Miles Stapleton
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Sir Miles Stapleton, KG
Order of the Garter
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 (c. 1408 – 1 October 1466) was Lord of the Manor
Lord of the Manor
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 of Ingham
Ingham, Norfolk
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, Norfolk
Norfolk
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 and de jure Baron Ingham of Ingham, Norfolk, and Lord of the Manor of Bedale
Bedale
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, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
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Family

Sir Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Brian Stapleton, of Ingham
Ingham, Norfolk
Ingham is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies close to the village of Stalham, and is about 2 miles from Sea Palling on the North Sea coast....

 (1379 - 1438), Sheriff
Sheriff
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 of Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, a veteran of the Battle of Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 , near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France...

, and Cecily Bardolf (d. 1432), daughter to William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, of Wormegay
Wormegay
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, Norfolk, and Agnes de Poynings.

Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg
Felbrigg
Felbrigg is a small village just south of Cromer in Norfolk, England. The Danish name means a 'plank bridge'.Historians believe that the original village was clustered around its Perpendicular church, in the grounds of Felbrigg Hall, a Jacobean mansion built in the early 17th century, a mile to the...

, Norfolk by Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen Anne of Bohemia
Anne of Bohemia
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. They had no issue. He married secondly in 1438, Katherine de la Pole (1416-1488, buried in Rowley Abbey, Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
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), daughter and heiress to Sir Thomas de la Pole (aft. 1397-1433), who died in France
France
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 while a hostage for his brother William, son to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk was an English nobleman who supported Henry IV against Richard II. He died during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415....

. They had two known daughters, the eldest, Elizabeth Stapleton, married before March 1464, Sir William Calthorpe
William Calthorpe
Sir William Calthorpe, , Knight of the Bath, and Lord of the Manors of Burnham Thorpe, and Ludham, in Norfolk. He is on record as High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1442, 1458 and 1464 and 1476....

, Knt., of Burnham Thorpe
Burnham Thorpe
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, Norfolk. The younger daughter, Jane (or Joan) Stapleton (d. 1519), married Sir Christopher Harcourt, Knt., of Great Ashby, (Ashby Magna
Ashby Magna
Ashby Magna is a small English village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. The parish had a population of 294 at the 2001 UK census. It is in the south of the county, and lies midway between junctions 20 and 21 of the M1...

), Leicestershire
Leicestershire
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 (d. 1474).

Activities

He was a Knight of the Shire for Suffolk
Suffolk
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, and for Norfolk also, and was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
This is a list of High Sheriffs of Norfolk and Suffolk. The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed annually by the Crown. He was originally the principal law enforcement officer in the county and presided at the Assizes and other important county meetings...

 in 1440. In 1441-2 Sir Miles Stapleton and Thomas Tudenham were summoned as Knights and M.P.'s for Norfolk to attend the Privy Council
Privy council
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Stapleton was in the French wars
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...

, where he is said to have single-handedly taken seven prisoners. He had a Royal Commission for the safekeeping of the seas in 1442. The following year he and his brother, Bryan Stapleton of Crispings, in Happisburgh
Happisburgh
Happisburgh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated off the B1159 coast road from Ingham to Bacton.The civil parish has an area of , although this is declining due to cliff erosion. In the 2001 census, before the creation of Walcott parish, it had a...

, & Hasilden, Norfolk, received the thanks of the Privy Council in connection with a riot at Norwich
Norwich
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Arms & Burial

His Arms
Coat of arms
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are recorded as Argent, a lion rampant sable.

Stapleton was buried in Ingham Priory, Norfolk, where there was once a monumental brass, (now lost).

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