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From: "Sutliff" <>
Subject: Re: Origins of the Despensers - status report
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 23:27:42 GMT
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"Cristopher Nash" <c@windsong.u-net.com> wrote in message
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<snip>>
> Peter Coss and I have been ruminating together on the Langleys (he's
> at UCardiff); I note that a Langley or 2 have shown up recently in
> both our bundles, and if you happen to run into a da. of a Geoffrey
> de Langley who - acc. to CP - m. Nicholas de Stafford (d. ca. 1 Aug
> 1287) - a shout about it would make both him and me happy buggers.
> (Well, having missed trying buggery myself - it being too late now -
> I wouldn't like to speak for him, so you might best take this with a
> pinch of salt, a pinch in the hand being worth two in the bush.)
<snip>

There were Langley families at Edgecroft, Lancashire, Siddington,
Gloucestershire and Langley, Oxfordshire. As Nicholas de Stafford was of
Staffordshire, are you able to identify which of these or another Langley
family Geoffrey and his daughter belonged? CP XI-1:172 does not elaborate.

Thanks,

Henry Sutliff


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