Thomas Clanvowe
Thomas Clanvowe was a British landowner, Member of Parliament and Sheriff of Herefordshire.
He was probably the son of Sir John Clanvowe of Hergest, Herefordshire. The surmame is an Anglicised Welsh name, presumably Llanfawr.
In 1391 he entered the service of King Richard II as one of the Kings' esquires. In 1392 he married Perryne, the daughter of Sir Robert Whitney of Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire and one of Queen Anne's ladies-in-waiting. They had no children. He was knighted in 1394/5 after taking part in a military expedition to Ireland and in 1400 took part in an invasion of Scotland under Richard, Lord Grey of Codnor.
He was elected Knight of the Shire for Herefordshire in 1394 and January and September 1397.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Herefordshire from 1397 to 1399 and appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1397–1399. In 1401 he accompanied Queen Isabella back to France after the overthrow of Richard II. In 1402 he accompanied Sir Edmund Mortimer on his campaign against the rebel Welsh leader, Owen Glendower, but the English were defeated at the Battle of Bryn Glas near Knighton, Radnorshire, and Clanvowe captured.
He was a member of a group known as the Lollard knights after their heretical beliefs.Death & succession
He died without surviving progeny, when his heir became his aunt Elizabeth Clanvowe, the wife of John Poyntz lord of the manor of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire.
