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Note: Name: Henry Duke of Buckingham STAFFORD Sex: M Name: Henry STAFFORD Birth: 4 SEP 1455 in , Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales Death: 2 NOV 1483 in Executed (Beheaded) at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Burial: Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Event: Titled 2nd Duke Stafford of Buckingham The house of Stafford has risen to such prestege and prominence that the jealousy of King Richard III was aroused. He took the estates of Henry, then beheaded him for plotting to put the Earl of Richmond on the throne. He was Constable of England. 1- Henry STAFFORD 6th,7th, Earl 2nd Duke Of Buckingham ACCEDED 10 JUL 1460 Constable Of England CAUSED BY DEATH beheaded 2ND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, EARL OF STAFFORD KNIGHT OF THE GARTER, KNIGHT OF THE BATH GREAT CHAMBERLAIN TO RICHARD III LORD CONSTABLE OF ENGLAND CHIEF JUSTICE OF NORTH & SOUTH WALES King Edward IV forced Henry Stafford to marry the sister of Elizabeth Woodville (Queen of Edward IV) .Stafford became a favorite and supporter of Richard III and may have been involved in the murders of the young princes in the Tower. Turning against Richard and involving himself in a plot to put Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, on the throne, Henry was found out and summarily executed without a legal trial. Henry has been immortalized as Buckingham in Shakespeare's RICHARD III. In the following scene (Act V, sc. i), Stafford is on'his way to his execution: Will not King Richard let me speak with him? SHERIFF No, my good lord; therefore be patient. BUCKINGHAM Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey, Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward, Vaughan, and all that have miscarried By underhand corrupted foul injustice, If that your moody discontented souls Do through the clouds behold this present hour, Even for revenge mock my destruction! This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not? SHERIFF my lord. BUCKINGHAM Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday. This is the day that, in King Edward's time, I wish't might fall on me, when I was found False to his children or his wife's allies This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall By the false faith of him I trusted most; This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul Is the determined respite of my wrongs: That high All-Seer that I dallied with Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest. Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms: Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head; 'When he, , quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow, Remember Margaret was a prophetess.' Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame; Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. Historical figures from Shakespeare's RICHARD III who appear in this database include: Richard III, King of England (1452-1485) Edward IV, King of England (1442-1483) Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke ofBuckingham (1455-1483) Sir William Hastings (c. 1431-1483) Elizabeth Woodville, Queen to Edward IV (1437-1492) Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (c. 1442-1483) Margaret of Anjou, widowed Queen of Henry VI (1429-1482) Cecily "The Rose of Raby" Neville, Duchess of York, mother of Richard III (1415- 1495) Lady Anne Neville, Queen to Richard III (1456-1485) Sir Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1455-1501) Sir Richard Grey, (c. 1456- 1483) George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (1449-1478) Edward V, King of Epgland (1470-1483) Prince Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (1473-1483) Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury (1404-1486) Sir John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (c. 1420-1485) Sir Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (1443-1524) Henry VII Tudor, Earl of Richmond (14~7-1509) John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (1442-1513) Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (c. 1435-1504) Father: Humphrey Earl of STAFFORD b: 1424 in Of, Stafford, Staffordshire, England Mother: Margaret BEAUFORT b: ABT 1437 in London, Middlesex, England Marriage 1 Catherine WYDEVILLE b: ABT 1448 in Grafton, Northamptonshire, England Married: 1476 Children 1. Edward Duke of Buckingham STAFFORD b: 3 FEB 1477/78 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknockshire, Wales 2. Henry Earl of Wiltshire STAFFORD b: 1479 in Of, Brecknock Castle, Brecknockshire, Wales 3. Elizabeth of Buckingham STAFFORD b: ABT 1482 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknockshire, Wales> 4. Anne STAFFORD b: ABT 1483 in Ashby, Leicestershire, Eng
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