John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford

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John Clifford (b. 1389, d. 13 Mar 1422 at the Siege of Meaux), Knight of the Garter, 7th Baron de Clifford, and hereditary Sheriff of Westmorland. He married about 1404, Elizabeth De Percy, daughter of Henry "Hotspur" Percy by Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. They had two sons, Thomas (8th Lord Clifford) and Henry, and two daughters, Mary and Blanche (wife of Robert Waterton, Knight).

From Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry:

He was summoned to Parliament from 21 Sep 1412. He and Elizabeth received a papal indult for a portable altar in 1412. He took part in a great tournament at Carlisle between six English and six Scottish Knights, as also in the French War.

He was slain at the Seige of Meaux in France 13 March 1422. Elizabeth died 26 October 1436 and is buried at Staindrop, Durham.^[1]

[edit] Issue

1) Thomas De Clifford, 8th Lord Clifford m. Joan Dacre, daughter of Thomas Dacre, 6th Lord Dacre of Gilsland.

2) Henry Clifford

2) Mary Clifford m. Philip Wentworth, Knight, of Nettlestead, Suffolk

4) Blanche Clifford.

[edit] References

1. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore Md., 2004, p. 216. ISBN 0-8063-1750-7