John Clifford, Lord Clifford

Also known as: lord Clifford · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: commander · First appears: Edward IV 1

Life events

1460 · John Clifford captured Ferribridge and killed its keepers.(Edward IV 1 · 📍 Ferribridge)
- “and so he departed with his light horssemen from the great armie on the saturdaie before Plamesundaie; and earelie yer his enimies were aware, slue the kéepers and wan the bridge.”
c. 1460 · John Clifford was killed by an arrow during the retreat toward Henry VI's army.(Edward IV 1 · 📍 Dintingdale)
- “For the lord Clifford, either for heat or paine, putting off his gorget, suddenlie with an arrow (as some saie) without an head, was striken into the throte, and immediatlie rendred his spirit;”
c. 1461 · Henry VI entrusted command of his army to Somerset, Northumberland, and Clifford.(Edward IV 1)
- With: Henry VI Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland (Lancastrian captain)
- “king Henrie on the other part, hauing his armie in readinesse, committed the gouernance thereof to the duke of Summerset, the earle of Northumberland, and the lord Clifford”

sworn: Henry VI “King Henrie on the other part, hauing his armie in readinesse, committed the gouernance thereof to the duke of Summerset, the earle of Northumberland, and the lord Clifford”
enemies with Edward IV “After this proclamation ended, the lord Fauconbridge, sir Walter Blunt, Robert Horne with the fore-ward passed the riuer at Castelford, three miles from Ferribridge, intending to haue inuironed the lord Clifford and his companie”
child: Thomas Clifford “This end had the lord Clifford, which slue the earle of Rutland knéeling on his knees, whose yoong sonne Thomas Clifford was brought vp with a sheepheard in poore habit”
enemies with William Neville, Lord Fauconberg “After this proclamation ended, the lord Fauconbridge, sir Walter Blunt, Robert Horne with the fore-ward passed the riuer at Castelford, three miles from Ferribridge, intending to haue inuironed the lord Clifford and his companie”
enemies with Walter Blunt “After this proclamation ended, the lord Fauconbridge, sir Walter Blunt, Robert Horne with the fore-ward passed the riuer at Castelford, three miles from Ferribridge, intending to haue inuironed the lord Clifford and his companie”
enemies with Robert Horne “After this proclamation ended, the lord Fauconbridge, sir Walter Blunt, Robert Horne with the fore-ward passed the riuer at Castelford, three miles from Ferribridge, intending to haue inuironed the lord Clifford and his companie”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.