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	Thornbury Castle
	A history of the Manor and Castle

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Information:

Meet the Castle Builder.

Who was executed?

A holders family tree

A history of the castle

Once a manor house

Other castles

How it might have looked

Paintings of the castle

An owner's timeline

A plan of the castle

A modern hotel

Sir Algar a local hero

The families:

Centuries:

Pevious holders			Next holders

Margaret Audley	Hugh Stafford	Edmund Stafford	Humphrey Stafford	Humphrey Stafford
1342	1349	1386	1403	1460
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(2) Sir Edmund STAFFORD

1377/8-1403

Titles: 5th Earl of Stafford;

Post held: Constable of England.

The manor: Edmund inherited the manor from his father and held it between 1386-1403.

Honoured: Knight of the Order of the Bath.

Battles: Emund died at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

Father Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford.

Mother Phillipa de Beauchamp.

Further information: Read more about Edmund on the Internet.

Anne WOODSTOCK

1383-1438

Title: Countess of Gloucester.

Marriage: Anne married 3 times.

Ancestry: Granddaughter of Edward III.

Family: 1 son 2 daughters.

Father Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.

Mother Eleanor de Bohun.

Son Humphrey Stafford.

Daughters Anne; Phillipa.

Further information: Read more about Anne on the Internet.

Anne also married

(1) Thomas STAFFORD

c.1365-1392

Title: 3rd Earl of Stafford.

Ancestry: Brother of Edmund.

Anne also married:

(3) William BOUCHER

1386-1420

Title: 1st Count of Eu, Normandy.

Family: 4 sons 1 daughter.

Sons Henry; William; John; Thomas.

Daughter Eleanor.

Ruling monarchs

Richard II

Henry IV

A timeline of the holders of the manor and castle from Saxon times to the modern day.


Alfred the Great	Edward the Elder	Altelstan	Aelfwaerd	Aylward	Aelfgar	Brictric	Mathilda	William I	William II	Robert FitzHamon	Mabel FitzHamon	William FitzRobert	Aumarie de Montfort	Amice FitzRobert	Isobel FitzRobert	Gilbert de Clare	Richard de Clare	Gilbert de Clare	Margaret de Clare	Margaret Audley	Hugh de Stafford	Edmund Stafford	Humphrey Stafford	Humphrey Stafford
?	?	?	?	?	980	1051	1062	1070	1083	1090	1107	1157	1183	1213	1213	1225	1230	1262	1295	1342	1349	1386	1403	1460

Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry VII	Edward VI	Mary I	Henry Stafford	Ursula Pole	Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry Stafford	Mary Stafford	William Howard	Henry Stafford Howard	William Stafford Howard	Thomas Howard	Philip Howard	Edward Howard	Henry Molyneux-Howard	Henry Howard	Edward Howard	Algar Howard	Kenneth Bell	Maurice Taylor	Hotel groups
1470	1483	1521	1547	1553	1554	1554	1563	1566	1603	1625	1637	1637	1693	1719	1727	1732	1750	1777	1824	1875	1916	1966	1988	?