When Avicia Stapleton was born about 1319, in England, her father, Sir Gilbert Stapleton, was 23 and her mother, Agnes FitzAlan, was 23. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Sir Nicholas Middleton, KT, Knight.
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The First War of Scottish Independence began after England invaded Scotland in 1296. The Treaty of Edinburgh was signed in 1328 which declared peace between the two kingdoms and brought the war to an end.
The Hundred Years' War between France and England was largely due to the question of legitimate succession to the French crown.
John Wycliffe, English theologian and professor at the University of Oxford, completed a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English. This translation is known as Wycliffe's Bible and was completed around 1382.
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Stapleton (in Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Cumberland), all named in Old English with stapol ‘post, pillar’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The name is common in Ireland, where it has been established since medieval times in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny.
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