STAPLETON, William (c.1495-1544), of Wighill, Yorks. and London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1495, 5th s. of Sir Brian Stapleton of Wighill by Jane, da. of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld, Cumb. m. Margaret, at least 1s.Date of birth estimated from that of eldest brother Christopher (b.c.1485). Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ed. Clay, i. 170-1.

Offices Held

Feodary, lands in Yorks. of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland 1533.M. E. James, Change and Continuity in Tudor North (Borthwick Pprs. xxvii), 13 and n; R. B. Smith, Land and Politics, 141.

Parlimentarian

STAPLETON, William (c.1495-1544), of Wighill, Yorks. and London.

Main residences: Wighill, Yorks.; London.

Author

P.S.E.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

STAPLETON, William (c.1495-1544)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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