Maud de Clifford

- 1285

• Name	Maud de Clifford  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	of Clifford, Herefordshire, England   [4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	Aft 1 Dec 1281  [5, 6, 7]
  Alternate death	1282  [8]
  Death	Between 1282 and 1285  [4, 9]
  Person ID	I15867	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Walter IV de Clifford,   b. of Clifford, Herefordshire, England d. Bef 23 Dec 1263
  Mother	Margaret ferch Llywelyn   d. 1265
  Marriage	Bef 2 Nov 1234  [2, 7, 10, 11]
  Family ID	F3791	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	William Longespée,   b. of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d. Between 23 Dec 1256 and 3 Jan 1257
  Children	+ 1. Margaret de Longespée   d. 1310
  Family ID	F9681	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Aug 2018

  
  

  Family 2	John Giffard,   b. Abt 1232, of Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England d. 28 May 1299 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage	Bef 10 Mar 1271  [7]
  Children	+ 1. Katherine Giffard,   b. Abt 1272   d. Aft 1321 (Age ~ 50 years) + 2. Eleanor Giffard,   b. 1275, of Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England d. Bef 23 Jan 1324 (Age < 49 years)
  Family ID	F6453	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "He [John Giffard] married, 1stly, Maud, widow of Sir William Lungespee, of Amesbury, Aldbourne, and Trowbridge, Wilts, Canford, Dorset, Bicester, Oxon; Brattleby, co., Lincoln, &c. (who died between 23 December 1256 and 3 January 1256/7), and daughter and heir of Sir Walter de Clifford, of Clifford co. Hereford, Cortham, Salop, &c., by Margaret, daughter of Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales. She, who was living 1 December 1281, died s.p.m., not long afterwards." [Complete Peerage V:639-44] [footnote in CP to the above:] Maud Lungespee notified the King that John Giffard had abducted her from her manor of Canford, Dorset, and taken her against her will to his castle of Brimpsfield, and there detained her. John appeared before the King, and professed himself ready to prove that he did not abduct her against her will, and offered a fine of 300 marks for the marriage already contracted, as it was said, between them, provided she made no further complaint against him. On 10 March 1270/1 the King ordained that if she were not content, the said fine should be void,and John should stand his trial at a month from Easter. And as she was too unwell to appear before the King, commissioners were sent to inquire into the truth of the matter, and to certify the King thereof. John and Maud, and her Ist husband, William Lungespee, were all descended from Richard fitz Ponce. Why John Giffard should have referred to himself as being of the race of Le Lungespee as in the proof of age mentioned above he is said to have done--is not explicable; unless, indeed, the sobriquet was derived from the family of Clifford.

  
  

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