Stafford Castle is an ancient Grade II listed castle situated 2 miles west of the town of Stafford in Staffordshire, England. From the time of the Norman Conquest and as recorded in the Domesday Book
Stafford Castle Keep
The interior of the rebuilt keep
Interior of one of the towers at Stafford Castle
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and
Stafford Castle
…adapted, with a fifth tower being added on in the middle of the north wall (actually facing west). The stone castle reached its heyday during the time of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402–1460), who was killed at the Battle of Northampton in 1460. His grandson Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455–1483) had become a ward of…
Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham by William Bond, after Joseph Allen
Stafford Castle, the Stafford family seat, as it remains in 2017
Brecon Castle in 2006; this was the Duke of Buckingham's traditional base in the Welsh Marches.
Maxstoke Castle, purchased by Stafford from Lord Clinton