Events
Date of Birth: about 1386 (or about 1390).
Place of Birth: unknown.
Helsby (Ormerod 3:577) and Earwaker (2:602) state that John was 28 in 2 Henry 5 (the year of his father’s death). But Baines (5:81) gives his age this year as 24.
Date of Death: 27 November 1437.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12/1:250), citing John’s inquisition post mortem.
Relationships
Father: Sir John de Stanley, knight.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:250).
Mother: Isabel de Lathom.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:250).
Spouse: Isabel (Elizabeth) Harrington.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:577) and by the History of Parliament. The Complete Peerage (12/1:250) states that John “is said to have” married Isabel, noting that Dugdale’s authority for this was the family pedigree.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Stanley (2 August 1406 - 11 February 1458/9), 1st baron Stanley, married Joan Goushill.
Richard Stanley, archdeacon of Chester.
Edward Stanley, archdeacon of Chester.
Isabel Stanley married John de Warrenne of Poynton.
Alice Stanley married Sir Thomas de Dutton, lord of Dutton.
References
Baines, Edward, William Robert Whatton, and Brooke Herford. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (London: 1893).
Bennett, Michael J., “Stanley, Sir John (c. 1350-1414)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).
“Stanley, John (d. 1437), of Knowsley and Lathom, Lancs., lord of the Isle of Man” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421. [accessed 20 August 2014]