Biography of William Stanley 1435-1495
Paternal Family Tree: Stanley
Maternal Family Tree: Emmeline Riddlesford 1223-1276
Before 1423 [his father] Thomas Stanley 1st Baron Stanley (age 18) and [his mother] Jane Goushill Baroness Stanley (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Robert Goushill and Elizabeth Fitzalan Duchess Norfolk (age 56). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. 
Before 1434 Roger Corbet (age 34) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 6) were married. The difference in their ages was 27 years.
Around 1435 William Stanley was born to Thomas Stanley 1st Baron Stanley (age 30) and Jane Goushill Baroness Stanley (age 34) at Lytham, Lancashire.
After 1452 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester (age 24) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 25) were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. 
On 06 Nov 1453 Anne Bardolf Baroness Cobham Sternborough (age 64) died. Her fifth cousin [his future brother-in-law] William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 15) succeeded 6th Baron Bardolf of Wormegay in Norfolk.
Before 1456 John Lovell 8th Baron Lovel 5th Baron Holand (age 23) and [his future wife] Joan Beaumont Baroness Lovel (age 20) were married. She by marriage Baroness Lovel of Titchmarsh. She the daughter of John Beaumont 1st Viscount Beaumont (age 46) and Katherine Neville Duchess Norfolk (age 55). They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. 
In 1456 [his father] Thomas Stanley 1st Baron Stanley (age 51) was created 1st Baron Stanley. [his mother] Jane Goushill Baroness Stanley (age 55) by marriage Baroness Stanley.
On 20 Feb 1459 [his father] Thomas Stanley 1st Baron Stanley (age 54) died at Knowsley, Lancashire. He was buried at Burscough Priory [Map]. His son [his brother] Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 24) succeeded King Mann, 2nd Baron Stanley. Eleanor Neville Baroness Stanley (age 12) by marriage Baroness Stanley.
On 23 Sep 1459 John Dudley 1st Baron Dudley (age 58) attempted to ambush John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 28) whilst he was travelling to Ludlow [Map] to join up with the main Yorkist army; the Battle of Blore Heath. Forewarned by scouts he arranged his troops into battle order. The Yorkist army included John Conyers (age 48), Thomas Harrington (age 59), James Harrington (age 29), Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 59), William Stanley (age 24), Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 26), John Savile, Walter Strickland (age 48) and John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock (age 59).
The Lancastrian army included brothers John Dutton, Thomas Dutton (age 38) and Peter Dutton who were killed.
James Tuchet 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (age 61) was killed by Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 26). His son John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet (age 33) succeeded 6th Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, 3rd Baron Tuchet. Anne Echingham Baroness Audley Heighley (age 39) by marriage Baroness Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, Baroness Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire.
John Dudley 1st Baron Dudley (age 58) and Edmund Dudley (age 34) were captured. Lionel Welles 6th Baron Welles (age 53) fought.
Richard Molyneux of Sefton was killed.
John Egerton (age 55) was killed.
After the battle Margaret of Anjou Queen Consort England (age 29) took refuge at Eccleshall Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
After the battle Thomas Harrington (age 59), John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 28) and Thomas Neville (age 29) were captured at Acton Bridge Tarporley [Map] and imprisoned at Chester Castle [Map] having been detached from the main Yorkist force.
William Troutbeck (age 23) was killed.
On 10 Jul 1460 the Yorkist army led by the future King Edward IV of England (age 18) and including Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 31), Archbishop George Neville (age 28), William Neville 1st Earl Kent (age 55), Edward Brooke 6th Baron Cobham (age 45) and John Scrope 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 22) defeated the Lancastrian army at the 1460 Battle of Northampton.
Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent (age 43) had started the day as part of the Lancastrian army but did nothing to prevent the Yorkist army attacking.
King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 38) was captured.
Humphrey Stafford 1st Duke of Buckingham (age 57) was killed. His grandson Henry Stafford 2nd Duke of Buckingham (age 5) succeeded 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 7th Earl Stafford, 8th Baron Stafford.
John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 42) was killed. His son John Talbot 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 11) succeeded 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, 3rd Earl Waterford, 8th Baron Furnivall, 12th Baron Strange Blackmere, 9th Baron Talbot.
Thomas Percy 1st Baron Egremont (age 37) was killed.
John Beaumont 1st Viscount Beaumont (age 50) was killed. His son [his future brother-in-law] William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 22) succeeded 2nd Viscount Beaumont, 7th Baron Beaumont.
William Lucy (age 56) was killed apparently by a member of the Stafford family who wanted his wife Margaret Fitzlewis (age 21).
Thomas Tresham (age 40) fought.
William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 22) and William Norreys (age 19) were knighted.
Thomas "Bastard of Exeter" Holland was executed following the battle.
The battle was fought south of the River Nene [Map] in the grounds of Delapré Abbey.
On 06 Aug 1462 [his future brother-in-law] William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 24) and Joan Stafford Viscountess Beaumont (age 20) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Beaumont. She the daughter of Humphrey Stafford 1st Duke of Buckingham and Anne Neville Duchess Buckingham (age 54). He the son of John Beaumont 1st Viscount Beaumont and Katherine Neville Duchess Norfolk (age 62). They were first cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
After 28 Feb 1463 William Stanley (age 28) and Joan Beaumont Baroness Lovel (age 28) were married. She the daughter of John Beaumont 1st Viscount Beaumont and Katherine Neville Duchess Norfolk (age 63). They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
Before 1466 [his step-son] Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 10) and Anne Fitzhugh Viscountess Lovell were married. She by marriage Baroness Lovel of Titchmarsh. They were second cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. 
In 1466 [his mother] Jane Goushill Baroness Stanley (age 65) died. She was buried at Burscough Priory [Map]
On 05 Aug 1466 [his wife] Joan Beaumont Baroness Lovel (age 31) died at Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire.
Around 1467 [his son] William Stanley was born to William Stanley (age 32) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 40). The date based on the marriage of his father William Stanley (age 32) and mother Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester which must have taken place after 05 Aug 1666 when his first wife [his former wife] Joan Beaumont Baroness Lovel died?
In or after 1467 [his daughter] Jane Marie Stanley was born to William Stanley (age 32) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 40). The date based on the marriage of her father William Stanley (age 32) and mother Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester which must have taken place after 05 Aug 1666 when his first wife [his former wife] Joan Beaumont Baroness Lovel died?
Around 1471 William Stanley (age 36) and Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 44) were married. The date based on the death of his first wife Joan Beaumont Baroness Lovel. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
On 10 Feb 1474 Alice Deincourt 6th Baroness Deincourt, Baroness Lovel and Sudeley (age 69) died at Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire. Her grandson [his former step-son] Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 18) succeeded 7th Baron Deincourt and the feudal barony of Bedale.
In 1477 [his former brother-in-law] William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 38) and Elizabeth Scrope Countess of Oxford (age 9) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Beaumont. The difference in their ages was 29 years. He the son of John Beaumont 1st Viscount Beaumont and Katherine Neville Duchess Norfolk (age 77). They were half first cousin twice removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 05 Jul 1483 John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) was created 1st Duke Norfolk by King Richard III of England (age 30). Margaret Chedworth Duchess Norfolk (age 47) by marriage Duchess Norfolk.
His son Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 40) was created 1st Earl Surrey. Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 39) by marriage Countess Surrey.
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 57) was created 1st Earl Nottingham.
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) and William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 57) were heirs to the vast Mowbray estates that had been inherited by Anne Mowbray 8th Countess Norfolk who had been married to Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke York (age 9).
Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke York 1473-'s father King Edward IV of England had legislated that in the event of Anne's death his son Richard would continue to benefit from the inheritance; she died in 1481.
[his former step-son] Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 27) was created 1st Viscount Lovell. Anne Fitzhugh Viscountess Lovell by marriage Viscountess Lovell. [Note. Some sources place his created on 01 Jan 1483 although the source for that is unknown. ]
In 1485 [his step-son] Edward Tiptoft 2nd Earl of Worcester (age 15) died. Earl Worcester, Baron Tiptoft extinct.
On 22 Aug 1485 King Richard III of England (age 32) was killed during the Battle of Bosworth. His second cousin once removed Henry Tudor (age 28) succeeded VII King England. Earl Richmond forfeit.
Those supporting Henry Tudor included:
John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy (age 35).
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 43).
Richard Guildford (age 35).
Walter Hungerford (age 21).
[his brother] Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 50).
Edward Woodville Lord Scales (age 29).
Edward Courtenay 1st Earl Devon (age 26).
Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 36).
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford (age 53).
[his former brother-in-law] William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont (age 47).
Giles Daubeney 1st Baron Daubeney (age 34).
William Stanley (age 50).
Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 52).
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney (age 38).
William Brandon (age 29) was killed.
James Harrington (age 55) was killed.
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 60) was killed and attainted. He was buried firstly at Thetford Priory, Norfolk [Map] and therafter at Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham [Map]. Duke Norfolk, Baron Mowbray, Baron Segrave forfeit.
John Sacheverell (age 85) was killed.
Philibert Chandee 1st Earl Bath
William Norreys (age 44), Gilbert Talbot (age 33), John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford (age 42) and John Savage (age 41) commanded,.
Robert Poyntz (age 35) was knighted.
Those who fought for Richard III included:
John Bourchier 6th Baron Ferrers of Groby (age 47).
John Conyers (age 74).
Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 17).
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 59).
Richard Fitzhugh 6th Baron Fitzhugh (age 28).
John Scrope 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 48).
Thomas Scrope 6th Baron Scrope Masham (age 26).
Henry Grey 4th or 7th Baron Grey of Codnor (age 50).
Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent (age 68).
Ralph Neville 3rd Earl of Westmoreland (age 29).
John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 23).
Humphrey Stafford (age 59).
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 17).
Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk (age 42) was wounded, captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map] for three years. He was attainted; Earl Surrey forfeit.
[his former step-son] Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 29) fought and escaped.
John Zouche 7th Baron Zouche Harringworth (age 26) was captured.
John Babington (age 62), William Alington (age 65), Robert Mortimer (age 43), Robert Brackenbury, Richard Ratclyffe (age 55) and Richard Bagot (age 73) were killed
Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley (age 53) was killed.
William Catesby (age 35) was executed at Leicester, Leicestershire [Map] after the battle.
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster (age 25) held as a hostage by Richard III before the Battle of Bosworth.
Henry Percy 4th Earl of Northumberland (age 36) betrayed King Richard III of England (age 32) by not committing his forces at the Battle of Bosworth.
John Iwardby (age 35) was killed.
After 22 Aug 1485 William Stanley (age 50) was appointed Lord Chamberlain.
Around 1487 William Stanley (age 52) was appointed 232nd Knight of the Garter by King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 29).
Around 1487 [his son-in-law] John Warburton (age 28) and [his daughter] Jane Marie Stanley (age 19) were married. She the daughter of William Stanley (age 52) and niece of [his brother] Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 52) She the daughter of William Stanley (age 52) and Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 60). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
After 19 Jun 1488 [his former step-son] Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell (age 32) died. Viscount Lovell extinct.
Wriothesley's Chronicle 1485-1509. 1495. This yeare was beheaded Sir William Stanley (age 60), Lord Chamberlayne, Sir Symon Monforde and his sonne, and manye other that landed in the Downes,b to the number of viiixx, that came from Perkin Werbeck (age 21),c callinge himselfe King Edwardes sonne.d
Note c. Other authorities say Warbeck's followers, to the number of 169, were on this occasion made captives and gibbeted; but our author has copied Arnold, who has "viii skore."
Note d. Warbeck (age 21) pretended to be Richard Duke of York, son of Edward lV.
On 16 Feb 1495 William Stanley (age 60) and Simon Montfort were beheaded at Tower Hill [Map] for their part in the Perkin Warbeck Plot.
Gilbert Debenham (age 63) was attainted and condemned to death for treason for having supported Stanley. He remained in prison until 1499 when his sister Elizabeth Brewes, in return for paying a large fine, obtained a pardon for her brother and a promise that the attainder would be reversed.
On 22 Jun 1498 [his former wife] Elizabeth Hopton Countess of Worcester (age 71) died at Hopton Castle, Shropshire [Map].
Kings Wessex: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 15 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 11 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 4 Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 10 Grand Son of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 8 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 6 Grand Son of Louis "Lion" VIII King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Stanley
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stanley
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Stanley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mabel Hawkset
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Stanley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Massey
GrandFather: John Stanley 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Lathom
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Lathom 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Ferrers 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Hawise Muscegros Baroness Ferrers Chartley
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Lathom 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Father: Thomas Stanley 1st Baron Stanley 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harrington 1st Baron Harington
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Harrington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliana Barlingham
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Harrington 2nd Baron Harington
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas de Multon 1st Baron Multon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Multon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Burgh Baroness Multon Egremont
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Harrington 3rd Baron Harington
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter de Bermingham
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Bermingham
GrandMother: Elizabeth Harrington
Great x 2 Grandfather: Neil Loring
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Loring Baroness Harington
William Stanley 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
GrandFather: Robert Goushill
Mother: Jane Goushill Baroness Stanley 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel 3 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel 4 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Saluzzo Countess Arundel
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl Arundel 8th Earl Surrey 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Warenne Countess Arundel
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Vere
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 9th Earl Surrey 11th Earl Arundel 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Capet Queen Navarre 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Countess Arundel and Surrey
Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Patrick Chaworth
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Chaworth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Beauchamp Baroness Monthermer
GrandMother: Elizabeth Fitzalan Duchess Norfolk 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Fiennes Countess Essex and Hereford
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward "Longshanks" I of England Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bohun Countess Arundel and Surrey Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gunselin Badlesmere
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Fitzbernard
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Badlesmere Countess Northampton 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas de Clare
4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Clare Baroness Badlesmere 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliana Fitzgerald
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
