1. Sir John ST JOHN of Bletsoe has few details recorded about him.
John ST JOHN had the following children:
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2. Anne ST JOHN, daughter of Sir John ST JOHN of Bletsoe, married Henry, Lord Clifford circa 1486 in Skipton, Yorks.. She died in 1508.
Anne was a cousin-german (?) of Henry VII.
Henry, Lord Clifford, son of Lord John CLIFFORD (1435-1461) and Margaret BROMFLETE (1436-1493), was born in 1454. He had the title '10th Lord Clifford'. He died on 23 April 1523. He and Anne ST JOHN had the following children:
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3. Henry de CLIFFORD, son of Henry, Lord Clifford and Anne ST JOHN, was born in 1493 in Skipton, Yorks. He had the title '11th Lord Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland'. He married Margaret PERCY in 1513. He died on 22 April 1542 in Skipton. He married Margaret TALBOT.
Henry, eleventh lord Clifford, was created by king Henry the eighth 18 June 1523 earl of the county of Cumberland.
He was brought up with Henry VIII. A bit of a wild young man, he was originally one of the Yorkshire men chosen to a company Henry VIII to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in France but his name was struck from the list. He was active against the Scots before and after his father's death in 1523. He was created Earl of Cumberland in Jun 1525 and he was also appointed Lord Warden of the West Marches and Governor of Carlisle Castle. In 1530 he signed a letter to the Pope in which King Henry sought sanction for his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
Margaret PERCY, daughter of Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland ( - ), died in 1540. She and Henry de CLIFFORD had the following children:
| 4 | Henry CLIFFORD (1517-1570). Henry was born in 1517. He had the title '12th Lord Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland'. He married Eleanor BRANDON in June 1535. He married Anne DACRE in 1554. He died on 8 January 1570. |