Sir Roger de Clifford, Knight, 5th Baron de Clifford

Male 1333 - 1389  (56 years)


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  • Name Roger de Clifford 
    Title Sir 
    Suffix Knight, 5th Baron de Clifford 
    Birth 10 Jul 1333  Brougham Castle, Moor Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, England CA10 2AA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Jul 1389  Brougham Castle, Moor Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, England CA10 2AA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Person ID I45526  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 10 Sep 2016 

    Father Sir Robert de Clifford, Knight, 3rd Baron de Clifford,   b. 5 Nov 1305, (Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1344 (Age 38 years) 
    Mother Isabel de Berkeley,   b. 0___ 1307   d. 25 Jul 1362, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Marriage 0Jun 1328  [2, 4
    Residence (Family) (Westmorland, England) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F16941  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud Beauchamp,   b. 0___ 1335, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 0Feb 1403, Brougham Castle, Moor Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, England CA10 2AA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Marriage Y  [1, 2, 3
    Children 
     1. Margaret Clifford,   b. Brougham Castle, Moor Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, England CA10 2AA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Sir Thomas Clifford, Knight, 6th Baron de Clifford,   b. 1363-1364, Cumbria, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Aug 1391 (Age 27 years)
     3. Lady Catherine Clifford, Baroness of Ravensworth,   b. ~1367, Brougham Castle, Moor Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, England CA10 2AA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1413, (North Riding, Yorkshire) England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 45 years)
     4. Phillippa Clifford, Baroness Ferrers of Groby,   b. 0___ 1371, Brougham Castle, Moor Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, England CA10 2AA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 9 Aug 1416 (Age ~ 45 years)
    Family ID F16610  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford, ninth Lord Clifford, fifth Baron of Westmoreland (10 July 1333[1] - 13 July 1389), was the son of Robert de Clifford, 3rd Baron de Clifford (d. 20 May 1344), second son of Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (1273–1314), the founder of the northern branch of the family. His mother was Isabella (d. 25 July 1362), daughter of Maurice, 2nd Lord Berkeley. He succeeded his elder brother, Robert de Clifford, 4th Baron de Clifford in 1350, on which day he made proof of his age.[2]

      Military career

      Clifford entered on his military career when hardly more than twelve, being armed at the time of Jacob van Artevelde's death on 17 July 1345.[3]

      In August 1350 he was engaged in the seafight with the Spaniards near Winchelsea; and in 1355 he accompanied his father-in-law, Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, on the expedition to Gascony.[4] He again served in Gascony in 1359, 1360, and in the French expedition of the Duke of Lancaster in 1373.

      A document dated at Brougham 10 July 1369 shows him engaging the services of Richard le Fleming and his company for a year. In the same way he retained Sir Roger de Mowbray; and was himself retained, with his company of nearly eighty men, by Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, on 25 September 1379.[5]

      On 15 March 1361 he was called upon to assist Lionel, duke of Clarence, in his great Irish expedition on pain of forfeiting his Irish estates. A similar summons to defend his lands in Ireland was issued on 28 July 1368.[6]

      His chief services, however, were rendered on the Scotch borders. In July 1370 he was appointed one of the wardens of the west marches; but according to Sir H. Nicolas he is found defending the northern borders fourteen years earlier.[7] Resigned the truce with Scotland on 24 August 1369, and was warden of both east and west marches on five occasions between 1380 and 1385.

      In August 1385 he accompanied Richard II's expedition against Scotland with sixty men-at-arms and forty archers. His last border sendee seems to have been in October 1388, when he was ordered to adopt measures of defence for the Scotch Marches.[8] In May 1388 he accompanied Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, in his naval expedition to Brittany.[9]

      Political Offices

      He was hereditary High Sheriff of Westmorland from 1350? until his death in 1389. In 1377 he was made High Sheriff of Cumberland and governor of Carlisle, a city whose walls he appears to have inspected and found weak in the preceding year. To the last two offices he was reappointed on Richard II's accession.

      He was made a commissioner of array against the Scots (26 February 1372), and one of a body of commissioners to correct truce-breakers and decide border disputes 26 May 1373, having sat on a similar commission in September 1367.

      Parliament

      Clifford was summoned to all parliaments from 15 December 1356 to 28 July 1388.[10] He was trier of petitions in many parliaments from November 1373 to September 1377. In August 1374 he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle the dispute between Henry de Percy and William, Earl of Douglas, relative to the possession of Jedworth Forest. In the parliament of November 1381 he was member of a committee to confer with the House of Commons. On 12 October 1386 he gave evidence in the great Scrope and Grosvenor case at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

      Death and Succession

      Roger de Clifford died 13 July 1389, being then possessed of enormous estates, chiefly situated in Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, but spread over several other counties.[11] He was succeeded by his son Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford.

      Marriage and Issue

      He married Maud (d. 1403), daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick.[12]

      Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford (d. 1391 ?)
      William Clifford, the Governor of Berwick (d. 1419)
      Margaret, married Sir John Melton, knight
      Katherine, married Ralph, lord Greystock
      Philippa, married William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby (Lewis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed. (2006), line 11, no. 34)
      Dugdale gives him a third son, the Lollard, Sir Lewis Clifford (d. 1404), whom, however, Sir H. Nicolas shows to have been probably his brother, but certainly not his son[13]

      Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson lists three sons, including a Roger, no additional information.

      Genealogy

      The genealogical table in Whitaker gives Clifford two brothers, John de Clifford and Thomas de Clifford, said to have been the ancestor of Richard de Clifford, Bishop of London, and three sisters.

      References

      Jump up ^ (Scr. and Gros. Roll, text, i. 197)
      Jump up ^ (Dugdale, i. 240; Whitaker, pp. 310-11; Hist. Peerage, 117; Hist. of Westmoreland, i. 279; Escheat Rolls, ii. 118, 248)
      Jump up ^ (Scr. and Gros. Roll, i. 197)
      Jump up ^ (Whitaker, 314- 315; Dugdale, i. 340)
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      Jump up ^ (Rymer, vi. 319, 595)
      Jump up ^ (Rymer, vi. 657; Dugdale, i. 340; Scrope Roll, ii. 469, &c.)
      Jump up ^ (Rymer, vi. 570, 637, 714, vii. 9, 475; Nicolas, Scr. and Gros. Roll, ii. 469, &c.)
      Jump up ^ (Scr. and Gros. Roll, i. 197, ii. 469, &c.; Rymer, vii. 45)
      Jump up ^ (Dugdale, i. 340; Hist. Peerage, 117)
      Jump up ^ (Dugdale, i. 341; Escheat Rolls, iii. 113)
      Jump up ^ (cf. Escheat Rolls, iii. 286)
      Jump up ^ (Dugdale, i. 340-2; Whitaker, 314-16; Nicolas, Scr. and Gros. Roll, ii. 427, &c.)
      This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Clifford, Roger de (1333-1389)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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