NN Clement

William Clement (d.1494) of Bersted in Sussex was a member of a minor gentry family. His wife was a sister of John Goring II of Burton in Sussex who died in 1495. They had five children: four daughters, Alice, Elizabeth, Joan and (probably) Anne. Their son was Sir Richard Clement (c.1482-1538) of Ightham Mote in Kent, England, courtier to King Henry VII and to his son Henry VIII.

References

• The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530, Thomas Benolte ... by William Bruce Bannerman, College of Arms (Great Britain ), Thomas Benolt, John Philipot, George Owen. “Goring.” Page 45.Archive.Org
• Malcolm Mercer.1995.Sir Richard Clement, Ightham Mote and local disorder in the Early Tudor period.Archaeologia Cantiana.115:155-176. Permalink https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/node/12429

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The Clement family belonged to a much wider gentry circle centred around the Gorings of nearby Burton. William Clement had married a
sister of John Goring II who died in 1495.10 He had at least five
children: one son and four daughters. The Aldwick records state that
William Clement was succeeded by a son aged twelve called Richard.
He would therefore have been born about 1482.11 This is consistent
with another estimate of Sir Richard Clement's year of birth: 1478.12
Only the names of three of his sisters are known: Alice, Elizabeth and
Joan. Alice married twice: first, to Edward Palmer of Angmering;
second, into the Parker family.13 Elizabeth also married twice: first, into
the Toppys family; second, into the Rychers family.14 Joan married
William Stafford of Sutton-at-Hone in Kent.15