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b. 2 Aug. 1406, CHES3/39, 16 Hen. VI, no. 9. s. and h. of Sir John Stanley† (d.1437) of Lathom and Knowsley, lord of the Isle of Man, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Nicholas Haryngton† (d.c.1404) of Farleton in Lonsdale, Lancs. Plantagenet Ancestry ed. Richardson and Everingham, 678. Elizabeth is wrongly described as the da. of Sir John Haryngton in The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 455. m. by Sept. 1422, Joan (c.1401-fl.1460), da. and coh. of Sir Robert Goushill (d.1403) of Hoveringham, Notts., by Elizabeth (d.1425), sis. and event. coh. of Thomas Fitzalan, earl of Arundel (d.1415), wid. of Sir William Montagu, s. of William, earl of Salisbury (d.1397), and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk (d.1399), 4s. 3da. Kntd. by 29 Apr. 1431; KG 14 May 1457; summ. as Lord Stanley 15 Jan. 1456.
Offices Held

Lt. of Ire. 29 Jan. 1431 – Apr. 1437.

Commr. to distribute allowance on tax, Lancs. Dec. 1433, Apr., Aug. 1440, Mar. 1442, Aug. 1449, June 1453; list persons to take the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; assess subsidy Jan., Mar. 1436; DKR, xl. 533. treat for loans Feb. 1436; of arrest Oct. 1436, Mar. 1452; E28/82, 16 Mar. 1452. to hold hundred courts after the eyre, Macclesfield, Cheshire Oct. 1437, Sept. 1439, Sept. 1440, June 1441, Jan. 1442, June 1443, June, Dec. 1444, ?Mar. 1453; CHES2/125, m. 3d. negotiate for subsidy and aid, Hawarden, Mold, Flint Oct. 1441; CHES2/115, m. 1. of inquiry, Cheshire Apr. 1442 (King’s right to property in Clutton), Berks. May, EHR, xc. 333–4. June 1444 (treasons etc.), Cheshire Jan. 1449 (rents due from land in Flint), CHES2/122, rot. 4. N. Wales July 1452 (unpaid royal revenues), Sept. 1453 (trespasses and concealments); to take muster of retinue of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset, Portsmouth June 1443; of oyer and terminer, Berks. July 1444 (treasons etc.), London Mar. 1450 (treasons of John Frammesley, vintner), N. Riding July 1453 (felonies), London Apr. 1455 (treasons), Glos., Herefs., Worcs. Mar. 1457 (treasons); to keep the temporalities of the priory of Holy Trinity, London June 1445; of gaol delivery, Lancs. Jan. 1446; DKR, xl. 538. to compel payment of debts and rents, N. Wales Aug. 1453; assign archers, Lancs. Dec. 1457.

Constable, Chester castle 6 Dec. 1437 – d.

Jt. steward (with Ralph, Lord Cromwell), ldship. of Macclesfield 21 Feb. 1439 – 4 Jan. 1456; steward 4 Jan. 1456 – d.; jt. chief steward (with William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk), enfeoffed lands of the duchy of Lancaster 11 Dec. 1447 – ?; south parts of the duchy c. Nov. 1449 – 2 May 1450; chief steward 2 May 1450 – 16 Apr. 1451, 4 Jan. 1456 – d.; jt. (with Cromwell) 15 June 1452 – 4 Jan. 1456.

Master forester and surveyor, forests of Macclesfield, Delamere and Mondrem, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1439 – d.; jt. (with his son John) of Amounderness, Quernmore and Wyresdale in the duchy of Lancaster, Lancs. 10 Nov. 1443 – d.

Controller, Hen. VI’s household by 26 Apr. 1439-c. Jan. 1451; chamberlain c. Aug. 1455 – d.

Chamberlain, N. Wales 26 Apr. 1439 – 15 Apr. 1451, by Feb. 1452 – d.

Jt. dep. justice (of the earl of Suffolk), Chester and N. Wales 23 Feb. 1440 – 1 Dec. 1443; jt. justice (with Suffolk) 1 Dec. 1443 – 2 May 1450; justice 2 May 1450 – d.

Gauger, all ports in N. Wales and Cheshire 9 May 1440 – d.

Jt. parker, Ightenhill, Lancs. 5 Dec. 1440–?d., Toxteth, Lancs. 12 Aug. 1441–d.; parker, Northwood, Cheshire 22 Mar. 1446 – 27 July 1447, jt. (with Roger Legh) 27 July 1447–?d.; DL37/13, m. 2d; 15/30. parker, Queen Margaret’s parks of Barton and Sherholt in chace of Needwood, Staffs. by 1 July 1456; jt. 1 July 1456–d. DL37/24/6.

Jt. escheator, Lancs. 14 Feb. 1441–d. DL37/8/45.

J.p. Lancs. 16 Mar. 1446–?d. DKR, xl. 538. There is no record of appointments to the Lancs. bench from 1450 to 1485 because of the loss of the palatinate’s patent rolls, but there is every reason to suppose that Stanley remained as a j.p. to his death.

Member of council of Hen. VI c. 1448 – d., of Edward, prince of Wales 27 Jan. 1457 – d.

Jt. bailiff and beadle, hundreds of Eddisbury and Wirral, Cheshire aft. 1 June 1448–? CHES2/119, rot. 6.

Envoy to negotiate with Scots. July, Oct. 1449, with James, earl of Douglas, June 1452, with Scots. May 1453. Rot. Scot. ed. Macpherson etc. ii. 334–7, 358, 361.

Conservator of truces with Scotland Oct. 1449, July 1451, May 1453, June 1457. Ibid. 340, 353, 366, 383.

Jt. warden, castle and town of Calais and the tower of Rysbank 2 Apr. 1450–21 Sept. 1451. Cat. des Rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois ed. Carte, ii. 323; G.L. Harriss, ‘The Struggle for Calais’, EHR, lxxv. 31.

Jt. surveyor of lordship of Fulbrook, Warws. aft. July 1453–d. CPR, 1452–61, p. 478. The grant to Stanley and John Brome II* came shortly after the death in July 1453 of the previous grantee, John Talbot, Lord Lisle: CPR, 1446–52, p. 376.

Parlty. cttee. to review the royal household July 1455. PROME, xii. 337.

Jt. auditor, accts. of Richard Merston, treasurer of the chamber July 1456. CPR, 1452–61, p. 293.

Parlimentarian
STANLEY, Thomas II (1406-59), of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancs. and lord of the Isle of Man.
Main residences: Lathom; Knowsley, Lancs.; lord of the Isle of Man.
Author
S.J.P.
Volume
Commons 1422-1461
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Estates
Oxford 1644
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