# Philip Stapleton

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{{Short description|English Member of Parliament}}
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'''Sir Philip Stapleton''' of [Wighill](/source/Wighill) and of [Warter](/source/Warter)-on-the-Wolds, [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire) (1603 – 18 August 1647) was an English [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament), a supporter of the [Parliamentary](/source/Roundheads) cause during the [English Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War), and a colonel in the Parliamentary Army until 1645. His surname is also sometimes spelt '''Stapylton''' or '''Stapilton'''.

==Life==
Born in 1603 at Warter-on-the-Wolds, Yorkshire, he was the second son of Sir Henry Stapleton of Wighill (Wighill, Yorkshire, 1572 – [St. Andrews](/source/St._Andrews), 16 February 1630/1631) and wife Mary Forster ([Bamborough Castle](/source/Bamborough_Castle), [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland), 30 March 1569 – St. Andrew Holborn Parish, London, Middlesex, 6 November 1656).<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle= Stapleton, Philip |volume= 54 |last= Firth  |first= Charles |author-link= Charles Firth (historian) |pages= 98-100 |year= |short=1}}</ref><ref>Henry Edward Chetwynd-Stapylton, ''Chronicles of the Yorkshire family of Stapelton'', "The Stapiltons of Warter and Wighill", pp. 444 ff. Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, 1884.[https://archive.org/details/chroniclesyorks00chetgoog/page/n205/mode/2up p. 444]</ref><ref name="Foster">Foster, Joseph. ''Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire'', Vol. 2, p. 189. London: The Compiler, 1874.[https://archive.org/details/pedigreesofcount02fost/page/n189/mode/2up p. 189]</ref><ref name="Dugdale">Dugdale, William. ''Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions.'' Vol. 2, pp. 174-175. "Stapleton of Watre".[https://archive.org/details/dugdalesvisitati01dugd/page/174/mode/2up p. 174.]</ref> He was admitted as a fellow commoner of [Queens' College, Cambridge](/source/Queens'_College%2C_Cambridge) in 1617.<ref>{{acad|id=STPN617P|name=Stapleton, Philip}}</ref> On 25 May 1630, he was knighted by King Charles I.<ref>Shaw, WA. "The Knights of England", Vol. 2, p. 197.London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906.[https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland02shawuoft/knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/n205/mode/2up p. 197]</ref>

He served as MP for [Hedon](/source/Hedon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in the [Short Parliament](/source/Short_Parliament) (April 1640) and [Boroughbridge](/source/Boroughbridge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in the [Long Parliament](/source/Long_Parliament) (Nov 1640). In 1642, he was appointed parliamentary commissioner in [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire). When the civil war broke out he was made a colonel of horse and commander of the [Earl of Essex's](/source/Robert_Devereux%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Essex) bodyguard. He commanded a brigade of cavalry at the [Battle of Edgehill](/source/Battle_of_Edgehill), including [Cromwell's troop](/source/Cromwell's_troop), one of two held in reserve until late in the day and whose charge against the flanks and rear of the Royal infantry almost secured a parliamentary victory but proved ultimately inconclusive. He also saw action at the [Battle of Chalgrove Field](/source/Battle_of_Chalgrove_Field) and at the [First Battle of Newbury](/source/First_Battle_of_Newbury). He was a member of the [Committee of Safety](/source/English_Committee_of_Safety) appointed in 1642 and of the [Committee of Both Kingdoms](/source/Committee_of_Both_Kingdoms) which replaced it in 1643. <ref name="DNB"/><ref>Stapylton (1884), pp. 446-455.[https://archive.org/details/chroniclesyorks00chetgoog/page/n209/mode/2up p. 446]</ref>

However, he fell out of favour when he opposed the [Self-Denying Ordinance](/source/Self-Denying_Ordinance) and the advancement of [Oliver Cromwell](/source/Oliver_Cromwell). In 1647, he was one of the [eleven members](/source/eleven_members) of Parliament impeached by the army, but managed to escape to [Calais](/source/Calais), and died at a local Inn there later the same year of fever, perhaps plague, and was buried in August 1647 at the Protestant Burial Ground at Calais.<ref name="DNB"/><ref>Stapylton (1884), pp. 455-458.[https://archive.org/details/chroniclesyorks00chetgoog/page/n217/mode/2up p. 455]</ref>

==Family==
Stapleton married twice, first in 1627 to Frances Hotham (1605–1636), daughter of [Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet](/source/Sir_John_Hotham%2C_1st_Baronet), and wife Katherine Rodes, widow of John Gee, [Esq.](/source/Esq.), of Beverley (1606–1627), with issue, by whom he had two sons: 
* John Stapleton of Warter and of Wighill (Warter, [York](/source/York), [East Riding of Yorkshire](/source/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire), 1628 – 1697, married Elizabeth Mary Lawson (Isel, [Cumberland](/source/Cumberland), 1635 – [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire), 1743), daughter of [Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell](/source/Sir_Wilfrid_Lawson%2C_1st_Baronet%2C_of_Isell), and wife Jane Musgrave, and had issue: 
** Isabella Stapleton, wife of Sir William Pennington, 1st Baronet of Muncaster, and had issue
** Jane - died young
** Frances - b. 1655
** Elizabeth - b. 1656
** Jane - m. Rowland Mosley of York 
** Esther - b. 1659; m. John Saunders
** Wilfred - b. 1663; died young
* Robert Stapleton of Wighill (1635–1675), married Dorothy, daughter of [Henry Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax of Cameron](/source/Henry_Fairfax%2C_4th_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron), in 1674, but the marriage had no issue, likely due to his death the next year..
* Isabelle (1632 - 1644) unmarried and without issue
* Katherine Stapleton (Wighill, Yorkshire, 1635 – ?), married George Leson of Dublin in 1649
* Mary Stapleton (York, Yorkshire, 1636 – London, Middlesex, 1704), who married [Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam](/source/Thomas_FitzWilliam%2C_4th_Viscount_FitzWilliam) (Ireland, ca. 1640 – Ireland, 24 February 1704), who was a rather surprising choice of husband for a child of Sir Philip, as Thomas was an Irish [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) and a staunch [Royalist](/source/Royalist); there was no issue of the marriage.

His second wife was Barbara Lennard ([Hurstmonceaux](/source/Hurstmonceaux), [Sussex](/source/Sussex), 1 April 1604 – ca. 1665), daughter of [Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre](/source/Henry_Lennard%2C_12th_Baron_Dacre), and wife Chrysogona Baker. Their children were: 

* Henry Stapleton of Wighill (Warter, Yorkshire, 1639 – 1723), unmarried and without issue
* Elizabeth Stapleton (11 February 1640 – ?), unmarried and without issue
* Isabell Stapleton (York, Yorkshire, 1642 – 16 December 1646)unmarried and without issue; possibly identical with Elizabeth
* Frances Stapleton (Westminster, 1641 – 1719), married Sir Nathaniel Powell of Ewhurst Place, Sussex
* Philipa Stapleton (London, 1644 – 16 December 1646, bur. [London](/source/London), [Middlesex](/source/Middlesex))
* Philip Stapleton of Fulham and Wighill ([City of Westminster](/source/City_of_Westminster), London, Middlesex, 1645 – 9 November 1729), married Margaret Gage ( – ca. 1743), daughter of Thomas Gage, his father's coachman and faithful servant, who attended him at his death at Calais.<ref>Stapylton (1884), p. 465.[https://archive.org/details/chroniclesyorks00chetgoog/page/n229/mode/2up p. 465]</ref><ref name="Dugdale"/> Had issue, baptised at Fulham:
** Henry -  baptized 19th Jan., 1684; buried 5 September 1685
** Frances - 22nd Dec, 1686.
** Philippa - 13th Dec, 1688.
** Dorothy - 25th December 1689 at St Martin-in-the-Fields; buried at Fulham 8 May 1692
** Robert - 5th March, 1690/1; buried 5 November 1694
** Henry - 6th April, 1692; died 1725.
** Mary - 22nd Nov., 1696.
** Philip  - 3rd April, 1698; died 1744.
***(American rapper [Eminem](/source/Eminem) is descended from this branch.)
<ref name="Dugdale"/><ref name="Foster"/><ref>Stapylton (1884), pp. 458-9 [https://archive.org/details/chroniclesyorks00chetgoog/page/n221/mode/2up p. 458]</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
* ''The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985'', Oxford University Press; {{ISBN|978-0198653059}}
* [http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ss4tz/stapleton03.htm Stapleton genealogy]
* {{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

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