Person:Thomas Stanley (115)
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
b.1435 Lathom, Lancashire, England
d.29 Jul 1504 Lathom, Lancashire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1427
  1. Elizabeth Stanley1423 -
  2. Katherine StanleyAbt 1430 -
  3. Margaret StanleyAbt 1432 - Aft 1492
  4. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby1435 - 1504
  5. Sir William Stanley, Knt.Abt 1435 - 1495
  6. John Stanley - Bef 1485
  7. James StanleyAbt 1436 - Bet 1485 & 1486
Spouse and Children
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m. 1451
  1. Thomas Stanley
  2. Richard Stanley
  3. George Stanley, 9th Baron StrangeAbt 1460 - 1503
  4. William Stanley
  5. Edward Stanley, 1st Baron MonteagleAbt 1460 - 1523
  6. James StanleyAbt 1465 - 1515
  7. Jane Stanley
  8. Catherine Stanley
  9. Anne Stanley
  10. Margaret Stanley
  11. Alice Stanley
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef Nov 1482
  1. Humphrey Stanley
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Facts and Events
Name Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1435 Lathom, Lancashire, England
Marriage 1451 to Eleanor Neville, Countess of Derby
Alt Marriage perhaps after 10 May 1457 to Eleanor Neville, Countess of Derby
Marriage Bef Nov 1482 Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, Englandto Lady Margaret Beaufort
Death[1][4] 29 Jul 1504 Lathom, Lancashire, England
Burial? Burscough, Lancashire, EnglandBurscough Priory
Reference Number[1] Q335295?


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Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG (1435 – 29 July 1504) was an English nobleman. He was stepfather of King Henry VII of England. He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill.

A landed magnate of immense wealth and power, particularly across the northwest of England where his authority went almost unchallenged, Stanley managed to remain in favour with successive kings throughout the Wars of the Roses, including King Richard III of England, who took Stanley's son as a hostage. Thomas Stanley took the side of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. His estates included what is now Tatton Park in Cheshire, Lathom House in Lancashire, and Derby House in the City of London, now the site of the College of Arms.

Although the king for the early part of his career, Henry VI, was head of the House of Lancaster, Stanley's marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (a descendant of Edward III) and sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick ('Warwick the Kingmaker') in the late 1450s constituted a powerful alliance with the House of York. This did him no harm, however, even after Warwick was toppled from power, and in 1472, with the House of York again occupying the English throne, he married his second wife Lady Margaret Beaufort, whose son, Henry Tudor, was the leading Lancastrian claimant. He was the last to use the style 'King of Mann', his successors opting for the safer 'Lord of Mann'. Among his notable close relatives were his brother Sir William Stanley and his nephews Sir John Savage and Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  3.   THOMAS Stanley ([1435]-Lathom 29 Jul 1504, bur Burscough Priory, Lancashire), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  4. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
    Volume 4 pages 205 to 207.
  5.   French, George Russell. Shakspeareana genealogica. (London: Macmillan, 1869)
    Vol. 1 p. 166.

    Appears as "Lord Stanley" in Shakespeare's Richard III.

  6.   Brydges, Egerton. Collins's peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. (London: [T. Bensley], 1812)
    3:58-63.
  7.   Stephen, Leslie, ed, and Sidney, ed Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. (London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900)
    54:75-78.
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