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    Langford, Alice

    Female Abt 1454 - Bef 1483  (~ 29 years)


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    • Name Langford, Alice 
      Born Abt 1454  Of Bradfield, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died Bef 1483  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I04685  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 27 May 2015 

      Father Langford, Edward,   b. Abt 1417, Of Bradfield, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 18 Aug 1474, Greyfriars, Reading, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years) 
      Mother Blount, Sanche,   b. Abt 1418, Of Worcester, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Greyfriars, Reading, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married Abt 1436  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01461  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 1 Stradling, John,   b. Abt 1449, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1471, Of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 22 years) 
      Married Abt 1468  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Stradling, Anne,   b. Abt 1469, Of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Dec 1539, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)
       2. Stradling, Edward,   b. 1471, Of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Nov 1487, Of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, England. dsp Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 16 years)  [Natural]
      Family ID F01469  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 2 Pole, Richard,   b. Abt 1462, Of Isleworth, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 1504, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years) 
      Married Abt 1483 
      Family ID F01470  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • In previous posts here on the newsgroup, I presented conclusive
        evidence which showed that Sir Richard Pole (died 1504), husband of the ill famed Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, had married (1st) before 28 June 1483 a certain Alice Langford, widow of John Stradling (died 1471), of Dauntsey, Bremilham, and Marden, Wiltshire, and daughter of Edward Langford, of Bradfield, Berkshire.

        Sir Richard Pole had no known issue by his marriage to Alice Langford. Alice Langford, however, had two known children by her first marriage to John Stradling, namely one son, Edward Stradling, who died without issue 4 November 1488, and one daughter, Anne
        Stradling, born about 1469 (aged 19 in 1488), who married John
        Danvers. Evidence of these two children can be found in Cal. IPMs
        Henry VII, 1 (1898): no. 271. Anne (Stradling) Danvers is ancestral
        to the 17th Century New World immigrant, Jeremy Clarke, of Rhode
        Island.

        ...The most recent biography of Margaret Plantagenet entitled Margaret Pole which was published in 2003. Unfortunately the new ODNB account makes no mention of Margaret Plantagenet being Sir Richard Pole's second wife. Rather, it follows the standard line taken by past historians that Margaret Plantagenet was Sir Richard's only wife.

        One wonders why this should be the case when the evidence of the Pole-Langford marriage was initially presented by F.N. Macnamara in his book, Memorials of the Danvers Family, back in 1895. However, I've found that historians are notoriously bad genealogists. In this case, the author of the ODNB article missed both the Danvers book and the published abstract of the Chancery proceeding which proved the Pole-Langford marriage.

        Be that as it may, I recently found a brief mention of Alice Langford's husband, John Stradling, and their daughter, Anne (Stradling) Danvers, in the book, Llyfr Baglan, published in 1910. This work is based on pedigrees collected by John Williams in the period, 1600-1607. On pages 279, the following information is presented:

        "This Sr Edward [Stradling] had to his brothere John Stradlinge,
        knight, who ma. w'th the heire of dauncie in wilshir and had issue sir
        Edmond, who had issue John and Edmond; John had issue the ladie
        dauers, of whome the davers, hungerfordes, fynes and levets and a
        great p'genye of theme are descended, and of the said Edmond cometh
        (Carnysoyes of Cornwall.").
        Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah