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Elizabeth Stafford (died 1599) was the daughter of Sir William Stafford and Dorothy Stafford, and the wife of Sir William Drury. She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I. She and her first husband, Sir William Drury, entertained Queen Elizabeth I at Hawstead in 1578. ==Family== Elizabeth Stafford was the daughter of Sir William Stafford (c.1500 – 5 May 1556) of Chebsey, Staffordshire, and Rochford Hall, Essex,〔.〕 second son of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, by Margaret Fogge, the daughter of Sir John Fogge of Ashford, Kent.〔.〕 Elizabeth Stafford's parents were second cousins.〔 Her mother was Dorothy Stafford (1 October 1526 – September 1604), the daughter of Henry Stafford, 10th Baron Stafford (1501–1563), son and heir of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, by Ursula Pole (d.1570).〔.〕 Through her mother, Elizabeth Stafford and her siblings were of royal blood.〔 Dorothy Stafford was Sir William Stafford's second wife. In 1534 he had secretly wed, as her second husband, Mary Boleyn (c.1499–1543), sister of King Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Mary Boleyn is said to have been pregnant at the time of her marriage to Sir William Stafford;〔.〕 however if there were children of the marriage, nothing further is known of them.〔.〕〔Emerson states that they 'may have had two children, Edward (1535–1545) and Anne'; see (Emerson, Kate, 'Mary Boleyn (c.1498-July 1543)' in 'A Who's Who of Tudor Women' ) Retrieved 14 March 2013.〕 Elizabeth Stafford had three brothers and two sisters of the whole blood:〔〔〔Richardson states that Sir William Stafford and his wife Dorothy had four sons, including Sir Edward, William, and Sir John, and two daughters, Ursula, who married Richard Drake, esquire, and Elizabeth, who married Sir William Drury and Sir John Scot; .〕 *Sir Edward Stafford (1552–1604) of Grafton, who married firstly, Roberta Chapman (d.1578), the daughter of Alexander Chapman of Rainthorpe Hall, Norfolk, by whom he had a son and two daughters, and secondly, on 29 November 1597, Douglas Sheffield (1547–1608), daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and sister of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham.〔.〕 *William Stafford (1554–1612), conspirator, who about 1593 married Anne Gryme (d.1612), daughter of Thomas Gryme of Antingham, Norfolk, by whom he had a daughter, Dorothy Stafford, and a son, William Stafford (1593–1684).〔 *Sir John Stafford of Marlwood Park (January 1556 – 28 September 1624), Thornbury, Gloucestershire, who married firstly, Bridget Clopton (d. March 1574), the daughter of William Clopton of Kentwell Hall, by whom he had a son,〔The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993 Page: 231〕〔Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, by David Faris, 2nd Edition 1999, NEHGS Page: 50-51〕 and secondly, on 29 January 1580, Millicent Gresham (buried 24 December 1602), the daughter of Edmund Gresham (buried 31 August 1586) and Joan Hynde, by whom he had no issue.〔; .〕 *Ursula Stafford (b.1553), who married Richard Drake (d. 11 July 1603)〔.〕 of Esher, Surrey, equerry to Elizabeth I, third son of John Drake (d.1558), esquire, of Ash in Musbury, Devonshire, and brother of Bernard Drake, by whom she had a son, Francis Drake (d.1633).〔Adams states that two daughters likely died in infancy; however Richardson and other sources state that Ursula married Richard Drake.〕〔; .〕 *Dorothy Stafford, who likely died in infancy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Stafford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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