Sir William de Clifton Knight

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. III, "Bromley of Badington" Pedigree, p. 371, Matthew de Chetelton, 14 Edward III, married to Joane, daughter and heir of William de Clifton.

• Background Information. ⁹⁴⁸
Sir William de Clifton, in Sep 1329, settled the manor Salwyk on his son William and his son's wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Shireburn, of Stonyhurst, Lancashire. This Sir William was elected knight of the shire in Sep 1302, along with Gilbert de Singleton, and again in 1304, along with William de Banastre. Sir William was married to a woman named Ellen, and his son, another Sir William de Cliffton, husband to Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Shireburne, succeeded him.

~ Burkes's A Genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II, 1836 Edition, p. 55

William married Ellen.