Maud (Clifford) Sutton (bef. 1441 - aft. 1481)

Born before 1441 in Conisbrough, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Sutton — married about 1461 in Cumberland, England

Descendants

Died after 1481 after age 40 in Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, England

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Biography

Father Thomas, 8th Lord Clifford, Sheriff of Westmoreland^[1] b. 25 Mar 1414, d. 22 May 1455

Mother Joan Dacre^[2] d. b May 1453

Born before 1441.^[3]

She married 1st Sir John Harington of Hornby (d. 1460 at Battle of Wakefield).^[4][5][6] They had two daughters:

• Anne^[7][8] married Edward Stanley, Lord Mounteagle^[6][9][10]
• Elizabeth^[7][8] married 1st John Stanley^[6][9][10] and 2nd Richard Beaumont^[9][11]

She married 2nd Sir Edmund Sutton (or Dudley),^[5] son of Sir John Sutton, 1st Lord Dudley, 4th Baron Dudley and Elizabeth Berkeley, circa 1465; They had 7 sons & 4 daughters:^[12]

• Oliver
• John
• Robert, Esq.
• Walter
• Richard, Precentor of Salisbury
• Dr. George, LL.D., Rector of Aston-le-Walls
• Thomas of Yanwath
• Margaret, wife of Sir John Musgrave
• Dorothy, wife of Richard Wrottesley, Esq
• Jane, wife of Sir Richard Middleton
• Alice, wife of Sir John Ratcliffe

Matilda Clifford died after 1481.

Research Note

Joan (Harrington) Peck (abt.1450-bef.1514) has been removed as a daughter of Maud and her 1st husband John Harrington. Sources clearly confim she was not one of their daughters.

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 216-217
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 246-247.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 278
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 155.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} E 163/9/36, Draft of indenture dated 20 Edw IV (1480-1) between Hugh Radcliffe, escheator in Lancs, on the one part, and Sir Edmund Dudley and Matilda, his wife (late wife of Sir John Harrington) on the other, relating to delivery of a dowry. The National Archives, Kew [accessed 20 April 2021].
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} C. B. Norcliffe, (ed), The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, esquire, Norroy King of Arms. (London, 1881) p. 104 Dudley pedigree Internet Archive [accessed 20 April 2021].
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Great Britain. Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward IV/Henry VI vol. 1: 1467-1477. (London, 1900). pp. 426-427 Internet Archive [accessed 20 April 2021].
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} 'Close Rolls, Edward IV: 1471-1473', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward IV: Volume 2, 1468-1476, ed. W H B Bird and K H Ledward (London, 1953), pp. 308-320. British History Online [accessed 20 April 2021].
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 140 This pedigree incorrectly states Maud was the daughter of John, Lord Clifford.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} G. McKelvie and M. Hicks. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in The National Archives XXXV: 1 Edward V to Richard III (1483-1485). (London, 2021), p. 120 VitalSource Bookshelf https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781800102651/pageid/164 [accessed 20 April 2021].
11. ↑ 'Townships: Aintree', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 99-101. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp99-101 [accessed 20 April 2021].
12. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 103.

• "Who is the mother of Dorothy Sutton?" 2001 discussion in soc.genealogy.medieval.

• Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V pp. 104-105

• Memorials_of_an_Ancient_House_page_125

• Cooch, M.E.W. (1919). Ancestry and descendants of Nancy Allyn (Foote) Webb, Rev. Edward Webb, and Joseph Wilkins Cooch. (pp.77). Star Publishing Co. Google Books.

• Issue: Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol 1. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Jan 1, 1981

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 103.