Maud ( - )

1. Maud de Clare (also known as Maud de CLARE) married Robert, Lord CLIFFORD on 13 November 1295.

 

She was born into a high noble family, the Clares, Earls of Gloucester.

 

Robert, Lord CLIFFORD, son of Sir Roger CLIFFORD (1248-1282) and Isabel de VIPONT (c. 1254- ), was born in 1274. He had the title '1st Lord Clifford'. He died on 24 June 1314 in Battle of Bannockburn. He and Maud de Clare had the following children:

 

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Idonia de CLIFFORD (c. 1300-1365)

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Idoine CLIFFORD ( - )

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Roger CLIFFORD ( - )

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Robert CLIFFORD (1305-1344)

Second Generation

2. Idonia de CLIFFORD (also known as Idoine CLIFFORD and Idonia), daughter of Robert, Lord CLIFFORD and Maud de Clare, was born circa 1300. She died on 24 August 1365. She married Henry, 2nd Lord Percy of Alnwick.

 

Henry, 2nd Lord Percy of Alnwick, son of Henry, 1st Lord Percy of Alnwick (1273-1314) and Baroness Eleanor FITZALAN ( -1328), was born on [Julian] 6 February 1300 in Leconfield, Yorkshire. He and Idonia de CLIFFORD had the following children:

 

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Henry, 3rd Lord Percy of Alnwick ( - )

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Maud PERCY ( - )

 

3. Idoine CLIFFORD was the daughter of Robert, Lord CLIFFORD and Maud de Clare.

 

4. Roger CLIFFORD, son of Robert, Lord CLIFFORD and Maud de Clare, had the title '2nd Lord Clifford'.

 

Roger rebelled against the King and paid for it with his life.

 

5. Robert CLIFFORD, son of Robert, Lord CLIFFORD and Maud de Clare, was born on 5 May 1305. He had the title '3rd Lord Clifford'. He married Isabel BERKELEY in June 1328 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. He died on 20 May 1344.

 

He acceded in 1326.

 

Isabel BERKELEY was born circa 1305. She died circa 1362. She and Robert CLIFFORD had the following children:

 

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Robert CLIFFORD (1329-1345)

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Roger CLIFFORD (1333-1389)

Third Generation

6. Henry, 3rd Lord Percy of Alnwick, son of Henry, 2nd Lord Percy of Alnwick and Idonia de CLIFFORD, married Mary PLANTAGENET.

 

Lady Mary PLANTAGENET was the daughter of Henry PLANTAGENET (1281-1345) and Maud CHAWORTH ( - ). She and Henry, 3rd Lord Percy of Alnwick had the following children:

 

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Henry PERCY (1341-1408). Henry was born on 10 November 1341. He had the title '1st Earl of Northumberland'. He was killed at the Battle of Branham Moor.

 

7. Maud PERCY, daughter of Henry, 2nd Lord Percy of Alnwick and Idonia de CLIFFORD, married Ralph, Lord Nevill of Raby.

 

Ralph, Lord Nevill of Raby and Maud PERCY had the following children:

 

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Margaret NEVILL ( - )

 

8. Robert CLIFFORD, son of Robert CLIFFORD and Isabel BERKELEY, was born in 1329. He had the title '4th Lord Clifford'. He died in 1345 in France. He married Eupheme de NEVILL.

 

Eupheme de NEVILL was born circa 1329. She died circa 1393.

 

9. Roger CLIFFORD, son of Robert CLIFFORD and Isabel BERKELEY, was born on 10 July 1333. He had the title '5th Lord Clifford'. He died on 13 July 1389 in Brough Castle, Westmoreland. He married Maud de BEAUCHAMP.

 

Roger was summoned to Parliament as a Baron between 1357-88
He married lady Maud De Beauchamp daughter of the Earl of Warwick. Roger was active against the Scots and was one of a commission to correct truce-breakers and decide border disputes in 1367. In 1372 he was commissioner of Array against the Scots and in 1374 he was called on to settle a dispute over possession of Jedburgh Forest between Henry, lord Percy and William, Earl of Douglas. He was made Sheriff of Cumberland and Governor of Carlisle in 1377 and between 1380 and 1385 he was warden of the East and West Marches five times. In 1388 he accompanied Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, Admiral of the fleet on a victorious naval expedition against France and Castile.
He died on 13th Jul 1389 at home in one of his northern castles and was probably buried at Shap Abbey.

Robert was the fifth feudal lord, and succeeded his grandfather, Roger, in 1286. He campaigned in Wales, 1282, Flanders, 1297, and in the Scottish wars. he fought at the Battle of Falkirk, 1298, and was present at the siege of Caerlaverock, 1300. He sided with the Earl of Lancaster in the campaign against Gaveston, but was later pardoned. He was killed at the Battle of bannockburn, 1314.

 

Maud de BEAUCHAMP, daughter of Earl of Warwick ( - ), died in 1402. She and Roger CLIFFORD had the following children:

 

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Thomas CLIFFORD (c. 1363-1391). Thomas was born circa 1363 in Brough Castle. He had the title '6th Lord Clifford'. He married Elizabeth ROS circa 1387 in Brough Castle, Wetmoreland. Thomas was killed on Crusade in East Prussia in 1391.