Cecily de Waure

  General Notes:

~Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 1919, p. 10, daughter of Robert de Waure of Amblecot.

  Information about this person:

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Stafford of Grafton Problems . ²²⁷
From: "Peter Sutton" <petersutton@ntlworld.com>
Subject: RE: Stafford of Grafton problems: The Margaret-Ralph relationship
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:47:41 -0000

Sir William de Stafford married, before 1272 Cecily daughter and heiress of Robert de Wauve of Amblecot. He was presented, wrongly, as of age and not yet a knight in 1272. Knighted 1275/80; one of the executors of Nicholas, Lord Audley 1299, Chief Commissioner of Array for Staffordshire in 1299 and 1308. With Robert de Pype and William Wrottesley he was made a justice in 1300 to secure the observance of the Great Charter in Staffordshire. Indeed he was a Commissioner of Oyer and of Gaol Delivery and Collector of Subsidy in almost every year from 1300 to 1319. He is the first of the first three men to be made "Custodes Pacis", JP's in 1307, and reappears on the Commission down to the year 1320. His close association with the Stafford Earls is witnessed by his testimony that he lifted the future Earl Ralph from "the sacred font" at his christening in 1301.

Cecily married William Stafford, son of William de Stafford and Aud de Vernon. (William Stafford was born circa 1255 in Sandon, Stone, Staffordshire, England ¹⁹³ and died after 1339 in Staffordshire, England ¹⁹³.)