Stapleton of Wighill, Yorkshire

• References:
  • STAPLETON in [Burkes Extinct]
  • STAPYLTON in [Burkes Extinct Baronetage]
  • BEAUMONT in [Burkes Peerage]

Nicholas Stapleton, 2nd Baron Stapleton,
acquired Carlton, Yorkshire, by marriage,
apparently Lord of Wighill, W of York, N Yorkshire (see map), at his death 1343 (but see below),
had issue:

Miles Stapleton, 3rd Baron Stapleton, had issue:

Sir Gilbert Stapleton, had issue:

Sir Bryan Stapleton, K.G.,
of Carlton, Yorkshire,
mar Alice St. Philibert [dau of Sir John St. Philibert],
died 1394,
had issue:

Sir Miles Stapleton, Kt,
mar Johanneth Ufflete [dau of Sir Gerard Ufflete by Lora de Furnivale],
apparently acquired Wighill, Yorkshire, by marriage,
died 1400,
had issue:

Sir John Stapleton, Kt, mar Margaret Norton [dau of Richard Norton of Norton Conyers], he died 1455, had issue:

Sir William Stapleton, Kt, mar 1stly to Margaret Pickering and had issue:

Sir Bryan Stapleton, Kt, of Wighill, mar Joan Thirkeld and had issue:

Christopher Stapleton, of Wighill, mar 1stly to Alice Aske and had issue:

Sir Robert Stapleton, mar Elizabeth Mallory, he died 1557, had issue:

1. Sir Robert Stapleton, born 1547,
   High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1581 (23rd Elizabeth),
   mar 1stly to Catherine Constable and had issue:
   1. Henry Stapleton, of Wighill, Yorkshire.

   mar 2ndly and had issue:

   1. Bryan Stapylton, of Myton, Yorkshire, had issue:
      1. Sir Henry Stapylton, 1st Baronet, of Myton, cr 1660.

• Stapleton and p.2 and p.3 and p.4 by Peter Barns-Graham

• Sir Bryan Stapleton, K.G., is also ancestor of:
  • Sir Robert Stapleton (or Stapylton),
    dramatist and translator, died 1669.
    See print at [NPG].
    And at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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