John Clere

• Name	John Clere
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England   [1]
  Person ID	I30094	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	William Clere,   b. of Ormesby, Norfolk, England ,   bur. 1384
  Mother	Dyonise Wychingham
  Family ID	F10332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Branch,   bur. Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England
  Children	+ 1. Robert Clere,   b. of Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, England ,   bur. Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F17968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield (citation details below): Clere, Ormesby, Snecke, Ormesby, Westlesse, and Wichingham, impaling Branche, arg a lion rampant gul. over all a bendlet sab. This John, by reason of his estate in Burgh in Flegg, became a ward to the Countess of Norfolk, of whom it was held by knight's service. In 1390 he and Dionise his mother, purchased lands in Scrouteby. He and his wife are buried in Norwich cathedral, as at vol. iv. p. 35. She remarried to Sir John Rothenhale, Knt. and by will gave to Robert Clere her son, all her goods at Ormesby, and to Edmund Clere her son, all her goods at Castor, and her manor of Horninghall there, and Henstede, Rothenhale, and Cleydon manors in Suffolk.

  
  

• Sources

  [S66] An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield. William Miller, 1805.