STANHOPE, Sir Richard (c.1374-1436), of Rampton, Notts.

b. by 1374, 2nd s. and h. of John Stanhope (d.c.1381), CAD, v. A13549. of Haughton, Notts. by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Stephen Malovell of Rampton. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Robert Staveley of Stayley, Cheshire, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.; In 1403 his eldest daughter Agnes was contracted in marriage to Staveley’s stepson and ward, Henry Trafford (d.1408) of Trafford, Lancs.: S.J. Payling, Political Society in Lancastrian Eng. 81. (2) 1411, R. Thoroton, Notts. ed. Throsby, iii. 245; Sheffield Archs., Copley mss, CD403. Maud (d. Dec. 1454), da. of Ralph, Lord Cromwell (1368-1416), Cromwell’s death is misdated to 1417 in CP, iii. 552. He died between 3 Feb. and 7 Aug. 1416: Copley mss, CD 412; CFR, xiv. 143. by his w. Joan (d.1434), and in her issue h. of Ralph, Lord Cromwell (1393-1456), Cromwell was born in c.1393, not c. 1403 as implied in CP, iii. 552: C138/42/72. 1s. 2da. Kntd. 12 Oct. 1399. Stanhope was one of the 46 esquires knighted on the eve of Hen. IV’s coronation: Chrons. London ed. Kingsford, 48.