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Baron Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold in the County of Huntingdon, [1] [2] is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1608 for Sir Gervase Clifton , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] who commissioned Prebendal house [ 5 ] which was built by John Thorpe and later owned by the Clifton baronets branch of the family. [ 4 ]
Anne Clifford, who married firstly, Sir Richard Tempest, and secondly, William Conyers, esquire. [4] Joan Clifford, who married Sir Richard Musgrave. [4] 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.
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ...
William Stanley fought on the Yorkist side at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459, [2] whereas his elder brother Thomas, Lord Stanley had raised troops by the commission of the Lancastrian Crown but refrained from committing his forces on either side. Attainted in 1459, he fled into exile, but returned to fight for the Yorkists in 1461 at Towton. [2]
John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, 9th Lord of Skipton (8 April 1435 – 28 March 1461) was a Lancastrian military leader during the Wars of the Roses in England. The Clifford family was one of the most prominent families among the northern English nobility of the fifteenth century, and by the marriages of his sisters, John Clifford had links to some very important families of the time ...
John la Zouche, 7th Baron Zouche, 8th Baron St Maur (1459–1526) was a Yorkist nobleman and politician. He was noted for his loyalty to Richard III , under whose command he fought at the Battle of Bosworth , where Richard was killed.
He was the second son of Sir Richard Stafford (born post 1301-d.1381) "of Clifton Campville" in Staffordshire (the second son of Edmund Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (1272/3-1308) of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire and the younger brother of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford (1301-1372) of Stafford Castle).
Sir John Finch – Speaker. This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the third parliament in the reign of King Charles I in 1628.. The third parliament began on 16 March 1628 and was held to 26 June 1628.