John Ipstones was an English soldier, politician and landowner. He fought in the Hundred Years War and in John of Gaunt's expedition to win the Crown of Castile. He represented Staffordshire twice in the House of Commons of England, including the Merciless Parliament of 1388, in which he supported the measures of the Lords Appellant. A member of a notoriously quarrelsome and violent landed gentry family, he pursued numerous property and personal disputes, one of which led to his murder while in London, serving as a Member of Parliament.
Moreton Corbet Castle from the west. Although much rebuilt and then replaced in the 16th century, the tall wall in the foreground survives from the family's medieval fortress.
Remains of Stafford Castle, the Stafford family's great fortress, built in the mid-14th century, to the west of the town.
Sir Roger Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire was a landowner and politician who was a knight of the shire for Shropshire in three Parliaments of England. He was involved in a series of complex and sharply contested property disputes with members of his own family.
A remaining part of the medieval keep at Moreton Corbet. The castle was heavily modified in the mid-16th century by Sir Andrew Corbet and an entirely new building on the Italian model begun next to it by his son, Robert.
