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Clifford: Clifford of Clifford, Clifford of Cumberland
Cl22 Thomas de Clifford, 6th Lord (d 18.08.1391)

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m. Elizabeth de Ros (dau of Thomas de Ros, 5th Lord)
Cl21 John de Clifford, 7th Lord (d 18.03.1421-2)
m. (1412) Elizabeth Percy d 1437, dau of Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy
  Cl20 Thomas de Clifford, 8th Lord b 25.03.1414, k St. Albans 22.05.1454
m. Joan Dacre dau of Thomas de Dacre, 6th Lord of Dacre and Multon)
Cl19-1 John de Clifford, 9th Lord (b 1435, d 28.03.1461
m Margaret Bromflete d 12.04.1483, dau of
she m2 Sir Lancelot Threkeld of Torworth b c 1435 Melerby N Yorkshire d 22 Apr
+1 Henry de Bromflete, Lord de Vesci
m Eleanor de Tunstall
a. Henry de Clifford, 10th Lord b 1454, d 23.04.1523
m1 1493 Anne St. John dau of Sir John St. John of Bletso
  (1) Henry de Clifford, 11th Lord, 1st Earl of Cumberland b 1493, d 22.04.1542
m1. Margaret Talbot (dsp, dau of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
  m2. (c1516) Margaret Percy (d 1540, dau of Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland)
  (A) Henry de Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, 12th Lord (b 1517, d 08.01.1569)
  m1. (1537) Eleanor Brandon (dau of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk)
  (i) Margaret de Clifford (b 1540, d 29.09.1596
  m 07.02.1555 Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby d 25.09.1593
  m2 Anne Dacre (dau of Sir William Dacre, 3rd Lord of Gillesland)
  (ii) George de Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 13th Lord (b 08.08.1558, d 30.10.1605
  m. (24.06.1577) Margaret Russell (d 24.05.1616, dau of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford)
  (a) Anne Clifford, 'Baroness de Clifford' (b 30.01.1589-90, d 1675)
  m1. (25.02.1608-9) Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (b 28.03.1589, d 28.03.1624)
The barony De Clifford passed to their daughter's son.
  m2. (03.06.1630, sp) Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (d 23.01.1650)
  (iv) Francis de Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland (d 1641)
  m. Grissel Hughes (dau of Thomas Hughes of Uxbridge
  (a) Henry de Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland (d 11.12.1643
  m. Frances Cecil (d 14.02.1643-4, dau of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury)
((1)) Elizabeth de Clifford (d 06.01.1698)
  m. (05.07.1635) Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, 1st Earl of Burlingon, Lord Clifford of Lanesborough (b 20.10.1612, d 130.1.1697-8)
  (b) Margaret Clifford (dsp)
  m. Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (b 13.04.1593, d 12.05.1641
(c) Frances Clifford (d 22.11.1627
m. Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Bart of Clifton (b 09 Sep 1587, d 28 Jun 1666)
  (v) Frances (Mary) Clifford (d 1592)
  m. Philip Wharton, 3rd Lord (b 1555, d 26.03.1625)
  Possibly of this generation, but (if so) by which marriage is unknown, was ... 
  (vi) Elizabeth Clifford 
  m. Benjamin Lambert of Calton (b 04.1543, d 30.09.1598) 
  (B) Sir Ingeram Clifford (dsp)
  m. Anne Ratcliffe
(C) Catherine Clifford (d 1598)
  m1. (c1530) John le Scrope, 8th Lord of Bolton (d 22.06.1549)
  m2. Sir Richard Cholmondeley (Cholmley) of Grandmount and Roxby
  (D) Maud Clifford 
  m. John Conyers, 3rd Lord (b 1524, d 30.06.1557)
(E) Elizabeth Clifford 
  m. Sir Christopher Metcalf of Napps (Nappa)
  (F) Jane Clifford
m. (20.08.1509, sp) Sir John Huddleston of Millum Castle (d 12.01.1547) 
  Not mentioned by BE1883 but probably of this generation, noting the dates and given that BP1934 (Lonsdale) reports that their eldest son Richard (born in 1532) succeeded "his cousin Henry, Lord Scrope, as lord warden of the west marches", was ...
  (G) Dorothy Clifford 
  m. Sir Hugh Lowther of Lowther
  (2) Thomas Clifford 
Thomas is identified by BE1883 (Clifford) as brother of the 1st Earl but in BE1883 (Browne) as 3rd son of the 1st Earl.
  m. Lucia Brown (dau of Anthony Brown)
  (3) Margaret de Clifford
  m. (06.01.1514) Cuthbert Radclyffe of Dilston, Sheriff of Northumberland (d 1545) 
  (4) Anne de Clifford
  m. Robert Clifton of Clifton and Hodsock (d 1518)
  (5) Mabel de Clifford (bur 01.09.1550
  m. (11.1513) William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton (b c1490, dsp 15 Oct 1542, Admiral) 
(6) Elizabeth de Clifford probably of this generation
  m. Ralph Bowes of Streatlam
  (7) daughter (married)
m2. (before 11.07.1511) Florence Pudsey (dau of Henry Pudsey of Barfoot or Berforth)
8+ 3 sons d y
11 Dorothy Clifford b c 1510 d 13 Sep 1562 Lowther Cumbria
m Sir Hugh Lowther b c 1508 Lowther Hall Cumbria son of
+1 Sir John Lowther of Lowther Hall b 1488 Lowther
m Lucy Curwen b c 1490 Workington Cumbria d 1553 Lowther Cumbria dau of

+2 Sir Thomas Curwen of Workington
m Ann Hudleston b c 1465 Millom Castle Cumbria
  b. Richard Clifford 
c. Sir Thomas Clifford 
  m. Ellen Swarby (dau of John Swarby of Brakenburgh)
  d. Elizabeth Clifford 
  m. Robert Aske
Cl19=20 Matilda/Maud Clifford
  m1. Sir John Harington of Hornby Castle (d Wakefield 1460)
  m2. Sir Edmund Sutton, younger of Dudley (dvp)
  Cl19-3 Joan Clifford
  m. Sir Richard Musgrave (b c1431, d 10.08.1491)
  Cl19-4 Margaret Clifford
  BLG1952 (Tempest) suggests that Margaret was daughter of Lord Henry but 'The Genealogist' identifies her father as Thomas, 8th Lord.
  Sir John Carre
  Cl19 Elizabeth Clifford possibly of this generation
  m1. (mcrt 10.08.1446) William Plumpton (b 1435, dvp Towton 29.03.1461) 
  m2. Sir Richard Hamerton of Hamerton
  Cl20-2 Mary Clifford probably of this generation
  m. Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead or Nettlested (d 18.05.1464)
Cl21-2 Maud Clifford probably of this generation
  m. Richard Wentworth of West Bretton (a c1440)

Sources: BE1883 (Clifford of Cumberland), BP1934 (De Clifford)
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