RADCLIFFE FAMILY
I. SUSSEX LINE
Born: 1020 / 1040, Anjou or Normandy, France
Notes: Known as "Baron of Kendal", brother of the Earl of Anjou. Went to England in 1066. his wife Lucia was the daughter of Earl Aelfgar, who was the son of Godifu "Lady Godiva".
Father: Ferreol De GATINAISMother: Ermengarde Comtesse d'Anjou
Married: Lucia MALET (dau. of Earl Aelfgar and grandau. of Gruffydd, King of Wales)
Children:
1. Lucia De TAILBOIS (C. Chester)
2. Nicholas FITZGILBERT
4. Adeliza De TAILBOISMarried 2: Judith De LENS (Countess of Boulogne) (b. ABT 1054 - d. AFT 1086) (dau. of Lambert de Boulogne, Comte de Lens, and Adeliza of Normandy) (w. of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton)
Children:Lucia De TAILBOIS (C. Chester)
Born: ABT 1070, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Died: ABT 1136Father: Ivo De TAILBOIS/TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Lucia MALET
Married: Ranulphe De BRIQUESSART (Comte De Chester) (b. ABT 1070 - d. Jan 1128/9) (son of Ranulf de Meschines, E. Chester, and Maud d´Avranches)Children:
1. Alice (Adeliza) De MESCHINES (b. ABT 1094 - d. 1128) (m. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare)2. Ranulph De MESCHINES (E. Chester) (b. 1099 - d. 16 Dec 1153) (m. Maud Fitzrobert)
3. William De MESCHINES (b. ABT 1100 - d. ABT 1132) (m. Cecily De Rumilly)
Born: ABT 1065
Father: Ivo De TAILBOIS/TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Lucia MALET
Married: Hugh De BEAUCHAMP (b. ABT 1060) (son of Robert De Beauchamp)
Children:1. Walter De BEAUCHAMP (b. ABT 1080) (m. Emmeline De A`Bitot)
2. Payn De BEAUCHAMP (B. Bedford) (b. ABT 1112) (m. Rohese De Vere)
3. Simon De BEAUCHAMP (b. 1116 - d. 1137) (m. Isabella ?)
4. Adeline De BEAUCHAMP (b. 1124) (m. Walter L´Espec)
5. Robert De BEAUCHAMP (b. 1077) (m. Matilda De Taillebois)
Died: 1112
Father: Ivo De TAILBOIS/TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Lucia MALET
Married: Ribald De Bretagne (b. 1040) (son of Eudes de Penthièvre, Comte de Bretagne, and Agnes de Cornouaille)Children:
1. Ranulph FITZRIBALD (b. 1085 - d. 1168) (m. Agatha De Brus)Father: Ivo De TAILBOIS/TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Lucia MALET
Married: Ketel De TAILBOIS
Children:1. Gilbert De LANCASTER (4º B. Kendal)
Father: Ivo De TAILBOIS/TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Judith De LENS (Countess of Boulogne)Married: Margaret ?
Children:Father: William De TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Margaret ?Married: Margaret ?
Children:Father: William De HEPPLE
Mother: Margaret ?Married: Richard CHARTNEY (b. ABT 1190)
Children:1. Phillip CHARTNEY (b. ABT 1210)
Father: William De TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Margaret ?Married: Gilbert De LANCASTER 1103
Children:1. William De LANCASTER
2. Nicholas De RADCLYFFE
3. Christian De LANCASTER
4. Roger FITGILBERT
Born: 1045
Notes: known as "The Englishman". 2nd Baron of Kendal.
Father: Ivo De TAILBOIS/TAILLEBOIS
Mother: Lucia MALET
Married: Edgitha of Northumberland (dau. of Gofpatrick, Earl of Northumbria, and Aetheldreda, Princess of England) 1072, Mercia, England
Children:
2. Gilbert De FRUNESCO De TAILBOIS
Gilbert De FRUNESCO De TAILBOIS
Born: 1070
Father: Aelftred De TAILBOIS
Mother: Edgitha of Northumberland
Married: Goditha ?
Children:
1. Nicholas FITZ-GILBERT De TAILBOIS
Nicholas FITZ-GILBERT De TAILBOIS
Born: 1097 / 1100
Note: some records have Nicholas as being Ivo's son. A knight who was given the Manor of Radeclive from his lord, and may have built Radcliffe Tower, in the village of Radcliffe in Lancashire, England. Nicholas took the name "de Radcliffe" meaning of or from Radcliffe. Eventually the last name Tailbois was dropped and Radcliffe took its place in the family lineage.
Father: Gilbert De FRUNESCO De TAILBOIS
Mother: Goditha ?
Married: Dau. BOOTH
Children:
Father: Nicholas FITZ-GILBERT De TAILBOIS
Mother: Dau. BOOTH
Married: ¿?
Children:
Father: Simon De TAILBOIS
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
2. Peter RADCLIFFE of Pilsworth
Notes: thus conveyed into the possession of Radeclive manor was the manor of Church which was adjacent to Oswaldtwistle. In 1246, Adam disputed against Adam Radclyffe, son of William Radcliffe, the possession of a coal mine on land in Radeclive, part of the estate of himself and his brother Peter, the verdict was awarded against him.
Father: Alexander RADCLIFFE
Mother: ¿?
Married: Agnes De CHURCH (sister of Ughtred de Church)
Children:
2. Roger RADCLIFFE
3. Robert RADCLIFFE
Notes: assumed the name of de Church and inherited his mother’s lands.
Father: Adam RADCLIFFE
Mother: Agnes De CHURCH
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Adam De CHURCH
2. William De CHURCH
3. Christina De CHURCH
Notes: the Holts of Stubley descended from her marriage.
Father: Adam RADCLIFFE
Mother: Agnes De CHURCH
Married: Robert Del HOLT
Notes: had lands in Pilsworth, although this was never a manor, Peter assumed that name. In 1260, Robert de Hulton gave to William Radcliffe, son of Peter de Pilsworth, lands in Pilsworth for the yearly rent of two pair of white gloves.
Father: Alexander RADCLIFFE
Mother: ¿?
Married: Dau. HULTON
Children:
1. William RADCLIFFE of Pilsworth
Notes: was the heir of his father.
Father: Nicholas FITZ-GILBERT De TAILBOIS
Mother: Dau. BOOTH
Married: ¿?
Children:
Notes: gave lands to Burscough Priory in 1124. His son William died without children thus his portion of the patrimony went to heirs of Henry Radcliffe.
Father: Matthew De TAILBOIS
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. William RADCLIFFE
Born: 1112/26
Died: BEF 1190
Notes: REF YorkshireP. Living temp. Henry II (1154-1189).
Father: Nicholas FITZ-GILBERT De TAILBOIS
Mother: Dau. BOOTH
Married: Dau. BOOTH
Children:
2. Richard RADCLIFFE
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE
Mother: Dau. BOOTH
Married: Muriel BAMVILLE (dau. of Sir Thomas Bamville, Lord of Stourton)
Notes: from her marriage descended the famous Sir Bertine Entwistle of the Red Rose who fell at the Battle of St. Albans in 1455. The Entwistles held land in Redclyffe in 1544, presumable part of this lady's dowry.
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE
Mother: Dau. BOOTH
Married: Robert ENTWISTLE
Born: 1164 / 1189 / 1194
Died: 1211 / 1220
Notes: High Sheriff of Lancaster in 1194 by Richard the Lionhearted and was one of twelve trust knights of the shire. The Montbegons had vast holdings from the Conqueror and on the creation of the Honour of Lancaster by Henry I they were ceded further lands. In 1149, when Stephen temporarily resigned to the Earl of Chester his lands between Ribble and Mersey, the Montbegon holdings were exempt from the grant in a desire to retain the favor of this most powerful baron. Several years after the death of Lady Cecilia, William remarried to Eugenia, who was the daughter of Alexander, who was the son of Uvieth. In 1221, a year after William died, Eugenia sued William's son Adam Radcliffe, for her dower in a third part of Redclyffe, Edgeworth, and Little Lever including lands in Entwistle and Quarlton. Jordan De Quickenlos dispossessed Eugenia and held the estate until 1246 when she recovered it upon his failure to appear in answer to a suit since the boundaries of these lands had been subject to continuous dispute.
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE
Mother: Dau. BOOTH
Married 1: Cecilia De MONTBEGON
Children:
Married 2: Eugenia ?
Notes: from his father in law he received lands in Bury as well as holdings in Redclyffe under the will of his father.
Father: William RADCLIFFE
Mother: Cecilia De MONTBEGON
Married: Dau. BURY (dau. of Adam de Bury)
Notes: was given the manor of Hartshead by his father.
Father: William RADCLIFFE
Mother: Cecilia De MONTBEGON
Married 1: Margery PENNINGTON
Children:
1. Richard RADCLIFFE
2. William RADCLIFFE
Married 2: Eugenia ?
Born: 1188/1215
Died: 1250
Notes: REF YorkshireP. Living 31 Henry III, 1246. r. 1246, Radcliffe Tower, York, England. His wife was a relative, she was the daughter of Alan, who was a descendant of Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland, the Barons of Kendal, and the Lords of Lancaster. He was a member of the jury at Lancaster Assizes in 1248.
Father: William RADCLIFFE
Mother: Cecilia De MONTBEGON
Married: Dau. CURWEN
Children:
Notes: a priest. In 1247 became Chaplain of the Castle of Dublin by direct appointment of King Henry III. He kept the King’s regard during the next reign and in 1280 he attested a number of deeds at Westminster.
Father: Adam RADCLIFFE
Mother: Dau. CURWEN
Notes: made claims against Henry, son of Henry de Trafford, over lands in Harwood. In 1298, he was charged, along with several others, for the murder of Andrew de Tomiz but he was pardoned to stay in the King's service in the war of Scotland. He was later killed in a brawl by Peter, son of William le Bold of Redclyffe, who was imprisoned for the crime and eventually released by the King's orders.
Father: Adam RADCLIFFE
Mother: Dau. CURWEN
Born: 1215/1240
Died: 1290
Notes: heir of his father, succeeded to Oswaldtwistle, Hartshead, and Tottington in addition to the capital manor. The Tottington lands were later seized by Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, as part of the Montbegon fee when the Montbegon lands were alienated at death of Sir Robert de Montbegon.
Father: Adam RADCLIFFE
Mother: Dau. CURWEN
¿Married 1: Amabil De STAFFORD?
Married: Amabil De TRAFFORD (dau. of Sir Richard De Trafford)
Children:
Notes: was granted land in Bradshaw.
Father: Richard (Robert) RADCLIFFE
Mother: Amabil De TRAFFORD
Married: Dau. BRADSHAW (dau. of Sir Robert de Bradshaw of Harwood) ABT 1291
Notes: her first husband was a notable figure in the Scottish wars in which he served as Captain along with Margaret’s brother Richard Radcliffe. Her second marriage to Geoffrey de Chadderton was responsible for the Redclyffes of Chadderton.
Father: Richard (Robert) RADCLIFFE
Mother: Amabil De TRAFFORD
Married 1: Richard HULTON of Hulton Park (heir of David De Hulton)
Children:
1. Richard HULTON
Married 2: Geoffrey CHADDERTON ABT 1315
Children:
2. William CHADDERTON
Notes: in 1327, Sir John De La Warre granted 24 acres of land and wood called Harpurhey to Adam, with the remainder to his daughter Alice, the estate descended to the family of Hultons of Farnsworth.
Father: Richard (Robert) RADCLIFFE
Mother: Amabil De TRAFFORD
Married: Avice BIRCHWOOD (dau. of Hugh de Birchwood)
Children:
Notes: heiress.
Father: Adam RADCLIFFE
Mother: Avice BIRCHWOOD
Married: John HULTON (son of Henry De Hulton)
Born: 1240 / 1266 / 1276, Radcliffe Tower, York, England
Died: 1304 / 1326
Notes: REF YorkshireP. Living 4 Edward I, 1276 and 32 Edward I, 1304. He was a gallant soldier of the Scottish wars and was given many honors by King Edward I. Shortly after entering his inheritance, he recovered the lands of Tottington by a writ of novel disseizin. At a Privy Council held at Stirling on 12 Jul 1291, to Richard a grant was taken across the causeway of Blakesteynegge to be used to repair said causeway. Later Richard received the appointment of Seneschal and Minister of the King's Forests of Blackburnshire.
Father: Richard (Robert) RADCLIFFE
Mother: Amabil De TRAFFORD
Married: Margaret BUTLER
Children:
1. Richard RADCLIFFE (Monk) (d. 1324)
2. John RADCLIFFE of Ordsall (Sir)
3. William "The Great" RADCLIFFE
5. Adam RADCLIFFE (Monk) (d. 1331)
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret BUTLER
Married: Nicholas TOWNSHEND
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret BUTLER
Married: Adam TETLOW
Children:
1. Joan TETLOW (m. Richard De Langley of Agecroft)
Notes: became ruler of Bury Town when her husband was slain at Bury in 1315 by patisans of Adam de Banastre. She was known as 'Great Dame Margery, Lady of Bury'.
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret BUTLER
Married: Henry BURY
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret BUTLER
Married: Son HESCKET of Hesketh
Born: ABT 1280/1282, Radcliffe Tower, Lancashire, England
Died: 1333
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret BUTLER
Married: Margaret De CULCHETH (d. 1349) 1303
Children:
2. Adam RADCLIFFE
5. Agnes RADCLIFFE
6. Elizabeth RADCLIFFE
7. Margaret RADCLIFFE
8. John RADCLIFFE
9. Maud RADCLIFFE
Father: William "The Great" RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret De CULCHETH
Married: Henry WORSLEY
Children:
1. Geoffrey WORSLEY
Born: 1305 / BEF 1332, Radcliffe Tower, York, England
Died: AFT 1358 / 1375
Notes: REF YorkshireP. Living 6,9,14 Edward III, 1332, 1335, 1340. High Sheriff of Lancashire 29-32 Edward III, 1355-58.
Father: William "The Great" RADCLIFFE
Mother: Margaret De CULCHETH
Married 1: Anne De LEICESTER
Married 2: Isabella PLESSINGTON (d. 1368)
Children:
2. Christopher RADCLIFFE of Sabdenhey
4. Roger RADCLIFFE
5. Nicholas RADCLIFFE (Archdeacon of St. Alban's)
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Isabella PLESSINGTON
Married 1: Nicholas BOTELER of Rawcliffe
Married 2: John DALTON
Married 3: Robert URSWICK
Born: 1329/30, Radcliffe Tower, York, England
Died: 1386 / 1390
Notes: REF YorkshireP. High Sheriff of Lancaster, 32 Edward III, 1358. r. 1358, Radcliffe Tower, York, England
Father: Richard RADCLIFFE
Mother: Isabella PLESSINGTON
Married: Susan LEGH
Children:
2. Thomas RADCLIFFE
3. Robert RADCLIFFE
4. Isabel RADCLIFFE
Born: 1349 / 1355, probably Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Died: Saturday before the feast of St. Martin, winter 1409
Notes: REF YorkshireP. Son and heir 12 Richard II, 1388. r. 1388, Radcliffe Tower, York, Eng. Knighted in 1385. Rebuilt Radclyffe Tower and Radclyffe Church.
Father: William RADCLIFFE
Mother: Susan LEGH
Married: Joan TEMPEST (dau. of John Tempest and Margaret Holland)
Children:
2. John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
3. Henry RADCLIFFE of Farmesden (Sir)
4. Peter RADCLIFFE
5. William RADCLIFFE (d. 1430)
6. Roger RADCLIFFE (b. ABT 1405 - d. 1471)
Father: James RADCLIFFE (Esq.)
Mother: Joan TEMPEST
Married: John RADCLIFFEChildren:
Father: James RADCLIFFE (Esq.)
Mother: Joan TEMPEST
Married: Nicholas RUSHTON (Sir)Children:
1. Richard RUSHTON (m. Anne Talbot)
John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1413, probably Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Died: ABT 4 Mar 1440/1
Buried: Attleborough Church
Notes: Seneschal of Aquitaine. His descent of James Radcliffe; Esq., is not sure.
Father: James RADCLIFFE (Esq.)
Mother: Joan TEMPEST
married 1: Cecilia MORTIMER (dau. of Thomas Mortimer and Mary Parke) ABT 1411
Children:
1. Robert (John) RADCLIFFE (Sir)
3. Fynette RADCLIFFE
Married 2: Catherine BURNELL (b. BEF 1406 - d. 13 Oct 1452) (dau. of Edward Burnell and Alice Le Strange) (bethroated to John Talbot, 2° E. Shrewsbury) ABT Jun 1426/1430
Children:
Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Mother: Cecilia MORTIMER
Married: Anne FITZWALTER (dau. Walter FitzWalter, 7° B. FitzWalter and Elizabeth Chidiock)
Died: 1467
Buried: Attleborough Church
Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Mother: Cecilia MORTIMER
Married: Phillippa ?
Children:
1. John RADCLIFFE
2. Elizabeth RADCLIFFE
Notes: her daughter was Prioress of the Dominican Priory of Dartford for fifty years. In her time, between 20 Nov 1507, and 1 Nov 1508, was drawn up the rental of the priory, of which an incomplete manuscript still exists; it gives with great minuteness the situation, extent, and tenancy of the convent's lands in Kent and some of those in Norfolk, with the rents and services due, and shows the prioress to have been a careful administrator. She obtained several privileges from Henry VIII, and exchanged the four casks of wine granted by Edward III (which she had great difficulty in collecting) for an annuity of £16 put of the customs of London. Her letters to Lord Cromwell, written in 1535 and 1536 are still extant, as are financial records of the house, the seventh richest nunnery in England at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In about 1520, Elizabeth Cressener was authorized to take in widows of good repute as permanent guests at Dartford and to receive young ladies and give them “a suitable training”. The priory had not yet been surrendered when Elizabeth Cressener died and Joan Fane was elected to replace her. Joan sent Lord Cromwell a gift of £100 upon her election and granted her brother, Sir Ralph Fane, a lease of the manor of Shipborne for ninety-nine years at £5 a year, together with a number of privileges at the monastery. When the priory was dissolved in 1539, pensions were granted to the nuns. Joan Fane received 100 marks and a second Elizabeth Cressener, most likely a niece of the late prioress, received 106s. 8d. Of twenty-six sisters who received pensions, twenty were still alive and in receipt of their pensions in 1556. Under Queen Mary, seven of the Dartford nuns, with the second Elizabeth Cressener as prioress, established the conventual observance at King’s Langley. The Dominican sisters at Dartford had previously been “subject in spirituals” to the Friars Preacher of King’s Langley. In 1557, Dartford Priory was restored to them and they removed there on 8 Sep 1558. Only two months later, however, Queen Mary died. In 1559, the nuns were given a choice of taking the oath of supremacy or leaving within twenty-four hours. Two priests, the prioress, four choir-nuns, four lay sisters, and a young girl not yet professed joined with the nuns of Syon House and left England for Antwerp. There they lived on alms until 1566. In Jan 1573(5?), the sisters of Engelendael, near Bruges, were ordered to take the three surviving nuns from England into their monastery.
Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine BURNELL
Married: Alexander CRESSENER of Alphamstone (Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk) (b. ABT 1422 - d. 18 Jun 1498) (son of William Cressener and Margaret Neville, B. Scrope of Bolton)
Children:
1. Elizabeth CRESSENER (Priores of Dartford) (b. 1456 - d. Dec 1537)
Born: ABT 1440, Attleborough, Norfolkshire, England
Died: AFT 1484
Notes: Sheriff of Worcestershire. dsp.
Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine BURNELL
Married: Catherine NEVILLE
Died: 1493, Calais
Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine BURNELL
Married 1: Margaret WELLES BEF 8 May 1472
Married 2: Joan STANHOPE
Married 3: Catherine DRURY
Children:
Died: 25 May 1578, St Martins Palace, Norwich, County Norfolk, England
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (Sir)Mother: Catherine DRURY
Married: Roger WODEHOUSE (b. ABT 1497 - d. 1560) (son of Thomas Wodehouse and Thomasine Townshend) ABT 1503, Kimberley, Norfolk, EnglandChildren:
1. Amy WODEHOUSE (b. ABT 1503) (m. Ralph Shelton of Depenham)2. Thomas WODEHOUSE (b. 1510) (m. Margaret Shelton)
3. William WODEHOUSE (Sir) (b. 1515 - d. 22 Nov 1563) (m.1 Anne Reppes - m.2 Elizabeth Calthorpe)
4. Thomasine WODEHOUSE (b. ABT 1523) (m. Henry Gascoine)
5. Anne WODEHOUSE (m. Christopher Conningsby)
Born: ABT 1430
Died: 28 Mar 1461, Ferrybridge (in battle)
Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
Mother: Cecilia MORTIMER
Married: Elizabeth FITZWALTER (b. 28 Jul 1430, Henham - d. BEF 22 Aug 1485) (dau. Walter FitzWalter, 7° B. FitzWalter and Elizabeth Chidiock) (m.2 John Dynham, B. Dynham) BEF 27 Oct 1444
Children:
1. John RADCLIFFE (1º B. Fitzwalter)
John RADCLIFFE (1º B. Fitzwalter)
Born: 1 Jan 1451/2, probably Guildford, Surrey, England
Died: ABT 24 Nov 1495
Notes: beheaded at Calais, by Henry VII.
Father: Robert (John) RADCLIFFE (Sir)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZWALTER
Married 1: Margaret WHETEHILL (dau. of Richard Whetehill) ABT 6 Jul 1475
Children:
1. Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
3. Bridget RADCLIFFE
4. Ursula RADCLIFFE
5. Jane RADCLIFFE (Nun)
Married 2: Anne HASTINGS (C. Derby)
Born: ABT 1483, Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Died: BEF Apr 1512
Father: John RADCLIFFE (1º B. Fitzwalter)
Mother: Margaret WHETEHILL
Married: Edward DARRELL (b. ABT 1471 - d. 9 Mar 1528/9) (son of Sir George Darrell and Joan Hawte) (w. of Jane Croft - m.3 Alice Flye) BEF 12 Feb 1493, Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Father: John RADCLIFFE (1º B. Fitzwalter)
Mother: Margaret WHETEHILL
Married: Walter HOBART (Sir)
Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
Born: ABT 1483
Died: 27 Nov 1542, Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Buried: 4 Dec 1542, Boreham
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: John RADCLIFFE (1º B. Fitzwalter)
Mother: Margaret WHETEHILL
Married 1: Elizabeth STAFFORD (C. Sussex) 23 Jul 1505
Children:
1. Henry RADCLIFFE (2° E. Sussex)
Married 2: Margaret STANLEY (C. Sussex) BEF 1 Sep 1532
Children:
5. Son RADCLIFFE
Married 3: Mary ARUNDELL (C. Sussex/C. Arundel) 14 Jan 1536
Children:
7. Henry RADCLIFFE (b. Mar 1538 - d. young)
Died: 1539, Knockaloe-Moor, Isle of Man, England
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1º E. Sussex)
Mother: Elizabeth STAFFORD (C. Sussex)
Died: BEF 16 May 1532
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1º E. Sussex)
Mother: Elizabeth STAFFORD (C. Sussex)
Married: Catherine MARNEY ABT 1527
Born: ABT 1532
Died: 22 Jul 1552, Cowdray (childbed), Guildford/Peterborough, Surrey, England
Buried: 4 Aug 1552, Midhurst
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
Mother: Margaret STANLEY (C. Sussex)
Married: Anthony BROWNE (1º V. Montague)
Children:
2. Mary BROWNE (C. Southampton)
Died: 7 Jun 1561, New Hall
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
Mother: Margaret STANLEY (C. Sussex)
Married: Thomas WHARTON (2° B. Wharton) 10 Apr 1547, Wharton Hall, Westmorland, England
Children:
1. Phillip WHARTON (3° B. Wharton)
2. Mary WHARTON
3. Thomas WHARTON
4. Anne WHARTON
5. Mary WHARTON
Christened: 31 Dec 1539, St.Lawrences Pountney, London
Acceded: 22 Feb 1546
Died: 9 Nov 1568
Buried: 19 Nov 1568, St.Olave's, Hart Street
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
Mother: Mary ARUNDELL (C. Sussex/C. Arundel)
Henry RADCLIFFE (2° E. Sussex)
Born: ABT 1506/7
Acceded: 1542
Died: 17 Feb 1556/57, Canon Row, Westminster
Buried: 26 Feb 1556, Boreham
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
Mother: Elizabeth STAFFORD (C. Sussex)
Married 1: Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Sussex) BEF 21 May 1524
Children:
1. Thomas RADCLIFFE (3º E. Sussex)
2. Henry RADCLIFFE (4º E. Sussex)
Married 2: Anne CALTHORPE (C. Sussex) BEF 21 Nov 1538 Divorce 1555
Children:
5. Maud RADCLIFFE
Died: Dec 1578, Namur
Notes: joined the rebels in the northern rebellion of 1569. Executed in Namur for allegedly attempting to poison Juan of Austria. John is believed to have died of typhus.
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE (2° E. Sussex)
Mother: Anne CALTHORPE (C. Sussex)
Born: ABT 1552
Died: 1602
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.XIIp1,p.522, note k. Her father divorced her mother and attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to have Parliament bastardise both her and Egremont. There is the possibility that Sir Edmund Knyvett (b. 1509 - d. 1551), with whom her mother was accused of having a bigamous marriage, was indeed Frances's natural father. Early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Frances went to court where she served the new Queen as one of her Maids of Honour. It was in this capacity that she attracted the attention of Shane O'Neill (b. 1530 - d. 2 Jun 1561), the chief of the Irish clan of O'Neill, who arrived in London in Jan 1562 to negotiate with the Queen for his late father's title of Earl of Tyrone. O'Neill was a violent and ambitious man, having murdered many of his rivals and members of his own family in his quest for power. He was twice-divorced and kept his former father-in-law's wife as a mistress. He asked the Queen to procure for him a "proper English wife", and he specifically wished to marry Lady Frances. His proposal of matrimony was refused. Shortly afterwards, when Frances visited her half-brother Thomas, Earl of Sussex in Ireland, where he served as Lord Lieutenant, O'Neill unsuccessfully renewed his courtship of her. His persual of Frances only served to increase the Earl's enmity towards O'Neill, and had tried to assassinate him by the means of poison. Frances returned to England, and her erstwhile suitor eventually married his mistress. Frances married Sir Thomas Mildmay.
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE (2° E. Sussex)
Mother: Anne CALTHORPE (C. Sussex)
Married: Thomas MILDMAY (Sir) Jul 1566
Children:
3. Anne MILDMAY
Thomas RADCLIFFE (3° E. Sussex)
Born: ABT 1525/6, Woodham Walter, Essex, England
Acceded: 1557
Died: 9 Jun 1583, Bermondsey, London, England
Buried: 9 Jul 1583, New Hall, Beaulieu, Boreham, Essex, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE (2° E. Sussex)
Mother: Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Sussex)
Married 1: Elizabeth WRIOTHESLEY 1555 /BEF 1 Nov 1545
Children:
1. Dau. RADCLIFFE
Married 2: Frances SIDNEY (C. Sussex) 26 Apr 1555, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, England
Henry RADCLIFFE (4° E. Sussex)
Born: ABT 1530/2
Acceded: 1583
Died: 10 Apr/14 Dec 1593
Buried: 19 Jan 1593/4, Boreham, Essex, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE (2° E. Sussex)
Mother: Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Sussex)
Married: Honora POUND (C. Sussex) (d. 1593) (dau. of Anthony Pound of Drayton and Anne Wingfield) 1549
Children:
1. Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Born: 12 Jun 1573
Acceded: 1593
Died: 22 Sep 1629, Clerkenwell, England
Buried: 23 Oct 1629, Boreham, Essex, England
Notes: Knight of the Garter. 11º B. Fitzwalter The Complete Peerage vol.V, p.488. Viscount FitzWalter 5th. / The Complete Peerage vol.XIIp1,p.526-528. Fought on campaigns under Essex, being knighted during the taking of Cadiz. He was also writing letters requesting employment from the Secretary of State: "I had much rather make a good end in her Majesty’s service than to live in miserable poverty at home". Implicated in the Essex´s Rebellion.
Bridget Morrison married Robert Radcliffe in 1592, and as Lady Fitzwalter and later as Countess of Sussex she received dedications from Robert Greene (1592), Thomas Kyd (1595), George Chapman (1598) and others. Bridget was described by a contemporary as “of very goodly and comely personage and a rare wit” but her husband was not faithful to her. He kept a mistress, Mrs. Sylvester Morgan, Bridget’s former waiting gentlewoman, and set her up as a rival Countess at a Mr. Daylies’ house. He even hired a Captain Whitlock to tell Bridget how much he was spending on his mistress’s clothing. Robert, Lord Sussex, and Bridget, Lady Sussex, separated in about 1600, but Lady Sussex refused to grant a divorce. She and her children were granted an allowance of £1700 a year and probably went back to Cassiobury to live with her mother. Thereafter, Lord Sussex took up residence with Frances Meutas, the widow of Edward Shute, and to them an illegitimate daughter, Jane, was born. Bridget’s dying wish was that her husband not marry his concubine, but Robert and Frances finally married after Countess Bridget's death in 1624. [Charles B. Hampson, THE BOOK OF THE RADCLYFFES (privately printed Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Ltd., at the University Press, 1940) pp. 102, 104.]
Father: Henry RADCLIFFE (4º E. Sussex)
Mother: Honora POUND (C. Sussex)
Married 1: Bridget MORISON (C. Sussex) (b. Mar 1575 - d. Dec 1623) (dau. of Sir Charles Morison and Dorothy Clarke) 1592
Children:
1. Henry RADCLIFFE (6° V. Fitzwalter)
Married 2: Frances MEUTAS (d. 1627) (dau. of Hercules Mewtas of West Ham and Philippa Cooke) (w. of Edward Shute) Dec 1623
Children:
Henry RADCLIFFE (6° V. Fitzwalter)
Born: 1 Aug 1596Died: 1620
Buried: 15 Sep 1620, Boreham
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Mother: Bridget MORISON (C. Sussex)
Married: Jane STANHOPE 28 Fab 1613, St. Bartholmew the Great, London
Born: 15 Jul 1597
Christened: 4 Aug 1597, Boreham
Died: 1619
Buried: 14 Aug 1619, Boreham
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Mother: Bridget MORISON (C. Sussex)
Born: 31 May 1594
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Mother: Bridget MORISON (C. Sussex)
Married: John RAMSAY (V. Haddington) 8 Feb 1607, Chapel Royal
Children:
1. Son RAMSAY
2. Charles RAMSAY (B. Kingston)
3. Bridget RAMSAY (b. Mar 1614)
Born: 27 Aug 1598
Christened: 12 Sep 1598, Boreham
Died: 1613
Buried: 14 May 1613
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Mother: Bridget MORISON (C. Sussex)
Notes: some sources syas she was a natural dau.
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (5º E. Sussex)
Mother: Frances MEUTAS (C. Sussex)
Married 1: Alexander RADCLIFFE of Ordsall (Sir Knight) 7 Jun 1623, St James Church, Clerkenwell, England
Children:
3. Sussex RADCLIFFE (bur. 30 Sep 1649, St. Andrews Church)
5. Charles RADCLIFFE (bur. 31 Dec 1653, St. Andrews Church)
7. Mary RADCLIFFE
9. Jane RADCLIFFE
10. Anne RADCLIFFE
11. Margaret RADCLIFFE
Married 2: Son LEWES
Died: 13 Aug 1566
Notes: During the reign of Henry VIII, the Earl of Sussex and his son and a party of friends rode out of London to take part in a tournament. In the village of Kensigton, a girl, Isabel Harvey, who with her father, a wealthy London merchant, happened to be visiting some friends, leaned out so far in her eagerness to see the gay cavalcade that she droped her glove. Sir Humphrey dipped his lance, impaled the glove, and returned it to her owner. Isabel beauty had cast such a spell upon Sir Humphrey that he contrived toleave his companions. Edmund Harvey and his daughter were about to set off for London, and as the road thence bore an evil reputation, the merchant readily acquiesced in the knight´s (represented himself as a squire in service with Earl of Sussex) suggestion that he should bear them company, and so agreeable did he make himself that when they reached Harvey´s house in Cheapside he received an invitation to come in to supper. Friendship with Isabel soon ripened into love, nor did her father raise any objection when asked to give his consent to their marriage. Isabel Harvey came to her husband a richly dowered bride, but they have been married some time before she learned the fact that her husband was the son, not the servant, of Robert of Sussex, Lord High Chamberlain of England. They settled at Elstow, in Bedfordshire and Edgworth, Lancashire.
Father: Robert RADCLIFFE (1° E. Sussex)
Mother: Elizabeth STAFFORD (C. Sussex)
Married: Isabel HARVEY (b. ABT 1510 - d. 8 May 1594) (dau. of Edmund Harvey and Margaret Wentworth) ABT 1530
Children:
1. Mary RADCLIFFE (Maid of Honour)
2. Thomas RADCLIFFE (d. 10 Sep 1624)
3. Edward RADCLIFFE (6° E. Sussex)
5. Martha RADCLIFFE
6. Dau. RADCLIFFE
Mary RADCLIFFE (Maid of Honour)
Born: 1550Died: 1616/7
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: Humphrey RADCLIFFE (Sir)
Mother: Isabel HARVEY
Died: 22 Jun 1586
Father: Humphrey RADCLIFFE (Sir)
Mother: Isabel HARVEY
Married: Henry CHEEKE
Children:
1. Thomas CHEEKE (Sir)
Edward RADCLIFFE (6° E. Sussex)
Born: AFT 1530/BEF 10 Nov 1559
Acceded: 1629
Died: Jul 1643, Gorhambury, Hertfordshire, England
Buried: Aug 1643, Boreham
Notes: Viscount Fitzwalter. The Complete Peerage vol.XIIp1,p.529-530
Father: Humphrey RADCLIFFE (Sir)
Mother: Isabel HARVEY
Married 1: ¿?
Children:
Married 2: Elizabeth PETRE ABT 1582
Married 3: Jane HYNDE 30 May 1594, Goldington, Bedfordshire, England
Married 4: Eleanor WORTLEY (C. Sussex) (d. 1666) (dau. of Richard Wortley - w. of Henry Lee - m.3 Robert Rich, 2º E. Warwick -m.4 Edward Montague, 2° E. Manchester) 22 May 1634, St. Andrew's, Holborn
Born: ABT 1547, probably Elslow, Bedfordshire, England
Died: ABT 20 Nov 1628, Upper Gravenhurst, Bedford, England
Father: Edward
RADCLIFFE (6° E. Sussex)
Mother: ¿?
Married: John Lawrence WHITBREAD (b. ABT 1548 - d. ABT 28 Nov 1598) BEF 1571, Elstow, Bedford, England
Children:
1. Elizabeth WHITBREAD
2. William WHITBREAD
3. Henry WHITBREAD
4. Alice WHITBREAD
5. Francis WHITBREAD
6. Thomas WHITBREAD
7. John WHITBREAD
8. Ellen WHITBREAD
9. Judith WHITBREAD