Margaret Melton

• 'Margaret Clifford1,2,3,4
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• Father Sir Roger de Clifford, 5th Lord Clifford, Sheriff of Westmoreland & Cumberland b. 10 Jul 1333, d. 13 Jul 1389
• Mother Maud de Beauchamp b. c 1347, d. Jan 1403 or Feb 1403
• ' Margaret Clifford married Sir John Melton, 7th Lord Lucy, son of Sir William Melton, Sheriff of Yorkshire and Elizabeth Everingham, before 1415; They had 2 sons (John & Anthony) and 3 daughters (Thomasine, Margaret, & (wife of Mr. Hastings).1,2,3,4
• 'Family Sir John Melton, 7th Lord Lucy b. c 1377, d. 24 May 1455
  • Margaret Melton+2,5
  • Sir John Melton+ d. 1455
  • Thomasine Melton+6,4 b. c 1418

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Margaret Clifford was the daughter of the 5th Lord Clifford and his wife Maud de Beauchamp.

On some date before 1415 she married Sir John Melton of Aston and Kilham, Yorks.

They had 2 sons (Sir John, and Anthony) and 3 daughters (Thomasin, wife of Henry Pierrepont Esq, Margaret, wife of John Markenfield Esq, and _____, wife of _____ Hastings).

• Citations
• 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VIII, p. 255.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 215.
• 3.[S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 540.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 358.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 131.
• 6.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 583.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1236.htm#...
• ___________
• Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford, ninth Lord Clifford, fifth Baron of Westmoreland (10 July 1333[1] - 13 July 1389), .....
• He married Maud (d. 1403), daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick.[12]
  • Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford (d. 1391 ?)
  • William Clifford, the Governor of Berwick (d. 1419)
  • Mary, married Sir Philip Wentworth of Wentworth, Yorkshire
  • ' Margaret, married Sir John Melton, knight
  • Katherine, married Ralph, lord Greystock
  • Philippa, married William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby (Lewis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed. (2006), line 11, no. 34)
• Dugdale gives him a third son, the Lollard, Sir Lewis Clifford (d. 1404), whom, however, Sir H. Nicolas shows to have been probably his brother, but certainly not his son[13]
• From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_de_Clifford,_5th_Baron_de_Clifford
• ______
• 'Margaret CLIFFORD
• 'Born: ABT 1367, Brough Castle, Westmoreland, England
• 'Died: 1455, Aston, England
• Father: Roger CLIFFORD (5º B. Clifford)
• Mother: Maud BEAUCHAMP
• 'Married: Thomas MELTON (Sir)
• Children:
  • 1. John MELTON
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CLIFFORD.htm#Margaret CLIFFORD3
• http://home.flash.net/~jmbartay/database/d11.htm#P1422
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clifford-414 cites
• Richardson, Douglas Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. IV pp. 79-80
• Richardson, Douglas: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), 4 vols, Volume 1, page 540, CLIFFORD 9iv.
• Marlyn Lewis.
• VIsitation of Yorkshire Page 203: Melton