STAFFORD, Sir Humphrey

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 439-41.

While Stafford sat in the Parliament of 1414 (Apr.) as a knight of the shire for Dorset, he and John Meverel†, one of the Members for Staffordshire, became subject to legal proceedings at the Staffordshire assizes, but succeeded in having them quashed before the end of May by royal letters of privy seal. KB145/5/2/1. That same autumn Stafford quarrelled with his brother-in-law, Sir John Dynham, over the division of the Mautravers inheritance, but seems to have prevailed. CP40/615, rot. 124.

A close associate of Sir Humphrey’s who was to rise to considerable prominence in the period was Sir William, later Lord, Bonville*. The ties between the two men had their origins in the marriage of their respective fathers and grandfathers to two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret d’Aumarle and outlasted Stafford’s lifetime into that of his grandson, Humphrey II*. CAD, i. C1093, iv. A9022; E159/200, brevia Easter rot. 24.