Английская Википедия:Henry Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford

Шаблон:Infobox nobleHenry Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford Шаблон:Postnominals (Шаблон:Circa Шаблон:Snd23 April 1523)Шаблон:Sfn was an English nobleman. His father, John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, was killed in the Wars of the Roses fighting for the House of Lancaster when Henry was around five years old. A local legend later developed that—on account of John Clifford having killed one of the House of York's royal princes in battle, and the new Yorkist King Edward IV seeking revenge—Henry was spirited away by his mother. As a result, it was said, he grew up ill-educated, living a pastoral life in the care of a shepherd family. Thus, ran the story, Clifford was known as the "shepherd lord". More recently, historians have questioned this narrative, noting that for a supposedly ill-educated man, he was signing charters only a few years after his father's death, and that in any case, Clifford was officially pardoned by King Edward in 1472. It may be that he deliberately avoided attracting Yorkist attention in his early years, although probably not to the extent portrayed in the local mythology.

The Yorkist regime came to an end in 1485 with the invasion of Henry Tudor, who defeated Edward's brother, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Henry's victory meant that he needed men to control the North of England for him, and Clifford's career as a loyal Tudor servant began. Soon after Bosworth, the King gave him responsibility for crushing the last remnants of rebellion in the north. Clifford was not always successful in this, and his actions were not always popular. On more than one occasion, he found himself at loggerheads with the city of York, the civic leadership of which was particularly independently minded. When another Yorkist rebellion broke out in 1487, Clifford suffered an embarrassing military defeat by the rebels outside the city walls. Generally, however, royal service was extremely profitable for him: King Henry needed trustworthy men in the region and was willing to build up their authority in order to protect his own.

Although Clifford's later years were devoted to service in the north and fighting the Scots (he took part in the decisive English victory at Flodden in 1513) he fell out with the King on numerous occasions. Clifford was not an easy-going personality; his abrasiveness caused trouble with his neighbours, occasionally breaking out in violent feuds. This was not the behaviour the King expected from his lords. Furthermore, Clifford had married a cousin of the King, yet Clifford's infidelity to her was notorious among his contemporaries. This also drew the King's ire, to the extent that the couple's separation was mooted. Clifford's first wife had died by 1511, and Clifford remarried. This was also a tempestuous match, and on one occasion he and his wife ended up in court accusing each other of adultery. Clifford's relations with his eldest son and heir, the eventual Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland, were equally turbulent. Clifford rarely attended the royal court himself, but sent his son to be raised with the King's heir, Prince Arthur. Clifford later complained that young Henry not only lived above his station, he consorted with men of bad influence; Clifford also accused his son of regularly beating up his father's servants on his return to Yorkshire.

Clifford outlived the King and attended the coronation of [[Henry VIII of England|HenryШаблон:NbsVIII]] in 1509. While continuing to serve as the King's man in the north, Clifford carried on his feuds with the local gentry. He also indulged his interests in astronomy, for which he built a small castle for observation purposes. Clifford grew ill in 1522 and died in April of the following year; his widow later remarried. Young Henry inherited the title as 11th Baron Clifford as well as a large fortune and estate, the result of his father's policy of frugality and avoiding the royal court for most of his life.

Background

Victorian oil painting depicting the killing of the Earl of Rutland

The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford, by Charles Robert Leslie, imagined in 1815

The Clifford family, originally from Normandy, settled in England after the conquest of 1066. The family was elevated to the peerage in 1299 as Barons Clifford, and also held the minor baronies of Skipton in North YorkshireШаблон:Sfn and of Appleby in Westmoreland.Шаблон:Sfn The historian Chris Given-Wilson has described the Clifford family as one of the greatest 15th-century families never to receive an earldom.Шаблон:Sfn By the time of Clifford's birth, the King, [[King Henry VI|HenryШаблон:NbsVI]], was politically weak and occasionally incapacitated, which prevented him from ruling effectively. His failure to control his nobility, combined with the loss of England's French territories during the latter years of the Hundred Years' War had seen the political situation in England deteriorate into what the scholar David Loades has called a "chaos of factional quarrels".Шаблон:Sfn Civil war (known to historians as the Wars of the Roses) broke out in 1455. By 1461 a number of battles had been fought between nobles loyal to the Lancastrian King and those of the Yorkists, led by Richard, Duke of York, who had claimed the throne in 1460.Шаблон:Sfn

These engagements became increasingly bloody, comments the author Robin Neillands, "either in the actual battle or the subsequent rout".Шаблон:Sfn At the Battle of Wakefield in December 1460 Clifford's father supposedly encountered York's second son Edmund, Earl of Rutland, on Wakefield Bridge, as the latter was attempting to flee the destruction of his father's army. John, Lord Clifford, crying "by God's blood, thy father slew mine and so shall I slay thee", stabbed Rutland to death.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Lord Clifford himself died on 28 March the following year during another clash at Ferrybridge, North Yorkshire. Tradition states that he was killed by a headless arrow to the throat and buried, along with those who died with him, in a common burial pit.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn

The next day, the bulk of the Yorkist and Lancastrian armies faced each other at the Battle of Towton. After what is believed to be the biggest and possibly bloodiest battle ever to take place on English soil,Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn the Lancastrians were routed, and the son of the Duke of York was crowned [[Edward IV of England|King EdwardШаблон:NbsIV]].Шаблон:Sfn On 4Шаблон:NbsNovember 1461, at Edward's first parliament, the dead Lord Clifford was attainted and his estates and barony forfeited to the Crown.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn The bulk of the Clifford lands were granted to Richard, Earl of Warwick,Шаблон:Sfn while Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Sir William Stanley received the Lordship of Westmorland and the Barony of Skipton respectively.Шаблон:Sfn The latter included the Clifford caput baroniae, Skipton Castle.Шаблон:Sfn

Family and early life

Henry Clifford was born around 1454,Шаблон:Sfn the eldest son and heir of John Clifford and Margaret Bromflete.Шаблон:Sfn In the view of the medievalist A. G. Dickens, Margaret, as sole heiress to her father Henry, brought Clifford's father a "questionable claim" to the title Lord Vescy. She also brought Clifford extensive lands in the East Riding.Шаблон:Sfn

"Shepherd Lord"

Portrait of Anne Clifford

Lady Anne Clifford, suo jure 14th Baroness Clifford, who wrote the first history of her family

Popular belief later held that as a boy of seven, Clifford was spirited away from his home in Skipton Castle following his father's death. For his own protection, so it went, his mother sent him to live in Londesborough on the property of a trusted family nurse where he employed himself tending the family's sheep. Whenever his mother believed him likely to be discovered he would be moved. Precisely where to is unknown, but both Yorkshire and Cumberland are possible; in the latter case, for example, Clifford's father-in-law held estates in Threlkeld.Шаблон:Sfn This supposedly gave Clifford the soubriquet "shepherd lord".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn The story seems to have originated with the 16th-century antiquarian Edward Hall and been reiterated by Lady Anne Clifford, in her 17th-century family history. The early modern historian Jessica Malay, argues that "with EdwardШаблон:NbsIV on the throne (elder brother of the Earl of Rutland) and the Clifford hereditary lands forfeit, the Clifford dynasty was threatened with extinction".Шаблон:Sfn Lady Anne was, she says, "keen to emphasise the role of women in the survival of the Clifford dynasty", and as such created a "dramatic narrative" in which Margaret deliberately defies the crown for the sake of her dead husband's heir. Anne clearly believed that King Edward sought revenge for the murder of his younger brother, which put young Clifford's life in danger.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Malay suggests that, while Anne Clifford believed the story of the shepherd's family taking her ancestor in, modern historians generally discount it as folklore, to greater or lesser degrees.Шаблон:Sfn It has received some traction; the 19th-century genealogist George Edward Cokayne accepted the story of Clifford's being "(for security against the disfavour with which his family was viewed by the reigning house) concealed by his mother" and raised as a shepherd,Шаблон:Sfn as did the antiquarian J. W. Clay in a 1905 article for the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.Шаблон:Sfn The scholar R. T. Spence also repeated the story in his 1959 University of London PhD thesis on the later Cliffords (writing that Clifford was "brought up as a Shepherd boy to escape the fate of his father's victim").Шаблон:Sfn Three years later Dickens (in his edition of the Clifford Papers) described how Clifford "aged about seven, lay in real danger and was brought up first as a shepherd".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn

The topographer Thomas Dunham Whitaker expressed doubt as to the 'shepherd lord' story's veracity in 1821.Шаблон:Sfn More recently, the historian K. B. McFarlane has gone further, arguing that it was probably "apocryphal",Шаблон:Sfn and J. R. Lander calls it "very dubious indeed".Шаблон:Sfn James Ross has pointed out that Clifford was pardoned by EdwardШаблон:NbsIV in 1472 and could hardly have been in danger from the King thereafter. Further, he notes, as early as 1466Шаблон:Sfn Clifford was named publicly as receiving a bequest of a sword and a silver bowl by Henry Harlington of Craven.Шаблон:Sfn This argues that the young lord could not have been difficult to find, comments Ross. He also, though, suggests that Clifford may well have kept a low profile after Towton, if only temporarily: "it may not have been with a shepherd, but surely Clifford was in hiding in secret somewhere".Шаблон:Sfn Malay also suggests that "in all likelihood, he spent only a few years in rural retreat" in Cumberland.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford's biographer Henry Summerson, writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, also refutes the theory, "later stories to the contrary notwithstanding, that the seven-year-old Henry Clifford was ever pursued by vengeful Yorkists". Summerson notes, for example, that Hall wrote that Clifford—due to his upbringing by remote shepherds—was illiterate. In reality, says Summerson, Clifford "was later to be not just literate but even bookish, owning volumes on law and medicine". Summerson agrees that "it may be that the Clifford heir thought it prudent to keep a low profile" in the early years of the new regime.Шаблон:Sfn While the medievalist Vivienne Rock subscribes to the theory that Clifford grew up ill-educated, she agrees that in later life "he did become an able administrator for his substantial estates".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn

Inheritance and estates

Ross described the Clifford estates—centred on Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham and Yorkshire—as "valuable and strategically important in the troubled north".Шаблон:Sfn The 9th Baron had never, though, been as wealthy as some of the neighbouring families, such as the Darcys.Шаблон:Sfn His 1461 attainder prevented his son from inheriting, but in 1470 King Edward was forced from the throne and into exile, and [[Readeption of Henry VI|HenryШаблон:NbsVI was returned]] to the throne.Шаблон:Sfn The Earl of Warwick—now aligned with the House of Lancaster against Edward—was in charge of the government,Шаблон:Sfn and his brother, John, Marquess Montagu, was granted the Henry Clifford's wardship during his minority.Шаблон:Sfn Summerson posits that this was a chance for Clifford to regain his inheritance.Шаблон:Sfn There was probably insufficient time to press his claim, however, as both Nevilles were killed at the Battle of Barnet on 14 April the following year.Шаблон:Sfn EdwardШаблон:NbsIV's victory at Barnet, and at the Battle of Tewkesbury a few weeks later, destroyed the remnants of Lancastrian resistance and returned Edward to the throne. Despite Clifford's Lancastrian connections, he seems never to have been in any danger at this time, as on 16 March 1472 Edward granted him a royal pardon.Шаблон:Sfn This was despite an attempt by Clifford's brother Thomas to raise an—albeit unsuccessful—pro-Lancastrian rebellion in Hartlepool.Шаблон:Sfn Henry Clifford was duly allowed to inherit the estates of his maternal grandfather, Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy—who had died in 1469—but not yet his Clifford patrimony.Шаблон:Sfn Further, as his mother was still alive, a third of his inheritance—her dower Шаблон:Refn—remained out of his control until her death in 1493.Шаблон:Sfn

Accession of Henry VII

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Edward IV died in April 1483 and his son [[Edward V of England|EdwardШаблон:NbsV]] was intended to succeed to the throne. However, he and his brother were declared illegitimate by their uncle, Richard of Gloucester, who took the throne himself as RichardШаблон:NbsIII. Richard's reign was brief; in 1485 the heir of Lancaster, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond invaded England and defeated Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485.Шаблон:Sfn Nothing is known of Clifford's career between his pardon in 1472 and the end of the Yorkist regime,Шаблон:Sfn except that he had remained in the country.Шаблон:Sfn Michael Hicks has suggested that his presence in the north, even though still attainted, made Gloucester's hold on the Clifford lands more fragile than was comfortable for the Duke: "no doubt Gloucester himself could keep what he had, but could his heirs?"Шаблон:Sfn Clifford had been one of a number of stalwartШаблон:Sfn Lancastrian lords excluded from local power in the region during Gloucester's hegemony, first as Duke and then King.Шаблон:Sfn

Henry Tudor took the throne as HenryШаблон:NbsVII and from that point Clifford's position swiftly, and radically, improved.Шаблон:Sfn He received a number of local offices and sat on commissions in Westmorland and Yorkshire,Шаблон:Sfn although he was not to be appointed justice of the peace in the West Riding, until 1497.Шаблон:Sfn Following Bosworth, the new King's biggest priority was securing the north, where it was suspected that the Earls of Northumberland and of Westmorland were planning an insurrection. On 18 AugustШаблон:Sfn Clifford was commissioned to raise a force to crush dissent in the region. He sent the earls to London under arrest and received into the King's grace those who wished to make peace with the new regime ("for all", notes A. J. Pollard, "but a number of named men").Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn On 24 October 1486, Clifford wrote to the city of York (at the time, the capital of the north) warning them not to sell arms or armour to non-residents.Шаблон:Sfn

Clifford was present at King Henry's first parliament on 15 September 1485,Шаблон:Sfn at which time he was legally still attainted.Шаблон:Sfn He attended every parliament until 23 November 1514, being summoned as Henrico Clifford de Clifford ch'r.Шаблон:Sfn During his first parliament Clifford successfully petitioned for the overturning of his father's attainder, which restored Clifford's patrimony to him.Шаблон:Sfn He was knighted on 9Шаблон:NbsNovember 1485.Шаблон:Sfn

Career in the north

Clifford made a natural ally for King Henry, and soon became one of his most trusted men in the north.Шаблон:Sfn Summerson suggests that Henry had little choice in restoring Clifford to his traditional regional position, as Northern England had been firmly Yorkist for over 20 years, first under the Nevilles and then under Gloucester. The latter had made Yorkshire his power base.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford, already loyal to Lancaster and then Tudor, was an obvious choice to act as the King's man, and Henry gradually increased Clifford's power. On 2Шаблон:NbsMay 1486Шаблон:Sfn Clifford received the stewardship of the Lordship of Middleham and bailiwick of the Honour of Richmond.Шаблон:Sfn The former had been one of Richard of Gloucester's most important headquarters.Шаблон:Sfn After Richard took the throne, he granted it to Sir John Conyers,Шаблон:Sfn one of Gloucester's closest advisers;Шаблон:Sfn both Middleham and Richmond had been Neville strongholds before that.Шаблон:Sfn Conyers seems to have been placed in Clifford's custody around this time, although relations between the two men seem to have improved: Clifford later jointly shared in a £1,000 bond to the King for Conyers's good behaviour.Шаблон:Sfn In October 1486 Clifford sat on a commission to "levy for the King, all profits arising from the King's manors and lands in the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, the lordship of Penrith and the forest of Inglewood" in expectation of an invasion by Scotland.Шаблон:Sfn

The city of York jealously guarded its liberties, and traditionally rejected all interference from the outside unless it was perceived as absolutely warranted.Шаблон:Sfn This resistance troubled Clifford throughout his career. During the Yorkist rebellion of 1487, which attempted to place Lambert Simnel on the throne (as a pretender for EdwardШаблон:NbsIV's second son, Richard of Shrewsbury) Clifford was responsible for guarding the city. He reinforced the garrison with 200 of his men at arms;Шаблон:Sfn when the rebel army passed close by, Clifford followed it to Braham.Шаблон:Refn He attempted to engage it on 10 June, but was beaten off.Шаблон:Sfn He camped in Tadcaster overnight,Шаблон:Sfn where word was brought to him that a small force of rebels, led by Lords Scrope of Masham and of Bolton Шаблон:Sfn had launched an assault on Bootham Bar. This forced Clifford to withdraw back to York and face the rebelsШаблон:Sfn on 13 June.Шаблон:Sfn The subsequent encounter was not an unqualified success, notes Summerson; Clifford was defeated in a scuffle outside the gates, and lost all his baggage.Шаблон:Sfn The military historian Philip A. Haigh writes that Clifford was "utterly disgraced" and R. W. Hoyle describes his efforts as a "fiasco".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn The city scribes "laconically recorded the disastrous outcome", writes Anthony Goodman, and emphasised how the King's man in the north "had signally failed" to contain the rising.Шаблон:Sfn

Meanwhile, the King's army under John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, had won a decisive victory over the rebels at the Battle of Stoke 16 June 1487.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford was again given responsibility for the safety of York,Шаблон:Sfn and he claimed "captenship" over the city, an assertion the city rejected.Шаблон:Sfn In 1488 Clifford and Lady Anne both joined the city's Corpus Christi Guild. This does not seem to have restored Clifford in the eyes of the city officialdom, as the following year they again refused him entry, claiming that his intentions threatened the city's liberties. This may well have been prescient, suggests Summerson, as in 1513 Clifford attempted to claim the city's troops for his own army.Шаблон:Sfn In 1489 the townspeople, "denyed the entrie of the Lords Clifford and othre, that in nowise noon othre gentilman of what degreor condiconhe he of be suffred to enter this the Kyngs Chaumbre and so all to be excludet and noon to have reule bot the Maiour, Aldermen and the Shireffs".Шаблон:Sfn The city's statement came just before rebellion again broke out in Yorkshire, this time against heavy taxes. The commons overran the city and refused to allow Clifford or the sheriff, Marmaduke Constable entry. Instead, the citizens not only allowed the rebels to enter, they provided them a degree of military assistance.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn The medievalist David Grummitt comments that the city's reluctance to allow Clifford either office or military assistance is in stark contrast to the fervour with which they served "our ful gode and gracious lorde the duc of Gloucestre" as both Duke and King.Шаблон:Sfn

Clifford was in London in 1494 when he and the King's second son, Prince Henry,Шаблон:Sfn among others, were made Knights of the Bath.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford spent much of the remainder of the decade on service in the north. Although he never held office on the border,Шаблон:Sfn he led a major campaign in 1497,Шаблон:Sfn besieging and capturing Norham Castle from the Scots.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford was probably a member of the Council of the North around the turn of the century. This body was under the nominal leadership of Prince Arthur and managed by the Archbishop of York, Thomas Savage.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Clifford's lordship of the north, posits Summerson, was reciprocal: Henry extended royal power in the region by strengthening Clifford, and likewise, Clifford strengthened and augmented his own position through royal service.Шаблон:Sfn

Patronage, alliances and local relations

Colour photograph of Skipton Castle as seen in 2014

Skipton Castle, the traditional seat of the Clifford family, in 2014

Clifford, although a figure of political and social influence, only ever had regional interests.Шаблон:Sfn His approach to his estates was generally positive, suggests Summerson. Clifford regularly travelled between Westmorland and Yorkshire (visiting manors "where no Clifford had been seen for a quarter of a century") and took the opportunity to rebuild and repair castles and other properties as he did. These he funded with traditional feudal dues, such as offices, wardships and marriages that were within his purview. His determined augmentation of his estates occasionally led to summonses before the royal council for enclosing land.Шаблон:Sfn Conversely, Clifford attempted to build good relations with his tenants and neighbours through financial generosity and hospitality, such as in 1521, when he held a "great Christmas" at Brough Castle.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn

On occasion, Clifford made the enmity of his neighbours as a direct result of his royal service. For example, it was often to the Crown's advantage that, where possible, it influenced civic elections in favour of royal candidates. A particularly important such office was that of the city recorder. In the early years of Henry's reign the administration of York, as the capital of the north, keenly interested the King. Its regional position, combined with a history of Yorkist loyalism, made it, the scholar James Lee suggests, a "touchstone for loyalty to Henry".Шаблон:Sfn The King attempted to impose his own man, but the city council disagreed. Clifford then attempted to intercede for the King, but to no avail, and in the end, a compromise candidate, John Vavasour, was elected.Шаблон:Sfn Summerson notes that Clifford's attempts to insert himself into local politics were "not always well-received". Summerson highlights Clifford's declaration in 1486 to the Mayor and Common Council that he intended "to mynistre as myn auncistres haith done here to fore in all thinges that accordith to my dewtie". In response, York's officials "firmly" informed Clifford that he had no such duty as his ancestors had never wielded such authority.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford also attempted, unsuccessfully, to influence the civic celebrations the city organised for the King's first visit to York later the same year. He wished, says Lee, to show the King the degree to which he was in control now that he had been returned to his family's traditional position; he was told by Vavasour that the city would do as it saw fit.

2017 colour photograph of Brougham Castle

Brougham Castle became one of Clifford's favoured residences.

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In 1487 the Earl of Oxford had been granted the wardship and marriageШаблон:Sfn of the 17-year-oldШаблон:Sfn Elizabeth Greystoke, granddaughter and sole heiress of Ralph, Baron Greystoke. Oxford soon sold the rights (worth nearly £300 per annum) to Clifford. Within a short time, though, Elizabeth was taken from Clifford's custody ("without leave asking, and not without peril to his person"Шаблон:Sfn) by Thomas, Lord Dacre.Шаблон:Sfn By 1491, relations between the two men had deteriorated to the extent that the King personally prosecuted them both in the Star Chamber for rioting; they were each fined £20.Шаблон:Sfn King Henry was more likely to have been concerned, in cases such as these, with bending his tenants-in-chief to his political will than the revenue these forfeits added to his Exchequer.Шаблон:Sfn Hicks has suggested that this behaviour made Clifford less trustworthy in Henry's eyes as a crown agent.Шаблон:Sfn In 1496 the Captain of Carlisle, Henry Wyatt, wrote to the KingШаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn expressing, as Agnes Conway calls it, his "poor opinion" of Clifford. Wyatt considered Clifford's wife, Lady Anne St John, to be a more able administrator than her husband, whom he considered inefficient, and told the King so plainly.Шаблон:Sfn

Clifford's success at improving his finances eventually placed him in the top third of the English nobility and enabled him to successfully create new connections and strengthen existing ones. This he achieved through both marriage alliances with, and retaining among, the local gentry.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Clifford was also a major patron to local abbeys, monasteries and priories. To Bolton Priory,Шаблон:Sfn for example, he donated a manuscript now known as A Treatise of Natural Philosophy in Old French.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Other houses included Gisborough, Mount Grace and Shap; Mount Grace was particularly favoured.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Clifford was a regular correspondent with the heads of other houses, including Byland, Carlisle, Furness, Holmcultram and St. Mary's, York.Шаблон:Sfn His extensive patronage did not always bring him success in his political negotiations with them. In 1518, for example, the Dean of York, Brian Higton wrote to Clifford explaining why he had refused to accept Clifford's favoured nominee as parish priest of Conisbrough Church:Шаблон:Blockquote

Later years

In the later years of the 15th century, Clifford was frequently the target of the King's displeasure. He often failed to act as the stabilising force in the north that Henry had intended.Шаблон:Sfn A feud with Christopher Moresby, an important member of the local gentry, had started in the 1470sШаблон:Sfn and continued well into Henry's reign.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Another time, Clifford led local resistance to a royal tax. In retaliation, Henry challenged Clifford's hereditary right to the shrievalty of Westmorland with quo warranto proceedings in 1505. Clifford's goods were sequestered until he could show by what authority he held the office, and he also had to provide a number of large obligations for his good behaviour. These included a £1,000 bond in May that year, £200 if he departed the council without permissionШаблон:Sfn and £2,000 on condition that he, his servants, tenants and "part-takers"Шаблон:Sfn kept the peace with Roger Tempest. Clifford had an ongoing feudШаблон:Sfn with Tempest and had attacked and pulled down Tempest's house in Broughton.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn Although Clifford's shrieval rights were in the event upheld,Шаблон:Sfn the case took over a year to be decided, during which time the profits of the office went to the King. On 14 June 1506 Edmund Dudley delivered Clifford his general pardon. By this time Clifford had paid another £100 in cash ("redie money") to the King and had been pressured for £120 more.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn

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Panoramic view of Mount Grace Priory, much patronised by Clifford, as seen in 2013

King Henry died on 21 April 1509, and Clifford attended his funeral in Westminster.Шаблон:Sfn He stayed to attend the coronation of King HenryШаблон:NbsVIII on 23 June, when he was made a knight banneret.Шаблон:Sfn Shortly after, Dudley—by then imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of constructive treason—petitioned HenryШаблон:NbsVIII over what he believed were grave injustices carried out by the King's father against members of his nobility, including Clifford.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn The period Clifford spent in the south was one of the few occasions in Clifford's life where he spent a lengthy period away from his northern heartlands. According to Cokayne—possibly citing an unnamed contemporary—Clifford "seldom 'came to court, or London'", spending much of his time in Barden Tower, Bolton,Шаблон:Sfn from where most of his extant charters and letters are signed.Шаблон:Sfn

War with Scotland and France

Victorian depiction of the battle of Flodden

The Battle of Flodden as envisaged by a Victorian engraver

War with Scotland broke out again in 1513 when the Scottish King, [[James IV, King of Scots|JamesШаблон:NbsIV]], declared war on England. James intended to honour the Auld Alliance with France by diverting HenryШаблон:NbsVIII's English troops from their campaign against the French, against whom England was a member of the Catholic League in the War of the League of Cambrai, supporting the Pope. HenryШаблон:NbsVIII had also opened old wounds by claiming to be the overlord of Scotland, further angering the Scots.Шаблон:Sfn The first—and as it turned out, the only—engagement of the Scottish campaign was fought at Flodden on 9Шаблон:NbsSeptember.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford brought 207 archers and 116 billmen from Yorkshire under his banner of the Red Wyvern Шаблон:Sfn and commanded the vanguard.Шаблон:Sfn King James was killed in battle, and Clifford captured three Scottish cannons which he took to "decorate" Skipton Castle; the contemporary Ballad of Flodden Field refers to "Lord Clifford with his clapping guns".Шаблон:Sfn

In 1521, the Emperor Charles V resumed war with [[Francis I of France|FrancisШаблон:NbsI]]. King Henry offered to mediate, but this achieved little and by the end of the year England and the Empire were aligned together against France.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford provided 1,000 marks Шаблон:Refn towards funding the campaign,Шаблон:Sfn one of the highest sums the crown received.Шаблон:Sfn

Personal life

Marriages, children and family problems

Clifford is known to have married twice. Possibly at the end of 1486Шаблон:Sfn—and certainly by 1493Шаблон:Sfn—he had wed Anne St. John of Bletsoe Castle.Шаблон:Refn She was the daughter of Sir John St John and Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshaigh of Haigh.Шаблон:Sfn Anne's grandmother was Margaret Beauchamp, the mother of Margaret Beaufort, making Anne half-cousin to King HenryШаблон:NbsVII.Шаблон:Sfn It is probable that the King and his mother had a hand in arranging Anne's marriage to Clifford.Шаблон:Sfn Their relationship does not seem to have been peaceful, and this probably exacerbated the King's disfavour of Clifford.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford's marriage problems were in part due to his conspicuous infidelity, which caused sufficient tension between him and Anne that their separation was suggested.Шаблон:Sfn Anne's chaplain began negotiating this with the King and Lady Margaret Beaufort, who went as far as to offer Anne and her daughters a position in Margaret's householdШаблон:Sfn expressing the wish that Anne "shall come up and attend upon my Lady".Шаблон:Sfn In the event, the crisis passed and Clifford and Anne stayed together until her death in 1508.Шаблон:Sfn She was buried in Skipton Church.Шаблон:Sfn

By July 1511,Шаблон:Sfn Clifford had married Florence Pudsey, widow of Thomas Talbot. She was the daughter of Henry Pudsey of Berforth and Margaret Conyers, daughter of Christopher Conyers of Hornby.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford and Lady Florence were enjoined to the confraternity of Guisborough Abbey.Шаблон:Sfn Their marriage, too, was fraught with difficulties, and Florence sued her husband in York consistory court for the restitution of conjugal rights. In doing so, suggest the scholars Tim Thornton and Katherine Carlton, "she did not perhaps expect her own conduct to be brought into question".Шаблон:Sfn Clifford, though, in his turn, accused her of adultery with a member of his household,Шаблон:Sfn one Roger Wharton. Wharton, under examination in court, confessed that "I will never denye ffor a man may be in bedd with a woman and yett do noo hurte". Thornton and Carlton continue, "in one simple statement, Wharton shed light upon the sexual mores of the Clifford household".Шаблон:Sfn Wharton also accused Clifford of having an extra-marital relationship with one Jane Browne, also of his household.Шаблон:Sfn

Clifford had several illegitimate children by a number of mistresses,Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn including two sons, Thomas and Anthony.Шаблон:Sfn They both later received positions within the family, Thomas becoming deputy-governor of Carlisle Castle in 1537,Шаблон:Sfn and Anthony being appointed steward of Cowling, Grassington and Sutton. Both were also made master foresters of Craven.Шаблон:Sfn Thomas and Anthony may have been illegitimate, but Clifford considered them men of "substance, education and experience [and] gentlemen", and provided for them in his will.Шаблон:Sfn

From his first marriage to Anne, he left two sons,Шаблон:Sfn his heir Henry, and Thomas.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn With Anne, he also had four daughters,Шаблон:Sfn and by Florence, another daughter.Шаблон:Sfn A number of these married into the Bowes family of Streatlam, Co. Durham.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Clifford's heir and namesake was born around 1493, and was raised at court with the King's son, the future HenryШаблон:NbsVIII.Шаблон:Refn The relationship between father and son appears to have been as turbulent as that between Clifford and his wives, with a relationship "strained to breaking point", suggests Dickens.Шаблон:Sfn In 1511, Clifford complained that young Henry was both wild and a wastrel, who dressed flamboyantly in cloth of gold, "more lyk a duke than a pore baron's sonne as hee is".Шаблон:Sfn He protested about "the ungodly and ungudely disposition of my son Henrie Clifforde, in such wise as yt was abominable to heare it".Шаблон:Sfn Among his complaints was that Henry had threatened Clifford's servants and disobeyed his father. Clifford also alleged that his son had assaulted Clifford's old servant Henry Popely, had damaged and stolen Clifford's possessions and had sought to retain important men from Clifford's "countree" for himself. He had also harmed Clifford's close relations with local religious institutions, said Clifford, by stealing tithes and beating their tenants and servants.Шаблон:Refn The King, meanwhile, had ordered Clifford to pay £40 to his son towards his upkeep at court, which Clifford had done. Clifford had urged his son "to forsake the dangerous counsels of certain evilly-disposed young gentlemen".Шаблон:Sfn Clifford's exhortations were not wholly successful, as on at least one occasion his son was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison.Шаблон:Sfn

Summerson suggests that Clifford was to a degree culpable for his son's behaviour, considering that if he "had ideas above his station, the responsibility was largely his father's, who not only placed him at court but also set about marrying him into the high aristocracy".Шаблон:Sfn It is also probable, suggests Dickens, that Clifford's own frugality towards his son's expenses encouraged his heir's behaviour,Шаблон:Sfn perhaps combined with irritation at his father's longevity.Шаблон:Sfn Furthermore, Dickens asserts, young Henry's sojourn at court forced a great distance between him and his father, which prevented him from learning at first-hand the responsibilities he would at some point be expected to take up in the north. Young Henry also appears to have fallen out with his stepmother Florence.Шаблон:Sfn It was intended that he marry Margaret, daughter of George, Earl of Shrewsbury, but she died before the betrothal. In 1512 young Henry married Margaret Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland,Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Refn which further augmented the Clifford family's wealth and influence in the northeast.Шаблон:Sfn

Personality and interests

A colour photograph of the ruins of Barden Tower

The remains of Barden Tower in 2008

Historians have speculated on Clifford's personality. Summerson, for example, suggests that Clifford was often an abrasive individual, particularly to his tenants and regularly caused the very kind of social disorder that he was expected to suppress.Шаблон:Sfn Ross has speculated that Clifford's early years, particularly "the impact of TowtonШаблон:Nbs... must have been profoundly shocking and traumatic",Шаблон:Sfn while Goodman has suggested that Clifford's solo attack on the 1487 rebels at Brougham indicates a chivalrous streak, as personal bravery was a highly prized quality.Шаблон:Sfn Micheal K. Jones and Malcolm G. Underwood have described Clifford as "eccentric", possibly on account of his upbringing.Шаблон:Sfn

Clifford is known to have had an interest in astrology, astronomy and alchemy.Шаблон:Sfn A major eclipse crossed England in 1502, for which occasion Clifford is supposed to have built Barden Tower as an observatory. The astronomer S. J. Johnson has speculated that it was his witnessing the eclipse that sparked Clifford's interest in the subject, "in which he did greatly delight".Шаблон:Sfn It is likely that Clifford's obsession with the skies—which led him to spend most of his time as a recluse in Barden Tower—was the cause of his wife's consistory suit for her conjugal rights.Шаблон:Sfn In Barden, says Jones and Underwood, Clifford led a "strange, reclusive existence".Шаблон:Sfn

Clifford had religious interests also and in 1515 spent a large sum on a new chapel, which was intended to be as extravagant as possible.Шаблон:Sfn

Death

By September 1522 Clifford was described as "feebled with sickness".Шаблон:Sfn The Scottish war was ongoing, and it had been planned that Clifford would again lead an army; in the event, he was too ill to do so, and his son took his place.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford died on 23 April 1523. His widow, Florence, later remarried to Richard Grey, son of Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset;Шаблон:Sfn she died in 1558.Шаблон:Sfn Clifford was buried in either Bolton Priory or that of Shap.Шаблон:Sfn Following his death, inquisition post mortems assessed his annual income at £1332 2s. 4d,Шаблон:Sfn and Lady Anne Clifford later reported him rich "in money, chattells, goods and great stocks of land".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn His son Henry—no longer a minor—gained livery of his patrimony on 18 July 1523.Шаблон:Sfn He was summoned two years later to parliament and created Earl of Cumberland.Шаблон:Sfn The elevation of the Clifford family to the upper peerage, suggests Summerson, "owed much to Henry Clifford [the elder]'s labours to revive the fortunes of his family".Шаблон:Sfn Spence explains Clifford's wealth as resulting from "the prudence and economy of a lifetime's residence on his estates",Шаблон:Sfn combined with abstinence of court and its expense, except when made unavoidable by summonses to parliament.Шаблон:Sfn Spence also notes, though, that the first Earl was to go on to both waste and neglect his estates in favour of extravagant court living.Шаблон:Sfn

Cultural depictions

The Romantic poet William Wordsworth wrote two pieces—Song at the Feast at Brougham Castle and White Doe of Rylstone—romanticising Clifford's career.Шаблон:Sfn The White Doe, written between 1806 and 1807Шаблон:Sfn describes Clifford as being "most happy in the shy recess / of Barden's lowly quietness".Шаблон:Sfn Wordsworth depicts various aspects of Clifford's life: the loss of his estates in 1461, his rustic upbringing—and the role his father-in-law, Sir Lancelot Threlkeld played—his post-Bosworth revival and his castle building. Wordsworth also imagines the Christmas celebration at Brough Castle "and the peculiarly Wordsworthian results" of Clifford's early life. The poem, suggests the scholar Curtis Bradford, indicates that Wordsworth "was not entirely uninterested in the antiquarian romanticism so characteristic of his time".Шаблон:Sfn Charlotte Mary Yonge compares Clifford in his shepherd hut to the roaming of the deposed King HenryШаблон:NbsVI—now supposedly a hermit—around the north, and casts them together: "both are in hiding: each is content with his lot. The boy does not dream that the hermit is really a king. That he is a man of God is clear, and young Clifford loves him, for his goodness, and most willingly places himself under Henry's tutelage".Шаблон:Sfn

The life and career of Henry Clifford was fictionalised by Isaac Albéniz and Francis Money-Coutts—the former writing the music, the latter the libretto—in their opera Henry Clifford, which premiered in 1895.Шаблон:Sfn

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