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Birth:          10 Jul 1333 of Cumberland, England
Death:          13 Jul 1390 Brough Castle, Westmoreland, England
Burial:         Shap Abbey, Shap, Westmoreland, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_de_Clifford,_5th_Baron_de_Clifford
Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford, ninth Lord Clifford, fifth Baron of 
Westmoreland (10 July 1333[1] - 13 July 1389), was the son of Robert de Clifford, 3rd 
Baron de Clifford (d. 20 May 1344), second son of Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de 
Clifford (1273–1314), the founder of the northern branch of the family. His mother was 
Isabella (d. 25 July 1362), daughter of Maurice, 2nd Lord Berkeley. He succeeded his 
elder brother, Robert de Clifford, 4th Baron de Clifford in 1350, on which day he made 
proof of his age.[2]
Life[edit]

Military career[edit]

Clifford entered on his military career when hardly more than twelve, being armed at 
the time of Jacob van Artevelde's death on 17 July 1345.[3]

In August 1350 he was engaged in the seafight with the Spaniards near Winchelsea; 
and in 1355 he accompanied his father-in-law, Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of 
Warwick, on the expedition to Gascony.[4] He again served in Gascony in 1359, 
1360, and in the French expedition of the Duke of Lancaster in 1373.

A document dated at Brougham 10 July 1369 shows him engaging the services of 
Richard le Fleming and his company for a year. In the same way he retained Sir Roger 
de Mowbray; and was himself retained, with his company of nearly eighty men, by 
Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, on 25 September 1379.[5]

On 15 March 1361 he was called upon to assist Lionel, duke of Clarence, in his great 
Irish expedition on pain of forfeiting his Irish estates. A similar summons to defend his 
lands in Ireland was issued on 28 July 1368.[6]

His chief services, however, were rendered on the Scotch borders. In July 1370 he 
was appointed one of the wardens of the west marches; but according to Sir H. 
Nicolas he is found defending the northern borders fourteen years earlier.[7] Resigned 
the truce with Scotland on 24 August 1369, and was warden of both east and west 
marches on five occasions between 1380 and 1385.

In August 1385 he accompanied Richard II's expedition against Scotland with sixty 
men-at-arms and forty archers. His last border sendee seems to have been in October 
1388, when he was ordered to adopt measures of defence for the Scotch Marches.[8] 
In May 1388 he accompanied Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, in his naval 
expedition to Brittany.[9]

Political Offices[edit]

He was hereditary High Sheriff of Westmorland from 1350? until his death in 1389. In 
1377 he was made High Sheriff of Cumberland and governor of Carlisle, a city whose 
walls he appears to have inspected and found weak in the preceding year. To the last 
two offices he was reappointed on Richard II's accession.

He was made a commissioner of array against the Scots (26 February 1372), and one 
of a body of commissioners to correct truce-breakers and decide border disputes 26 
May 1373, having sat on a similar commission in September 1367.

Parliament[edit]

Clifford was summoned to all parliaments from 15 December 1356 to 28 July 1388.[10] 
He was trier of petitions in many parliaments from November 1373 to September 1377. 
In August 1374 he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle the dispute 
between Henry de Percy and William, Earl of Douglas, relative to the possession of 
Jedworth Forest. In the parliament of November 1381 he was member of a committee 
to confer with the House of Commons. On 12 October 1386 he gave evidence in the 
great Scrope and Grosvenor case at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

Death and Succession[edit]

Roger de Clifford died 13 July 1389, being then possessed of enormous estates, 
chiefly situated in Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, but 
spread over several other counties.[11] He was succeeded by his son Thomas de 
Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford.

Marriage and Issue[edit]

He married Maud (d. 1403), daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of 
Warwick.[12]
Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford (d. 1391 ?)
William Clifford, the Governor of Berwick (d. 1419)
Margaret, married Sir John Melton, knight
Katherine, married Ralph, lord Greystock
Philippa, married William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby (Lewis, Ancestral Roots, 
8th ed. (2006), line 11, no. 34)

Dugdale gives him a third son, the Lollard, Sir Lewis Clifford (d. 1404), whom, 
however, Sir H. Nicolas shows to have been probably his brother, but certainly not his 
son[13]

Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson lists three sons, including a Roger, no 
additional information.

Genealogy[edit]

The genealogical table in Whitaker gives Clifford two brothers, John de Clifford and 
Thomas de Clifford, said to have been the ancestor of Richard de Clifford, Bishop of 
London, and three sisters.

Parents
DE CLIFFORD Robert (5 Nov 1305 - 20 May 1344)
DE BERKELEY Isabel (ABT 1307 - 25 Jul 1362)

Siblings
DE CLIFFORD Roger (10 Jul 1333 - 13 Jul 1390)

Marriage To DE BEAUCHAMP Maud (ABT 1335 - ABT Feb 1403)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BEAUCHAMP Thomas (14 Feb 1314 - 13 Nov 1369)
DE MORTIMER Katherine (Catherine) (1314 - 4 Aug 1369)

Children by DE BEAUCHAMP Maud ABT 1335 - ABT Feb 1403
DE CLIFFORD Katherine (ABT 1358 - 23 Apr 1413)
DE CLIFFORD Maud (ABT 1375 - BEF 16 May 1442)

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