John Clifford

Family: House of Lancaster · Role: lord · First appears: Henry VI 57

Life events

• 1439 · John Clifford led English forces in recapturing Ponthoise, killing its watch and taking prisoners.(Henry VI 27 · 📍 Ponthoise)
  • “In Nouember of this yeare, there was such a great frost, and after that so déepe a snow, that all the ground was couered therwith, and all the diches frosen. Which wether put the Englishmen in hope to recouer againe the towne of Ponthoise, by the French king gotten before, by corrupting with monie diuerse burgesses of the towne. Hervpon the Englishmen clothed all in white, with Iohn lord Clifford their capteine, came in the night to the diches, passed them without danger by reason of the frost, scaled the walles, slue the watch, and tooke the towne, with manie profitable prisoners.”
• c. 1460 · Henry VI's parlement attainted named nobles and confiscated their goods and possessions.(Henry VI 57 · 📍 Couentrie)
  • With: Henry VI Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York Edward IV Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury Thomas Harington John Wenlock, Baron Wenlock Thomas Neville John Neville James Pickering John Conyers Thomas Parr William Oldhall Henry Ratford John Bowser Thomas Cooke John Claie Richard Giton Robert Browne Edward Bowser Thomas Vaughan John Roger Richard Greye Walter Devereux Walter Hopton Roger Kinderton William Bowes Foulke Stafford Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury
  • “During this time the king called a parlement in the citie of Couentrie, which began the twentith of September, in the which were attainted of high treason, Richard duke of Yorke, Edward erle of March his sonne and heire, Richard earle of Warwike, Edmund earle of Rutland, Richard earle of Salisburie, Iohn lord Clifford, lord Clinton, sir Thomas Harington, sir Iohn Wenlock, Thomas Neuill & Iohn Neuill sons of the earle of Salisburie, Iames Pickering, Iohn Coniers, Thomas Par, William Oldhall, and Henrie Ratford knights; Iohn Bowser, Thomas Cooke, Iohn Claie, Richard Giton, Robert Browne, Edward Bowser, Thomas Vaughan, Iohn Roger, Richard Greie, Walter Deuoreux, Walter Hopton, Roger Kinderton, Will. Bowes, Foulke Stafford, the lord Powis, and Alice countesse of Salisburie, their goods and possessions escheted, and their heires disherited vnto the ninth degrée”

Henry VI 57

• enemies with Henry VI “During this time the king called a parlement in the citie of Couentrie, which began the twentith of September, in the which were attainted of high treason, Richard duke of Yorke, Edward erle of March his sonne and heire, Richard earle of Warwike, Edmund earle of Rutland, Richard earle of Salisburie, Iohn lord Clifford, lord Clinton, sir Thomas Harington, sir Iohn Wenlock, Thomas Neuill & Iohn Neuill sons of the earle of Salisburie, Iames Pickering, Iohn Coniers, Thomas Par, William Oldhall, and Henrie Ratford knights; Iohn Bowser, Thomas Cooke, Iohn Claie, Richard Giton, Robert Browne, Edward Bowser, Thomas Vaughan, Iohn Roger, Richard Greie, Walter Deuoreux, Walter Hopton, Roger Kinderton, Will. Bowes, Foulke Stafford, the lord Powis, and Alice countesse of Salisburie”

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