Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455–1483), inherited the dukedom in 1460 at the age of four on his grandfather's death. In 1466 he married Katherine Woodville, sister of Edward IV's queen.

In 1483 he supported Gloucester's seizure of the crown as Richard III, but within months turned against him. With Margaret Beaufort he raised a rising across southern England and Wales in Henry Tudor's name.

Flooding of the Severn scattered the army he had gathered on his Welsh estates, and a retainer betrayed him. Richard III had him beheaded without trial in November 1483; the plot is remembered as Buckingham's Rebellion.