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- 1st Lord Clifford 1st Lord Clifford of Appleby Robert de Clifford, who succeeded his grandfather as Baron Clifford, and was summoned to Parliament 1299-1313. He was in the Scottish wars of Edward I, and was in command of the British army. He fell in the following reign, Edward II, at the Battle of Bannockburn, 1313. Robert Clifford was son of Roger Clifford and Isabel Vipount; daughter of Robert, 3rd Baron Vipount, and Isabel FitzGeoffrey; daughter of John FitzGeoffrey and Isabel Bigod; daughter of Hugh Bigod; son of Roger Bigod, both Sureties for Magna Charta, m. (one paper has his m. to Maud Mareschal) and Isabel Plantagenet; daughter of Hameline Plantagenet and Isabel de Warren; daughter of William de Warren; son of William de Warren and Isabel Vermandois of Adelheid, Countess of Vermandois and Hugh the Great (one of the seven leaders of the First Crusade), descended from Charlemagne. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 581)
Robert de Clifford (c. 1275 1314), was the 1st Baron de Clifford. He was a son of Roger de Clifford (d. 1282), inherited the estates of his grandfather, Roger de Clifford, in 1286; then he obtained through his mother part of the extensive land of the Viponts, and thus became one of the most powerful barons of his age. A prominent soldier during the reigns of Edward I and Edward II, Clifford was summoned to parliament as a baron in 1299, won great renown at the siege of Carlaverock Castle in 1300, and after taking part in the movement against Edward II's favourite, Piers Gaveston, was killed at Bannockburn. His son Roger became the 2nd Baron de Clifford. (Wikipedia)
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