Joan DE HOLAND

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Joan and Edmund had no issues.

Joan married Edmund "Of Langley" of YORK before 04 Nov 1393. Edmund (son of Edward III King Of ENGLAND and Philippa Of HAINAULT) was born on 5 Jun 1344 in King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England; died on 01 Aug 1402 in Langley, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Church of the Mendicant Friars, Langley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William Willoughby D'ERESBY before 09 Aug 1404. William was born in Eresby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 04 Dec 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Lord Henry LE SCROPE on 06 Sep 1410 in Chapel of Faxflete, co. York. Henry (son of Lord Stephen LE SCROPE and Margery DE WELLES) was born about 1374; died on 05 Aug 1415 in Southampton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Lord Vescy Henry BROMFLETE, Knt. between Dec 1415 and 27 Apr 1416. Henry was born in Of Londesborough, co York; died on 16 Jan 1468/9. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 9th Baron Clifford, 9th Lord of Skipton John DE CLIFFORD in 1454. John (son of Thomas DE CLIFFORD and Joan DACRE) was born on 8 Apr 1435 in Conisborough Castle; died on 28 Mar 1461. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Sir Lancelot THRELKELD before 14 May 1467. Lancelot died in 1492. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
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.

Henry married Anne ST JOHN before 1493. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Florence PUDSEY. Florence died in 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Hugh LOWTHER, VIII. Hugh (son of Hugh LOWTHER, VII and Mabel LANCASTER) was born in 1461; died in 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland KG (1493 ? 22 April 1542) was a member of the Clifford family which was seated at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire from 1310 to 1676.[1]

Origins
He was born at Skipton Castle, a son of Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford by his wife Anne St John, daughter of Sir John St John of Bletso by his first wife Alice Bradshaigh.[2][3]

Career
As a youth Clifford spent time at the court of King Henry VIII and was knighted at Henry's coronation in 1509. He was later appointed Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1522 and became hereditary Sheriff of Westmorland on the death of his father in 1523. As part of King Henry VIII's plans for the defence of the Scottish border he was created Earl of Cumberland on 18 June 1525 and made Warden of the West Marches and Governor of Carlisle Castle. After being replaced by William, Baron Dacre, after the latter was accused of treason he was reinstated to the post in 1534. During the Pilgrimage of Grace he remained loyal to the crown and was besieged in Skipton Castle by the rebels. He was made a Knight of the Garter by a grateful King Henry VIII in 1537.[4]

Marriages and progeny
He married twice:

Firstly to Margaret Talbot (died before 1516), daughter of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anne Hastings, daughter of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville.
Secondly he married Margaret Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland and Catherine Spencer, daughter of Sir Robert Spencer of Spencer Combe, Devon. By Margaret Percy he had seven children, including:
Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, eldest son and heir, who married Lady Eleanor Brandon, a niece of King Henry VIII.[5]
Catherine Clifford (1513-1598) a notable recusant,[6] married John Scrope, 8th Lord Scrope of Bolton, and secondly Sir Richard Cholmondely[7]
Death and burial
He died in 1542 and was buried in Skipton church, where his monument survives.[4]

Family/Spouse: Margaret TALBOT. Margaret (daughter of 4th Earl of Shrewsbury George TALBOT and Anne HASTINGS) died before 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Dorothy married Hugh LOWTHER, IX in 1528. Hugh (son of Sir John LOWTHER and Lucy CURWEN) was born about 1510; died in 1555. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact 1: Bef 1514, Knight
• Fact: 1516, 1542 & 1550, Sheriff
• Fact 2: 1544-1553, Captain of Carlisle Castle

John married Lucy CURWEN in 1502. Lucy died after 1553. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]