10th Baron Clifford Henry DE CLIFFORD

Abt 1454 - 1523  (69 years)

• Name	Henry DE CLIFFORD  [1]
  	Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford, also 10th feudal baron of Skipton (ca. 1454 ? 23 April 1523)[1] was a member of the Clifford family. He was one of the chief commanders in the Battle of Flodden against the Scots in 1513. Origins He was the son of John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, a notorious military leader in the earlier stages of the Wars of the Roses. At the 1460 Battle of Wakefield, the 9th baron allegedly murdered the young Earl of Rutland, brother to the future King Edward IV. Edward Hall originated a story in the 16th-century that Clifford was hidden by his mother among the tenant shepherds on the Cumbrian Fells, to avoid possible revenge by the Yorkist monarchs. However, Henry Summerson, writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, refutes the suggestion, noting that There is no evidence, later stories to the contrary notwithstanding, that the seven-year-old Henry Clifford was ever pursued by vengeful Yorkists, and the legend of the Shepherd Lord first recounted by Edward Hall in the mid-sixteenth century?telling of the young fugitive brought up among remote sheepfolds, so that he never learned to read, while his younger brother Richard was smuggled overseas, where he died?hardly stands up to scrutiny. Henry Clifford was later to be not just literate but even bookish, owning volumes on law and medicine, and developing a taste for astronomy and alchemy, while his brother is recorded in England as late as 1499. It may be that the Clifford heir thought it prudent to keep a low profile, but...on 16 March 1472 Edward IV granted him a formal pardon.[2] The historical North Country legend of the Shepherd Lord, was commemorated by the regional poet William Wordsworth in his work Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors.[3] It is also featured in the 1890s opera Henry Clifford by Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.[4] Career He was the hereditary Sheriff of Westmorland from his restoration until his death. However, at the age of sixty, once again his family was called into service by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey who intended to repel the attacking Scots. Henry Clifford led an army of several thousand men northward and met the Scots on Flodden Field where the English won a decisive victory, and King James IV of Scotland was killed.[5] Marriage and children At some time before 1493 Clifford married Anne St John, who was the daughter of Sir John St John of Bletsoe (1426?1488) by his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and granddaughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso. His eldest son and heir was Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland. [1]
  Title	10th Baron Clifford
  Birth	Abt 1454  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Apr 1523  [1]
  Person ID	I96252	Main Tree
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	9th Baron Clifford, 9th Lord of Skipton John DE CLIFFORD,   b. 8 Apr 1435, Conisborough Castle d. 28 Mar 1461 (Age 25 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Margaret BROMFLETE,   b. 1443   d. 12 Apr 1493 (Age 50 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	1454  [1]
  Family ID	F40042	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anne ST JOHN
  Marriage	Bef 1493  [1]
  Children	1. 1st Earl of Cumberland Henry CLIFFORD, KG,   b. 1493, Skipton Castle d. 22 Apr 1542 (Age 49 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F40044	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Florence PUDSEY   d. 1558
  Children	1. Dorothy CLIFFORD   d. 1562  [Birth]
  Family ID	F40052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2019

  
  

• Sources

  [S03581] Wikipedia Encyclopedia.