Roger de Clifford (around 1243–1282)

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Roger de Clifford (1243 - November 6, 1282 in Menai Strait ) was an English nobleman and military man.

Origin and marriage

Roger de Clifford was the eldest son of his father of the same name, Roger de Clifford, from his marriage to Hawise , who was probably a daughter of John de Boterel . His father was a close confidante of the heir to the throne and later King Edward I was. After the victory of the royal party in the War of the Barons , in 1265, Roger's father received as thanks the guardianship of Isabel de Vieuxpont , the eldest daughter and co-heir of the rebel Robert de Vieuxpont, who died in 1264 . Roger's father married Isabel to Roger around 1269. Over the division of the Vieuxpont inheritance, however, there was subsequently a dispute with Roger of Leybourne , who had received guardianship over Isabel's younger sister Idonea and whom he had also married to his eldest son. Clifford eventually received the extensive estates in Westmorland from inheritance .

Participation in the conquest of Wales

During the campaign to conquer Wales in October 1282, Clifford was one of the knights who sailed to Anglesey to build a second front in the rear of the Welsh. From the island, the English troops built a boat bridge over the Menai Strait to the mainland of Gwynedd . Clifford's father was captured in Welsh at the start of a Welsh rebellion in April, and Clifford is said to have pushed for a swift attack so that his father could be released as soon as possible. Indeed, Luke de Tany's November 6th attack over the boat bridge was ill-prepared and the English were attacked by superior Welsh forces. The exact course of the following battle at Menai Strait is unclear, but the English had to withdraw. The boat bridge was destroyed. Clifford was among the many English knights and soldiers who were either slain or drowned.

progeny

With his wife Isabel, the eldest daughter of Robert de Vieuxpont and Isabel fitz John, Clifford had at least one son who became his heir and in 1286 also inherited the estates of his grandfather Roger de Clifford:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathryn Faulkner: Clifford, Sir Roger de (bc1221, d. In or before 1286). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  2. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 190
  3. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 192
personal data
SURNAME De Clifford, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 1243
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1282
Place of death Menai Strait