George Stanley, Lord Strange

Also known as: George Stanleie lord Strange / George lord Strange · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: heir · First appears: Richard III 17

Life events

• c. 1485 · Richard III held George Stanley hostage to restrain Thomas Stanley.(Richard III 19 · 📍 castle of Notingham)
  • With: Richard III
  • “king Richard, which yet vtterlie did not put in him diffidence and mistrust, would put to some cruell death his sonne and heire apparant George lord Strange, whome king Richard (as you haue heard before) kept with him as a pledge or hostage”
• 1485 · Richard III held George Stanley, Lord Strange, as a prisoner during the battle.(Richard III 24)
  • With: Richard III
  • “So (as God would) king Richard brake his holie oth, and the lord was deliuered to the kéepers of the kings tents, to be kept as prisoner.”
• 1485 · George Stanley, Lord Strange was released and brought before the newly proclaimed Henry VII.(Richard III 24)
  • With: Henry VII Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby
  • “they submitted themselues as prisoners to the lord Strange, and he gentlie receiued them, and brought them to the new proclamed king; where, of him and of his father he was receiued with great ioy.”

Richard III 17

• parent: Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby “before he had left as an hosta­ge in the court George Stanleie lord Strange, his first begotten sonne and heire.”
• with Richard III (Richard III held George Stanley as a hostage.) “the king in no wise would suffer him to depart, before he had left as an hosta­ge in the court George Stanleie lord Strange, his first begotten sonne and heire.”

Richard III 19

• parent: Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby (George Stanley is identified as Thomas Stanley's son and heir.) “would put to some cruell death his sonne and heire apparant George lord Strange, whome king Richard (as you haue heard before) kept with him as a pledge or hostage”
• with Richard III (Richard III held George Stanley as a hostage.) “George lord Strange, whome king Richard (as you haue heard before) kept with him as a pledge or hostage, to the intent that the lord Stanleie his father should attempt nothing preiudiciall to him.”
• guardian: Richard III “king Richard (as you haue heard before) kept with him as a pledge or hostage, to the intent that the lord Stanleie his father should attempt nothing preiudiciall to him.”

Richard III 24

• parent: Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby “I must put you here in remembrance, how that king Richard (putting some diffidence in the lord Stanleie) had with him as an hostage the lord Strange, his eldest sonne,”
• with Richard III (Richard III held George Stanley as a hostage.) “I must put you here in remembrance, how that king Richard (putting some diffidence in the lord Stanleie) had with him as an hostage the lord Strange, his eldest sonne,”
• enemies with Richard III (Richard ordered George Stanley's execution.) “When king Richard heard this answer, he commanded the lord Strange incontinent to be beheaded”
• with Henry VII (George Stanley brought the prisoners to Henry, who received him with joy.) “they submitted themselues as prisoners to the lord Strange, and he gentlie receiued them, and brought them to the new proclamed king; where, of him and of his father he was receiued with great ioy.”

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