Thomas Clifford 8th Baron Clifford [3326] ²⁵

   Cause of his death was Killed at the Battle of St.Albans.

   FamilySearch ID: LX7P-T2Z.

  General Notes:

The House of Clifford, chapter 19.
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When his father died at Meaux in France Thomas was only seven years old. He was commissioned in 1434/5 along with his uncle the Earl of Northumberland to array the northern counties against the Scots. In 1449 he was conservator of the truce between England and Scotland and in 1450-1he was one of three Ambassadors from Henry VI to James III of Scotland. In 1437 he laid siege to Pontoise near Paris. He dressed his soldiers in white and under the cover of a snowstorm they scaled the ramparts and captured the fortress. The King called on him again in 1452 and 1454 to muster men and ships from the north to relief Calais. The Hundred Years War with France drew to a close and Thomas returned home but by May 1455 the struggle for control of the English throne had erupted into violence and Thomas Clifford was killed at the first battle of St. Albans. Thomas 8th Lord Clifford had married Joan Dacre in 1424 and they had six children.

Thomas married Joan Dacre Baroness Clifford [3026] [MKG6-2Y5] [MRIN: 6681], daughter of Thomas Dacre 6th Baron Dacre of Gillesland [3019] [LZ2C-JDD] and Phillippa Neville Baroness Dacre of Gillesland [3002] [LZK3-HPH], in Mar 1424 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England. (Joan Dacre Baroness Clifford [3026] [MKG6-2Y5] was born about 1418 in Naworth Castle, Brampton, Cumberland, England and died before 1455.)