Ancestors of John William Brearton *
Eighteenth Generation
258048. 2nd Earl of Derby Thomas Stanley * died on 23 May 1521 in Middlesex,England,Sion Monastery. He married Anne Hastings * in 1507. [Parents]
258049. Anne Hastings * was born about 1485 in Colham Green, Middlesex, England . She died in Colham Green, Middlesex, England . She was buried on 17 Nov 1550. [Parents]
258052. 11th Lord Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland Henry Clifford * was born in 1493 in Skipton,Yorkshire,England . He died on 22 Apr 1542 in Skipton,Yorkshire,England . He was buried on 2 May 1542. He married Margaret Percy * in Skipton,Yrks,England.
BIR-MAR-DEA-BUR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
HENRY CLIFFORD, 11th Lord (Baron) Clifford and 1st EARL OF CUMBERLAND (E), so cr 18 June 1525, KG (1509); b 1493; Sheriff Yorks 1522, had large grants of monastic lands in Yorks, successfully defended Skipton Castle against rebels during the Pilgrimage of Grace 1536, Warden W Marches, Capt Carlisle 1525-28 and 1534-42, Constable and Steward Knaresborough and Penrith; m 1st Lady Margaret Talbot (dsp), dau of 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford (qv); m 2nd c 1516 Margaret Percy (bur 25 Nov 1540), dau of 5th Earl of Northumberland (see NORTHUMBERLAND, D), and d 22 April 1542, having had issue by his 2nd wife
258053. Margaret Percy * was born about 1508 in Alnwick,Nhum,England . She died in Nov 1540. [Parents]
BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
259712. 3rd Earl of Derby Edward Stanley * was born on 10 May 1509 in Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. He died on 24 Oct 1572 in Lathom House, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. He was buried on 4 Dec 1572 in Church, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. He married Countess of Derby Dorothy Howard * on 21 Feb in Lathom, Lancashire, England. [Parents]
259713. Countess of Derby Dorothy Howard * was born in 1511 in Lathom, Lancashire, England.
259714. 12th Lord Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland Henry Clifford * was born in 1517 in Skipton,Yorkshire,England . He died on 2 Jan 1569/1570 in Castle,Brougham,England . He was buried in Skipton Church,Skipton,Yorkshire,England . He married Countess of Cumberland Eleanor Brandon * in Mar 1533 in Suffolk Place,London,Mdsx,England. [Parents]
HENRY CLIFFORD, 12th Lord (Baron) Clifford and 2nd EARL OF CUMBERLAND, KB (1523); b c 1517; Constable and Steward Knaresborough 1542, Ld Lt Westmorland 1553-59, High Steward Duchy of Lancaster estates Yorks 1557; m 1st 1537 Lady Eleanor Brandon (dspsm 27 Sept 1547), yst dau and coheir of 1st Duke of Suffolk of the 1514 cr by his w Mary, sis of HENRY VIII (who in 1544 was given statutory authority by Act of Parl to devise the succession to the crown by will, which he did 1546, bequeathing it to his children EDWARD (VI), MARY and ELIZABETH (I) and in the event of their deaths without issue to the descendants of his sis Mary Duchess of Suffolk (in preference to the issue of Mary's er sis Margaret, ancestress of the Stuart kings of England), so that the Countess of Derby (the Countess of Cumberland's dau) was during her lifetime a potential successor to ELIZABETH I), and had issue. The 12th Lord m 2nd 1552/3 Anne Dacre (bur 31 July 1581), dau of 3rd Lord (Baron) Dacre (qv), and d 2 Jan 1569/70, having had further issue.
259715. Countess of Cumberland Eleanor Brandon * was born about 1520 in Suffolk House,Surr,England . She died on 27 Sep 1547.
BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
