'Stanhope01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Stanhope of Harrington, Stanhope of Rampton, Stanhope of Shelford

                               
Sir John de Stanhope of Rampton (a 1373)
m1. Elizabeth (dau of Stephen Manlovel of Rampton)
1. Sir Richard Stanhope of Rampton (d 1436)
  m1. Elizabeth (or Joan) de Staveley (dau of Robert de Staveley)
A. Richard Stanhope (dvp 02.03.1432)
  m. Elizabeth (or Isabel) Markham (dau of Sir John Markham, Chief Justice)
  i. John Stanhope of Rampton, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
  m. (c1427) Elizabeth Talbot (dau of Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall)
  a. Thomas Stanhope of Rampton (a 1475)
  m. Mary Jerningham (dau of John Jerningham of Somerley Town)
(1) Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton (d 06.06.1512)
  m1. Avelina Clifton (dau of Sir Gervase Clifton)
  (A) Richard Stanhope of Rampton (b 1502, d 21.01.1583)
  m. Anne Strelley (dau of John Strelley of Strelley)
  (i) Sanchia Stanhope of Rampton
  m. (1517) John Babington of Rampton
(B) Sir Michael Stanhope of Shelford & Elvaston, Governor of Hull (d 1552)
  m. Anne Rawson (d 20.02.1587, dau of Nicholas Rawson of Aveley)
  (i) Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford (d 03.08.1596)
  m. Margaret Port (dau of Sir John Port of Etwall and Cubley)
  (a) Sir John Stanhope of Shelford & Elvaston (d before 04.05.1611)
  m1. Cordell Allington (dau of Richard Allington)
  ((1)) Sir Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield (d 12.09.1656)
m1. (1605) Catherine Hastings (d 28.08.1636, dau of Francis Hastings, younger of Huntingdon)
  m2. Anne Pakington (bur 12.11.1667, dau of Sir John Pakington of Westwood)
  m2. Catherine Trentham (dau of Thomas Trentham of Rochester Priory)
  ((2)) Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston, Sheriff of Derbyshire (d 29.05.1638)
  m1. (1608) Olave Beresford (dau of Edward Beresford of Beresford)
  m2. Mary Radclyffe (dau of Sir John Radclyfe of Orsdal)
  ((3)) Cordelia Stanhope (bur 02.10.1639)
  m1. (sp) Sir Roger Aston of Cranford
m2. (by 1617) Sir John Mohun of Boconnoc, 1st Lord Mohun of Okehampton or Oakhampton (b c1592, d 1644)
  ((4)) Jane Stanhope (d 12.03.1683)
  m1. Sir Peter Courten (not Courtenay), Bart (dsp 1624)
  m2. Sir Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia (bur 23.11.1660)
  ((5)) Katherine Stanhope (b c1592, d 1694/5!) probably of this generation, of this marriage
  m. (17.12.1631) Thomas Hutchinson of Owthorpe (b 1589, d 1643)
  ((6)) Anne Stanhope probably of this generation, of this marriage
  m. Thomas Cockaine (d 27.01.1638)
((7))+ 2 sons and 2 daughters
  (b) Anne Stanhope (b c02.1576, d 18.11.1651)
  m. (23.05.1591) John Holles of Houghton, 1st Earl of Clare (b 05.1564, d 04.10.1637)
  (ii) Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbourne (Sudbury)
  m. Anne Reade (dau of Sir William Reade of Osterley)
  (a) Jane Stanhope (d before 1655)
  m1. (mcrt 02.1613/4) Henry Ratcliffe, 'Viscount FitzWalter' (b 01.08.1596, dvpsp bur 15.09.1620)
  m2. (25.04.1621) Sir William Withypoole of Christ Church (dspms 11.08.1645)
  (b) Elizabeth Stanhope (b 21.12.1604)
  m. (13.04.1614) George Berkeley, 8th Lord (b 07.10.1601, d 10.08.1658)
(c) Bridget Stanhope (b c1615)
  m. (17.04.1630) George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond (b c1614, d 31.01.1665)
  (iii) Sir Edward Stanhope of Grimston (bur 24.04.1603)
  m. Susan Coleshill (dau/coheir of Thomas Coleshill or Coleshull of Chigwell)
  (iv) Sir John Stanhope, 1st Lord of Harrington (d 09.03.1620/1)
  m1. Joan Knolls (d c1568, dau of William Knolls)
m2. Margaret McWilliams (d 07.04.1640, dau of Henry McWilliams of Stanborne/Stambourne by Mary (widow of Sir John Cheke), dau of Richard Hill ("Serjeant of the wine-cellar to Henry VIII"))
  (a) Charles Stanhope, 2nd Lord of Harrington (bpt 27.04.1595, dsp bur 03.12.1675)
  m. (23.11.1641) Dorothy Livingston (b c1621, bur 14.08.1686, dau of Sir John Livingston, 1st Bart of Kinnair)
  (b) Elizabeth Stanhope
  m. Sir Lionel Tollemache, Bart of Helmingham (b 01.08.1591, d 06.09.1640)
  (c) Catherine Stanhope (d 15.06.1657)
  m. Robert Cholmondeley, Bart of Cholmondeley, Earl of Leinster (b 26.06.1584, dsp 02.10.1659)
  (v) Elinor Stanhope probably of this generation
  m. Thomas Cooper of Thurgarton (a 1569)
(vi) Jane Stanhope (youngest daughter)
  m1. Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham (bur 30.06.1590)
  m2. (09.03.1597) Henry Berkeley, 7th Lord (b 26.11.1534, d 26.11.1613)
  m2. Elizabeth Bourchier (dau of Fulke Bourchier, 2nd Lord FitzWarine)
  (C) Anne Stanhope (b c1497, d 16.04.1587)
  m. Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (b 1500, d 22.01.1551-2)
  (2) John Stanhope
  b. Henry Stanhope possibly of this generation
  This connection from Lodge ('Peerage of Ireland', Archdall, vol 2 (1789), 'Skeffington, Earl of Massereene', p371) with support from Visitation (Leicestershire, 16169, 'Skevington' & 'Skeffington').
  m. Jane Rochford (dau of Henry Rochford of Stoke Rochford)
  (1) Edmond Stanhope 'of West Markham, Nottinghamshire'
  m. Alice (Flie?) (probably m2. Sir Edward Darrell rather than his daughter)
  (A) Margaret Stanhope (heir)
m. Thomas Skevington of Skevington
  B.+ 2 sons and 1 daughter
  m2. (1411) Maud Cromwell (d 1455, sister of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Treasurer)
  E. son (dsps)
  F. Maud Stanhope, Baroness Cromwell (dsp 30.08.1497)
  m1. Robert Willoughby, 6th Lord of Eresby (d c1452)
  m2. Sir Thomas Nevill (dsp Wakefield, of Salisbury family)
  m3. Sir Gervaise Clifton
  G. Jane Stanhope (dsp 10.03.1490)
  m1. Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Lord Cromwell (dsp Barnet Field 1471, of Essex family)
  m2. Sir Robert Radclyffe of Hunstanton (d before 19.05.1498)
m2. Elizabeth de Cuily (dau of Thomas de Cuily)

Main source(s): BP1934 (Chesterfield), BE1883 (Stanhope of Harrington)
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