAGOT
         |        |                           /-----Hervey De STAFFORD
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
         |        |                          |         \-----Millicent De STAFFORD
         |        |                          |                  \-----Avice
         |        |                  /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
         |        |                 |        |                  /-----Robert De FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
         |        |                 |        |         /-----William FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
         |        |                 |        |        |         \-----Margaret PEVERIL
         |        |                 |         \-----Pernell De FERRIERS
         |        |                 |                 |         /-----William De BRAOS, Baron Of Bramber
         |        |                 |                  \-----Sibyl De BRAOISE
         |        |                 |                           \-----Bertha Of Hereford
         |        |         /-----Sir Robert De STAFFORD
         |        |        |        |                           /-----Roger CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Robert CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |        |        |         /-----Thomas CORBET, Baron Of Cause
         |        |        |         \-----Alice CORBET
         |        |        |                 |                  /-----Reginald De VAUTORT, Baron Of Trematon
         |        |        |                 |         /-----Roger De VAUTORT, Baron Of Trematon
         |        |        |                  \-----Isabel De VAUTORT
         |        |        |                           \-----Alice
         |         \-----Isabella De STAFFORD
         |                 |                                    /-----Hervey BAGOT
         |                 |                           /-----Hervey BAGOT
         |                 |                  /-----William De STAFFORD
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
         |                 |                 |         \-----Millicent De STAFFORD
         |                 |                 |                  \-----Avice
         |                 |         /-----William De STAFFORD
         |                  \-----Gundrada De STAFFORD
         |                          |                           /-----Walchelin of Radbourne
         |                          |                  /-----Robert Fitz WALKELIN
         |                          |         /-----Robert Fitz WALKELIN
         |                           \-----Ermentrude Fitz WALKELIN
         |                                   |         /-----William De GRENDON
         |                                    \-----Margaret De GRENDON
         |                                             \-----Ermentrude
 /-----Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
|        |                                                      /-----Hervey BAGOT
|        |                                             /-----Hervey De STAFFORD
|        |                                            |         \-----Millicent De STAFFORD
|        |                                    /-----Robert De STAFFORD, Baron Of Stafford
|        |                                   |        |         /-----William FERRERS, Earl Of Derby
|        |                                   |         \-----Pernell De FERRIERS
|        |                                   |                  \-----Sibyl De BRAOISE
|        |                           /-----Nicholas De STAFFORD
|        |                          |        |                  /-----Robert CORBET, Baron Of Cause
|        |                          |        |         /-----Thomas CORBET, Baron Of Cause
|        |                          |         \-----Alice CORBET
|        |                          |                 |         /-----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
|        |                 |                 |                  /-----Richard De BRIGHTWELL
|        |                 |                 |         /-----Robert De BRIGHTWELL
|        |                 |                  \-----Matilda De BRIGHTWELL
|        |         /-----Sir Ralph De STAFFORD, K.G., Earl Of Stafford
|        |        |        |                                    /-----Ralph BASSET
|        |        |        |                           /-----Ralph BASSET
|        |        |        |                  /-----Ralph BASSET
|        |        |        |         /-----Ralph BASSET, Lord Basset Of Drayton
|        |        |        |        |        |                  /-----Sir Ralph De SOMERY, Baron Of Dudley
|        |        |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Roger De SOMERY, Baron Of Dudley
|        |        |        |        |        |        |         \-----Margaret Le GROS
|        |        |        |        |         \-----Margaret De SOMERY
|        |        |        |        |                 |         /-----William D'AUBIGNY, Earl Of Arundel
|        |        |        |        |                  \-----Nichole D'AUBIGNY
|        |        |        |        |                           \-----Mabel Of Chester
|        |        |         \-----Margaret BASSET
|        |        |                 |                           /-----Thomas Le DESPENSER
|        |        |                 |                  /-----Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER
|        |        |                 |                 |         \-----Recuara
|        |        |                 |         /-----Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER, Justiciar Of England
|        |        |                  \-----Hawise Le DESPENSER
|        |        |                          |                  /-----Sir Alan BASSET
|        |        |                          |         /-----Sir Philip BASSET, Justiciar Of England
|        |        |                          |        |         \-----Aline De GAI
|        |        |                           \-----Aline BASSET
|        |        |                                   |         /-----Matthew De LOUVAINE, Baron Of Little Easton
|        |        |                                    \-----Hawise De LOUVAINE
|        |        |                                             \-----Muriel (Amy)
|         \-----Margaret STAFFORD
|                 |         /-----Sir John HASTING
|                  \-----Katharine De HASTING
|                           \-----Eve
Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
|         /-----Sir John GRENVILLE
 \-----Alice GRENVILLE



Descendants of Sir Humphrey STAFFORD
1. Sir Humphrey STAFFORD m. Elizabeth MAUTRAVERS
m. Elizabeth MAUTRAVERS father: Sir John MAUTRAVERS mother: Elizabeth DAUMARLE

2nd generation

2. Alice STAFFORD m1. Sir William De BOTILLER, Lord Sudeley m2. Sir Edmund CHEYNEY m3. Sir Walter TAILBOYS, Lord Kyme
m. Sir William De BOTILLER, Lord Sudeley father: Sir Thomas De BOTILLER, Lord Sudeley mother: Alice De BEAUCHAMP
m. Sir Edmund CHEYNEY father: Sir William CHEYNE mother: Cecily STRETCH
m. Sir Walter TAILBOYS, Lord Kyme father: Sir Walter TAILBOYS, Lord Kyme mother: Margaret
3. Sir Richard STAFFORD m. Maud LOVELL
m. Maud LOVELL father: Robert LOVELL mother: Elizabeth BRYENE
7. Sir John STAFFORD m. Anne BOTREAUX
m. Anne BOTREAUX father: Sir William BOTREAUX, Lord Botreaux mother: Elizabeth BEAUMONT
8. William STAFFORD m. Katherine CHIDIOK
m. Katherine CHIDIOK father: Sir John CHIDIOK, Lord FitzPayn mother: Katherine De LUMLEY

3rd generation

11. Anne CHEYNEY m. John De WILLOUGHBY, Lord Latimer
m. John De WILLOUGHBY, Lord Latimer father: Sir John De WILLOUGHBY, Lord Latimer mother: Jane WELBY
12. Eleanor TAILBOYS m1. Thomas STRANGEWAYS m2. John TWYNHO
m. Thomas STRANGEWAYS father: Roger STRANGEWAYS mother: Alice ORREL
m. John TWYNHO father: John TWYNHO mother: Joan COBYNDON

4th generation

16. Robert WILLOUGHBY, K.G., Lord Latimer, Lord Wi m. Blanche CHAMPERNOUN
m. Blanche CHAMPERNOUN father: John CHAMPERNOUN mother: Elizabeth BIKEBERY

5th generation

30. Robert WILLOUGHBY, Lord Willoughby m1. m2. Elizabeth De BEAUCHAMP m3. Dorothy GREY
m. Elizabeth De BEAUCHAMP father: Sir Richard De BEAUCHAMP, Lord Beauchamp mother: Elizabeth STAFFORD
m. Dorothy GREY father: Thomas GREY, K.G., Marquess of Dorset mother: Cicely BONVILLE, Baroness Harrington And Bonvil