Baron Robert De CLIFFORD

   Cause of his death was Killed in Battle.

   Other names for Robert were CLIFFORD Baron and Sir Robert De CLIFFORD.

   Ancestral File Number: 91SH-GB.

   General Notes:

Sir, Knight, Baron of CLIFFORD.

BOOKS
Robert the Bruce King of Scots, Ronald McNair Scott, Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, New York, 1982.
p152: [Battle of Bannockburn] ".
"The Earl of Gloucester, the previous evening, had urged Edward II to rest his army for twenty-four hours before engaging in battle and, in a heated argument, had been accuse by him of disloyalty. Now still smarting from the unjust attack on his honour, he mounted his norse so precipitately, when he heard the sommons, that neither his squires had time to put his surcoat over his armour nor his vanguard to saddle and range behind him before he had charged headlong at Edward Bruce's schiltron. Unrecognized, he was slain on their spears far in advance of his van who, following him peacemeal as fast as they could, lost many of their bravest knights, among them the veteran Sir Robert Clifford, Sir John Comyn, son of the murdered 'Red' Comyn, Sir Edmund Manley, steward of the English King's household, and Sir Pain Piptoft..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.13 91SH-GB.

   Marriage Information:

Robert married Baroness Maud De CLARE, daughter of Sir Thomas De CLARE and Julian FITZ MAURICE, on 3 Nov 1295 in Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire, England. (Baroness Maud De CLARE was born about 1276 in , Gloucestershire, England and died on 1 Feb 1327.)