Agnes (Hopton) Clere (abt. 1455)

Born about 1455 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Clere Knt. — married after 1475 in England

Descendants

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Biography

Agnes was the daughter of William Hopton and Margaret Wentworth.^[1][2] Her parents had lands and interests in several counties and her birth place is not known. Her birth date has been estimated on the basis of her parents marrying in about 1450 and her husband being born by about 1452.^[1][2]

Agnes married Robert Clere, son of Robert Clere of Ormesby St Margaret, Norfolk and Elizabeth Uvedale.^[1][2] Their marriage date has been estimated, based on the possible approximate birth date of their daughter Elizabeth. They had the following children:

• William^[1][2]
• Elizabeth, who married John Bedingfield and Robert Peyton^[1][2]
• Audrey, who married William Jenney^[1][2]
• Anne, who became a nun^[1][2]
• Dorothy, who married Robert Cotton^[1][2]

Agnes died on 23 January 1505/6, and was buried at Ormesby St Margaret, Norfolk.^[1][2][3]

Her husband subsequently married Alice Boleyn, an aunt of Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn.^[1][2]

Research Notes

Somerset Visitation

The Harleian Society edition of the 1623 Visitation of Somerset names Agnes as Ann and her husband as Sir W Clere.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. II, p. 402, HOPTON 10, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 314-315, HOPTON 14
3. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Erpingham: Blickling', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 381-409, Births History Online, accessed 24 October 2023
4. ↑ Frederic Thomas Colby (ed.). The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623, Harleian Society, 1876, p. 56, https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00byustge/page/n69/mode/2up Internet Archive]

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 24 October 2023.

Agnes (Hopton) Clere appears in in trails badged in August 2015 by the Magna Carta Project from Gateway Ancestor Robert Peyton, through his father, to Magna Carta Surety Barons William d'Aubigné and Robert de Ros and was later identified in badged trails to surety barons Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy, and Saher de Quincy. All of these trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

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".