Earl of Cumberland

George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, portrait by Nicholas Hilliard about 1590.

Earl of Cumberland was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

Award and subordinate titles

It was created on June 18, 1525 for Henry Clifford, 11th Baron de Clifford . The title could only be passed on to male descendants of the 1st Earl. It went out when the 5th Earl died on December 11, 1643.

The first three Earls carried the inheritable title Baron de Clifford (created 1299) as a subordinate title. For the fifth earl, the title Baron Clifford , which can also be inherited in the female line, was newly created in 1628 , which he led as a subordinate title.

List of the Earls of Cumberland (1525)

• Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1493–1542)
• Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland (1517-1570)
• George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605)
• Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland (1559-1641)
• Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland (1591-1643)

See also

• Duke of Cumberland

Literature and web links

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Cumberland, Earl of (E, 1525-1643) at Cracroft's Peerage