House of Stafford

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The House of Stafford was a prominent English noble family that rose to great power and influence in the late medieval period, producing several dukes and key figures in the Wars of the Roses.

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Label Occurrences
House of Stafford canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English noble house
medieval noble family
acquiredTitleBy military service
royal favour
coatOfArms Or, a chevron gules
country Kingdom of England
ethnicGroup English
floruit 14th century
15th century
early 16th century
heldOffice Chamberlain of the Household
Earl Marshal of England NERFINISHED
Justiciar of North Wales
Lord High Constable of England NERFINISHED
Lord High Steward of England NERFINISHED
involvedInConflict Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED
knownFor great territorial power in the Midlands
key role in late medieval English politics
language Middle English
laterSupportedFaction House of York NERFINISHED
lostPowerBy attainder
execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
nobleTitleHeld Baron Stafford NERFINISHED
Duke of Buckingham NERFINISHED
Earl of Buckingham NERFINISHED
Earl of Stafford NERFINISHED
notableMember Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon NERFINISHED
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham NERFINISHED
Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire NERFINISHED
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham NERFINISHED
Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford NERFINISHED
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham NERFINISHED
Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford NERFINISHED
originatedFrom Staffordshire NERFINISHED
patronSaintOrBadge Stafford knot NERFINISHED
politicalRole magnate family
principalSeat Maxstoke Castle NERFINISHED
Stafford Castle NERFINISHED
Thornbury Castle NERFINISHED
region Midlands NERFINISHED
relatedHouse House of Beaufort NERFINISHED
House of Neville NERFINISHED
House of Plantagenet NERFINISHED
House of Tudor NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
roseToProminence 14th century
socialClass high nobility
supportedFaction House of Lancaster NERFINISHED

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: House of Stafford
Description of subject: The House of Stafford was a prominent English noble family that rose to great power and influence in the late medieval period, producing several dukes and key figures in the Wars of the Roses.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anne of Gloucester associatedWith House of Stafford