Family
 Ralph de Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford 1)Married/ Related to: Child: | |||
| 2nd marriage Ralph de Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford 1)Married before 1347 7) (at least 25 years married) to:  Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley 8)Born between 1314 and 1317 Depending on which age in IPM is accepted 7) Notes: Margaret was heir to her father and, through her mother, the enormous de Clare estates. Child: | |||
Sources
1) Source: The History of Parliament Evidences that Ralph was father of Margaret.. External Linkhttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/stafford-ralph-1410. Reference: Stafford, Ralph (d.1410), of Grafton, Worcs. (Questionable reliability of evidence)
2) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward II "Edmund late baron of Stafford...Ralph son of the said Edmund and Margaret his wife, aged 9, is his next heir."Dated: 12 August 1308. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol5/pp51-59. Reference: C 134/9/15 (Data from secondary evidence)
3) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III "Margaret, late the wife of Edmund de Stafford...She died on 17 March last. Ralph her son, aged 40 years on 17 March last, is her next heir...Ralph de Stafford, knight (chivaler), aged 30 years and more at the feast of St. Denis last, is son and next heir"Dated: 1337. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol8/pp68-79. Reference: C 135/51/7 (Data from secondary evidence)
4) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III "Ralph (Stafford), earl of Stafford...He died on the last day of August, 46 Edward III. Hugh his son, aged 27 years and more, is his heir...Hugh de Stafford, of full age, is son and heir of the earl and Margaret...Navesby. The advowson of the church with the reversion of the manor now held for life by Richard de Stafford, the earl’s brother."Dated: 1372. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol13/pp178-195. Reference: C 135/230/1 (Data from direct source)
5) Source: The History of Parliament . External Link
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/stafford-ralph-1410. Reference: Stafford, Ralph (d.1410), of Grafton, Worcs. (Questionable reliability of evidence)
6) Source: Varied - Secondary Source for Medieval Genealogy Details on the Draycote family from a variety of secondary sources.. External Link
https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/lHIFzCQs7co/m/GSxJj0x5cFoJ. Reference: Post by John P Ravilious dated 20 May 2004 to soc.genealogy.medieval (Questionable reliability of evidence)
7) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III "Hugh de Audele (Audley) or Daudele, late earl of Gloucester...The earl died on Saturday before St. Martin last. Margaret, wife of Ralph baron of Stafford, aged 30 years, is his heir...He held divers knights’ fees for his life by the courtesy of England, as of the inheritance of Margaret the wife of Ralph baron of Stafford, daughter and heir of Margaret de Clare his wife...an heir of Gilbert de Clare, sometime earl of Gloucester "Dated: 1347. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp54-66. Reference: C 135/87/1
8) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III "Ralph (Stafford), earl of Stafford...He died on the last day of August, 46 Edward III. Hugh his son, aged 27 years and more, is his heir...Hugh de Stafford, of full age, is son and heir of the earl and Margaret...Navesby. The advowson of the church with the reversion of the manor now held for life by Richard de Stafford, the earl’s brother."Dated: 1372 Evidences the existence of Ralph's second wife - Margaret.. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol13/pp178-195. Reference: C 135/230/1 (Data from secondary evidence)
9) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III "JOHN DE FERRARIIS, knight...He died on 31 March, 41 Edward III. Robert de Ferrariis, his son, aged 7 years and more, is his heir...Broghton. The manor, held in right of Elizabeth his wife, who survives. Elizabeth holds it for life as jointly enfeoffed with one Fulk Lestrange, her former husband, deceased, the reversion belonging to the heirs of John Lestrange, father of Fulk. The manor is not held of the king, but of whom else it is held the jurors know not.He died on 3 April last. Robert, son of the aforesaid John and Elizabeth, aged 7 years and more, is his heir." Date: 1367. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol12/pp105-118. Reference: C 135/193/13 (Data from direct source)