Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale

Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale (c. 1316–1364), eldest son of Sir Gilbert Stapleton and Agnes FitzAlan, was an English knight and a founder Knight of the Garter. Through his father he was a great-grandson of Dervorguilla of Galloway, mother of King John Balliol.

He served at the siege of Tournai in 1340, fought in the Breton War of Succession and was probably at Calais in 1347. In 1348 he took a stall in the new Order of the Garter. In 1354 he joined an embassy to Pope Innocent VI seeking aid in the Anglo-French war.

In 1361 the crown granted him a £100 annuity for his unwearied labours. He probably joined a Prussian crusade in 1363 and died in December 1364, perhaps of wounds from Auray.