Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland

Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland (1517 – January 1570) was a member of the Clifford family, seated at Skipton Castle from 1310 to 1676. His wife was Lady Eleanor Brandon, a niece of King Henry VIII.

Henry was a son of Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland by his wife Margaret Percy, daughter of Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland and Catherine Spencer.

His maternal great-grandfather was Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, whose wife was Maud Herbert, Countess of Northumberland. His maternal grandmother was a daughter of Sir Robert Spencer and Eleanor Beaufort. Eleanor was a daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Eleanor Beauchamp. She was a granddaughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth Berkeley. He served as hereditary High Sheriff of Westmorland.

He married twice:

Firstly, before June 1537, to Lady Eleanor Brandon (d.27 September 1547), his half fourth cousin, the second daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk by his wife Mary Tudor, former queen consort of France. According to the Third Succession Act of 23 March 1544, she was the seventh-in-line to the throne of the Kingdom of England. With her death her daughter Margaret took her place in the line of succession. The expenses of this alliance seriously impoverished Henry's estate and obliged him to alienate the great manor of Temedbury, Herefordshire, the oldest estate then remaining in the family. Eleanor was a younger sister of Henry Brandon (who died very young) and Lady Frances Brandon and an older sister of Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln (named after their dead brother). Her paternal grandparents were Sir William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn. Her maternal grandparents were Henry VII of England and his queen consort Elizabeth of York. Following her death in 1547 Henry retired to the country, and concentrated on increasing his paternal inheritance, and is said to have visited the court only thrice: at Queen Mary's coronation, on his daughter's marriage, and again soon after Queen Elizabeth's accession. By his wife Eleanor Brandon Henry had three children:

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