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Quartered arms of Sir William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, KG. William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561 – 29 September 1642) was an English nobleman and politician. Stanley inherited a prominent social position that was both dangerous and unstable, as his mother was heir to Queen Elizabeth I under the Third Succession Act, a position inherited in 1596 by his deceased brother's oldest daughter ...
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (c. 1435 –1504) Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby (1477–1521) Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby (c. 1508 – 1572) Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (1531–1593) Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (1559–1594) William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (bef. 1584–1642) James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607 ...
The Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship is the view that William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), was the true author of the works of William Shakespeare. Derby is one of several individuals who have been claimed by advocates of the Shakespeare authorship question to be the true author of Shakespeare's works.
Possibly the arms of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435–1504), KG. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG (1435 – 29 July 1504) was an English nobleman. He was the stepfather of King Henry VII of England. He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill.
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), English nobleman and politician This page was last edited on 10 December 2019, at 08:51 (UTC). Text is available ...
In 1594 William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561-1642), following the death of his elder brother the 5th Earl of Derby, incorrectly assumed the title Baron Strange (created in 1299) (see above). In 1628 his son and heir apparent, James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration as Lord Strange ...
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, 6th Baron Strange (1664–1736), who having inherited the earldom from his brother and the barony of Strange from his brother's descendant Henrietta Ashburnham, 5th Baroness Strange (d. 1732), died childless, when the barony of Strange passed to James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, 7th Baron Strange (1690–1764 ...
Anne Stanley, Countess of Ancram (died 1657) was an English aristocrat. Anne Stanley was a daughter of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby , and Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby . Through her paternal grandmother, she was a great-great-granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk , thereby making her ...