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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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Paternal Family Tree: Stanhope
Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby was born to Richard Stanhope and Maud Cromwell.
Before 21 Feb 1421 [her future husband] Robert Willoughby 6th Baron Willoughby (age 36) and Elizabeth Montagu Baroness Willoughby Eresby (age 21) were married. She by marriage Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. She the daughter of John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury and Maud Francis Countess of Salisbury (age 57). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
On 09 Apr 1436 [her father] Richard Stanhope (age 76) died at Wakefield [Map].
Before 08 Jan 1449 Robert Willoughby 6th Baron Willoughby (age 64) and Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby were married. She by marriage Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
On 09 Jan 1449 Richard Welles 7th Baron Welles, Baron Willoughby (age 21) and [her step-daughter] Joan Willoughby 7th Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 24) were married. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
In or before 1450 [her future husband] Gervase Clifton (age 44) and Isabel Finch were married.
On 25 Jul 1452 [her husband] Robert Willoughby 6th Baron Willoughby (age 67) died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Mettingham Bungay [Map]. His daughter [her step-daughter] Joan (age 27) succeeded 7th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. Richard Welles 7th Baron Welles, Baron Willoughby (age 24) by marriage Baron Willoughby de Eresby.
On or before 24 Aug 1453 Thomas Neville (age 23) and Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby were married. Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby was the niece and heiress of Ralph Cromwell 3rd Baron Cromwell (age 50) meaning traditional Percy lands would become Neville lands. The Percy's, being the older family, especially Thomas Percy 1st Baron Egremont (age 30), took umbrage with the ensuing two year feud known as the Neville-Percy Feud. He the son of Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 53) and Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury (age 46). He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In Dec 1454 [her mother] Maud Cromwell died.
On 22 May 1455 the Wars of the Roses commenced with the First Battle of St Albans. Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (age 43) commanded with [her brother-in-law] Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 26), [her father-in-law] Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 55), Edward Brooke 6th Baron Cobham (age 40) and Walter Strickland (age 44).
The Lancastrians ...
Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset (age 49) was killed. His son Henry (age 19) succeeded 2nd Duke Somerset, 5th Earl Somerset. Note his father is frequently incorrectly referred to as the second Duke and Henry as the third Duke. His father's Dukedom, however, was a new creation.
Henry Percy 2nd Earl of Northumberland (age 62) was killed. His son Henry (age 33) succeeded 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 6th Baron Percy of Alnwick, 14th Baron Percy of Topcliffe. Eleanor Poynings Countess Northumberland (age 33) by marriage Countess of Northumberland.
Thomas Clifford 8th Baron Clifford (age 41) was killed. His son John (age 20) succeeded 9th Baron de Clifford, 9th Lord Skipton. Margaret Bromflete Baroness Clifford (age 21) by marriage Baroness de Clifford.
William Cotton (age 45) and Richard Fortescue (age 41) were killed.
Humphrey Stafford 1st Duke of Buckingham (age 52) was wounded and captured.
King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 33), John Sutton 1st Baron Dudley (age 54) and Edmund Sutton (age 30) were captured.
Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset was wounded. James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde (age 34) and John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock (age 55) fought.
Richard Cotton of Hampstall Ridware (age 51) and his son William Cotton of Connington in Huntingdonshire (age 27) were killed.
After 25 May 1455 [her brother-in-law] Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 26) was appointed Captain of Calais.
On 04 Jan 1456 [her uncle] Ralph Cromwell 3rd Baron Cromwell (age 53) died at South Wingfield [Map]. He was buried at the Collegiate Church, Tattershall. Baron Cromwell became abeyant between his two nieces, daughters of his sister Maud Cromwell: Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby and [her sister] Joan Stanhope.
On 25 Apr 1457 [her brother-in-law] John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 26) and Isabel Ingaldsthorpe (age 16) were married by Cardinal Thomas Bourchier (age 39) at Canterbury Cathedral [Map]. She the heir of her father Edmund Ingaldsthorpe who had died the previous year. Eight manors were settled on them in jointure. He the son of [her father-in-law] Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 57) and [her mother-in-law] Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury (age 50). They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
In 1460 a petition noted "The Nevilles state that Isabel was found to be Ingoldisthorpe's daughter and heir. When they requested livery of the estates from the chancellor in Chancery, he refused on the grounds that the king had granted the marriage and wardship to the queen (age 29). The Nevilles disputed this as Isabel was 14, and not a minor at common law. John Neville made recognizances in £1,000 to the queen on the understanding that if it was found that such a grant to the queen was not available, then she would not take any money from Neville. The Nevilles are unable to have a day in their law, and the queen has still levied part of the £1,000, and they are forced to sue a special livery at great expense. They request that the recognizances by annulled, and that women of the age of 14 when their ancestors die should have no problem of obtaining livery of their lands and tenements." See National Archives UK John Nevyll (Neville), knight; Isabel Neville, wife of John Neville, knight. SC 8/28/1398 1460.
In 1458 [her brother-in-law] Archbishop George Neville (age 26) was appointed Bishop of Exeter.
Chronicle of St Albans by Abbot John Whethamstede. [1458] "Also, where Thomas Percy (age 35), Knight, Lord of Egremont, and Richard Percy (age 32), his brother, sons of our said kinswoman, Eleanor, Countess of Northumberland (age 61), were in our Sessions of Oyer and Terminer lately held in our County of York, before Richard Byngham and Ralph Pole, our Justices, and other our Commissioners there, by names contained among the records of the said Sessions, condemned to our said kinsman the [her father-in-law] Earl of Salisbury (age 58) in the sum of eight thousand marks; and they and our kinswoman [her mother-in-law] Alice (age 51), his wife, in the sum of five thousand marks; to [her husband] Thomas Neville (age 28), Knight, son of the same Earl of Salisbury, in the sum of one thousand marks; and to the same Thomas, and Matilda, his wife, in the sum of two thousand marks; and to [her brother-in-law] John Neville (age 27), Knight, also son to the same Earl of Salisbury, in the sum of eight hundred marks; for divers great transgressions, supposed and found to have been done in the said Sessions by the said Lord Egremont and Richard, his brother, to the said Earl of Salisbury, Alice, Thomas Neville, Matilda, and John Neville, as appears by the records of the said Sessions; we desire, praise, ordain, and judge, for the aforementioned considerations, that our said kinsman Richard, Earl of Salisbury, and the said Thomas and John, his sons, shall release, and each of them shall sufficiently release, in law, all the aforementioned sums and executions thereof. And also, that they, and each of them, shall sufficiently release Ralph Verney and John Steward, late Sheriffs of our City of London, to whose custody the said Lord Egremont was committed for the aforementioned condemnations, or part of them, and, for our end, all actions that they, or any of them, may have against the said late Sheriffs, for the escape of the said Lord Egremont from our prison, and their custody."
Item, ubi Thomas Percy, Miles, Dominus de Egremonde, et Ricardus Percy, frater suus, filii dictæ consanouineæ nostræ, Alianoræ, Comitissæ Northumbriæ, fuerunt in Sessionibus nostris de Audiendo et Terminando, nuper tentis in Comitatu nostro Eboraci, coram Ricardo Byngham et Radulpbo Pole, Justiciariis nostris, et aliis nos. tris Commissionariis ibidem, per nomina contenta inter recorda Sessionum prædictarum, condemnati dicto nostro consanguineo Comiti Sarum in summa octo millium marcarum; ac ipsi et nostræ consanguineæ Aliciæ, uxori suæ, in summa quinque millium marcarum; Thomæ Nevyll, Militi, filio ejusdem Comitis Sarum, in summa mille marcarum; et eidem Thomæ, et Matildi, uxori suæ, in summa duorum millium marcarum; et Johanni Nevylle, Militi, filio etiam eidem Comiti Sarum, in summa octingentarum marcarum; propter diversas magnas transgressiones, suppositas et inventas in dictis Sessionibus esse factas per dictum Dominum Egremond, et Ricardum, fratrem ejus, dictis Comiti Sarum, Aliciæ, Thomæ Nevylle, Matildi, et Johanni Nevylle, ut per recorda dictarum Sessionum apparet; volumus, laudamus, ordinamus, et judicamus, propter considerationes prædictas, quod dictus noster consanguineus Ricardus, Comes Sarum, ac dicti Thomas et Johannes, filii sui, relaxent, et quilibet eorum relaxet, sufficienter in lege omnes summas prædictas, et executiones earundem. Ac etiam, quod ipsi, et quilibet eorum, sufficienter relaxent Radulpho Verney et Johanni Stiwarde, nuper Vicecomitibus civitatis nostræ Londoniarum, quorum custodiæ dictus Dominus Egremonde fuerat, propter condemnationes prædictas, monde fuerat, propter aut partem earundem, et, propter finem nostrum, commissus, omnimodas actiones, quas ipsi, vel aliquis ipsorum, possunt habere versus dictos nuper Vicecomites, propter escapiamentum dicti Domini Egremond extra prisonam nostram, et ipsorum custodiam.
On 03 Dec 1458 [her brother-in-law] Archbishop George Neville (age 26) was consecrated as Bishop of Exeter.
In 1459 [her brother-in-law] John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 28) was appointed Steward of the Honour of Pontefract.
On 23 Sep 1459 John Sutton 1st Baron Dudley (age 58) attempted to ambush [her brother-in-law] John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu (age 28) at Blore Heath, Staffordshire [Map] whilst he was travelling to Ludlow [Map] to join up with the main Yorkist army; the Battle of Blore Heath. Forewarned by scouts he arranged his troops into battle order. The Yorkist army included John Conyers (age 48), Thomas Harrington (age 59), James Harrington (age 29), [her father-in-law] Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 59), William Stanley (age 24), Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley (age 26), John Savile, Walter Strickland (age 48) and John Wenlock 1st Baron Wenlock (age 59).
The Lancastrian army included brothers John Dutton, Thomas Dutton (age 38) and Peter Dutton who were killed.
James Tuchet 5th Baron Audley, 2nd Baron Tuchet (age 61) was killed by Roger Kynaston of Myddle and Hordley. His son John (age 33) succeeded 6th Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, 3rd Baron Tuchet. Anne Echingham Baroness Audley Heighley (age 39) by marriage Baroness Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire, Baroness Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire.
John Sutton 1st Baron Dudley and Edmund Sutton (age 34) were captured. Lionel Welles 6th Baron Welles (age 53) fought.
Richard Molyneux of Sefton was killed.
John Egerton (age 55) was killed.
After the battle Margaret of Anjou Queen Consort England (age 29) took refuge at Eccleshall Castle, Staffordshire [Map].
After the battle Thomas Harrington, John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu and [her husband] Thomas Neville (age 29) were captured at Acton Bridge, Tarporley [Map] and imprisoned at Chester Castle [Map] having been detached from the main Yorkist force.
William Troutbeck (age 23) was killed.
On 10 Jul 1460 the Yorkist army led by the future King Edward IV of England (age 18) and including [her brother-in-law] Richard "Kingmaker" Neville Earl Warwick, 6th Earl Salisbury (age 31), [her brother-in-law] Archbishop George Neville (age 28), William Neville 1st Earl Kent (age 55), Edward Brooke 6th Baron Cobham (age 45) and John Scrope 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton (age 22) defeated the Lancastrian army at the 1460 Battle of Northampton.
Edmund Grey 1st Earl Kent (age 43) had started the day as part of the Lancastrian army but did nothing to prevent the Yorkist army attacking.
King Henry VI of England and II of France (age 38) was captured.
Humphrey Stafford 1st Duke of Buckingham (age 57) was killed. His grandson Henry (age 5) succeeded 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 7th Earl Stafford, 8th Baron Stafford.
John Talbot 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 42) was killed. His son John (age 11) succeeded 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, 3rd Earl Waterford, 8th Baron Furnivall, 12th Baron Strange Blackmere, 9th Baron Talbot.
Thomas Percy 1st Baron Egremont (age 37) was killed. [Baron Egremont of Egremont Castle in Cumberland extinct. Some authoirities state, however, that he left a son, Sir John Percy, who never assumed the title.]
John Beaumont 1st Viscount Beaumont (age 50) was killed. His son William (age 22) succeeded 2nd Viscount Beaumont, 7th Baron Beaumont.
William Lucy (age 56) was killed apparently by servants of a member of the Stafford family who wanted his wife Margaret Fitzlewis (age 21).
Thomas Tresham (age 40) fought.
William Beaumont 2nd Viscount Beaumont and William Norreys (age 19) were knighted.
Thomas "Bastard of Exeter" Holland was executed following the battle.
The battle was fought south of the River Nene [Map] in the grounds of Delapré Abbey.
On 25 Jul 1460 [her brother-in-law] Archbishop George Neville (age 28) was appointed Lord Chancellor.
On 30 Dec 1460 the Lancastrian army took their revenge for the defeats of the First Battle of St Albans and the Battle of Northampton at the Battle of Wakefield near Sandal Castle [Map]. The Lancastrian army was commanded by Henry Holland 3rd Duke Exeter (age 30), Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset (age 24) and Henry Percy 3rd Earl of Northumberland (age 39), and included John Courtenay 15th Earl Devon (age 25) and William Gascoigne XIII (age 30), both knighted, and James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde (age 40), John "Butcher" Clifford 9th Baron Clifford (age 25), John Neville 1st Baron Neville of Raby (age 50), Thomas Ros 9th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 33), Henry Roos and Thomas St Leger (age 20).
The Yorkist army was heavily defeated.
Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (age 49) was killed. His son Edward (age 18) succeeded 4th Duke York, 7th Earl March, 9th Earl Ulster, 3rd Earl Cambridge, 9th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore.
[her husband] Thomas Neville (age 30), and Edward Bourchier were killed.
Father and son Thomas Harrington (age 60) and John Harrington (age 36) were killed, the former dying of his wounds the day after.
William Bonville 6th Baron Harington (age 18) was killed. His daughter Cecily succeeded 7th Baroness Harington.
Thomas Parr (age 53) fought in the Yorkist army.
Following the battle [her father-in-law] Richard Neville Earl Salisbury (age 60) was beheaded by Thomas "Bastard of Exeter" Holland. William Bonville (age 40) was executed.
Edmund York 1st Earl of Rutland (age 17) was killed on Wakefield Bridge [Map] by John "Butcher" Clifford. Earl of Rutland extinct.
Before 20 Mar 1463 Gervase Clifton (age 58) and Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby were married.
On 06 May 1471 those captured at the 4th May 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury: Edmund Beaufort 3rd Duke of Somerset (age 32), Hugh Courtenay (age 44), [her husband] Gervase Clifton (age 66) and Humphrey Tuchet (age 37) were executed. Duke Somerset extinct.
Thomas Tresham (age 51) was executed. His estates including manor of Westhall, in Rushton St Peter, were forfeit.
On 10 Mar 1490 [her sister] Joan Stanhope died. Her sister Maud abeyance terminated 4th Baroness Cromwell.
On 30 Aug 1497 Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby died. She was buried at Collegiate Church, Tattershall. Baron Cromwell abeyant between the daughters of the Ralph Cromwell 1st Baron Cromwell: Elizabeth Cromwell and Avice Cromwell Baroness Bardolf and their heirs.
Kings Wessex: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Father: Richard Stanhope
Maud Stanhope 4th Baroness Cromwell Baroness Willoughby of Eresby 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Cromwell
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Cromwell 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Somery Baroness Basset Drayton 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Cromwell 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ralph Cromwell 1st Baron Cromwell 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: Ralph Cromwell 2nd Baron Cromwell 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Bernake
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Bernake 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Marmion 
Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Marmion 2 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Marmion 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Furnival 1st Baron Furnivall 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Furnival 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Despencer Baroness Furnivall 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Mother: Maud Cromwell 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England