Constantine de Clifton

• Preferred Name: Constantine de Clifton
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: BEF 20 JAN 1363 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England at LATI: N2.5976 LONG: E0.4795 with note: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p530.htm#i15925 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 257.
  
• FSID: GWNM-2WY
  
• Record+Change: 10 MAR 2003 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1338 in Castle Buckenham, Norfolk, England at LATI: N2.5976 LONG: E0.4795
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.geni.com/people/John-Clifton-1st-Baron-Clifton/6000000000490854431?through=6000000000490854441
  
  Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William
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  31. JOAN MARMION, d. 1362; m. Sir John Bernake, b. 1309, d. 1349, of Tattershall, co. Lincoln, son of Sir William Bernake and Alice Driby, dau. of Robert Driby by Joan Tateshal, sis. of Robert de Tateshal (Tateshale) of Tattershall. (CP VIII: 521 not j, 522).
  32. MAUD BERNAKE, d. 10 Apr. 1419; m. bef. 20 June 1366, SIR RALPH CROMWELL, (210-35), 1at Lord Cromwell.
  ' 33. ELIZABETH CROMWELL, d. 1393/4; m. (1) John Clifton, b. abt. 1353, 1st Lord Clifton, of Buckenham Castle, co. Norfolk, d. Rhodes, 10 Aug. 1388, son of Constantine Clifton, d. by 1372, of Buckenham co. Norfolk, by wife Catherine de la Pole, dau. of Sir William de la Pole, Mayor of Hull, baron of the Exchequer, d. 1366; m. (2) Sir Edward Bensted. (CP III: 307-308)
  34. CONSTANTINE CLIFTON, by (1), b. 1372, 2nd Lord Clifton, of Buckenham Castle, co. Norfolk, d. 1395; m. aft. Feb 1389/90, Margaret Howard, d. 1433, dau. of Sir John Howard, d. 1438, of Wigenhall, Norfolk, by (1) wife Margaret Plaiz, d. 1391, dau. Sir John Plaiz, 5th Lord Plaiz, d. 1389. (CP III: 308, X: 541-542).
  
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  8. JOAN MARMION, married (1st) JOHN DE BERNAK, Knt., ot Tattershall, Lincolnshire, and Bokenham and Besthorpe, Norfolk, son and heir of William de Bernak, Knt., of Tattershall, Bokenham, Besthorpe, etc., by Alice, daughter of Robert de Driby, of Driby, Lincolnshire. He was born about 1305-6 or 1309 (aged 33 or 34 in 1339, aged 32 in 1341). They had two sons, John and William, and one daughter, Maud. JOHN DE BERNAK died 20 March 1346. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) before 1360 JOHN DE FOLVILLE, Knt. They had no issue. She was heiress sometime before 1360 to her brother, Robert Marmion, 3rd Lord Marmion, by which she inherited a 1/2 share in the manors of Lutton, Northamptonshire, and Wath, Hunmanby, and Langton-on-Swale, Yorkshire. She died 2 or 13 Oct. 1361. . . .
  9. MAUD DE BERNAK, born about 1335-8 (aged 23 in 1360, and 24 or 26 in 1361, aged 36 in 1382). She married before 20 Jan. 1360/1 RALPH DE CROMWELL, Knt., of Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, and West Hallam, Derbyshire, and, in right of his wife, of Tattershall, Lincolnshire, and Lutton, Northamptonshire, son and heir of Ralph Cromwell, of Cromwell, of Cromwell and West Hallam, by Amice, daughter of Roger Belers. They had five sons, Ralph, Knt. [2nd Lord Cromwell], Robert, William, Thomas, and John, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Avice (wife of Thomas Bardolf, 5th Lord Bardolf), and Maud. She was heiress in 1360 to her brother, William de Bernak. He was summoned to Parliament from 28 Dec. 1375 by writs directed Radulfo de Crombwell', whereby he is held to have become Lord Cromwell. He was heir in 1382 to his first cousin, Thomasine Belers, daughter of Roger Belers Knt. In 1386-87 he was Banneret, and retained to serve the King in the event of invasion. She was co-heiress in 1394 to her cousin, Mary Percy, wife of John Roos, 5th Lord Roos, of Helmesley, Yorkshire. In 1394 he and his wife, Maud, obtained a papal indult to celebrate mass before daybreak. SIR RALPH DE CROMWELL, 1st Lord Cromwell, died 27 August 1398. His widow, Maud, died 10 April 1419. . . . . .
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  ' 10. ELIZABETH DE CROMWELL, married JOHN DE CLIFTON, Knt., of Buckenham, Babingley, Denton, Hilborough, West Bradenham, etc., Norfolk, son and heir of Constantine de Clifton, of Buckenham, Norfolk, by Katherine, daughter of William de la Pole, Knt. He was born about 1353 (aged 15 in 1368). They had one son, Constantine, Esq. [2nd Lord Clifton], and one daughter, Katherine (wife of Ralph Greene and Simon Felbrigg, Knt.). He was summoned to Parliament from 1 Dec. 1376 to 28 July 1388, by writs directed to Johanni de Clyfton, whereby his is held to have become Lord Clifton. SIR JOHN DE CLIFTON, 1st Lord Clifton, died at Rhodes 10 August 1388. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) EDWARD BENSTED, Knt. She died 24 Sep 1391. . . .
  11. CONSTANTINE DE CLIFTON, Esq., 2nd Lord Clifton, of Buckenham, Babingley, Hilborough, etc., Norfolk, Little Waltham, Essex, etc., son and heir, born about 1372 (aged 16 in 1388, aged 19 1/2 in 1391). He married after Feb. 1389/90 MARGARET HOWARD, daughter of Robert Howard, Knt., of East Winch, Fersfield, and Wiggenhall, Norfolk (descendant of King John), by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of Robert de Scales, 3rd Lord Scales [see CORNWALL 8 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt. [3rd Lord Clifton], and one daughter, Elizabeth. He was summoned to Parliament from 13 Nov. 1393 to 20 Nov. 1394. CONSTANTINE DE CLIFTON, Esq., 2nd Lord Clifton, died 19 Feb. 1395/6. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) (as his 3rd wife) GILBERT TALBOT, Knt., of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire and Wadley, Berkshire (died 6 Feb 1398/9), They had one son, Richard. She died 25 March 1434, and was buried at Black Friars, Norwich. . .

• m. 1351 in Buckenham Castle, Norfolk, England

1. John de Clifton, b. 1353 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England     d. 10 AUG 1388 in Rhodes, Dodecanese, Southern Aegean, Greece