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Stapleton
"fide sed cui vide"
Variations in Spelling: Stapleton, Stapelton ,Stapylton, Stapletun, Stapeltun, Stapyltun, Stapledon,
Stapeldon, Stapyldon
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| We are all descended from the Stapletons of Stapleton-on-Tees
in Richmonshire (Yorkshire) originally settled by Octa brother of Hengist about 450 AD. The
Stapletons of today are an Anglo Norman family descended from the marriage of the Dame of
Stapleton-on-Tees and Hamon (or Herman, or Heryon) a Norman (Viking) seigneur who accompanied
William the Conquerer on one of his forays to England prior to 1066 (1052 Hamon was Lord of
the Manor of Stapleton-on-Tees).
There are two major branches extant, the English branch and the Irish branch. The Irish branch
are descendants of John de Stapleton, the Black Knight who accompanied Strongbow on his conquest
of Ireland in 1171. At the coronation of Richard I (Coeur de Lion) in 1189 Sir John carried
his golden spurs. In 1199 King John awarded his good friend (probably step first cousin) and
loyal subject Sir John about 50,000 acres of land in what is now Northern Tipperary centered
around Drom. The family continued to be large landowners in this area and the surrounding
counties until the diaspora of the Irish Catholic Gentry during and after the Cromwellian
Confiscations and the later rebellions. The family was very loyal to the Plantageanet, Anjovin,
Tudor and Stuart Royal families. Most subsequant world migration of Stapletons is mainly from
the Irish branch and is tied to the diaspora of the Irish, firstly the flight, emigration and
transportation following Cromwells pogroms of then secondly, the great famine.
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