TY - BOOK ID - 4997450 TI - The Staffords : Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham, 1394-1521 PY - 1978 VL - 3d ser., v. 11 SN - 052121663X 0521089719 0511897030 9780521216630 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Stafford family KW - Great Britain KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - History KW - Nobility KW - Histoire KW - Biography KW - Social life and customs KW - -Noble class KW - Noble families KW - Nobles (Social class) KW - Peerage KW - Upper class KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Titles of honor and nobility KW - -History KW - -Social life and customs KW - -Nobility KW - -Biography KW - -Stafford family KW - Stafford family. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Nobility - Great Britain - Biography KW - Great Britain - History - Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 1066-1485 KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 16th century KW - Great Britain - History - Tudors, 1485-1603 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4997450 AB - As one of the richest and most powerful land-owning families in later medieval England, the Staffords played their leading part in the politics of their time. This book traces the often complex relations between the three Stafford Dukes of Buckingham and the Crown. In doing so it casts light upon the attitude of successive English kings towards the nobility as a whole, and reassessed the political and military strength of the ruling class. The Staffords derived most of their influence from the ownership of land. Because of the survival of a widely scattered but unique family archive, Dr Rawcliffe has been able to study in unusually close detail the management of their estates and the deployment of their finances, as well as the reorganization of their household, which changed over the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries from a large peripatetic body to a smaller resident establishment where the third Duke of Buckingham could indulge his taste for cultural pursuits. ER -