Gleanings from the Common Pleas: Margaret Grey (died c.1504), wife of Edward Stafford, KB, Earl of Wiltshire, and of Henry Stafford, KG, Earl of Wiltshire

by Nathan W Murphy, Douglas Richardson and Matthew Tompkins[1]

Abstract

This article confirms an old genealogical conclusion using new documents. Complete Peerage doubted the conclusion that Margaret Grey married two earls of Wiltshire. Recently published apostolic penitentiary records include a 1501 marriage dispensation issued to Henry Stafordi to marry the widow Margareta Staffordi alias W[i]ltshire alias de Lisle. The marriage is confirmed in a recently-indexed common pleas case.