Sir John Clere (1511? – 21 August 1557) was an English politician and naval commander. He was eldest surviving son of Sir Robert Clere of Ormesby, Norfolk...
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Alice Clere (died 1538) was the third daughter of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Margaret Ormond (otherwise Butler), the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas...
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brothers died at Florence, and the other was killed at the battle of Pinkie in 1547. His father was killed fighting at Kirkwall in 1557. Clere inherited...
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Bowen, writer, was born in Ormesby St Margaret. John Clere (died 1557), son of Robert and Alice Clere, Member of Parliament and naval commander. Sir Edmund...
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In an epitaph he composed at the death of Sir Thomas Clere, Surrey identified Mary as Clere's "beloved". Mary's two closest friends were Lady Margaret...
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Mary I of England sent a fleet to Scotland in 1557, commanded by William Woodhouse and John Clere. Clere's troops attacked the cathedral on 12 August. The...
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Edgar gave his thegn Aelfwine 10 hides of land at West Clere. Local legend asserts that King John was troubled by a bedbug during a night in a Kingsclere...
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father; Alice Boleyn (c. 1478 – 1 November 1538) who married Sir Robert Clere (died 10 August 1529) of Ormesby St Michael and Ormesby St St Margaret, Norfolk...
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Vice-Admiral of Norfolk until 1564. In 1557 he was a commander with John Clere of a fleet sent against Scotland. Clere died fighting at Kirkwall. In October...
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Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom (section Members of Parliament who died on wartime active service)
arrived that he had died 87 days previously in the West Indies. In 1780 John Kirkman was elected as MP for the City of London despite dying before polls closed...
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Lord Mayor of London, and a daughter, Anne Tyrrell, who married Sir John Clere of Ormesby. James Tyrrell (d. 1539) of Columbine Hall in Stowupland, who...
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expanded by their son Sir John Gage who inherited land belonging to his father-in-law, Sir Thomas St Clere. In 1479 a second John Gage was born and it was...
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Battle of Pinkie (category John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland)
brother Sir John Clere's son, a brother of the poet Thomas Clere (John Clere of Ormesby, Norfolk was killed in battle at Kirkwall on 21 August 1557). Thomas...
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Henri Cleutin (section War in 1557)
border and burnt the hay stored at Berwick upon Tweed An English admiral, John Clere, was ordered to blockade Eyemouth to prevent guns landing there. Instead...
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Mary I of England sent a fleet to Scotland in 1557, commanded by William Woodhouse and John Clere. Clere's troops attacked the cathedral on 12 August. The...
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1356–1358 Guy Sinclere 1359–1360 John de Battlesden 1361–1362 Thomas St Omer 1363 Roger Gyney 1364 William de Clere 1365–1366 Thomas Morieux 1367–1368...
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down Kett's Rebellion at Norwich, where, with Sir Thomas Paston, Sir John Clere, Sir William Waldegrave and Sir Thomas Cornwallis, he was appointed to...
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February 2015. Grossman 1951, p. 41 fig.3, pp. 43–44 "Sir Nicholas Poyntz (1510–1557)". National Trust. Retrieved 16 February 2015. "An unidentified man". Royal...
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gunners. After re-construction in 1551, in August 1557 the ship was one of a fleet of 12 commanded by John Clere that unsuccessfully assaulted the town of Kirkwall...
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by a Scottish force numbering 3000, and the English vice-admiral Sir John Clere of Ormesby was killed, but none of the English ships were lost. The Scottish...
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by a Scottish force numbering 3000, and the English vice-admiral Sir John Clere of Ormesby was killed, but none of the English ships were lost. In July...
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Hitcham, Suffolk, in 1542 from Sir John Clere, and leased it to Sir John Spring of Lavenham: Spring however died in 1547, and by 1551 the hall had been...
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the timber for the repair of the mill. In 1557, Ralph Bosville bought the mill. In 1592, Henry Bosville died, leaving his manor of Bradbourne, and a "water...
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He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Clere of Ormesby, Norfolk, by whom he had a son, Clere Haddon, who was drowned in the river Cam, probably...
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Christmas carols belonging to the years 1551, 1552, 1553, 1555, 1556 and 1557 for eight voices, in addition to the one from 1559 for seven voices. Palafox...
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Loveyne before passing to his son-in-law, Sir Philip St Clere. When Sir Philip St. Clere died in 1408, very shortly after his wife, he was holding the...
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Hill. John, the fourth in descent, who was of Ashburton, married the heiress of Holwell, by whom he had a daughter and heiress married to St. Clere. The...
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Alexander Evelyn of St Clere 1817: William Alexander Morland of Lamberhurst 1818: William Henry Baldock of Petham 1819: Hon. John Wingfield Stratford of...
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1401: John Pelham 1402: John Ashburnham of Ashburnham, Sussex 1403–04: Robert Atte Mulle 1405: Sir Philip St Clere 1406: Sir Thomas Sackvile 1407: John Clipsham...
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Tichborne (son of Nicholas 1547) 1554: Sir John Bruyn 1555: John of Southwick Whyte 1556: John Norton of East Tisted 1557: Sir Richard Pexsall 1558: Sir Oliver...
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