Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford

Family

Career

Marriage and issue

• John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, who married Margaret Bromflete, by whom he had two sons, Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford, and Richard Clifford, esquire, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Robert Aske. He was slain at Ferrybridge 28 March 1461 on the eve of the Battle of Towton.
• Sir Roger Clifford, who married Joan Courtenay, the eldest daughter of Thomas Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon, by Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. Sir Roger Clifford was beheaded in 1485, and his widow married secondly, Sir William Knyvet of Buckenham, Norfolk.
• Sir Robert Clifford, who married Elizabeth, widow of Sir Ralph Josselyn, twice Lord Mayor of London, and daughter of William Barley of Aspenden, Hertfordshire by Elizabeth Darcy. Both Sir Robert Clifford and his father-in-law, William Barley, were supporters of the pretender to the Crown, Perkin Warbeck.
• Sir Thomas Clifford.
• Elizabeth Clifford, who married firstly, Sir William Plumpton of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, slain at the Battle of Towton, and secondly, John Hamerton.
• Maud Clifford, who married firstly Sir John Harrington of Hornby, Lancashire, slain at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and secondly, Sir Edmund Sutton of Dudley, Staffordshire.
• Anne Clifford, who married firstly, Sir Richard Tempest, and secondly, William Conyers, esquire.
• Joan Clifford, who married Sir Simon Musgrave.
• Margaret Clifford, who married Robert Carre, 12 April 1467, Licence to the rector of Catton to marry inh Conob Cae, domestic servant of Richard 16th Earl of Warwick, and Margaret Clifford. Banns once. Ibid. LThe

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Ancestry