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Margaret Bromflete, Baroness Clifford

Also Known As: "Margaret (Bromflete) Clifford Threlkeld"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Londesborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: April 12, 1493 (56-57)
Londesborough, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Londesborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Henry Bromflete, of Vescy and Eleanor de Tunstall
Wife of John de Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford and Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, of Torworth
Mother of Henry Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford, Lord Vescy; Richard Clifford; Elizabeth Aske; Sir Thomas Clifford; Margaret Simpson and 6 others
Half sister of Elizabeth Strangeways; Margery Conyers; Richard Tunstall; Joan Stapleton; Thomas Tunstall, Esq. and 1 other

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About Margaret Bromflete, Baroness Clifford

  • Margaret de Bromflete1
  • F, #220698, b. 1436, d. 12 April 1493
  • Last Edited=10 Jan 2010
  • Margaret de Bromflete was born in 1436 at Lonsborough, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of Henry Bromflete, 1st Lord Vessy and Eleanor Fitzhugh. She married, firstly, Sir John de Clifford, 9th Lord Clifford, son of Thomas de Clifford, 8th Lord Clifford and Joan Dacre. She married, secondly, Sir Lancelot Threlkeld. She died on 12 April 1493. She was buried at Londesborough, Yorkshire, England.
  • Children of Margaret de Bromflete and Sir John de Clifford, 9th Lord Clifford
    • Richard Clifford
    • Sir Thomas Clifford
    • Elizabeth Clifford
    • Henry Clifford, 10th Lord Clifford+ b. c 1454, d. 23 Apr 1523
  • Children of Margaret de Bromflete and Sir Lancelot Threlkeld
    • Anne Threlkeld+ b. 1462
      • Margaret Threlkeld+ b. 1474, d. 1551
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p22070.htm#i220698 ______________
  • Margaret Bromflete1,2,3,4
  • F, b. circa 1443, d. 12 April 1493
  • Father Sir Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy, Sheriff of Yorkshire5,3,4 b. c 1400, d. 16 Jan 1469
  • Mother Eleanor FitzHugh5,3,4 b. c 1391, d. 30 Sep 1457
  • Margaret Bromflete was born circa 1443 at Lonsborough, Yorkshire, England; Age 26 in 1469 (which must be wrong, because her son (Henry) would not be born when she was 11).2,3 She married Sir John Clifford, 9th Lord Clifford, son of Sir Thomas Clifford, 8th Lord Clifford, Sheriff of Westmoreland and Joan Dacre, circa 1453; They had 2 sons (Henry & Richard) and 1 daughter (Elizabeth).2,3,4 Margaret Bromflete married Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, son of Sir Henry Threlkeld and Margaret Thornburgh, before 14 May 1467 at of Lonsborough, Yorkshire, England; They had 3 sons (Lancelot, James, & Christopher) and 4 daughters (Margaret, Joan, Anne, & Elizabeth).2,3,4 Margaret Bromflete died on 12 April 1493 at Londesborough, Yorkshire, England; Buried at Londesborough, Yorkshire.2,3
  • Family 1 Sir John Clifford, 9th Lord Clifford b. 8 Apr 1435, d. 28 Mar 1461
  • Children
    • Sir Henry Clifford, 10th Lord Clifford+2,3 b. 1454, d. 23 Apr 1523
    • Elizabeth Clifford+6,2,3 b. c 1460, d. b 16 Mar 1529
  • Family 2 Sir Lancelot Threlkeld b. c 1435, d. b 1492
  • Children
    • Jane (Joan) Threlkeld+2,7 b. c 1463, d. 5 Jan 1543
    • Margaret Threlkeld+8 b. c 1468, d. 22 Apr 1493
    • Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, Sheriff of Cumberland9 b. c 1470, d. b 1513
    • Anne Threlkeld+8 b. c 1472
    • Grace Threlkeld b. c 1475
  • Citations
  • 1.[S10492] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. III, p. 294.
  • 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 159.
  • 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 217.
  • 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 731.
  • 5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 158-159.
  • 6.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 107.
  • 7.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 683.
  • 8.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
  • 9.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 512-513.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1122.htm#... ___________________
  • Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&d...
  • Pg.385
  • Child of Eleanor Fitz Hugh, by Henry Bromflete, Knt.:
    • i. MARGARET BROMFLETE, married (1st JOHN CLIFFORD, Knt., 9th Lord Clifford [see CLIFFORD 13], (2nd), LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland [see BROMFLETE 12].
    • Pg.409 No preview available for this page.
    • His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) before 14 May 1467 LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and Ynwath, Westmorland, son and heir of Henry Threlkeld, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and Yanwath, Westmoreland, ....
  • Pg.543
  • 13. JOHN CLIFFORD, Knt., 9th Lord Clifford, of Appleby, Westmorland, son and heir, born at Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire 8 April 1435. He was a legatee in the 1446 will of his great aunt and godmother, Maud Clifford, widow of Richard of York, Knt., Earl of Cambridge [see YORK 9]. He married MARGARET BROMFLETE, daughter and heiress of Henry (or Harry) Bromflete, Knt., Lord Vescy, of Londesborough, Yorkshire (descendant of King John), by his 2nd wife, Eleanor (descendant of King John), daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh, K.G., 3rd Lord Fitz Hugh, Lord High Treasurer [see BROMFLETE 11 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1443 (aged 26 in 1469). They had two sons, Henry, K.B. [10th Lord Clifford] and Richard, Esq., and one daughter, Elizabeth. He was summoned to Parliament 30 July 1460, by writ directed Johanni Clifford domino de Clyfford chivaler. He was one of the Lancastrian leaders at the Battle of Wakefield, where he was knighted 31 Dec. 1460, and where "for slaughter of men he was called the Butcher." SIR JOHN CLIFFORD, 9th Lord Clifford, Lancastrian, was slain at Ferrybridge by a chance arrow 28 March 1461, on the eve of the Battle of Towton, and was said to have been buried in a pit with others slain there. He was attainted 4 Nov. 1461, whereby his peerage was forfeited and his estates confiscated. His widow Margaret, married (2nd) before 14 May 1467 LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland [see BROMFLETE 12 for issue of this marriage]. Margaret, Lady Clifford, died testate 12 April 1493, and was buried at Londesborough, Yorkshire. .... etc. __________________
  • Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&d...
  • Pg.166
  • i. MARGARET NEVILLE, married (1st) before 1477 RICHARD HUDDLESTON, K.B., of Blennerhasset and Upmanby, Cumberland, son and heir apparent of John Huddleston, Knt., of Millom, cumberland, by Mary, 3rd daughter and co-heiress of Henry Fenwick, Knt. They had one son, Richard, and two daughters, Margaret (wife of Lancelot Salkeld) and Joan (wife of Hugh Fleming). His wife Margaret, was a lady in waiting to her half-sister Queen Anne Neville. SIR RICHARD HUDDLESTON was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. His widow Margaret, married (2nd) before 1492 (as his 2nd wife) LANCELOT THRELKELD, K.B., or Yanwath, Westmorland, Sherrif of Cumberland, 1491-2, son and heir of Lancelot Threlkeld, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and Yanwath, Westmorland, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Henry (or Harry) Bromflete, Knt., Lord Vescy [see STAPLETON 12 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. Margaret died 17 Oct. 1498. He was created Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, in 1501. In 1503 he was appointed to escort Princes Margaret Tudor to Scotland for her marriage to King James IV of Scotland. SIR LANCELOT THRELKELD died testate before 1512 (division of his estates). .... etc. National Archives, C1/ 348/ 87 (Chancery Proc. dated 1504-15--James Pykeryng and Elizabeth, his wife, and William Pykeryng and Winifred, his wife. v. Thomas Dudley and Grace, his wife re. the detention of revenues of the manor of Threlkeld, Cumberland, and refusal to join in the expense of executing the will of Lancelot Thrilkeld, Knt., father of the said Elizabeth, Winifred, and Grace) (available at www.catalogue.natonalarchives.gov.uk/ search.asp).
  • Pg.508
  • 12. JOHN CLIFFORD, Knt., 9th Lord Clifford, of Appleby, Westmorland, son and heir, born at Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire 8 April 1435. He was a legatee in the 1446 will of his great aunt and godmother, Maud Clifford, widow of Richard of York, Knt., Earl of Cambridge [see YORK 11]. He married MARGARET BROMFLETE, daughter and heiress of Henry (or Harry) Bromflete, Knt., Lord Vescy, of Londesborough, Yorkshire, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh, K.G., 3rd Lord Fitz Hugh, Lord High Treasurer [see STAPLETON 11 for her ancestry]. She
  • Pg.509
  • was born about 1443 (aged 26 in 1469). They had two sons, Henry, K.B. [10th Lord Clifford] and Richard, Esq., and one daughter, Elizabeth. He was summoned to Parliament 30 July 1460, by writ directed Johanni Clifford domino de Clyfford chivaler. He was one of the Lancastrian leaders at the Battle of Wakefield, where he was knighted 31 Dec. 1460, and where "for slaughter of men he was called the Butcher." SIR JOHN CLIFFORD, 9th Lord Clifford, Lancastrian, was slain at Ferrybridge by a chance arrow 28 March 1461, on the eve of the Battle of Towton, and was said to have been buried in a pit with others slain there. He was attainted 4 Nov. 1461, whereby his peerage was forfeited and his estates confiscated. His widow Margaret, married (2nd) before 14 May 1467 LANCELOT THRELKELD, Knt., of Threlkeld, Cumberland [see STAPLETON11 for issue of this marriage]. Margaret, Lady Clifford, died testate 12 April 1493, and was buried at Londesborough, Yorkshire. .... etc. _____________________________
  • Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society (1866)
  • https://archive.org/details/transactionvol9no2cumb
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/310/mode/1up
  • Little is known of the personal or domestic history of the family, and that little commences with the first Sir Lancelot. He seems to have been, at one time, at variance with his father, but the cause of this does not appear. He married Margaret, the only child and heiress of Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy, and widow of John, Lord Clifford, who fell at Ferry Bridge, in 1461, at the early age of twenty-six, and from the terms of Inq. P.M., held on Lord Vescy in 1470, Margaret, then the wife of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, must have been very young, although the mother of two children, at the death of her first husband. If she brought an accession of fortune and of consequence to her second lord it was not unaccompanied by care, for her sons had to be secreted from the vengeance of the Yorkist faction. Lord Clifford having incurred their special hatred by slaying the young Earl of Rutland, whom they always described as a child compared with his adversary, whereas there was, after all, no great disparity of age between the two.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/311/mode/1up
  • That Sir Lancelot strove not unsuccessfully to preserve the lives of his stepsons, the not unworthy words of Wordsworth (Note: 9.9.2014: William Wordsworth was Sir Lancelot's 8th great-grandson) bear record—
    • " Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise,
    • Hear it good man old in days,
    • Thou tree of covert and of rest
    • For this young bird that was distrest ;
    • Among thy branches safe he lay,
    • And he was free to sport and play
    • When falcons were abroad for prey."
  • It is a curious fact, which one cannot help associating; with Sir Lancelot and the concealment of the young Cliffords, that there is a secret chamber or nook at Yanwath Hall, only discovered within the last few years. Sir Lancelot had three sons ; Lancelot his successor, James or John, of whom nothing seems to be known, and Christopher, of whom more hereafter. He had also four daughters ; Margaret, who married Sir Christopher Moresby ; Johan, who became the wife of Sir Brian Stapleton ; Anne, who married Sir Hugh Lowther ; and Elizabeth. Sir Lancelot probably died before 1492. He was buried in Crosby Ravensworth church, where the Arms of Threlkeld, impaling the cross of the Vescys and the bend fleury of the Bromfletes in a manner not strictly in accordance with the rules of heraldry, may be seen on the massive tomb, in the vault beneath which, Sept. 20, 1745, was also laid Robert Lowther, the eccentric and tyrannical father of the sole Earl of Lonsdale of the first creation, who, in both characteristics far exceeded the paternal example.
  • His wife no doubt survived him, for she died at her ancestral estate in Londesborough, April 14, 1493.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionvol9no2cumb#page/312/mode/1up
  • The eldest son of Sir Lancelot, and the second of that name, married firstly, Elyn Radclyffe, as I find briefly stated in a pedigree attached to my papers on the Lowther House, in Penrith. Writing at Naples, without being able to refer to my authority, I cannot give my proofs, but I am sure the statement is correct. I think she would be the mother of his children. His second marriage was, like his father's, calculated to bring eclat and a good dowry to his house, for Margaret was the illegitimate daughter of Richard Neville, the great Earl of Warwick, and widow of Richard Hudleston, K.B., eldest son of Sir John Hudleston, of Millom, whom he predeceased. ______________________
  • The visitations of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, esquire, Norroy king of arms (1881)
  • https://archive.org/details/visitationsyork00britgoog
  • https://archive.org/stream/visitationsyork00britgoog#page/n262/mode...
  • Pg.250
    • Pickering. Pg.250-251
  • Sir James Pykerynge Knight. = Anne doughter & heyr of Sir Crystofer Moresby.(+); ch: (Pg.251 Sir Cristofer (m. Jane Lewkner), Pickering), James (m. Elsabeth Thyrkell), Thomas, William (m. Wenefred Thyrkell) Pykerynge.
    • James Pykerynge 2 son. = Elsabeth doughter & on of theyres of Sir Launcelet Thyrkell.; ch: (Pg.251 Lancelot Pykerynge.)
    • Thomas Pykerynge 3 son.; ch: (Pg.251 Thomas Pickering.)
    • William Pykerynge 4 son. = Wenefred doughter & on of theyres of Sir Launcelet Thyrkell.; ch: (Pg.251 Anne, Ales, Jane, Wenefred, Elsabeth, Crystofer (heyre), John, Thomas, Edward Pykeryng).
    • https://archive.org/stream/visitationsyork00britgoog#page/n263/mode...
    • Pg.251
    • Sir Cristofer Pickering, Knight son & heyr. = Jane doughter & on of theyres of Sir Roger Lewkner.; ch: Anne (m. Sir Frauncis Weston & Sir Henry Knevet & John Vaughan) Pykeryng.
    • (+) "The desent of Sir Crystofer Morysby is at large in my boke of petegres w'towt strynges." On f. 63 of this Manuscript, as in Visitation 1584. p. 120, his wife is called Margaret, daughter of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld. _____________________________________
  • 'Temp41'
  • This section first uploaded on 15.12.07.
  • The family name is spelled variously as Threlkeld, Thirkeld, Thirkell, Thyrkell, Thirkill, etc..
  • William de Threlkeld or Thirkeld of Threlkeld, Cumberland (d 1409) mentioned on various web sites
  • m. Margaret
    • 1. Henry Threlkeld or Thirkeld of Threlkeld (d 1452)
    • Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Vaughan of Sutton) starts with this Henry but does not identify his wife. Visitation (Yorkshire, 1563-4, Lomley) shows that the Sir Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete was son of Henry by Maud, dau of Sir John Lomley, sister of Lord George who m. Elsabeth Thornton. That Visitation is not consistent with what we show for the Lumley family on Lumley02, apparently mixing-up various generations. Accordingly, we provisionally follow those web sites which show the mother of Lancelot as ...
    • m. Margaret Thornburgh (dau of Roland Thornburgh)
      • A. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld
      • Sir Lancelot is variously described as 'of Threlkeld' (for Joan), 'of Malmerby' (for Margaret), and 'of Yeawith' (for Grace). Nevertheless, the Lancelot who married Margaret Bromflete is identified as the father of at least those daughters. However, Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5, Vaughan of Sutton) shows Grace as of the next generation
      • m. Margaret Bromflete (d 12.04.1483, dau of Sir Henry de Bromflete, Lord of Vescy, m1. John Clifford)
        • i. Sir Lancelot Threlkeld or Thirkeld
          • a. Elizabeth Threlkeld or Thirkeld
          • m. James Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)
          • b. Grace Threlkeld or Thirkeld
          • m. Thomas Dudley (aka Sutton)
          • c. Winifred Threlkeld or Thirkeld
          • m. William Pickering (son of Sir James by Anne Moreseby)
        • ii. Christopher Threlkeld or Thirkeld (3rd son)
        • m. Joan Carliell (dau of John Carleill by Elinor, dau of Laurence Acton son of Laurence son of Sir Laurence Acton by Elizabeth, dau of Sir WIlliam Sturmyn by Joane)
          • a. Christopher Thirkeld of Esthorpe
          • m. Josian Constable
            • (1) Marmaduke Thirkeld of Esthorpe (d 1592-3)
            • m. _ Hilton (dau of Sir William Hilton)
              • (A) Joyce Thirkeld
              • m. Richard Langdale of Houghton
              • (B) Katherine Thirkeld
              • m. Robert Lacy of Folkton
              • (C) Dorothy Thirkeld
              • m. Walter Grimston of Goodmanham (b c1563)
              • (D) Elizabeth Thirkeld (bur 17.11.1585) probably of this family, of this generation
              • m. Mathew Amcotts of Vere Temple & Wickenby
        • iii. Margaret Threlkeld or Thirkeld
        • m. Christopher Moresby
          • a. Anne Moresby
          • m. Sir James Pickering
        • iv. Ann Threlkeld probably the Ann who married ...
        • m. Sir Hugh Lowther of Lowther (d c1511)
        • v. Joan Threlkeld shown by various web sites as of this generation
        • m. Sir Bryan Stapleton
        • vi. Margaret Threlkeld shown by various web sites as of this generation
        • m. William Belasyse of Belasyse
        • vii.+ other issue - James, Elizabeth
  • Main source(s):
  • (1) For Keynell : 'Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica' (Pedigrees and Heraldic Notes for Gregory King) with thanks to a site visitor (CV, 25.11.07) for bringing it to our attention
  • (2) For Thirkeld of Esthorpe (Threlkeld of Threlkeld : Visitation (Yorkshire, 1584/5 & 1612, Vaughan of Sutton)
  • (3) for Thirkell of Smallwood : Visitation (Staffordshire, 1583, Rugeley of Shenstone)
  • From: Stirnet.com
  • http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/zwrk/temp41.php _______________________
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Margaret Bromflete, Baroness Clifford's Timeline

1436
1436
Londesborough, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1454
1454
Skipton, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1458
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1459
1459
Threlkeld, Cumbria, England
1461
1461
Skipton, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1462
1462
Lowther, Westmoreland, England (United Kingdom)
1463
1463
Yanwath, Westmorland, England (United Kingdom)
1463
Of, Threlkeld, Cumberland, England
1466
1466
Threlkeld, Cumberland, England