Lord Stafford

Also known as: Stafford · Family: England · Role: knight · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 33

In Book 1, Chapter 33, Lord Stafford was named among the knights placed under Earl of Derby for an expedition. By Chapter 40, he rode with Earl of Derby and Sir Walter Manny to the fortress at La Réole, where its governor, Agos de Bans, agreed to surrender and leave with his arms and horses. In Chapter 41, Sir Richard Pennort bore Stafford’s banner.

In Chapter 53, Stafford was assigned to the first battalion under the Prince of Wales. In Chapter 57, he and Lord Reginald Cobham were ordered to examine the dead and report what they found; their account included eighty banners, eleven princes, twelve hundred knights, and about thirty thousand common men.

At Calais in Chapter 66, Stafford joined Sir Walter Manny and Earl of Warwick in taking possession of the town for King Edward. The king later gave Stafford a house there “that they might re-people it.”