Parents

Son of Richard 1st Lord Scrope of Bolton LE SCROPE & Blanche DE LA POLE.

Life History

Notes

• The Tudor Place Data provides a summary of Sir Stephen Le Scrope'slife:
  
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  Stephen SCROPE (Sir)
  Born: ABT 1350, Bentley, Yorkshire, England
  
  Died: 10 Sep 1405, Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland
  Buried: Saint Agatha, Richmond, Yorkshire, England
  
  Notes: 3rd son of Richard, 1° Lord Scrope, was charged withimprisoning the Earl of Warwick on the Isle of Man. In 1401 heaccompanied Thomas of Lancaster, the King's son, to Ireland as hisdeputy. It is said that his wife, having heard the complaints madeabout him whilst he was Justice of Munster, Leinster and Uriell, hismaladministration of justice, 'except that he would make a solemn oathon The Bible, that willingly he would wrong no 'Christian creature' inthat land, that truly and duly, see payment made for all expenses. Shefinally did consent to go with him. Thomas of Lancaster gives him aglowing reference in a letter written from Drogheda on 18 th Feb 1401.Scrope himself wrote at about the same time, asking for the moniesowed to him, if not for 'A Grant of The Isle of Man, forfeited by mybrother'. He died in Ireland in 1408. Millicent, his widow, marriedSir John Fastolph (Falstaff in Shakespeare). Millicent's son Stephenbecame Fastolph's ward. Fastolph enjoyed Stephen's inheritance for 51years before he finally died.
  
  Father: Richard SCROPE (1° B. Scrope of Bolton)
  
  Mother: Blanche De La POLE (B. Scrope of Bolton)
  Married: Millicent TIPTOPF (dau. of Robert Tiptoft and MargaretDeincourt) 23 Nov 1385, Castlecomb, Wiltshire, England
  
  Children:
  1. Stephen SCROPE
  
  2. Elizabeth SCROPE
  --  Tudor Place, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SCROPE.htm#StephenSCROPE (Sir)1
  
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Sources

• 1. Tudor Place
  • http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/SCROPE.htm#Stephen SCROPE (Sir)1
• 2. Ancestry Trees
  • Whipple Family Tree,