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 1414 - 1455 (41 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Clifford |
| Title |
Sir |
| Suffix |
8th Baron de Clifford |
| Birth |
25 Mar 1414 |
Cumbria, England  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
High Sheriff of Westmorland [4] |
| Death |
22 May 1455 |
First Battle of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England [1, 3, 4, 5] |
| Burial |
St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England [3] |
| Person ID |
I41374 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2016 |
| Father |
Sir John Clifford, Knight, 7th Baron Clifford, b. 1388-1389, Appleby, Westmorland, England d. 13 Mar 1422, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France (Age 33 years) |
| Mother |
Lady Elizabeth Percy, b. ~ 1395, Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England NE66 1NQ d. 26 Oct 1437 (Age ~ 42 years) |
| Marriage |
~ 1404 [1, 2, 3, 5] |
| Family ID |
F14962 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Lady Joan Dacre, Baroness Clifford, b. ~1415, Naworth Castle, Brampton, Cumbria, England d. Bef May 1543, (England) (Age ~ 127 years) |
| Marriage |
Aft Mar 1424 |
Skelton, Yorkshire, England [1, 3, 4, 6, 7] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, b. 8 Apr 1435, Conisborough Castle, Doncaster, England d. 28 Mar 1461, Battle of Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, England (Age 25 years) |
| | 2. Elizabeth Clifford, b. ~1441, (Conisborough Castle, Doncaster, England) d. Aft 1479 (Age ~ 38 years) |
| | 3. Joan Clifford, b. Bef 1446, (Conisborough Castle, Doncaster) England d. 10 Aug 1491, England (Age ~ 45 years) |
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| Family ID |
F14961 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, also 8th Lord of Skipton (25 March 1414 - 22 May 1455), was the elder son of John, 7th Baron de Clifford, and Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Henry "Hotspur" Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer. |
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- Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, also 8th Lord of Skipton (25 March 1414 – 22 May 1455), was the elder son of John, 7th Baron de Clifford, and Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Henry "Hotspur" Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer.
Family
Thomas Clifford was born 25 March 1414, the elder son and heir of John, Lord de Clifford by Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Henry 'Hotspur' Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer, daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. He had a younger brother, Henry Clifford,[1] and two sisters, Mary and Blanche.[2] [3] The Clifford family was seated at Skipton from 1310 to 1676.
Career
Clifford inherited the barony and the title of High Sheriff of Westmorland at the age of seven upon his father's death at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422.[2][3] He made proof of age in 1435/6.[2]
In 1435 Clifford campaigned with the Duke of Bedford in France, and about 1439 led the English forces which defended Pontoise against Charles VII of France.[4] In 1450/51 he was sent as an embassy for King James III of Scotland.[2]
Clifford was slain fighting on the Lancastrian side at the First Battle of St Albans on 22 May 1455, the first battle in the Wars of the Roses, and was buried at St Alban's Abbey.[4] He was succeeded by his elder son, John, 9th Baron de Clifford.
Marriage and issue
After March 1424 Clifford married Joan Dacre, the daughter of Thomas, 6th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, by Philippa, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by whom he had four sons and five daughters:[5]
John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, who married Margaret Bromflete, by whom he had two sons, Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford, and Richard Clifford, esquire, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Robert Aske. He was slain at Ferrybridge 24 March 1461 on the eve of the Battle of Towton.[5]
Sir Roger Clifford, who married Joan Courtenay (born c.1447), the eldest daughter of Thomas Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon, by Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. Sir Roger Clifford was beheaded in 1485, and his widow married secondly, Sir William Knyvet of Buckenham, Norfolk.[4][6]
Sir Robert Clifford (d. 15 March 1508), who married Elizabeth (nâee Barley), widow of Sir Ralph Jocelyn (d. October 25, 1478), twice Lord Mayor of London, and daughter of William Barley of Aspenden, Hertfordshire by Elizabeth Darcy. Both
Sir Robert Clifford and his father-in-law, William Barley, were supporters of the pretender to the Crown, Perkin Warbeck.[4][7][8]
Sir Thomas Clifford.
Elizabeth Clifford, who married firstly, Sir William Plumpton of Knaresborough, Yorkshire,[9] slain at the Battle of Towton, and secondly, John Hamerton.[4][10]
Maud Clifford, who married firstly Sir John Harrington of Hornby, Lancashire, slain at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and secondly, Sir Edmund Sutton of Dudley, Staffordshire.[4][11]
Anne Clifford, who married firstly, Sir Richard Tempest, and secondly, William Conyers, esquire.[4]
Joan Clifford, who married Sir Simon Musgrave.[4]
Margaret Clifford, who married Robert Carre ( 12 April 1467) [4]
Shakespeare and Thomas Clifford
According to Shakespeare's, Henry VI, Part 3 following Hall's Chronicle and Holinshed's Chronicles, it was Thomas Clifford's son and heir, John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, who slew, in cold blood after the Battle of Wakefield, the young Edmund, Earl of Rutland, son of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, cutting off his head and sending it crowned with paper to Henry VI's wife, Margaret of Anjou, although later authorities state that Lord Rutland had been slain during the battle.[2] [4]
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- [S5346] https://histfam.familysearch.org//ahnentafel.php?personID=I15862&tree=EuropeRoyalNobleHous&parentset=0&generations=6.
- [S7313] "John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford (c.1389 - 13 March 1422)" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clifford,_.
- [S7448] "Queen Elizabeth II Pedigree", http://famouskin.com/family_group.php?name=7516+queen+elizabeth+ii&ahnum=398577.
- [S9030] "Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford" biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Clifford,_8th_Baron_de_Clifford.
- [S9786] "Descendants of Maurice (Berkeley) de Berkeley", 5-Generations, http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Berkeley-Descendants-4.
- [S7359] "Philippa Neville, Baroness Dacre (1386 - 1453)" biogrpahy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_de_Neville.
- [S14786] "Elizabeth (Sothill) Drury 21 May 1505 - 19 May 1575", Ancestors, Descendants & Profile, select tab, "Ancestors", to vie.
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