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     Jeanne (?) Vicomtese de Brosse married André II de Chauvigny Vicomte de Brosse, son of Guillaume III de Chauvigny Seigneur de Châteauroux and Jeanne de Châtillon, before 25 May 1314.¹

Jeanne (?) Vicomtese de Brosse died after 24 October 1348; date of will.¹
      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: XIII 71.¹

     Jeanne (?) de Vendôme married Guillaume III de Chauvigny Seigneur de Châteauroux, son of Guillaume II de Chauvigny Seigneur de Châteauroux, La Chatre d'Argenton, Deois et Cezy and Agnes/Agathe de Lusignan.¹

Jeanne (?) de Vendôme died on 3 June 1317.¹
     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: XIII 70.¹

     Marie de Chauvigny Dame de Buxières married Guyon de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu, son of Gilles de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu and Jeanne de Parroye.^1,2

     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 110.¹

     Eudes I de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu-en-Berry married Aenor de Montfaucon Dame d'Erry.^4,1

Eudes I de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu-en-Berry died circa 1218.¹
      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Aenor de Montfaucon Dame d'Erry married Eudes I de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu-en-Berry, son of Gilles III de Sully Sire de Sully and Luce de Charenton.^1,2

Aenor de Montfaucon Dame d'Erry died in 1250.¹
     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Eudes II de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu married Sedille de Culant.^4,1

Eudes II de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu died before 1258.¹
     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Sedille de Culant married Eudes II de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu, son of Eudes I de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu-en-Berry and Aenor de Montfaucon Dame d'Erry.^1,2

Sedille de Culant died before 1258.¹
     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Eudes III de Sully married Marguerite de Milly, daughter of Geoffroi III (?) seigneur de Milly, Sénéchal du Royaume de Naples and Eléonore de Sancerre.²

Eudes III de Sully died after 1284.¹
      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Marguerite de Milly married Eudes III de Sully, son of Eudes II de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu and Sedille de Culant.¹

      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Gilles de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu married Jeanne de Parroye.⁴

Gilles de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu died after 1336.¹
     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Jeanne de Parroye married Gilles de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu, son of Eudes III de Sully and Marguerite de Milly.¹

     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Guyon de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu married Marie de Chauvigny Dame de Buxières, daughter of Guillaume III de Chauvigny Seigneur de Châteauroux and Jeanne (?) de Vendôme.^2,1

Guyon de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu died after 1354.¹
     Reference: van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Guillaume de Sully Seigneur de la Chapellette married Iseul de Ceris Dame de Varennes.²

Guillaume de Sully Seigneur de la Chapellette died after 28 May 1381.¹
      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Iseul de Ceris Dame de Varennes married Guillaume de Sully Seigneur de la Chapellette, son of Guyon de Sully Seigneur de Beaujeu and Marie de Chauvigny Dame de Buxières.¹

      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: III/1 111.¹

     Ysoul de Sully Dame de Varennes married Louis de Peschin Seigneur du Peschin in 1373.²

      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: X 95; III/1 111.¹

     Louis de Peschin Seigneur du Peschin married Ysoul de Sully Dame de Varennes, daughter of Guillaume de Sully Seigneur de la Chapellette and Iseul de Ceris Dame de Varennes, in 1373.¹

      ; van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), Reference: X 95.¹

     Sir Gervase 'The Gentle' Clifton Knt. was born before 26 March 1516.^2,7 He married Mary Neville on 17 January 1530
; His 1st of 2 wives.^8,7 Sir Gervase 'The Gentle' Clifton Knt. married Winifred Thwaites, daughter of William Thwaites of Oulton, Essex and Alice Garneys, before September 1565
; Her 2nd of 2 husband; his 2nd of 2 wives.^9,2,7
Sir Gervase 'The Gentle' Clifton Knt. died on 20 January 1588.^10,2,7,3
Sir Gervase 'The Gentle' Clifton Knt. was buried after 20 January 1588 at St. Mary's Churchyard, Clifton, Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England;
From Find a Grave:
Sir Gervase Clifton
      ;
The History of Parliament
Constituency     Dates
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE1     1539
Family and Education
     b. 26 Mar. 1516, 1st s. of Robert Clifton of Clifton by 2nd w. Anne, da. of Henry, 10th Lord Clifford. m. (1) 17 Jan. 1530, Mary (d. 10 Apr. 1564), da. of Sir John Neville II of Chevet, Yorks. and Mile End Stepney, Mdx., 3s. d.v.p. 2da; (2) by Sept. 1565, Winifred, da. and h. of Sir William Thwaites of ‘Mallowtree’ (?Manningtree), Essex, wid. of Sir George Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont, Notts., 1s. d.v.p. suc. fa. 3 Sept. 1517. Kntd. bet. Aug. 1540 and Feb. 1541.2
Offices Held
     J.p. Notts. 1537-d., q. by 1564, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1538-47, northern circuit 1540; commr. musters, Notts. 1539, 1569, 1577, 1580, benevolence 1544/45, contribution 1546, chantries, Southwell 1546, 1548, Notts. and Derbys. 1548, relief, Notts., Yorks. (W. Riding) and Nottingham 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Notts. and Nottingham 1553, subsidy, Notts. 1581; other commissions 1545-d; sheriff, Notts. and Derbys. 1540-1, 1546-7, 1554-5, Notts. 1572-3; duchy of Lancaster steward, manor of Snaith, Yorks. June 1538-50; master of game, Conisbrough and Hatfield, Yorks. by 1553; collector for loan, Notts. 1562.3
Biography
     A child of 17 months when his father died, Gervase Clifton became a ward of Wolsey and, after the cardinal’s fall, of the King, who sold the wardship to Sir John Neville. The inheritance, a group of manors in Nottinghamshire, with outliers in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, was then valued at £269 a year, and Neville paid £333 for the wardship. As Neville’s son-in-law and the 1st Earl of Cumberland’s nephew, Clifton had powerful patrons both at court and in the north, and his own claim to notice was strengthened by his part in suppressing the rebellion of 1536. Scarcely of age when brought on to the Nottinghamshire bench in 1537, he was correspondingly young at his election early in 1539 as first knight of the shire. He took the place of Sir John Markham, who as sheriff ought not to return himself but came in for Nottingham, and who must have been responsible for his choice. (As sheriff in 1547 Clifton was to reciprocate by returning Markham.) The dissolution of this Parliament was to be followed within a year by the disgrace and death of Clifton’s father-in-law, but his own position was enhanced—doubtless of set purpose—by the King’s visit to his home at Hodsock in the summer of 1541 during his first shrievalty, and the knighthood which either preceded or accompanied it.4
     Clifton was to serve the crown in war and peace for nearly 40 years more. He was present at Boulogne in 1544, at Pinkie in 1547 and at Leith in 1560, and last took the field when he helped to defend Doncaster against the 1569 rebels; to his lifelong membership of the Nottinghamshire bench he added three further terms as sheriff of that county and Derbyshire, and a variety of other duties. Yet after perhaps being re-elected to the Parliament of 1542, for which the Nottinghamshire names are lost, he was not to reappear in the Commons. He may have felt better suited to action than to debate, although Elizabeth would not have called him ‘gentle Sir Gervase’ if he had been a swashbuckler, and by her time his religion was probably a deterrent. In 1564 the archbishop of York judged him ‘necessary for service’ but ‘in religion very cold’, and towards the end of his life his loyalty to his recusant wife was a cause of embarrassment. His friendship with successive earls of Rutland doubtless stood him in good stead.5
     Clifton died on 20 Jan. 1588. In his will, made on the preceding 15 Oct., he bequeathed the manors of Carlton and Hodsock and all his other lands in that area to his wife, who was also to keep the jewelry and apparel then in her possession. His many charitable bequests included one of £13 6s.8d. for the poor in the parishes of Broughton, Clifton, Stanton and Wilford, another of the same amount for the poor in Blyth parish, and £6 apiece towards the repair of highways and the county gaol. He named as executors Francis Beaumont† and John Harpur†, who had married his stepdaughters, and his ‘trusty servant’ Gervase Neville, and as overseers his stepson Henry Pierrepont† and (Sir) Anthony Thorold.6
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: C. J. Black
Notes

     Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire married Denise (?)^1,4
Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire was born circa 1524 at Arnold, Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England.^1,4
Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire died between 25 March 1602 and 9 April 1602 at Arnold, Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England.^1,4
Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire was buried on 9 April 1602 at St. Mary's Churchyard, Arnold, Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England;
From Find a Grave:
Thomas Melford
      ; 2nd son.¹

Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire left a will on 25 March 1602.¹

     Denise (?) married Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, son of Ralph Melford Esq., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire and Anne Clifford.^1,2

     Mary Melford married Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire.¹
Mary Melford was born circa 1565.¹
Mary Melford died before 27 June 1631.¹

     Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire married Mary Melford, daughter of Thomas Melford Gent., of Arnold, Nottinghamshire and Denise (?).¹

Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire died between 25 July 1591 and 8 September 1591.¹
Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire was buried on 8 September 1591 at Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England.¹

His estate was probated on 7 October 1591.¹

     Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire left a will on 25 July 1591.¹

     Humphrey Need married Dorothy (?)
; his 1st wife.¹ Humphrey Need was born before 15 August 1590.¹ He married Ann (?) of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on 10 July 1641
; his 1st wife.¹
Humphrey Need died on 8 November 1668.¹

     Dorothy (?) married Humphrey Need, son of Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire and Mary Melford,
; his 1st wife.¹
Dorothy (?) died circa 29 August 1640 at Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England.¹

     Ann (?) of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire married (?) Hawton
; her 1st husband.¹ Ann (?) of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire married Humphrey Need, son of Humphrey Need (Neyd) of Arnold, Nottinghamshire and Mary Melford, on 10 July 1641
; his 1st wife.¹
Ann (?) of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire died on 26 October 1671.¹

     Mary Need married Christopher Levis of Harby, Leicestershire, son of Richard Levis.¹
Mary Need was born before 22 July 1648 at Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England.¹ She was christened on 22 July 1648 at St. Peter's, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.¹
Mary Need died on 16 May 1664 at Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England.¹