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.
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