Ancestral Trails 2016 » Katherine STAFFORD (1370-1419)

Personal data Katherine STAFFORD 

• She was born in the year 1370 in Stafford, Staffordshire.

  Attention: Age at marriage (April 13, 1383) below 16 years (13).

• She died on April 8, 1419 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, she was 49 years old.
• She is buried in the year 1419 in St Andrew, Wingfield, Suffolk.
• A child of Hugh STAFFORD and Phillippe BEAUCHAMP

Household of Katherine STAFFORD

She is married to Michael de la POLE.

They got married on April 13, 1383 at Hull, East Riding, Yorkshire, she was 13 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth de la POLE  1392-1440
2. Michael de la POLE  1394-1415
3. Isabel de la POLE  1398-???? 
4. Thomas de la POLE  1400-1433 
5. William de la POLE  1396-1450 

Notes about Katherine STAFFORD

Katherine de Stafford, Countess of Suffolk (born around 1376 - 8 April 1419) was a daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and his wife Philippa de Beauchamp. By her marriage to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, she became known as the Countess of Suffolk.

Family
Katherine was one of nine children born to Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and his wife Philippa de Beauchamp. Some of her siblings included Margaret de Stafford, Countess of Westmorland and Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford.

Her paternal grandparents were Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret de Audley. Her maternal grandparents were Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick and Katherine Mortimer, a daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.

Marriage and children
Katherine was married to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk in April 1383. He was a son of Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Katherine Wingfield. They had the following issue, the eldest of whom would not be born until 1394, eleven years after their marriage:

Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394-1415)
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396-1450)
Sir Alexander de la Pole (d. 1429), killed at the Battle of Jargeau
Sir John de la Pole (d. 1429), died a prisoner in France.
Sir Thomas de la Pole (aft. 1397-1433), a clerk, died in France while a hostage for his brother William. He had an illegitimate daughter and heiress Katherine de la Pole (1416-1488, buried in Rowley Abbey, Oxfordshire), second wife of Sir Miles Stapleton, and had issue
Katherine de la Pole, abbess at Barking
Isabel de la Pole (d. 1466), married Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley, and had issue
Elizabeth de la Pole, married first Edward Burnell, son of Hugh Burnell, 2nd Baron Burnell, second Sir Thomas Kerdeston

Michael died on 18 September 1415, from the flux. Katherine died four years later, on 8 April 1419.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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