Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk
Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk( 1366 – 8 July 1425) was an English noblewoman and the wife of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk.
Through her eldest daughter, Lady Margaret Mowbray, Elizabeth was an ancestress of Queens consort Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and the Howard Dukes of Norfolk.
Her other notable descendants include Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk; Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby; Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger; and Lady Jane Grey( by both parents).
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby( 27 September 1689 – 22 February 1776), known as Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet, from 1714 to 1736, was a British nobleman, peer, and politician.
Derby was the son of Sir Thomas Stanley, 4th Baronet, and Elizabeth Patten, and succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1714.
This branch of the Stanley family, known as the" Stanleys of Bickerstaffe", were descended from Sir James Stanley, younger brother of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1723.
He was elected to the House of Commons for Lancashire in 1727, a seat he held until 1736, when he succeeded his distant relative James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, as eleventh Earl of Derby, and took his seat in the House of Lords.
He later served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1741 to 1757 and again from 1771 to 1776.
Lord Derby married Elizabeth Hesketh, daughter of Robert Hesketh, in 1714.
He died in February 1776, aged 86, and was succeeded in the earldom by his grandson Edward, his son James Smith- Stanley, Lord Strange, having predeceased him.
His daughter, Lady Charlotte Stanley, married General John Burgoyne.
His great- great- grandson Edward Smith- Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, was three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby
Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby( before 1485 – 23 May 1521) was an English nobleman, politician, and peer.
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, (1435 – 29 July 1504) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was a titular King of Mann, and stepfather to King Henry VII of England.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill.
A landed magnate of immense power, particularly across the northwest of England where his authority went almost unchallenged, even by the Crown
, Stanley managed to remain in favour with successive kings throughout the Wars of the Roses until his death in 1504.
His estates included what is now Tatton Park in Cheshire, Lathom House in Lancashire, and Derby House in the City of London,
now the site of the College of Arms.
Although the king for the early part of his career, Henry VI, was head of the House of Lancaster, Stanley's marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (a descendant of Edward III) and sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (‘Warwick the Kingmaker’)
in the late 1450s constituted a powerful alliance with the House of York.
This did him no harm, however, even after Warwick was toppled from power, and in 1472, with the House of York again occupying the English throne, he married his second wife Lady Margaret Beaufort, whose son, Henry Tudor, was the leading Lancastrian claimant.
He was the last to use the style ‘King of Mann’, his successors opting for the safer ‘Lord of Mann’.
Stanley was “a man of considerable acumen, and probably the most successful power-broker of his age”.
George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange
George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange, of Knockin, KG, KB( 1460 – 1503) was an English nobleman and heir apparent of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
He was also a notable soldier in his own right and held a number of senior offices of state.
William Stanley (Battle of Bosworth)
Sir William Stanley( c. 1435 – 16 February 1495) was an English soldier and the younger brother of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
Stanley fought with his troops in several battles of the Wars of the Roses.
Lady Margaret Beaufort
Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: , ; or) (31 May 1441/3 – 29 June 1509) was the mother of King Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England.
She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and an influential matriarch of the House of Tudor.
She is credited with the establishment of two prominent Cambridge colleges, founding Christ's College in 1505 and beginning the development of St John's College, which was completed posthumously by her executors in 1511.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, the first Oxford college to admit women, is named after her and has a statue of her in the college chapel.
Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby
Robert II de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby( c. 1100 – 1162) was a younger, but eldest surviving son of Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby and his wife Hawise.
He succeeded his father as Earl of Derby in 1139( William, his elder brother, having been murdered in London some time before).
He was head of a family which controlled a large part of Derbyshire including an area later known as Duffield Frith.
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth and 1st Earl of Brentford( c. 1573 – 2 February 1651) was a Scottish nobleman, general, and diplomat.
John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley( 26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician.

Question: Where did Thomas Stanley, 1St Earl Of Derby's wife study at?
Answer: St John's College