Walter de Stanley

A recognitor for Staffordshire in 1271-2.

Events

Date of Birth: Perhaps about 1215.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Irvine.

Date of Death: by Trinity Term, 1285.

Place of Death: unknown.

This date is given by the Complete Peerage (12/1:246).

Relationships

Ancestor: Adam de Stanley (living temp. Stephen).

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12/1:246), noting that the descent of the Stanley holdings “makes it certain that the Earls of Derby are of the male line of Adam.” It is also given by Round.

(possible) Father: William de Stanley.

The Complete Peerage (12/1:246) suggests this possible relationship while noting that there is no proof. William is recorded as Adam’s son in a charter cited by Irvine. Irvine suggests that Walter is the son of William and grandson of Adam.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

William de Stanley married Joan de Baumville in 1282.

Benedict de Stanley.

References

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).

W. Fergusson Irvine. “The Early Stanleys” in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol. 105, 1953.

Round, John Horace. Peerage and Pedigree:studies in peerage law and family history. Volume 2, (London, 1910).