Following the execution of the Duke of Buckingham, royal officers took possession of Stafford Castle and the vast Stafford estate in Staffordshire. The seizure required an armed presence to overawe Buckinghams household and tenants; it was the most dramatic assertion of Henrician royal power over the magnate class.
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