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 304 CLINTON. CLINTON, or DE CLINTON. Barony by 1. John* de Clinton, ( a ) of Aldington and Maxtoek, writ. co- Warwick, s. and h, of Thomas de Clinton, of Amington, by I 1°99 Maud, da. of Sir Ralph liiiACEnmDCiE, of luusbury, co. Warwick, having served in the Scotch and French wars, and, having in. Ida, 1st da. and coheir of William Odixosells, of Maxtoek afsd., by Ela, da. of William (Lonuesfee), Earl of Salisbury, acquired by her the Lordship and Castle of Maxtoek and other considerable possessions, and was sum. to Pari, as a Karon (LORD DE CLINTON) by writ, ti Feb. (1298/9) 27 Ed. l,{ b ) directed Joki dc Clinton. He was never agaiu so sum., though, 2 years later (12 March 1300/1), sum. to meet the King cum cquis ct armis, being then denominated as of Maxtoek. Keeper of Wallingford Castle, 130S. He d. before (1312-13) ti Ed. II, when bis widow accom- panied the Queen Consort to France. II. 1313? 2. Jonx (Clinton), Lord tie Clinton, s. and h., aged or 12, in 1315 ; Knighted before 1321. From 27 Jarfy. (1331/2) (5 1 332. IH/ 1 ') to 1 April (1335) 9 Ed. Ill, he was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD DE CLINTON), the words " Mortuus est" being added to the last writ. He m. Margery, da. of Sir William Corbet, of Chaddesley Corbet, co. Worcester. He d. about 1335.( c ) III. 1335 1 3. John (Clinton), Lord de Clinton, s. and h. On the death, 31 Aug. 1354, of his paternal uncle, William (Clinton), Earl of Huntingdon, he was found his heir, and then aged 28. Having previously been knighted, he served in 1355 in the French wars, was at the battle of Poitiers (1356), and was sum. to Pari, from 15 Dec. 1357 to 5 Nov. 1397. In 1380 he was again in the wars with Franco. In 1390 lie was Constable of Warwick Castle and custos of other lands of the attainted Earl of Warwick. He m. firstly Idonea, da. of (whose issue, in 1399, became coheir to) Geoffrey (de Save), Lord Save, by Manet, do, of Guy (Beauchamp), Eaul of Warwick. He m. secondly, Elizabeth, widow of Robert (Grey), Lord Grey de Rothebfield, da. and eventually sole h. of William de la Plai'Nche, of Haversham, Bucks, by Elizabeth, da. of Roger Hillary. He d. S Sep. 139S. His widow m. Sir John Bebminuham, and, subsequently (for her 4th husband), Sir Johu Russell. She d. B.p. 1 123, and was bur. at Haversham.( J ) IV. 139S. 4. William (Clinton), Lord de Clinton, grandson and h.. beings, and h„ of Sir William Clinton (by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Deincourt), who was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, by his 1st wife, but who d. v.p. 25 Oct. 13S4, leaviug his said s. and h., then aged 5. He was sum. to Pari, from 19 Aug. 1399, to Nov. 1430.( c ) Having, in 1399, sue. to some of the lauds of the ( a ) The name is said to be " from Glimpton, anciently written Clinton, co. Oxford." See Lower's " Family Names," The founder of the family, Geoffrey de Clinton, Treasurer and Chamberlain to King Henry I, is said, by Ordcricus (who, as a contem- porary, probably can be trusted), to have been of mean parentage, though, according to some accounts, he was of the noblest Norman extraction. ( b ) According to the ranking of the Barony in the House of Lords (" Garter's Roll," 1887), whereby " Clinton " is placed next under " Daere" (ct. 1321). and next above Zouche (1348 ?) and Botreaux (1 368), the origin of the Barony of Clinton can only bo considered from the writ of 6 Ed. Ill (1332; and not from 1299. ( c ) His yr. br., William Clinton, sum. as Lord Clinton, 1330, was cr. Earl of Huntingdon, 1337, and d. (certainly) s.p.m. (probably B.p. legit.), 1354, when his nephew, John Clinton, was his next heir as aboveuientioued. ( d ) An engraving of her seal " sigill due Elizabethe de Clinton " is in Lipscomb's, "Bucks" (iv, 187), and represents a shield divided in1o 5 parts palewise, the centra containing the arms of De la Plaunche, the 2 earlier husbands being on the dexter and the 2 later ones on the sinister side. (°) There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting.