Miles Stapleton (died 1466)

1397–1433), who died in France while a hostage for his brother William, son to Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.

They had two known daughters, the eldest, Elizabeth Stapleton, married before March 1464, Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

The younger daughter, Jane (or Joan) Stapleton (d. 1519), married Sir Christopher Harcourt of Great Ashby, (Ashby Magna), Leicestershire (d. 1474) and remarried John Hudleston (Huddleston), of Millom Castle, appointed sheriff of Cumberland by the Duke of Gloucester and keeper and bailiff of the king's woods and chases in Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, steward of Penrith and warden of the west marches.

[2] Stapleton was in the French wars, where he single-handedly took seven prisoners, for whom he was given a safe-conduct dated 22 June 1436/7 to take them into Flanders "pro finantiis suis" probably to get money for their ransoms.

The following year he and his brother, Bryan Stapleton of Crispings, in Happisburgh, & Hasilden, Norfolk, received the thanks of the Privy Council in connection with a riot at Norwich.