Sir Miles Stapleton,
KG (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.
Family
Sir Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Brian Stapleton, of
Ingham (1379 - 1438),
Sheriff of
Norfolk, a veteran of the
Battle of Agincourt, and Cecily Bardolf (d. 1432), daughter to
William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, of
Wormegay, Norfolk, and Agnes de Poynings.
Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge,
Knight of the Garter, of
Felbrigg, Norfolk by
Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen
Anne of Bohemia. They had no issue. He married secondly in 1438, Katherine de la Pole (1416-1488, buried in
Rowley Abbey,
Oxfordshire), daughter and heiress to Sir Thomas de la Pole (aft. 1397-1433), who died in
France while a hostage for his brother William, son to
Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. They had two known daughters, the eldest, Elizabeth Stapleton, married before March 1464, Sir
William Calthorpe, Knt., of
Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The younger daughter, Jane (or Joan) Stapleton (d. 1519), married Sir Christopher Harcourt, Knt., of Great Ashby, (
Ashby Magna),
Leicestershire (d. 1474).
Activities
He was a
Knight of the Shire for
Suffolk, and for Norfolk also, and was
High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1440. In 1441-2 Sir Miles Stapleton and Thomas Tudenham were summoned as Knights and...
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