Idoine (Clifford) de Percy (abt. 1300 - 1365)

Ancestors Descendants

Idoine de Clifford is in badged trails to several Magna Carta surety barons (see text below).

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Name 1.2 Parentage 1.3 Estimated Birth 1.4 Marriage 1.5 Documented Issue 1.6 Disputed Issue 1.7 Death 2 Sources 3 Acknowledgements 3.1 Magna Carta Project

Biography

Idoine de Clifford was grandmother to both of the two great northern rivals and Shakespearean characters, Westmorland and Northumberland (father of Hotspur).

Name

Douglas Richardson writes:^[1]

The correct name of Henry de Percy's wife is Idoine de Clifford. "Idonia" or "Idonea" are the Latin forms of her name and should be avoided.

There are no less than five separate visitations/medieval sources which name Idoine, wife of Sir Henry de Percy, as a Clifford, or the daughter of Lord Clifford:

1. Archaeologia Aeliana 3 (1844): 40 (Chronicles of Alnwick Abbey: "Iste Henricus disponsavit idoneam filiam Domini de Clyfford et genuit ex ea Anno Domini 1320 Henricum quartum et tertium Dominum de Alnewyk et alios plures filios et filias inter quos erat Thomas qui postea fuit Episcopus Norwicens ...").

2. Atkinson, Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby 2 (Surtees Soc. 72) (1881): 690-696 (Percy ped.: "The fourth Henry Lord Percy ... gat on Idonea Clyfford Henry, William, Richard, Maude, Alianour Fitzwater, Roger, and Margarett that was maried to the Erle of Angus Sonne and his heire.").

3. Flower, Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 241-244 (Percy ped.: "Henry 4 Lord Percy. = Ida doughter of the Lord Clyfford."). This item is available online at the following weblink: Google Books.

4. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 18-20 (Percy ped.: "Henricus Percy = Idonea Clifforde"). Not available online.

5. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 4 (Surtees Soc. 146) (1932): 17-24 (Lassels ped.: "Idonæ [Clifford] mar: to Henry lord Percy"). Not available online.

Parentage

Idoine de Clifford was the daughter of Robert de Clifford, Knt., of Appleby, 1st Baron Clifford and Maud de Clare, daughter of Sir Thomas de Clare of Thomond.^[2][3]

Estimated Birth

Given that we know that her husband, Sir Henry Percy, was born in 1300 or 1301, and given that Henry's son and heir, also named Henry, was born about 1322-1325, the birth of Idoine de Clifford would necessarily have to fall about 1300-1310. Given the chronology, Idoine de Clifford can be placed as a daughter of Robert de Clifford (died 1314), 1st Lord Clifford, and his wife, Maud de Clare, which Robert and Maud were married in 1295. Idoine de Clifford was surely named for her father's maternal aunt, Idoine de Vipont (died 1333), wife of Roger de Leybourne, Knt., and John de Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell.

Marriage

Idoine married^[4] Henry de Percy, Knt., 2nd Lord Percy,^[3] son and heir of Sir Henry Percy and his wife Eleanor, daughter of Richard Fitz Alan (or de Arundel), Knt., 8th Earl of Arundel.^[2] Henry de Percy was born at Leconfield, Yorkshire, either 2 February 1299/1300 (father's inquisition) or 6 February 1300/1 (proof of age).^[2][5]

Documented Issue

Idoine and Henry had five sons and four daughters:

• Sir Henry, 3rd Lord Percy, born about 1322-1325, died May 1368, married first Mary of Lancaster and second Joan de Orreby^[2]
• William^[2]
• Roger^[2]
• Thomas, Bishop of Norwich, born about 1332, died 8 August 1369^[2]
• Robert^[2]
• Maud, wife of John de Neville, K.G., 3rd Lord Neville of Raby^[2]
• Eleanor, wife of Sir John Fitz Walter, 2nd Lord FitzWalter^[2]
• Isabel, wife of Sir William de Aton, 2nd Lord Aton^[2]
• Margaret, wife of Sir Robert de Umfraville and Sir William de Ferrers, 3rd Lord Ferrers.^[2]

Disputed Issue

Douglas Richardson's books, most recently Royal Ancestry, published in 2013,^[5] do not list a son Richard. However, in material attributed to a post by Richardson (included in this profile), Richard is listed. Therefore Richard is retained here as a disputed son.

• Richard

Death

Sir Henry de Percy died at Warkworth, Northumberland 26 Feb 1351/2, and was buried at Alnwick, Northumberland. He left a will dated 13 September 1349, proved 12 March 1351/2, in which he bequeathed his son Henry, a vessel of salt with the arms of Percy and Arundel. His widow, Idoine, died 24 August 1365, and was buried at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire.^[2][5]

Sources

1. ↑ 25 Dec 2014 posting of Douglas Richardson on soc.genealogy.medieval.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. III, pages 335-337, PERCY 7, Idoine de Clifford.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. I, page 503, CLIFFORD 6.ii, Robert Clifford.
4. ↑ c. 1314 (per Lewis) - probably the contract date, given that birth years for both bride and groom are about 1300
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. IV, pages 350-351 PERCY 9. Henry de Percy.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 2013, vol. II, pages 242-243; vol. IV, pages 348-350.
• Lewis, Marlyn. Idoine de Clifford entry in "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" website, accessed 5 June 2015).
• Wikipedia articles:
  • Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy, her husband (lists only 5 children)
  • Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, her father

For interesting references to Idoine, wife of Sir Henry de Percy, see the following weblinks:

Holmes, George. The Later Middle Ages, 1272-1485. (United Kingdom, Norton, 1966). Online at Google Books.

Ingilby, Joan. The Wonders of Yorkshire. (United Kingdom: Dent, 1959). Online at Google Books.

England. (N.p., Benn, 1965). Online at Google Books.

Meyer, Ann Raftery. Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem. (United Kingdom, D.S. Brewer, 2003). Online at GoogleBooks

The tomb at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire which is now attributed to Idoine de Clifford, wife of Sir Henry de Percy, bears shields with various coats of arms, among them Clifford.

Acknowledgements

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project on 11 Apr 2020 by Thiessen-117.

Idoine de Clifford is in trails to Magna Carta Surety Barons Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John (Lacy) de Lacy Knt, Hugh le Bigod and Roger Bigod badged by the Magna Carta Project to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Bernard Gateways (Richard and William): badged in 2015. See the trail HERE.
• Joseph Bolles (MCA I:247-249 BOLLES): trail to the Bigods badged in December 2022. See the trail HERE.
• Saint Leger Codd: connected in 2019 to existing trail badged in 2015. See the trails HERE.
• Henry Corbin (MCA I:533-535 CORBIN): badged trail was connected to this Gateway before 2018. The trails are set out HERE.
• Edward Digges: badged after Jun 2015. See the trails HERE.
• John Fisher: badged in/about 2015, re-reviewed in April 2020. See the profiles in this trail HERE.
• Warham Horsmanden: badged May 2020. See the trails HERE.
• Nelson Gateways (John and Margaret): badged in 2015 and 2016 and need re-review. See the trails HERE.
• Robert Peyton, through his mother: trails were badged in 2015 and can be seen HERE.

Idoine also appears in trails that need further work (unbadged) to the following Gateways:

• Anne Mauleverer (MCA III:131-135 MAULEVERER): trail has not yet been developed. See the trail HERE.
• Nelson Gateways (Philip and Thomas) (MCA IV:95-101 STAPLETON): trails need development. See them HERE.

Idoine de Clifford is in trails to many other Gateway Ancestors. For a list of Idoine and her husband's Gateway descendants, see Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. I, page 503, footnote 274.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".