Sir John de Stanley, knight
Deputy in Ireland (1386 -1387/8)
Granted 100 marks a year for life by the king as his knight “to serve him above all “others” (1389)
Justiciary of Ireland (1391)
Justice of Chester (1394)
Controller of the Household (1398/9)
Lieutenant of Ireland (1399, 1413)
Steward of the Household of Henry, prince of Wales (before 13 September 1403)
Steward of Macclesfield
Surveyor of the forests of Macclesfield, Mare, and Mondrem.
Governor of the City and County of Chester (1403)
Knight of the Garter (about 1405)
Lord of Mann (1406)
John was convicted of murdering his second cousin by marriage, Thomas de Clotham, in 1378, but was pardoned by Richard II.
Events
Date of Birth: about 1350.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The estimated date is given by Bennett (ODNB). Coward (p. 2) gives an estimate of 1340.
Date of Death: 18 January 1413/4.
Place of Death: Ardee, Ireland.
The date is given by the History of Parliament. The place is given by Helsby (Ormerod 3:577).
Relationships
Father: William Stanley of Storeton, Cheshire.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB), by Coward (p. 2), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:247).
Mother: Alice, daughter of Hugh Mascy of Timperley, Cheshire.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB) and by Coward (p. 3). The Complete Peerage (12/1:247 fn m) suggests that the marriage to a Mascy may have actually taken place in an earlier generation.
Spouse: Isabel de Lathom. Married in or before 1385.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB), by Coward (p. 3), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:249).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod.)
Henry de Stanley.
Sir Thomas de Stanley of Elford, Staffordshire, married Matilda de Arderne.
Sir Ralph de Stanley.
others.
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).
Coward, Barry. The Stanleys, Lords Stanley and Earls of Derby 1385-1672. Volume 30 of Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Third Series. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1983).
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]