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Medieval Staffordshire
c913 Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians orders a fortified settlement to built at Stafford
1066 Battle of Hastings
1069-1071 Harrying of the North
1070 William orders a castle built at Stafford
1071 Robert of Toeni builds a castle and starts to be known as Robert of Stafford (link to external site)
1086 Domesday Book compiled
1087 William I dies, succeeded by William Rufus
1095 First Crusade starts
1100 Henry I becomes king
1102 William Pantulf builds a new wooden castle at Stafford
1135 Henry dies of a 'a surfeit of lampreys' and his daughter Mathilda becomes queen
1139 England dissolves into civil war when Mathilda and her cousin, Stephen, fight for the throne.
1188 Stafford family falls on hard times
1189 Richard I becomes king
1199 Richard "the Lionheart" is killed, his brother, John "Lackland", becomes king
1216 King John dies, succeeded by his son, Henry III
1272 Henry dies, his son becomes Edward I
1288 Edward succeeded by his son, Edward II
1327 Edward II meets a sticky end in Berkley Castle and his son Edward III becomes king
1337 Hundred Years War starts
1348 Ralph Earl of Stafford rebuilds the castle in stone
1367 Edward III dies, Succeeded by his grandson, Richard II
1381 Peasants' Revolt
1399 Richard II deposed, Henry IV becomes king
1413 Henry V becomes king
1422 Henry V dies, Henry VI becomes king
1444 Stafford family marries into the Buckingham family
1455-85 War of the Roses
1461 Edward IV becomes king
1483 Edward IV dies and his young son, Edward V, becomes king
1483 Richard III takes the throne from his nephew Edward V and becomes king
1485 Henry VII becomes King and visits Stafford Castle
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