Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley

Life

Marriage and issue

• Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG, eldest son and heir, who in 1485 was created Earl of Derby by King Henry VII following his decisive assistance in the Battle of Bosworth. He married twice, firstly to Eleanor de Neville, secondly to Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. His descendants died out in the male line in 1736.
• William Stanley, KG, 2nd son, invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1487 by King Henry VII, but executed by that king in 1495 for treason for his alleged part in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy.
• Sir John Stanley, ancestor of the Barons Stanley of Alderley;
• James Stanley, Archdeacon of Chester;
• Elizabeth Stanley, wife successively of Sir Richard Molyneux and Thomas Strange;
• Margaret Stanley, wife successively of Sir William Troubeck, killed in the Battle of Blore Heath; Sir John Boteler, and Henry Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Codnor;
• Katherine Stanley, wife of Sir John Savage, KG, of Clifton, Cheshire. Of their many sons, the eldest, Sir John Savage, KG, was the commander of the left wing of Henry Tudor's army at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485; another, Sir Christopher Savage of Aston-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, fell at the Battle of Flodden, and another, Thomas Savage, was Archbishop of York.

  Death and burial