Robert de Clifford

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 14 Apr 1274
• Alternate birth: Abt 5 Apr 1276, of Appleby, Westmorland, England

Notes:

Served in Edward I's wars in Scotland. On the death of his mother, he succeeded to the hereditary shrievalty of Westmorland. Justice in Eyre North of Trent 1297-1307. Governor of Nottingham Castle, July 1298. Summoned to Parliament 29 Dec 1299 to 26 Nov 1313 by writs directed Roberto de Clifford. Signed the 1301 Barons' Letter to Pope Boniface VIII as Robertus de Clifford Castellanus de Appelby. By Edward II he was made, for a few months in 1308, Marshal of England; Justice South of Trent 1307-8; Warden of the Scottish Marches 1308. Pardoned 16 Oct 1313 for participation in the death of Piers Gaveston. Killed at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Robert married Maud de Clare on 13 Nov 1295. Maud (daughter of Thomas de Clare and Juliane fitz Maurice) died on 1 Feb 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1303, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England

Notes:

Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:11:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Looking for primary source documents on Idonia [Imania] de Clifford
Reply-To: Douglas Richardson

Dear Steve ~

The correct name of Henry de Percy's wife is Idoine de Clifford. "Idonia" or "Idonea" are the Latin forms of her name and should be avoided.

The parentage of Idoine de Clifford is hardly elusive as you imagine. There are no less than five separate visitations/medieval sources which name Idoine, wife of Sir Henry de Percy, as a Clifford, or the daughter of Lord Clifford:

1. Archaeologia Aeliana 3 (1844): 40 (Chronicles of Alnwick Abbey: "Iste Henricus disponsavit idoneam filiam Domini de Clyfford et genuit ex ea Anno Domini 1320 Henricum quartum et tertium Dominum de Alnewyk et alios plures filios et filias inter quos erat Thomas qui postea fuit Episcopus Norwicens ...").

2. Atkinson, Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby 2 (Surtees Soc. 72) (1881): 690-696 (Percy ped.: "The fourth Henry Lord Percy ... gat on Idonea Clyfford Henry, William, Richard, Maude, Alianour Fitzwater, Roger, and Margarett that was maried to the Erle of Angus Sonne and his heire.").

3. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 241-244 (Percy ped.: "Henry 4 Lord Percy. = Ida doughter of the Lord Clyfford.").

This item is available online at the following weblink:

books.google.com/books?id=pjMEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA242

4. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 18-20 (Percy ped.: "Henricus Percy = Idonea Clifforde").

This item is available online at the following weblink:

www.uiowa.edu/~c030149a/northern/surtees144text.pdf

5. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 4 (Surtees Soc. 146) (1932): 17-24 (Lassels ped.: "Idonæ [Clifford] mar: to Henry lord Percy").

This item is available online at the following weblink:

www.uiowa.edu/~c030149a/northern/surtees146text.pdf

Given that we know that Sir Henry Percy was born in 1300 or 1301, and given that Henry's son and heir, also named Henry, was born about
1322-5, the birth of Idoine de Clifford would necessarily have to fall about 1300-1310. Given the chronology, Idoine de Clifford can be placed as a daughter of Robert de Clifford (died 1314), 1st Lord Clifford, and his wife, Maud de Clare, which Robert and Maud were married in 1295. Idoine de Clifford was surely named for her father's maternal aunt, Idoine de Vipont (died 1333), wife of Roger de Leybourne, Knt., and John de Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell.

For interesting references to Idoine, wife of Sir Henry de Percy, see the following weblinks:

books.google.com/books?id=1MUwhOPhfKcC&pg=PA116&dq=Idoine+Percy

books.google.com/books?lr=&id=8AMhAAAAMAAJ&dq=Idoine+Percy&q=Idoine&pgis=1#search_anchor

books.google.com/books?id=RzUdAAAAIAAJ&q=Idoine+Percy&dq=Idoine+Percy&lr=&pgis=1

books.google.com/books?id=cu8i2yausLcC&pg=PA124&dq=Idoine+Percy&lr=

The tomb at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire which is now attributed to Idoine de Clifford, wife of Sir Henry de Percy, bears shields with various coats of arms, among them Clifford.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:15:21 AM UTC-7, The Hoorn wrote:

So far, I have been unsuccessful in locating any primary or contemporaneous records, documenting the parentage of Idonia [Imania] de Clifford, as the daughter of Lord Robert Clifford (killed in battle Bannockburn 24 Jun 1314) and Matilda de Clare. Idonia was also the wife of Sir Henry Percy (1301-1352).

I would sincerely welcome any assistance.

Thanks!

Idoine married Henry de Percy about 1318. Henry (son of Henry de Percy and Eleanor de Arundel) was born in 1299; died on 26 Feb 1352 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England; was buried in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Peter de Mauley before 16 Apr 1322. Peter (son of Peter de Mauley and Eleanor de Furnival) was born about 1300 in of Mulgrave, Yorkshire, England; died on 18 Jan 1355. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary sheriff of Westmorland.

Robert married Isabel de Berkeley in Jun 1328 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. Isabel (daughter of Maurice de Berkeley and Eve la Zouche) died on 25 Jul 1362. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married William de Aton before Jan 1327. William (son of Gilbert de Aton) was born about 1299; died on 10 Feb 1388; was buried in Old Malton Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Fitz Walter. John (son of Robert Fitz Walter and Joan de Multon) was born about 1315; died on 18 Oct 1361; was buried in Dunmow Priory, Little Dunmow, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Keeper of Berwick Castle, joint Warden of the Marches, Sheriff of Roxburghshire. Fought at Crécy and was present at the siege of Calais.

Henry married Mary of Lancaster before 5 Sep 1334. Mary (daughter of Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born about 1320; died on 1 Sep 1362; was buried in Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Feb 1379

Notes:

Richardson's RA has them married "before 1362." The Ancestry of Charles II says their marriage contract was dated July 1344.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 20 Mar 1383

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs, 20 Sep 1355. Fought at Poitiers, 19 Sep 1356.

Peter married Elizabeth de Meinell before 18 Nov 1356. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas de Meinell and Alice de Ros) was born on 15 Oct 1331 in Whorlton, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Jul 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary sheriff of Westmorland and of Cumberland. Warden of the East and West Marches of Scotland. Governor of Carlisle Castle.

Summoned to Parliament from 15 Dec 1356 and 18 Jul 1388. In 1373 he accompanied John of Gaunt to France. He testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor case in 1386.

Roger married Maud de Beauchamp before 20 Mar 1357. Maud (daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp and Katherine de Mortimer) died in 1403. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 8 May 1402

Family/Spouse: John Conyers. John (son of Roger Conyers) was born in of Sockburn, Durham, England; died in Feb 1395. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Ralph Eure before 1385. Ralph (son of John de Eure and Margaret) was born about 1350 in of Witton in Weardale, Durham, England; died on 10 Mar 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward de St. John. Edward (son of Edward de St. John and Eve de Hauterive) was born in of Londesborough, Yorkshire, England; died on 7 Mar 1389. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Aubrey Vere. Aubrey (son of John de Vere and Maud de Badlesmere) was born between 1338 and 1340; died on 23 Apr 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Northumberland. From Wikipedia:

Henry Percy was originally a follower of Edward III of England, for whom he held high offices in the administration of northern England. At a young age he was made Warden of the Marches towards Scotland in 1362, with the authority to negotiate with the Scottish government. In February 1367 he was entrusted with the supervision of all castles and fortified places in the Scottish marches. He went on to support King Richard II and was created an Earl and briefly given the title of Marshal of England. Between 1383 and 1384 he was appointed Admiral of the Northern Seas. After Richard elevated his rival Ralph Neville to the position of Earl of Westmorland in 1397, Percy supported the rebellion of Henry Bolingbroke, who became King as Henry IV.

On King Henry IV's coronation he was appointed Constable of England and granted the lordship of the Isle of Man. Percy and his son, Henry Percy, known as "Hotspur", were given the task of subduing the rebellion of Owain Glynd?r, but their attempts to make peace with the Welsh rebels did not meet with the king's approval.

In 1403 the Percys turned against Henry IV in favour of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, and then conspired with Owain Glynd?r against King Henry. The Tripartite Indenture was signed by all three parties, which divided England up between them. Glynd?r was to be given Wales, and a substantial part of the west of England, Northumberland was to have received the north of England, as well as Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire, and Leicestershire. The Mortimers were to have received the rest of southern England, below the river Trent.

The Percy rebellion failed at the Battle of Shrewsbury, where Hotspur was killed. Since the earl did not directly participate in the rebellion, he was not convicted of treason. However, he lost his office as Constable. In 1405 Percy supported Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, in another rebellion, after which Percy fled to Scotland, and his estates were confiscated by the king.

In 1408 Percy invaded England in rebellion once more and was killed at the Battle of Bramham Moor. Percy's severed head was subsequently put on display at London Bridge.

Henry married Margaret de Neville on 12 Jul 1358 in Brancepeth, Durham, England. Margaret (daughter of Ralph de Neville and Alice de Audley) died on 11 May 1372; was buried in North Allerton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 16 Jul 1447

Eleanor married Ralph Lumley about 1380. Ralph (son of Marmaduke de Lumley and Margaret de Holand) was born about 1360 in of Lumley in Little Lumley, Durham, England; died on 5 Jan 1400 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Chester-le-Street, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Treasurer of War. Lord High Treasurer. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 20 Aug 1383 to 9 Feb 1406. In 1404 he was one of 22 persons appointed by the king to his "continual council."

Thomas married Joan Furnival before 1 Jul 1379. Joan (daughter of William de Furnival and Thomasine) was born about Oct 1368; died in 1395; was buried in Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Ankaret le Strange before 4 Jul 1401. Ankaret (daughter of John le Strange and Mary de Arundel) was born in 1361; died on 1 Jun 1413. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Aside from being the maternal grandfather of Edward IV, he was also the paternal grandfather (through his son Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), and Alice Montacute) of the "Kingmaker," Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471).

Ralph married Margaret Stafford after 19 Jun 1382. Margaret (daughter of Hugh de Stafford and Philippe de Beauchamp) died on 9 Jun 1396; was buried in Brancepeth, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Joan Beaufort before 29 Nov 1396. Joan (daughter of John of Gaunt and Catherine de Roet) was born about 1379; died on 13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Margery de Sutton about 1371. Margery (daughter of Thomas de Sutton and Agnes Hothom) died on 10 Oct 1391; was buried in Friars Preachers, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Melton before 1415. John (son of William de Melton and Elizabeth) was born about 1377 in of Aston, Yorkshire, England; died on 24 May 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Ferrers. William (son of Henry de Ferrers and Joan de Poynings) was born before 25 Apr 1372 in Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, England; was christened on 25 Apr 1372 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England; died on 18 May 1445. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Ralph de Greystoke before 1378. Ralph (son of William de Greystoke and Joan Fitz Hugh) was born on 18 Oct 1353 in Kirkby Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 18 Oct 1353 in Kirkby Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Apr 1418. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth de Ros. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas de Ros and Beatrice de Stafford) died in Mar 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 26 Apr 1431
• Alternate death: 25 Apr 1433

Family/Spouse: Isabel Pert. Isabel (daughter of William Pert and Joan le Scrope) was born about 1387; died before 25 Apr 1431. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 12 Feb 1467

Notes:

MP for Yorkshire, 1422, 1431, 1442, 1449. Served at Agincourt in the retinue of his father-in-law.

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1444-45.

"Sheriff, Northumberland, 1436-7, but in July 1437 a comn. was apptd., on the petition of Thomas, bp. of Durham, to take from Sir William Eure surety of the peace in £1,000, 'for that he has notoriously threatened the said Bishop with death and maiming.'" [History of Parliament]

Despite the above, he appears to have been entrusted with a variety of responsibilities and commissions.

William married Maud Fitz Hugh in 1411. Maud (daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh and Elizabeth Grey) died after 12 Feb 1467; was buried in Malton Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Thomas Bromflete between 1387 and 7 Mar 1389. Thomas was born in of Londesborough, Yorkshire, England; died on 31 Dec 1430; was buried in Wymington, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Lewis John before 1 Jan 1414. Lewis was born in of Wales; died on 27 Oct 1442. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

11th Earl of Oxford.

Richard married Alice Sergeaux between 1406 and 1407. Alice (daughter of Richard Sergeaux and Philippa Fitz Alan) died on 18 May 1452; was buried in Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 30 May 1364

Notes:

The holder of many offices and titles, he was knighted by Edward III in April 1377 along with the future kings Richard II and Henry IV, who were almost exactly his age. Not long after the latter ascended the throne, Henry Percy went into open rebellion, and was slain at the battle of Shrewsbury. His body was buried at Whitchurch, Shropshire, but was disinterred two days later to be exhibited in Shrewsbury. The head was cut off and fixed onto one of the gates of York.

Henry married Elizabeth Mortimer before 10 Dec 1379. Elizabeth (daughter of Edmund Mortimer and Philippe of Clarence) was born on 12 Feb 1371 in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales; was christened on 16 Feb 1371; died on 20 Apr 1417. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adam Tyrwhit. Adam (son of William Tyrwhit and Constance St. Quintin) was born about 1411 in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married John Talbot before 8 Mar 1407. John (son of Richard Talbot and Ankaret le Strange) was born about 1392 in of Blackmere, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England; died on 17 Jul 1453 in Castillon-sur-Dordogne, Gascony, France; was buried in St. Alkmund's, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Mary Ferrers before 1411. Mary (daughter of Robert Ferrers and Joan Beaufort) was born about 1394; died on 25 Jan 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Thomas Dacre before 20 Jul 1399. Thomas (son of William Dacre and Joan) was born in of Dacre, Cumberland, England; died on 5 Jan 1548; was buried in Lanercost Priory, Cumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1464

Margaret married Richard le Scrope before 31 Dec 1413. Richard (son of Roger le Scrope and Margaret Tibetot) was born on 13 May 1394 in of Bolton, Wensley, Yorkshire, England; died on 29 Aug 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Percy. Henry (son of Henry "Hotspur" Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer) was born on 3 Feb 1393; died on 22 May 1455 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Humphrey Stafford before 18 Oct 1424. Humphrey (son of Edmund Stafford and Anne of Gloucester) was born on 15 Aug 1402; died on 10 Jul 1460 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Pleshey, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Walter Blount before 25 Nov 1467. Walter (son of Thomas Blount and Margaret de Gresley) was born about 1420; died on 1 Aug 1474. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Elizabeth Beauchamp before 13 Feb 1437. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard de Beauchamp and Elizabeth Berkeley) died before 2 Oct 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

5th Earl of Salisbury. A Yorkist, he was either slain at the Battle of Wakefield or beheaded by Lancastrian forces following it.

Richard married Alice Montagu before Mar 1420 in Orléans, Loiret, France. Alice (daughter of Thomas Montagu and Eleanor Holland) was born between 1405 and 1406; died between 3 Apr 1462 and 9 Dec 1462; was buried in Bisham Priory, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The "Rose of Raby."

Cecily married Richard of York before 18 Oct 1424. Richard (son of Richard of Conisburgh and Anne de Mortimer) was born on 22 Sep 1411; died on 30 Dec 1460 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married John Bigod before 1410. John (son of John Bigod and Amy) was born about 1375 in of Settrington, Yorkshire, England; died on 19 Feb 1427. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Markenfield before 1431. John (son of Thomas Markenfield and Beatrice Soothill) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died between 2 Jun 1431 and 18 Feb 1448. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Pierrepont. Henry (son of Henry Pierrepont and Ellen Longford) was born in of Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 21 Jul 1457. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Culpepper about 1412. William (son of John Culpepper and Catherine Charles) was born in of Aylesford, Kent, England; died on 20 Jul 1457; was buried in West Peckham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Mowbray. Isabel (daughter of Thomas Mowbray and Elizabeth Fitz Alan) died on 23 Sep 1452 in Gloucester Castle, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Grey Friars, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Tamworth, Warwickshire, England

Thomas married Elizabeth Freville before 1418. Elizabeth (daughter of Baldwin de Freville and Maud le Scrope) was born about 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Bowes. William (son of Robert Bowes and Joan Conyers) was born in of Streatlam, Durham, England; died before 11 Oct 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Eudes Welles about 1395. Eudes (son of John Welles and Eleanor Mowbray) died after 1 Feb 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Walter Fauconberge about 1408. Walter (son of Roger Fauconberge and Margaret) was born about 1375 in of Groval near Beverley, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Sep 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married John Normanville after 1 Sep 1415. John was born in of Smaws in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England; died after 1417. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married John Haytfeld before 1422. John was born in of Flixborough, Lincolnshire, England; died after 12 Nov 1435. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Governor of Roxburgh Castle. Summoned to Parliament 24 Aug 1419 to 5 Jul 1435.

John married Elizabeth Ferrers on 28 Oct 1407. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Ferrers and Joan Beaufort) was born about 1393; died in 1434; was buried in Church of the Black Friars, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1388

Notes:

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]

Family/Spouse: Philip Dymoke. Philip (son of Thomas Dymoke and Elizabeth Hebden) was born about 1400 in of Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England; was buried on 23 Sep 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christopher married Margery Eure on 2 Feb 1433 in Witton-le-Wear Castle, Durham, England. Margery (daughter of William Eure and Maud Fitz Hugh) died on 16 Mar 1470; was buried in Sockburn, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "Mary" by some.

Margery married Christopher Conyers on 2 Feb 1433 in Witton-le-Wear Castle, Durham, England. Christopher (son of Robert Conyers and Isabel Pert) was born between 1420 and 1422 in of Sockburn, Durham, England; died on 13 Mar 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was killed at the battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses.

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Greystoke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Henry married Joan Holand between 29 Sep 1415 and 27 Apr 1416. Joan (daughter of Thomas de Holland and Alice Fitz Alan) died on 12 Apr 1434. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

12th Earl of Oxford. Privy councilor, 1431, 1454.

His career is marked by a consistent reluctance to take sides in the developing conflict between York and Lancaster. Ultimatelt, in 1459, he declared for Lancaster, just in time for the Yorkist victory at Northampton in July 1460. In February 1462 he was arrested for high treason, tried, convicted, and beheaded on Tower Hill.

John married Elizabeth Howard between 22 May 1425 and 31 Aug 1425. Elizabeth (daughter of John Howard and Joan Walton) was born about 1410; died about 28 Dec 1473; was buried in Austin Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 26 Oct 1437

Elizabeth married John Clifford between Aug 1403 and 5 Nov 1412. John (son of Thomas de Clifford and Elizabeth de Ros) was born about 1389; died on 13 Mar 1422 in Mieux, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was restored as Earl of Northumberland in 1416 and regranted his father's entailed estates. He was knighted by the king, to whom he remained faithful all his life. He was slain fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the First Battle of St. Albans.

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Neville. Eleanor (daughter of Ralph de Neville and Joan Beaufort) died about 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1430, of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate death: Between 1457 and 1458

Family/Spouse: Jane Waterton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Earl of Shrewsbury. Chancellor of Ireland, 1446. Privy councillor, 1454. Lord High Treasurer, 1456-58. Master of the Falcons, 1457. Chief Butler of England, 1458. Chief Justice of Chester, 1459. Steward of the Town and Lordship of Ludlow, 1460.

Along with his brother Christopher Talbot, he was killed at the battle of Northampton, fighting on the Lancastrian side.

John married Elizabeth Butler before Mar 1445. Elizabeth (daughter of James le Boteler and Joan Beauchamp) was born on 21 Dec 1421; died on 8 Sep 1473; was buried in Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire. Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1452-53.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Newmarch. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Newmarch and Joan Shirley) was born about 1417; died before 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Elizabeth Bowet before 1427. Elizabeth (daughter of William Bowet and Joan Ufford) died after 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Thomas Clifford after Mar 1424. Thomas (son of John Clifford and Elizabeth Percy) was born on 25 Mar 1414; died on 22 May 1455 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 3 Dec 1441 to 26 May 1455.

Henry married Elizabeth Scrope before 1436. Elizabeth (daughter of John le Scrope and Elizabeth Chaworth) died on 10 May 1504. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Northumberland. Summoned to Parliament from 14 Dec 1446 to 26 May 1455 by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges. Slain fighting for the king at the Battle of Towton.

Henry married Eleanor Poynings before 25 Jun 1435. Eleanor (daughter of Richard Poynings and Eleanor Berkeley) died on 11 Feb 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Edmund Grey before 1440. Edmund (son of John Grey and Constance Holand) was born on 26 Oct 1416; died on 22 May 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been slain on the Lancastrian side at the first battle of St. Albans, 22 May 1455.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Beaufort. Margaret (daughter of Edmund Beaufort and Eleanor Beauchamp) died before 1479. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Harry Neville. Killed at the battle of Edgecote Moor.

Henry married Joan Bourgchier about 1467. Joan (daughter of John Bourchier and Margery Berners) died on 7 Oct 1470. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Thomas Stanley between 1455 and 1459. Thomas (son of Thomas Stanley and Joan Goushill) was born about 1433; died on 29 Jul 1504 in Lathom, Cheshire, England; was buried in Burscough Priory, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

16th Earl of Warwick. 6th Earl of Salisbury. "The Kingmaker." Killed at the Battle of Barnet.

Richard married Anne Beauchamp in 1434. Anne (daughter of Richard de Beauchamp and Isabel le Despenser) was born on 13 Jul 1429; died about 20 Sep 1492. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married William Bonville in 1458. William (son of William Bonville and Margaret Grey) died on 31 Dec 1460 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England on 1 May 1464. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg) was born in 1437 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England; died on 8 Jun 1492 in Bermondsey Priory, Surrey, England; was buried on 12 Jun 1492 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Anne Neville, Queen Consort of England on 12 Jul 1472 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Anne (daughter of Richard Neville and Anne Beauchamp) was born on 11 Jun 1456 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England; died on 16 Mar 1485 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at the Battle of Towton.

Ralph married Anne Greystoke in 1432. Anne (daughter of John de Greystoke and Elizabeth Ferrers) was born about 1417; died on 27 Mar 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Hopton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Burden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Aylsford, Kent, England

Notes:

Sheriff of Kent, 1471.

Richard married Isabel Worsley before 1480. Isabel (daughter of Otewell Worsley and Rose Trevor) was born about 1460; died on 18 Apr 1527; was buried in Leigh's Chapel, St. Mary's, Lambeth, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Grey. Edward (son of Reynold Grey and Joan Astley) was born about 1415; died on 18 Dec 1457. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the King's Bodyguard. Sheriff of Kent 1487-88. Knight of the shire for Kent.

Richardson (citation details below) gives a date for the marriage of this Henry Ferrers to Margaret Hexdale of before 30 Sep 1481, when a grant of land in Kent on that date refers to Henry and Margaret as husband and wife. But another recorded grant of the manor of Hamyldon (Hambleton) to Henry and his wife is dated 14 Nov 1468, and a marriage date shortly before that fits much more tidily with Henry's i.p.m. on 17 Oct 1503, in which his and Margaret's son Edward is said to be "age 30 or more".

Henry married Margaret Hexstall before 14 Nov 1468. Margaret (daughter of William Hexstall and Joan) was born about 1440 in of Hextall's Court, East Peckham, Kent, England; died before 21 Dec 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Privy councillor, 1434. Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42. Summoned to Parliament 25 Feb 1432 to 30 Jul 1460. Taken prisoner by Yorkists at the battle of Blore Heath. Fought at the second battle of St. Albans. Killed at the battle of Towton.

Lionel married Joan Waterton on 15 Aug 1417 in St. Oswald's, Methley, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of Robert Waterton and Cecily Fleming) died after 18 Oct 1434; was buried in Methley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lionel married Margaret Beauchamp in Apr 1447. Margaret (daughter of John Beauchamp and Edith Stourton) was born about 1410; died before 3 Jun 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Whitton, Lincolnshire, England

Notes:

"Thomas Faucomberge of Skelton who died in 1407 had a younger brother, Sir Roger Faucomberge, who predeceased his brother. Sir Roger's heir was his son Sir Walter Faucomberge, who is mentioned in the ipm of Thomas Faucomberge (CIPM, vol. 19, no. 386). Sir Walter Faucomberge died on 1 September 1415 (CIPM, vol. 20, no. 298-9). Unfortunately the ipm of Walter does not mention his heirs, and neither does his will (Early Lincoln Wills, 120) so the trail breaks at this point, but it seems likely to me that this Sir Walter Faucomberge was the father of Sir Roger Faucomberge (d. Jun 1455), Isabel, wife of Gerard Sothill and Constance wife of Anthony Nuthill. " [John Watson, citation details below.]

Isabel married Edmund Percehay before 1437. Edmund was born about 1380 in of Lincolnshire, England; died before 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Gerard Sothill before 1447. Gerard (son of Gerard Sothill and Joan) was born on 14 Sep 1398 in of Redbourne, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died on 29 Oct 1462. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Darcy. John (son of John Darcy and Margaret Grey) was born about 1404 in Temple Hurst, Yorkshire, England; died in 1454. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Eure. Ralph (son of William Eure and Maud Fitz Hugh) was born in of Malton, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Mar 1462 in Towton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Master-Forester of the Forest of Galtres. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 29 Oct 1436 to 15 Sep 1485.

Ralph married Elizabeth Fitz Hugh on 1 Jul 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Ralph Bigod in 1432. Ralph (son of John Bigod and Constance de Mauley) was born on 7 Jul 1410 in Settrington, Yorkshire, England; died on 29 Mar 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Philip Wentworth. Philip (son of Roger Wentworth and Margery le Despenser) was born about 1424; died on 18 May 1464 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

He was beheaded by the Yorkists before the battle of Stamford.

Thomas Dymoke = Margaret Welles
Robert Dymoke = Ann Sparrow
Edward Dymoke = Anne Talboys
Frances Dymoke = Thomas Windebank
Mildred Windebank = Robert Reade
Col. George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington

Family/Spouse: Margaret Welles. Margaret (daughter of Lionel Welles and Joan Waterton) died on 13 Jul 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Bigod. Anne (daughter of Ralph Bigod and Anne Greystoke) was born about 1450; died on 9 Jan 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1482-83.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Constable. Margaret (daughter of Robert Constable and Agnes Wentworth) died before Jul 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Clifford. John (son of Thomas Clifford and Joan Dacre) was born on 8 Apr 1435 in Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, England; died on 28 Mar 1461 in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane.

Family/Spouse: William Norreys. William (son of John Norreys and Alice Merbrook) was born about 1441 in of Yattendon, Berkshire, England; died before 10 Jan 1507. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Philip Wentworth. Philip (son of Roger Wentworth and Margery le Despenser) was born about 1424; died on 18 May 1464 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

Earl of Northumberland. Summoned to Parliament from 14 Dec 1446 to 26 May 1455 by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges. Slain fighting for the king at the Battle of Towton.

Henry married Eleanor Poynings before 25 Jun 1435. Eleanor (daughter of Richard Poynings and Eleanor Berkeley) died on 11 Feb 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Edmund Grey before 1440. Edmund (son of John Grey and Constance Holand) was born on 26 Oct 1416; died on 22 May 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1481-2, 1494-5, 1500-1, 1517-18; King's esquire; Steward of the Manor of Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire.

Knighted at the Battle of Stoke, 1487; made a banneret at Blackheath, 1497.

William Tyrwhit (d. 1522) = Anne Constable (d. >1518)
Agnes Tyrwhit (d. >1522) = Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh (1487-1550)
William Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (1522-1584) = Catherine Clinton (d. 1621)
Thomas Burgh, 5th Baron Burgh (1558-1597) = Frances Vaughan (d. 1647)
Catherine Burgh (1600-1646) = Thomas Knevet, 5th Baron Berners (1596-1658)
Elizabeth Knevet (1608-1670) = Sir John Rous, 1st Bt. (1608-1670)
Sir John Rous, 2nd Bt. (d. 1730) = Anne Wood (d. 1736)
Sir Robert Rous, 4th Bt. (d. 1735) = Lydia Smith (d. 1769)
Sir John Rous, 5th Bt. (d. 1771) = Judith Bedingfield (d. 1794)
Louisa Judith Rous (1770-~1804) = John Brereton Birch (d. 1829)
Rev. Henry William Rous Birch (1794-1854) = Lydia Mildred (b. 1798)
Selena Acton Birch (1829-1880) = Rev. Richard Henry Bicknell (1823-1869)
Constance Rosalie Bicknell (1869-1941) = George Augustus Auden (1872-1957)
Wystan Hugh (W. H.) Auden (1907-1973)

Family/Spouse: Anne Constable. Anne (daughter of Robert Constable and Agnes Wentworth) was born in of Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England; died after 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1485-86; Privy Councillor; Knight of the Body to Henry VII; Chamberlain of North Wales; Lieutenant of Calais 1508-15. He had command of the right wing at the battle of Bosworth. In 1504 he served as an ambassador to Pope Julius II.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Greystoke. Elizabeth (daughter of Ralph Greystoke and Elizabeth Fitz Hugh) died after 20 Dec 1483; was buried in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jane.

Family/Spouse: William Gascoigne. William (son of William Gascoigne and Margaret Clarell) was born in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died after 15 Jul 1461. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Richard Fiennes after May 1446. Richard (son of Roger Fiennes and Elizabeth Holand) died on 25 Nov 1483; was buried in Herstmonceux, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Washbourne. Eleanor (daughter of Norman Washbourne and Elizabeth Kniveton) died between 11 Dec 1505 and Jan 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William Gascoigne before 1469. William (son of William Gascoigne and Joan Neville) was born about 1450 in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died on 12 Mar 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Earl of Kent. Constable of Northampton Castle.

George married Anne Woodville after 1482. Anne (daughter of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg) died on 30 Jul 1489; was buried in Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Grey. John (son of Reynold Grey and Tacine of Somerset) was born in of Wilton, Herefordshire, England; died on 3 Apr 1499; was buried in White Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fought alongside the King against the rebels at the battle of Stoke, 1487. Summoned to Parliament by writ from 12 Aug 1491 to 3 Nov 1529. Fought at Flodden Field in 1513.

Doubly descended from Edward III, through his great-great grandfathers John of Gaunt (on his father's side) and Thomas of Woodstock (on his mother's).

Richard married Anne Stafford about 1483. Anne (daughter of Humphrey Stafford and Katherine Fray) was buried in Well, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Edward of Westminster in Aug 1470. Edward (son of Henry VI, King of England and lord of Ireland and Margaret of Anjou, Queen Consort of England) was born on 13 Oct 1453 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; died on 4 May 1471 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Richard III, King of England on 12 Jul 1472 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Richard (son of Richard of York and Cecily Neville) was born on 2 Oct 1452 in Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire, England; died on 22 Aug 1485 in Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Grey. Thomas (son of John Grey and Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England) died on 20 Sep 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Henry VII, King of England and lord of Ireland on 18 Jan 1486 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Henry (son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort) was born on 28 Jan 1457 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 21 Apr 1509 in Richmond, Surrey, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Conyers. William (son of Christopher Conyers and Margery Eure) was born about 1456 in of Sockburn, Durham, England; died on 8 Sep 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Conyers. Eleanor (daughter of John Conyers and Margaret Darcy) died on 5 Jun 1493; was buried in Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1522.

Family/Spouse: Joan Empson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1484
• Alternate death: Aft 1525
• Alternate death: Aft 1526

Notes:

Also called Jocasta.

Family/Spouse: Edmund Howard. Edmund (son of Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Tilney) was born between 1478 and 1480; died in Mar 1539. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joyce married Ralph Leigh before 1492. Ralph (son of Ralph Leigh and Elizabeth Langley) died on 6 Nov 1509; was buried in Lambeth, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Talbot. Elizabeth (daughter of John Talbot and Joan Cheddar) was born in 1452 in Nutley, Sussex, England; died on 8 Sep 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed in the Second Battle of St. Albans, fighting for the Lancastrians.

John married Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England in 1452. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg) was born in 1437 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England; died on 8 Jun 1492 in Bermondsey Priory, Surrey, England; was buried on 12 Jun 1492 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1469, of Baddesley, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate birth: 1470

Notes:

MP for Warwickshire in 1529. Knighted at Tournai in 1513.

Edward married Constance Brome between 1 Oct 1497 and 17 Oct 1503. Constance (daughter of Nicholas Brome and Dorothy Arundell) died on 30 Sep 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Clerke about 1508. James (son of John Clerke and Lucy Moyle) was born in of Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England; died on 20 Sep 1553 in Wrotham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Durham, 1482.

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

Family/Spouse: Robert Willoughby. Robert (son of Thomas Willoughby and Joan Arundel) was born in of Parham, Suffolk, England; died on 30 May 1465; was buried in Campsey Priory, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Thomas Hoo before 1445. Thomas (son of Thomas Hoo and Eleanor Felton) was born before 1399 in of Hoo, Luton, Bedfordshire, England; died on 13 Feb 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Dymoke. Thomas (son of Philip Dymoke and Joan Conyers) was born about 1428 in of Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England; died on 12 Mar 1470. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Fulnetby. John (son of John Fulnetby and Joan) was born about 1425. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes. Agnes died after 27 Jul 1525. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1458

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Scrope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert Talbot. Gilbert (son of John Talbot and Elizabeth Butler) was born in 1452 in of Grafton, Worcestershire, England; died on 16 Aug 1517; was buried in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Apr 1479

Family/Spouse: Thomas Cotton. Thomas (son of William Cotton and Alice Abbott) was born in 1438; died on 30 Jul 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martin de la See. Martin (son of Brian de la See and Maud Monceaux) was born about 1420 in of Barmston, Yorkshire, England; died between 20 Nov 1494 and 15 Dec 1494; was buried in All Hallows, Barmston, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Saye. Ann (daughter of John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne) died after 25 Feb 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Leon, Lyon.

Lionel Dymoke = Joan Griffith
Alice Dymoke = William Skipwith
Henry Skipwith = Jane Hall
William Skipwith = Margaret Cave
Henry Skipwith = Anne Kempe
Diana Skipwith = Edward Dale
Katherine Dale = Thomas Carter
Thomas Carter = Arabella Williamson
Daniel Carter = Elizabeth Pannill
Thomas Carter = Mary
Anne Carter = Joseph Oswald
Susannah Oswald = Gen. Daniel Stewart
Martha Stewart = James Stephens Bulloch
Martha Bulloch = Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

Lionel married Joan Griffith about 1486. Joan (daughter of Rhys Griffith) was born about 1471; died after 1492. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lionel married Anne Heydon between 1505 and 17 Dec 1509. Anne (daughter of Henry Heydon and Anne Boleyn) died before 8 May 1521. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1544

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1483-84, 1502-03, 1509-10, 1515-16. Merchant of the Staple of Calais. Treasurer of Tournai. Commander at the siege of Tournai in 1513.

He was King's Champion at the coronations of kings Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII, "by entering the hall during dinner on horseback to challenge in single combat any who disputed the king's right to reign." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Anne Sparrow. Anne (daughter of John Sparrow) died before 6 Mar 1543. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married John Fulnetby about 1485. John (son of John Fulnetby and (Unknown) Sothill) was born about 1455; died between 30 Aug 1523 and 3 Nov 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Mauleverer. William (son of Robert Mauleverer and Joan Vavasour) was born before 1471 in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1551; was buried on 13 Aug 1551 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ralph Evers.

Ralph married Muriel Hastings on 18 Jan 1482. Muriel (daughter of Hugh Hastings and Anne Gascoigne) died before Jan 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Norris.

Family/Spouse: Gilbert Bullock. Gilbert (son of Robert Bullock and Eleanor) was born in of Arborfield, Berkshire, England; died before 1514. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Apr 1479

Family/Spouse: Thomas Cotton. Thomas (son of William Cotton and Alice Abbott) was born in 1438; died on 30 Jul 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martin de la See. Martin (son of Brian de la See and Maud Monceaux) was born about 1420 in of Barmston, Yorkshire, England; died between 20 Nov 1494 and 15 Dec 1494; was buried in All Hallows, Barmston, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Saye. Ann (daughter of John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne) died after 25 Feb 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Margaret married William Gascoigne before 1469. William (son of William Gascoigne and Joan Neville) was born about 1450 in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died on 12 Mar 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Earl of Kent. Constable of Northampton Castle.

George married Anne Woodville after 1482. Anne (daughter of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg) died on 30 Jul 1489; was buried in Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Grey. John (son of Reynold Grey and Tacine of Somerset) was born in of Wilton, Herefordshire, England; died on 3 Apr 1499; was buried in White Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1519-20, 1523-4, 1540-1.

Entertained Henry VIII and his court in Kettleby on 8 and 9 Oct 1541. According to Notices and Remains of the Family of Tyrwhitt (citation details below), Tyrwhit "hanged the trees on the way from Kettleby to Brigg with carcases of sheep and beasts (oxen), to show that he could feed all comers."

He is said by some to have been a vice-admiral of England under Henry VIII, but as Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (citation details below) points out, he is more likely to have been one of many titular "vice-admirals" for a piece of his nearby Lincolnshire coast, a distinction shared by many armigerous men whose seats adjoined important pieces of coast.

According to Maddison's 1904 Lincolnshire Pedigrees, he and Maud Tailboys had a daughter Matilda who, according to William Addams Reitwiesner, was an ancestor of Camilla Parker-Bowles:

Robert Tyrwhit (~1482-1548) = Maud Tailboys
Matilda Tyrwhit = John Portington
John Portington (d. <1589) = Anne Langton
Joan Portington (d. 1608) = Ralph Rokeby (d. 1595)
Anne Rokeby (1593-~1624) = John Hotham (~1589-1644) (1)
Charles Hotham (1615-1672) = Elizabeth Thompson (d. 1685)
Charles Hotham (d. 1723) = Bridget Gee (1671-1707)
Beaumont Hotham (d. 1771) = Frances Thompson (d. 1771)
Beaumont Hotham (1737-1814) = Susannah Hankey (1737-1799)
Louisa Hotham (1778-1840) = Charles Edmonstone (1764-1821)
William Edmonstone (1810-1888) = Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1823-1902)
Alice Frederica Edmonstone (1869-1947) * = George Keppel (1865-1947)
Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986) = Roland Calvert Cubitt (1899-1962)
Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994) = Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-1946)
Camilla Rosemary Shand (1947- ), = (1) Andrew Henry Parker Bowles (1939- ), = (2) HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George (1948- ), now Charles III, King of England

* She is known to have been a mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 forward.

Family/Spouse: Maud Tailboys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Albrighton, Shropshire, England

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1527-28, 1533-34, 1537-38, 1541-42.

John married Margaret Troutbeck before 1510. Margaret (daughter of Adam Troutbeck and Joan Molyneux) was born about 1492; died after 11 Jul 1521. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Knighted by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (afterwards King Richard III) on campaign near Berwick in 1481. He was at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Margaret Gascoigne = Ralph Ogle (d. 1513)
Anne Ogle (b. 1509) = John Delaval (1512-1572)
Robert Delaval (1542-1607) = Dorothy Grey (1554-1591)
John Delaval (1590-1652) = Elizabeth Selby
George Delaval (1613-1694) = Margaret Grey (d. 1709)
Edward Delaval (1664-1744) = Mary Blake (1664-1711)
Anne Delaval (1692-1765) = Ralph Milbanke (d. 1745)
Sir Ralph Milbanke (1725-1793) = Elizabeth Hedworth (1726-1767)
Ralph Milbanke (1748-1825) = Judith Noel (1751-1822)
Anne Isabella Milbanke (1792-1860) = George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Agnes Gascoigne = Thomas Fairfax
Nicholas Fairfax = Jane Palmes
Mary Fairfax = Henry Curwen
Agnes Curwen = James Bellingham
Mary Bellingham = Christopher Crackenthorpe
Richard Crackenthorpe = Mary Dalston
Thomas Crackenthorpe = Mary Threlkeld
Richard Crackenthorpe = Dorothy Crew
Dorothy Crackenthorpe = William Cookson
Anne Cookson = John Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William married Margaret Percy before 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Urswick before 22 Feb 1482. Anne (daughter of Thomas Urswick and Isabel Rich) was born about 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Wyndham. Thomas (son of John Wyndham and Margaret Howard) was born in of Felbrigg, Norfolk, England; died between 22 Oct 1521 and 4 Mar 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ninian Markenfield. Ninian (son of Thomas Markenfield and Eleanor Conyers) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Mar 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Tailboys before Apr 1493. George (son of Robert Tailboys and Elizabeth Heron) was born about 1467; died on 21 Sep 1538; was buried in Bullington, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Gyse. John (son of John Gyse and Anne Berkeley) was born about 1485 in of Elmore and Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England; died on 20 Dec 1556 in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Edward Willoughby after 22 Nov 1505. Edward (son of Robert Willoughby and Elizabeth Beauchamp) was born in of Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died in Nov 1517. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Marquess of Dorset.

Thomas married Margaret Wotton in 1509. Margaret died after 6 Oct 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Catherine of Aragón, Queen Consort of England on 14 Nov 1501 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. Catherine (daughter of Ferdinand II, King of Aragón and Isabella I, Queen of Castle and León) was born on 16 Dec 1485 in Alcalá de Henares, Castile, Spain; died on 7 Jan 1536 in Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, England; was buried on 29 Jan 1536 in Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 29 Nov 1489, Westminster Palace, Middlesex, England

Notes:

"[T]emperamental, capricious, selfish, always an ally of her brother Henry VIII, even at the expense of the welfare of Scotland, and in her issue heiress of the throne of England." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Margaret married James IV, King of Scots on 8 Aug 1503 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. James (son of James III, King of Scots and Margaret of Denmark) was born on 17 Mar 1473 in Holyrood, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 9 Sep 1513 in Flodden Field, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Archibald Douglas on 6 Aug 1514 in Kinnoull, near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Archibald (son of George Douglas and Elizabeth Drummond) was born about 1489; died on 22 Jan 1557 in Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland; was buried in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry Stewart before 2 Apr 1528. Henry (son of Andrew Stewart) was born about 1495; died between 10 Oct 1551 and 9 Apr 1557. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Blount. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Catherine of Aragón, Queen Consort of England on 11 Jun 1509 in Greenwich Palace, Kent, England. Catherine (daughter of Ferdinand II, King of Aragón and Isabella I, Queen of Castle and León) was born on 16 Dec 1485 in Alcalá de Henares, Castile, Spain; died on 7 Jan 1536 in Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, England; was buried on 29 Jan 1536 in Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England in Jan 1533. Anne (daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard) was born about 1500 in Blickling, Norfolk, England; died on 19 May 1536 in Tower Hill, London, England; was buried in Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Jane Seymour, Queen Consort of England on 30 May 1536 in Whitehall Palace, London, England. Jane (daughter of John Seymour and Margaret Wentworth) was born about 1509 in Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, England; died on 24 Oct 1537 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Anne of Cleves, Queen Consort of England on 6 Jan 1540. Anne (daughter of Johann III of Cleves and Maria) was born on 22 Sep 1515; died on 16 Jul 1557 in Chelsea Manor, near London, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Catherine Howard, Queen Consort of England on 28 Jul 1540 in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, England. Catherine (daughter of Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper) was born between 1518 and 1524; died on 13 Feb 1542 in Tower of London, London, England; was buried in Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Katherine Parr, Queen Consort of England on 12 Jul 1543 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Parr and Maud Green) was born about Aug 1512; died on 5 Sep 1548 in Sudeley, Gloucestershire, England; was buried on 5 Sep 1548 in Sudeley, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles Brandon. Charles (son of William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn) was born in 1484; died on 22 Aug 1545 in Guildford Palace, Surrey, England; was buried in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Louis XII, King of France on 9 Oct 1514 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France. Louis was born on 27 Jun 1462 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France; died on 1 Jan 1515 in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a commander at Flodden Field and was knighted on the field, 9 Sep 1513.

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Gascoigne. Dorothy (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died before 1526. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Winifred Thwaites on 20 Nov 1544. Winifred (daughter of William Thwaites and Alice Garneys) died before 10 Dec 1591; was buried on 10 Dec 1591 in Clifton, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In one of the charges leading to her downfall, she was alleged to have failed to resist the advances of a gentleman of the king's privy chamber named Thomas Culpeper, who was himself beheaded at Tyburn on 10 Dec 1541, two months before her own execution. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article about Katherine Howard notes that "he was distantly related to Katherine on her mother's side, for they shared a Culpeper ancestor who had lived in the reign of Edward II." This would be true if the courtier were a son of any number of Culpepers of sixteenth-century Kent, virtually all of them descendants of Thomas Colepeper of Brenchley who died in 1309. But the ODNB confidently states that the courtier Thomas Culpeper was "the second of the three sons of Alexander Culpeper of Bedgebury, Kent (d. 1541), and his second wife, Constance Harper (née Chamberlain); his elder brother, also named Thomas, was a client of Thomas Cromwell." This piques our interest, because this Alexander Culpeper was a son of John Culpeper (~1430-1480) and his wife Agnes Gainsford, who are themselves direct ancestors of JTS and (probably) TNH, AP, and GFS.^{1, 2}

The problem is this: Alexander Culpeper of Bedgebury made his will on 20 May 1540, and died sometime in 1541 before 21 June, when his will was proved. His wife Constance made her will on 4 Oct 1541, after her husband's death. All of these events happened before the courtier Thomas Culpeper was accused, much less executed. And yet both wills name only one son named Thomas. Alexander's calls Thomas "myne eldist sonne" and mentions one other son, John. Constance's also names only two sons by Alexander, Thomas and John. (She had an additional son, George Harper, by her first marriage.)

Constance's will was proved at London on 13 Nov 1542, so it's entirely possible that she lived past 10 Nov 1541, the day the courtier Thomas Culpepper was executed. And there is a codicil to Constance's will, undated, but it makes none of the adjustments one might expect if one of one's legatees had been beheaded at Tyburn since the main will was drawn up.

Even more to the point, if backwoods gentry Alexander and Constance Culpeper had a son who was a fast-rising figure at the royal court, one would think he would at least be mentioned in one or both of their wills. Remember again that when both of these wills were drawn up, the courtier Thomas Culpeper had yet to be accused of any wrongdoing.

Finally, the will of the Thomas Culpeper who was definitely a son of Alexander and Constance Culpeper, mentioned in both of their wills, is dated 6 Aug 1557; it was proved 20 Oct 1558, and he was buried at St. Mary's in Goudhurst on 13 May 1558. He was married twice, to Elizabeth Hawte in about 1522 and to Ellen Hendley in about 1540. He is obviously not the courtier who was executed in November 1541.

Where does the claim about the courtier's parentage come from? Probably the 1592 Visitation of Kent. Specifically, the 1924 volume The Visitations of Kent, Taken in the Years 1574 and 1592 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, edited by W. Bruce Bannerman, part 2, London, 1924 (Harleian Society volume 75). "The present Volume contains the remaining portion of the letters, I-Z, of the second Visitation, in 1574, together with the third Visitation, made in 1592, based on a contemporary MS bearing the autograph of Percy, Viscount Strangford, London, 1816, with the addition, from other sources, of some further Pedigrees and Arms." We're uncertain what "contemporary MS" means in this context: an actual manuscript made by a herald in the 1590s, or not? And as to the "autograph of Percy, Viscount Strangford, London, 1816", we are doubtful about the mighty authenticating credibility emanating from the signature of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (1780-1855), whose career as a British diplomat went into an abrupt decline when, as ambassador to Russia in 1826, he was caught falsifying dispatches to the British government and revealing confidential documents to the Austrian ambassador in St. Petersburg. At any rate, these are the pertinent passages from the 1924 volume's representation of the 1592 visitation, all on page 92:

S^r John Colepeper of Bedgebery aforsaide knight Sonne and heire to Walter married Agnes the daughter of . . . . . and by her hathe issue S^r Alexander Colepeper knighte his eldest Sonne […]

S^r Alexander Colepeper of Bedgebery aforsaide knighte Sonne and heire to S^r John maried to his first wiffe Agnes Daughter to Roger Davye of Northfelde in the County of Kent Esquire and by her had issue Alys. After the saide S^r Alexander maried to his seconde wiffe Constance Daughter to Robert Chamberlein and wydowe of Harper, and her her had issue Thomas Colepeper his eldist Sonne, and Thomas Colepeper second Sonne, and John Colepeper thirde Sonne, Elizabeth maried to S^t Clere gent., Anne maried to Raulfe Molyns of Barkeshier, and Johan maried to Aldred ffitz James of Somersetshire Esquire, Margarett married to Phillippe Chowte gent and Katherin maried to Edwarde Barrett gent.

Anne's husband was actually William Molyns, not Raulfe or Ralph. Johanna's husband was Alfred Fitzjames, not Aldred, but given the fluidity of late-medieval names he may well have gone by Aldred two or three times a week. At any rate, even stipulating that these passages represent a perfect copy of the original 1592 visitation, it remains that this information would have been taken down by the heralds from people reciting family history over fifty years after the deaths of Alexander and Constance Culpeper.

We would like to know if the author of the ODNB essay about Katherine Howard, Retha M. Warnicke, has other sources that would indicate that the courtier Thomas Culpeper was in fact a son of Alexander and Constance. We would also like to know the source for the information that his stated older brother, also named Thomas, was "a client of Thomas Cromwell." In the absence of any such information, we're inclined to believe that this theory of the parentage of the courtier Thomas Culpeper is merely yet another example of the less-than-perfect reliability of visitation pedigrees.

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(1) Depending on whether TNH, AP, and GFS ancestor Joan Roberts was a daughter of her father Walter Roberts's second wife Isabel Culpepper, daughter of John Culpepper and Agnes Gainsford, as seems most probable, instead of his first wife, Margaret Penn. See Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson, and Janet Chevally Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165:245, October 2011; 166:46, January 2012.

(2) And possibly of PNH, if it's ever proved that his 9G-grandfather Henry Colepepper (d. 1675 in Virginia) was a son of his fellow Virginia emigrant John Culpeper (1637-1674), as has often been speculated. If this turned out to be the case, John Culpeper and Agnes Gainsford would be the most recent common ancestors of PNH and TNH.

Catherine married Henry VIII, King of England on 28 Jul 1540 in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, England. Henry (son of Henry VII, King of England and lord of Ireland and Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was subsequently married to James Stumpe (d. 1563) and then Thomas Stafford. Over the decades she sold off most of her first husband's property in order that she and her husbands could maintain the extravagant lifestyle to which she had become accustomed at the court of Henry VIII.

Isabel married Edward Baynton about 18 Jan 1532. Edward (son of John Baynton and Joan Digges) was born about 1480 in of Bromham, Wiltshire, England; died on 27 Nov 1544. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edmund Dudley after 1500. Edmund (son of John Dudley and Elizabeth Bramshott) was born about 1462; died on 18 Aug 1510 in Tower Hill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cecily Bonville. Cecily (daughter of William Bonville and Catherine Neville) was born between 1460 and 1461; died on 12 May 1529 in Shacklewell, Hackney, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Valentine Knightley. Valentine (son of Richard Knightley and Joan Skennard) died on 8 Mar 1566 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He participated in the suppression of Wyatt's Rebellion with a defeat of rebels near Wrotham on 10 Feb 1554.

George married Elizabeth Wilsford about 1533. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Wilsford and Elizabeth Culpeper) was born about 1517. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He fought at Flodden Field in 1513.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Clifford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Eresby, Lincolnshire, England

Christopher married Margaret Jenney before 28 Mar 1482. Margaret (daughter of William Jenney and Elizabeth Cawse) died between 1515 and 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married James Carew about 1468. James (son of Nicholas Carew and Margaret Fiennes) was born in of Beddington, Surrey, England; died on 22 Dec 1492. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Regarding his date of death, Kirk and Hollick say in a footnote that "[o]n 30 August 1523, John Fulveby [sic] was granted a commission to collect royal subsidy
in Lincolnshire, but on 3 November 1528 he was noted as deceased in the will
of Thomas Bryge of Sausthorpe.."

John married Jane Dymoke about 1485. Jane (daughter of Thomas Dymoke and Margaret Welles) was born about 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1544

Isabel married Oliver Wentworth before 1520. Oliver (son of Thomas Wentworth and Jane Mirfield) was born about 1490 in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died between 7 Dec 1558 and 28 Jan 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1443

William married Eupheme Langton after 23 Jan 1461 in Farnley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan de la See, Joan at See.

Jane married Peter Hildyard between 1480 and 1485. Peter (son of Robert Hildyard and Elizabeth Hastings) was born about 1460 in of Winestead, Yorkshire, England; died on 20 Mar 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Seymour. John was born in of Wolfhall, Wiltshire, England; died on 21 Dec 1536; was buried in Easton Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]