Margery Bowes

Margery married Ralph Eure before 1529. Ralph (son of William Eure and Elizabeth Willoughby) was born about 1510 in of Foulbridge in Brompton, Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Mar 1545 in near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland; was buried in Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne Eure

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He fought at Flodden Field in 1513.

Ralph married Elizabeth Clifford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Durham, 1482.

Ralph married Margery Conyers. Margery (daughter of Richard Conyers and Alice Wycliffe) died after 6 Aug 1524. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Harry Clifford.

From Wikipedia (accessed 2 Jan 2024):

Henry Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford KB [...] was an English nobleman. His father, John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, was killed in the Wars of the Roses fighting for the House of Lancaster when Henry was around five years old. A local legend later developed that -- on account of John Clifford having killed one of the House of York's royal princes in battle, and the new Yorkist King Edward IV seeking revenge -- Henry was spirited away by his mother. As a result, it was said, he grew up ill-educated, living a pastoral life in the care of a shepherd family. Thus, ran the story, Clifford was known as the "shepherd lord". More recently, historians have questioned this narrative, noting that for a supposedly ill-educated man, he was signing charters only a few years after his father's death, and that in any case, Clifford was officially pardoned by King Edward in 1472. It may be that he deliberately avoided attracting Yorkist attention in his early years, although probably not to the extent portrayed in the local mythology.

The Yorkist regime came to an end in 1485 with the invasion of Henry Tudor, who defeated Edward's brother, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Henry's victory meant that he needed men to control the North of England for him, and Clifford's career as a loyal Tudor servant began. Soon after Bosworth, the King gave him responsibility for crushing the last remnants of rebellion in the north. Clifford was not always successful in this, and his actions were not always popular. On more than one occasion, he found himself at loggerheads with the city of York, the civic leadership of which was particularly independently minded. When another Yorkist rebellion broke out in 1487, Clifford suffered an embarrassing military defeat by the rebels outside the city walls. Generally, however, royal service was extremely profitable for him: King Henry needed trustworthy men in the region and was willing to build up their authority in order to protect his own.

Although Clifford's later years were devoted to service in the north and fighting the Scots (he took part in the decisive English victory at Flodden in 1513) he fell out with the King on numerous occasions. Clifford was not an easy-going personality; his abrasiveness caused trouble with his neighbours, occasionally breaking out in violent feuds. This was not the behaviour the King expected from his lords. Furthermore, Clifford had married a cousin of the King, yet Clifford's infidelity to her was notorious among his contemporaries. This also drew the King's ire, to the extent that the couple's separation was mooted. Clifford's first wife had died by 1511, and Clifford remarried. This was also a tempestuous match, and on one occasion he and his wife ended up in court accusing each other of adultery. Clifford's relations with his eldest son and heir, the eventual Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland, were equally turbulent. Clifford rarely attended the royal court himself, but sent his son to be raised with the King's heir, Prince Arthur. Clifford later complained that young Henry not only lived above his station, he consorted with men of bad influence; Clifford also accused his son of regularly beating up his father's servants on his return to Yorkshire.

Clifford outlived the King and attended the coronation of Henry VIII in 1509. While continuing to serve as the King's man in the north, Clifford carried on his feuds with the local gentry. He also indulged his interests in astronomy, for which he built a small castle for observation purposes. Clifford grew ill in 1522 and died in April of the following year; his widow later remarried. Young Henry inherited the title as 11th Baron Clifford as well as a large fortune and estate, the result of his father's policy of frugality and avoiding the royal court for most of his life.

Henry married Anne St. John. Anne (daughter of John St. John and Alice Bradschagh) died after 12 May 1506; was buried in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud Fitz Hugh. Maud (daughter of William Fitz Hugh and Margery Willoughby) died after 28 Jul 1466. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Alice Wycliffe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notwithstanding the Wikipedia text below, historians have noted that it was only several decades after the Battle of Wakefield that mentions begin of John Clifford personally slaying the Earl of Rutland, and Clifford is first called "Butcher Clifford" no earlier than 1540.

From Wikipedia (accessed 2 Jan 2024):

John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, 9th Lord of Skipton [...] was a Lancastrian military leader during the Wars of the Roses in England. The Clifford family was one of the most prominent families among the northern English nobility of the fifteenth century, and by the marriages of his sisters, John Clifford had links to some very important families of the time, including the earls of Devon. He was orphaned at twenty years of age when his father was slain by partisans of the House of York at the first battle of the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of St Albans in 1455. It was probably as a result of his father's death there that Clifford became one of the strongest supporters of Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, who ended up as effective leader of the Lancastrian faction.

Clifford had already achieved prominence in the north where, as an ally of the son of the earl of Northumberland, he took part in a feud against the Neville family, the Percy's natural rivals in Yorkshire. This consisted of a series of armed raids, assaults and skirmishes, and included an ambush on one of the younger Nevilles' wedding parties in 1453. Historians have seen a direct connection between his involvement in the local feud in the north with the Nevilles, and his involvement in the national struggle against the duke of York, with whom the Nevilles were closely allied with in the late 1450s. Although this was supposedly a period of temporary peace between the factions, Clifford and his allies appear to have made numerous attempts to ambush the Neville and Yorkist lords.

Armed conflict erupted again in 1459, and again Clifford was found on the side of King Henry and Queen Margaret. Clifford took part in the parliament that attainted the Yorkists -- by now in exile -- and he took a share of the profits from their lands, as well as being appointed to offices traditionally in their keeping. The Yorkist lords returned from exile in June 1460 and subsequently defeated a royal army at Northampton. As a result of the royalist defeat, Clifford was ordered to surrender such castles and offices as he had from the Nevilles back to them, although it is unlikely that he did so. In fact, he and his fellow northern Lancastrian lords merely commenced a campaign of destruction on Neville and Yorkist estates and tenantry, to such an extent that in December 1460, the duke of York and his close ally, the earl of Salisbury, raised an army and headed north to crush the Lancastrian rebellion. This winter campaign culminated in the Battle of Wakefield in the last days of the year, and was a decisive victory for the Lancastrian army, of which Clifford was by now an important commander. The battle resulted in the deaths of both York and Salisbury, but was probably most notorious for Clifford's slaying of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, York's seventeen-year-old second son and the younger brother of the future King Edward IV. This may have resulted in Clifford's being nicknamed "Butcher Clifford", although historians disagree as to how widely used by contemporaries this term was.

Clifford accompanied the royal army on its march south early the next year, where, although wounded, he played a leading part in the second Battle of St Albans, and then afterwards with the Queen to the north. The Yorkist army, now under the command of Edward of York and Richard, Earl of Warwick, pursued the Lancastrians to Yorkshire and eventually defeated them at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461. Clifford though was not present; he had been slain in a skirmish with a Yorkist advance party the previous day. Following the coronation of the by-then victorious Edward IV, he was attainted and his lands confiscated by the Crown.

John married Margaret Bromflete. Margaret (daughter of Henry Bromflete and Eleanor Fitz Hugh) died on 12 Apr 1493; was buried in Londesborough, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fought for his half-nephew Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke, for which service he was made a Knight of the Bath.

John married Alice Bradschagh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Chamberlain to John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford. Captain of Galyard Castle in Normandy.

William married Joan Greystoke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 12 Jul 1429 to 5 Sep 1450.

William Fitz Hugh (d. 1452) = Margery Willoughby
Henry Fitzhugh (d. 1472) = Alice Nevill
Elizabeth Fitzhugh = Nicholas Vaux (d. 1523)
Katherine Vaux (d. 1571) = George Throckmorton
Clement Throckmorton (d. 1573) = Catherine Nevill
Catherine Throgmorton = Thomas Harby (d. 1594)
Emma Harby (1590-1622) = Robert Charlton (d. 1670)
Emma Charlton = Henry Barnard (d. 1680)
Elizabeth Barnard (d. 1719) = James Brydges (1642-1714)
Mary Brydges (1666-1703) = Theophilus Leigh (1647-1725)
Thomas Leigh (1696-1764) = Jane Walker (1705-1768)
Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827) = George Austen (1731-1805)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)

William married Margery Willoughby before 18 Nov 1406 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England. Margery (daughter of William Willoughby and Lucy le Strange) died before 22 Oct 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Heriditary sheriff of Westmorland. He was summoned to Parliament from 19 Dec 1436 to 1453. In 1435 he was a member of the Duke of Bedford's retinue in France. A Lancastrian, he was slain fighting for Henry VI at the Battle of St. Albans.

Thomas married Joan Dacre after Mar 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Harry Bromflete. Esquire of the King's Chamber. Joint ambassador to France. Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1432-33. He accompanied Henry V to France in July 1417, and was knighted before 25 Jan 1419. Honorary member of London's Guild of Merchant Taylors. He was one of the ambassadors to the General Council of the Pope at Basle in 1434. As a Lancastrian, he supported Henry VI, but he made his peace with Edward IV.

Henry married Eleanor Fitz Hugh. Eleanor (daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh and Elizabeth Grey) died on 30 Sep 1457 in Newington, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Oliver married Margaret Beauchamp. Margaret (daughter of John Beauchamp and Edith Stourton) was born about 1410; died before 3 Jun 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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By later marriages she became Duchess of Somerset and Countess of Kendale.

Robert married Joan Conyers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was summoned to Parliament by writs dated 28 Dec 1375 to 5 Oct 1417. He served in the Scottish wars and was taken prisonor by George, Earl of Dunbar, in a skirmish at Horseridge near Glendale ward, Northumberland, in 1380. On 23 Oct 1399 he was one of the lords who assented in Parliament to the secret imprisonment of Richard II.

Ralph married Katherine Clifford before 1378. Katherine (daughter of Roger de Clifford and Maud de Beauchamp) died on 23 Apr 1413; was buried in Church of the Dominican Friars, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Chamberlain to Henry V. Lord High Treasurer, 1417-21. Fought at Agincourt.

Henry married Elizabeth Grey. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert de Grey and Lora de St. Quintin) was born between 1363 and 1366; died in Dec 1427; was buried in Jervaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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King's councillor. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 30 Nov 1396 to 26 Oct 1409. "He was present in the Tower, 29 Sep 1399, at the abdication of Richard II, to whose imprisonment he agreed, 23 Oct. following; and in the Parliament which met in January 1401, when the lands of the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon, and Salisbury were declared forfeit." [Complete Peerage XII/2, p. 662.]

William married Lucy le Strange after 3 Jan 1383 in Middle, Shropshire, England. Lucy (daughter of Roger le Strange and Aline de Arundel) died after 28 Apr 1398; was buried in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1402

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• Alternate birth: 1388

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Killed at the Siege of Mieux.

John married Elizabeth Percy between Aug 1403 and 5 Nov 1412. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry "Hotspur" Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer) died on 26 Oct 1436; was buried in Staindrop, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 26 Oct 1437

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6th Lord Dacre of Gilsland. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 1 Dec 1412 to 26 May 1455.

Thomas married Philippe Neville before 20 Jul 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Thomas Brounflete. King's serjeant. King's esquire. Clerk of accounts of wardrobe, cupbearer, and chief butler to King Richard II. Coroner of the City of London. Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1414-15 and 1419-20. Controller and Treasurer of the Household under King Henry IV. Keeper of the King's Wardrobe. Constable of York Castle. Possibly son or grandson of William Bromflete.

Thomas married Margaret St. John between 1387 and 7 Mar 1389. Margaret (daughter of Edward de St. John and Anastasia de Aton) was born about 1372; died on 22 Oct 1407; was buried in Wymington, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Knight of the shire for Northamptonshire. Mayor of Bordeaux. His ancestry appears to be the subject of a great deal of confusion.

From Colin Richmond (citation details below): "Anne of Bohemia, Richard's queen, gave [John Paveley and his wife Isabel] an additional annuity of £20; Anne confirmed the annuity to Isabel in 1394 after Sir John's death. The £20 continued to be paid to Isabel and, when she remarried Sir John St. John, to her and her husband until December 1422." Thus John St. John and his wife Isabel, formerly the wife of John Paveley, must have died after 1421, possibly in 1422 and possibly later.

John married Isabel after 8 Feb 1395. Isabel was born about 1374; died after 1421. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richardson and Stallard (citation details below) both have her as Isabel Paveley, daughter of John Paveley of Northamptonshire, but this would seem to be disproved by the 21 Sep 1414 IPM of "Joan widow of John Paveley, Knight" which says that "On 8 Feb. 1395 Lewis de Clyfford, Richard Stury and Thomas Latymer, knights, Richard Dudley, John Warwyk and William Lane, chaplain, by their deed shown to the jurors, granted the manor and advowson of Paulerspury, which John Paveley, knight, had granted to them, to Joan his widow to hold to herself for her life and to her executors for 1 year more, without impeachment of waste and with remainder to themselves. This reversion they granted to Isabel, then wife of John Paveley junior, knight, and now the wife of John Seynt Johan, to hold to her and her heirs and assigns." So the Isabel that John St. John married was "Isabel Paveley" because of her prior marriage to the junior John Paveley, and her parentage is in fact unknown.

Colin Richmond, citation details below, provides much further detail confirming the above.

John married Edith Stourton before 1410. Edith (daughter of John Stourton and Alice) died on 13 Jun 1441. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]