Sir Gervase Clifton

Gervase Clifton (died 1471)

Sir Gervase Clifton (died 6 May 1471) of Clifton, Nottinghamshire and London was a 15th-century English knight and landowner. He was beheaded after the Battle of Tewkesbury.

Gervase Clifton was a junior member of the Clifton family of Nottinghamshire.[citation needed]

Gervase Clifton was the son of Sir Gervase Clifton (d. 15 November 1453) of Hodsock and Clifton, Nottinghamshire, only son of Sir John Clifton (slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403), and his wife, Katherine Cressy. Gervase Clifton's mother was Isabel Fraunceys (d. 13 June 1457), the daughter of Sir Robert Fraunceys of Foremark, Derbyshire. His only sibling was a brother, Robert Clifton.[1]

Clifton served as Lieutenant of Dover Castle and as Captain of Pontoise, France where he was knighted. He came into an estate at Brabourne, Kent, by his marriage to an heiress, Isabel Herbert. He was Mayor of Canterbury in 1450, served as High Sheriff of Kent for 1439, 1450 and 1458 and represented Kent in the Parliament of 1455.

He was briefly Treasurer of the Household of Henry VI and Treasurer of Calais 1450–60.

He was declared a traitor for his support of Margaret of Anjou. He took part in and was captured at the Battle of Tewkesbury during the Wars of the Roses and was beheaded in Tewkesbury market place along with other Lancastrian leaders on 6 May 1471.

Clifton married firstly Isabel Herbert (died c. November 1457), widow of William Scott (d. 5 February 1434), esquire, of Brabourne, Kent, and daughter of Vincent Herbert (alias Finche), esquire, of Netherfield, Sussex by Isabel Cralle, the daughter and coheiress of Robert Cralle, by whom he had two daughters:[2]

• Isabel Clifton, who in 1459 married John Jerningham (d.1503), esquire, of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by whom she had two sons and several daughters, including:[2][3][4][5]
  • 1. Sir Edward Jerningham (d.1515), who married firstly Margaret Bedingfield (d. 24 March 1504), and secondly Mary Scrope (d. 25 August 1548).
  • 2. Sir Richard Jerningham (d.1525/6), Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII, who married Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559). After the death of Sir Richard Jerningham, Anne (née Sapcote) married John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, by whom she was the mother of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.
  • 3. Margaret (or Mary) Jerningham, who married Thomas Stanhope, esquire, of Rampton; they were the paternal grandparents of Anne Stanhope.
• Joan Clifton, who married John Digges, esquire, of Digges Court in Barham, Kent; they were the grandparents of the scientist, Leonard Digges.[6][7]

Clifton married secondly, before 20 March 1463, Maud Stanhope, widow firstly of Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (d. 25 July 1452), and secondly of Sir Thomas Neville (d. 30 December 1460), second son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, slain 30 December 1460 at the Battle of Wakefield. Maud Stanhope was the daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope (d. 1436) of Rampton, Nottinghamshire by his second wife, Maud Cromwell (d. 30 August 1497), daughter of Ralph Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell (died c. 2 May 1417). Maud Stanhope was the niece and coheiress of Ralph de Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell (d. 4 January 1456), and the heiress of her sister, Joan Stanhope (d. 10 March 1490), who had married firstly Sir Humphrey Bourchier, slain at the Battle of Barnet on 14 April 1471, and secondly Sir Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton, Norfolk. There were no issue of Clifton's second marriage, and after his death his widow, Maud Stanhope, alleged that he had 'wasted and destroyed' more than £1000 worth of jewels, plate and household goods which she brought to the marriage. She died 30 August 1497, and was buried in the Collegiate Church at Tattershall, Lincolnshire.;[8][9][10][11] [12]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Clifton_(died_1471)

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• Sir Gervase Clifton, Sheriff of Kent, Mayor of Canterbury, Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Pontoise1,2,3,4,5
• M, b. circa 1405, d. 6 May 1471
• Father Sir Gervase Clifton2,3 b. c 1396, d. 15 Nov 1453
• Mother Isabel Fraunceys2,3 b. c 1382, d. 13 Jun 1457
• Sir Gervase Clifton, Sheriff of Kent, Mayor of Canterbury, Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Pontoise was born circa 1405 at of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, England.1,2 He married Isabel Herbert, daughter of Vincent Herbert, Esq. and Isabella Cralle, after 5 February 1433; They had 2 daughters (Isabel, wife of John Jernegan, Esq; & Joan, daughter of John Digges, Esq.).1,3,5 Sir Gervase Clifton, Sheriff of Kent, Mayor of Canterbury, Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Pontoise married Maud Stanhope, daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope, Sheriff of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire and Maud Cromwell, before 20 March 1463; They had no issue.2,3,4 Sir Gervase Clifton, Sheriff of Kent, Mayor of Canterbury, Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Pontoise died on 6 May 1471; Beheaded after the Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Buried at Brabourne, Kent.2,3
• Family 1 Isabel Herbert d. c Nov 1457
• Children
  • Joan Clifton+2,3,5
  • Isabel Clifton+1,2 b. c 1434
• Family 2 Maud Stanhope d. 30 Aug 1497
• Citations
• 1.[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 398.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 272.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 512.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 572.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 81.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2176.htm#... ________
• Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
• Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
• Pg. 220
• 8. JOHN CLIFTON, Knt., of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, Knight of the Shire for Nottinghamshire, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, verderer of Nottingham Forest, son and heir. He married about June 1382 KATHERINE CRESSY, daughter of John de Cressy, Knt., of Hodsock, Nottinghamshire, and High Melton, Yorkshire, by his wife, Agnes. She was born about 1368-78 (aged 30 and more in 1408). They had one son, Gervase, Knt., and one daughter, Katherine. SIR JOHN CLIFTON, a Lancastrian, was slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury 21 July 1403. She was co-heiress in 1408 to her brother, Hugh Cressy, Knt., by which she inherited the manors of Hodsock, Nottinghamshire, and Claypole, Lincolnshire. His widow, Katherine, married (2nd) before Nov. 1408 Ralph Mackerell, Esq., of Wilsthorpe, Derbyshire (died testate 14 Jan. 1435/6), Knight of the Shire for Nottinghamshire. She died sometime before 1420. . . . .
  • 9. GERVASE CLIFTON, Knt., of Hodsock and Clifton, Nottinghamshire, son and heir, born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). He married ISABEL FRAUNCEYS, daughter of Robert Fraunceys, Knt., of Foremark, Derbyshire, Knight of the Shire for cos. Derby and Stafford, Sheriff of cos. Nottingham and Derby, by his wife, Isabel [?Peshale]. They had two sons, Robert and Gervase, Knt. GERVASE CLIFTON, Knt., died 15 Nov. 1453. His widow, Isabel, died 13 June 1457, and was buried at Clifton, Nottinghamshire. . . . .
    • Pg. 221
    • 10. GERVASE CLIFTON, Knt., of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, and London, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Brabourne, Kent, and in right of his 2nd wife, of Eresby, Lincolnshire, Sheriff of Kent, 1439, 1450, 1458, Mayor of Canterbury, 1450, Treasurer of Calais, Captain of Pontoise, younger son, born say 1405. He married (1st) ISABEL HERBERT (alias FINCHE), widow of William Scott, Esq., of Brabourne, Kent (died 5 Feb. 1433), and daughter of Vincent Herbert (alias Finche), Esq., of Netherfield, Sussex, by Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Cralle, of Cralle (in Warblngton), Sussex. They had two daughters, Isabel (wife of John Jernegan, Esq.) and Joan. His wife, Isabel, died in or about Nov. 1457. He married (2nd) before 20 March 1462/3 MAUD STANHOPE, widow successively of Robert Willoughby, K.G., 6th Lord Willoughby of Eresby (died 25 July 1452), and Thomas Neville, Knt. (died 30 Dec. 1460), and eldest daughter of Richard Stanhope, Knt., of Rampton, Nottinghamshire, by his 2nd wife, Maud, daughter of Ralph Cromwell, 2nd Lord Cromwell. They had no issue. SIR GERVASE CLIFTON was beheaded after the Battle of Tewkesbury 6 May 1471, and was buried at Brabourne, Kent. She was heiress in 1490 to her sister, Joan Stanhope, wife successively of Humphrey Bourchier, Knt. [Lord Cromwell] and Robert Radclyffe, Knt. His widow, Maud, died 30 August 1497, and was buried in the Collegiate Church at Tattershall, Lincolnshire. . . . .
    • Child of Gervase Clifton, Knt, by Isabel Herbert (alias Finche):
      • i. JOAN CLIFTON, married JOHN DIGGES, esq., of Diggs Court (in Barham), Kent [see DIGGES 10]. _______________________
• Sir Gervase Clifton1
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• Last Edited=13 Apr 2008
• Sir Gervase Clifton married Maud Stanhope, daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope and Maud de Cromwell, before 20 March 1462/63.1
• Citations
• 1.[S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 16. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
• From: http://thepeerage.com/p101.htm#i1006 _____________________
• RICHARD Neville, son of RALPH Neville Earl of Westmoreland & his second wife Joan Beaufort (1400-killed in battle Wakefield 30 Dec 1460, bur Bisham). A mid-15th century manuscript names "Johannam minorissam, Ricardum, Katherinam ducissam Norfolchie, Henricum mortuum, Thomam dominum de Seymour, Cuthbertum mortuum, Alienoram uxorem comitis Northumbrie, Robertum episcopum Dunelmie, Willelmum dominum de Fauconberge, Annam comitssam Staffordie, Johannem mortuum, Georgium dominum de Latymer, Ceciliam ducissam Eboraci, Edwardum dominum de Bergeny" as the children of "Radulphus dominus de Neuill et comes Westmorlandie" and his wife "Johanna filia Johannis ducis Lancastrie uxor secunda"[1607]. He was allowed the title Earl of Salisbury from 1428. m (Feb 1421 or before) ALICE de Montagu, daughter of THOMAS de Montagu Earl of Salisbury & his first wife Eleanor de Holand of Kent (-[3 Apr/9 Dec] 1462). A mid-15th century manuscript records that "Ricardum Neuille comitem Sarum" married "Alesia comitissa Sarum et heres"[1608]. She succeeded her father in 1428 as Ctss of Salisbury.
• Richard & his wife had twelve children:
  • 4. Sir THOMAS (-killed in battle Wakefield 30 Dec 1460). m (licence 1 May 1453, Tattershall, Lincolnshire Aug 1453) as her second husband, MATILDA Stanhope, widow of ROBERT Lord Willoughby de Eresby, daughter of Sir RICHARD Stanhope of Rampton, Nottinghamshire & his second wife Matilda Cromwell (-30 Aug 1497, bur Tattershall, Collegiate Church). She married thirdly (before 20 Mar 1463) Sir Gervase Clifton.
• From: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm _____________
• Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, KG (c.1385 – 25 July 1452) was an English baron and soldier in the Hundred Years' War.
• Robert Willoughby was the son of William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and his first wife, Lucy le Strange, daughter of Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange of Knockin (Shropshire), by Aline, daughter of Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel. He had a younger brother and three sisters:[1]
• .... etc.
• He married secondly, before 8 January 1449, Maud Stanhope, daughter of Sir Richard Stanhope of Rampton, Nottinghamshire, by his second wife, Maud Cromwell, daughter of Ralph Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell, but had no issue by her. His widow married secondly, Thomas Neville, second son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, slain 30 December 1460 at the Battle of Wakefield, and thirdly, Sir Gervase Clifton, beheaded 6 May 1471 after the Battle of Tewkesbury. Lady Maud alleged that Sir Gervase Clifton had 'wasted and destroyed' more than £1000 worth of jewels, plate and household goods which she brought to the marriage. She died 30 August 1497, and was buried at the Collegiate Church at Tattershall, Lincolnshire.[16]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Willoughby,_6th_Baron_Willough... ______________
• Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury and 7th and 4th Baron Montacute, KG, PC (1400 – 31 December 1460) was a Yorkist leader during the early parts of the Wars of the Roses.[1]
• .... etc.
• With Alice Montague he fathered ten children:
  • .... etc.
  • Sir Thomas Neville (1443[citation needed]–1460), who was knighted in 1449 and died at the Battle of Wakefield. He was the second husband of Maud Stanhope (30 August 1497, who married firstly Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (d. 25 July 1452), and thirdly Sir Gervase Clifton, beheaded 6 May 1471 after the Battle of Tewkesbury.[5]
  • .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville,_5th_Earl_of_Salisbury __________________
• Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
• Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
• Pg. 271 _______________