Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Devonshire

Also known as: Humfrie lord Stafford of Southwike · Family: Stafford · Role: earl · First appears: Edward IV 8

Life events

c. 1469 · Humphrey Stafford was found, brought to Bridgewater, and beheaded.(Edward IV 8 · 📍 Bridgewater)
- “Herevpon search was made for him, till at length he was found in a village within Brentmarch, and after brought to Bridgewater where he was beheaded.”

sworn: Edward IV “And to assist him with archers, was appointed Humfrie lord Stafford of Southwike, named but not created earle of Deuonshire by the king, in hope that he would serue valiantlie in that iournie: he had with him eight hundred archers.”
allies with Richard Herbert “wherevpon the lord Stafford, and sir Richard Herbert, with two thousand well horsed Welshmen, rode foorth afore the maine armie, to sée the demeanour of the northerne men”
enemies with Edward IV “The king aduertised of these mischances, wrote to the shiriffes of Summersetshire, and Deuonshire, that if they might by anie meanes take the lord Stafford of Southwike, they should without delaie put him to death.”
allies with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke “And to assist him with archers, was appointed Humfrie lord Stafford of Southwike, named but not created earle of Deuonshire by the king, in hope that he would serue valiantlie in that iournie: he had with him eight hundred archers.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.