Margaret de Stafford

Margaret de Stafford
Countess of Westmorland
Spouse(s)	Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Issue
Maud de Neville, Baroness Mauley Alice de Neville, Lady Grey Philippa de Neville, Baroness Dacre Ralph de Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland Joan de Berkeley Elizabeth de Neville Anne de Neville Margaret de Neville, Baroness Scrope Anastasia de Neville
Father	Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford
Mother	Philippa de Beauchamp
Born	1364
Died	18 October 1396

Margaret de Stafford (1364 – 18 October 1396 in Brancepeth, County Durham, England) was the second daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and Philippa de Beauchamp. She became the first wife of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland.

She was a maternal first cousin of the 1st Earl of Worcester and the 13th Earl of Warwick; as well as a maternal aunt of the soldier and commander William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and a paternal aunt of the military commander Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

Marriage and children

In 1382, Lady Margaret married Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. They had nine children:

• Maud de Neville (d. October 1438), married Piers de Mauley, 5th Baron Mauley
• Alice de Neville, married first Sir Thomas Grey of Heton; married second Sir Gilbert Lancaster
• Philippa de Neville, married Thomas Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre
• John de Neville, Lord Neville (d. 1420)
• Sir Ralph Neville (d. 25 February 1458), married Mary Ferrers, daughter of Sir Robert Ferrers and had issue
• Elizabeth de Neville, a nun
• Anne de Neville, married Sir Gilbert Umfraville
• Margaret de Neville (d. c. 1465), married first Richard Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Bolton; married second William Cressoner
• Anastasia de Neville

Ancestors

References

• tudorplace.com.ar Retrieved November 24, 2007
• thePeerage.com (retrieved November 24, 2007)
• Richard Glanville-Brown, correspondence, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), August 17, 2005.
• G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 547.

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Name	Stafford, Margaret De
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Date of birth	1364
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Date of death	18 October 1396
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