Sir John de Clifton, MP

Sir John de Clifton sat as M.P. for Nottinghamshire in 1402 and was also Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. He was created a Knight Banneret on the morning of the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, but was killed later that day in the service of King Henry IV.

Sir John's marriage in 1382 to Catherine, daughter of Sir John Cressy, led to the Cliftons' acquisition of Hodsock and other estates in the north of Nottinghamshire, as well as in adjacent parts of Yorkshire.

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collec...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shrewsbury

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Sir John Clifton, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire was born at England; He held property in Clifton & Hodsock, Nottinghamshire; Downe Hall, Claypool, Lincolnshire; and Creat Hall, Belton, Yorkshire. He married Isabel Monbocker. Sir John Clifton, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire married Katherine Cressey, daughter of Sir John Cressy, Sheriff of Nottingham & Derby and Agnes, circa June 1382; They had 1 son (Sir Gervase) and 1 daughter (Katherine, wife of Edmund FitzWilliam, Esq.). Sir John Clifton, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire died on 21 July 1403 at Battle of Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

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