Sir Miles Stapleton, Knight, (c.1408 – 1 October, 1466), was Lord of the Manor of Ingham, Norfolk and de jure Baron Ingham of Ingham, Norfolk, and Lord of the Manor of Bedale, Yorkshire. He was a Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, and for Norfolk also, and was High Sheriff of Norfolk (1440-1441) and Suffolk.
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Family
Sir Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Brian Stapleton (1379-1438), of Ingham, Sheriff of Norfolk,(a veteran of the Battle of Agincourt), by his spouse Cecily (d.1432) daughter to William 4th Lord Bardolf, of Wormegay, Norfolk. Miles Stapleton married [1] Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg, Norfolk, by his first wife Margaret, daughter of Przemyslaw Noszak, Duke of Teschen and Glogau. They had no issue. He married [2] in 1438, Katherine (1416-1488, buried in Rowley Abbey, Oxfordshire), daughter and heiress to Sir Thomas de la Pole (after 1397 - 1433), son to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.They had two known daughters, the eldest, Elizabeth, married before March 1464, Sir William Calthorpe, Knt., of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The younger daughter, Jane (or Joan), married Sir Christopher Harcourt, Knt., of Great Ashby, (Ashby Magna), Leicestershire.
Activities
In 1441-2 Sir Miles Stapleton and Thomas Tudenham were summoned as Knights and M.P.'s for Norfolk to attend the Privy Council. Stapleton was in the French wars, where he is said to have single-handedly taken seven prisoners. He had a Royal Commission for the safekeeping of the seas in 1442. The following year he and his brother, Bryan Stapleton of Crispings, in Happisburgh, & Hasilden, Norfolk, received the thanks of the Privy Council in connecton with a riot at Norwich.
Arms & Burial
His Arms are recorded as Argent, a lion rampant sable. Stapleton was buried in Ingham Priory, Norfolk, where there was once a monumental brass, (now lost).
References
- Hervey, William, Clarenceaux King of Arms, and John Raven, Richmond Herald, The Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 & 1613.
- Banks, Sir T.C., Bt., Baronia Anglica Concentrata; or Baronies in Fee, London, 1844, p.267, where a summary pedigree appears for this family.
- Burke, John, and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, London, 1851, vol.2, pedigree CXVII.
- Waters, Robert E.C, B.A., barrister of the Inner Temple,Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley &c., London, 1878, vol.1, pps: 140 and 255.
- Flower, William, Norroy King of Arms, The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4, London, 1881, p.295.
- Rye, Walter, Norfolk Families, part II, Norwich, 1912, p.845.
- Carr-Calthrop, Christopher William, CBE., M.D., Notes on the Families of Calthorpe & Calthrop, etc., Third edition, London, 1933, p.43.
- Oxford University Press, The Dictionary of National Biography, Compact Edition, Oxford, 1975.
- Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2004, pps: 57 and 771.
- Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltmore, 2005, pps. 41 and 896.
