Robert Clifford, 4th Baron de Clifford (born between 1328 and 1331-d.1350) and lord of the

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of Skipton Craven was a member of the

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in fourteenth-century England. He was the son and heir of Robert, the third Baron and was aged somewhere between thirteen and sixteen on his father's death in 1344. Young Robert married into the

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in April 1343 when he wed Euphemia, daughter of Ralph, Lord of Raby,Cokayne, G.E., ''Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'' III, eds V.Gibbs & H.A. Doubleday (2nd ed., London, 1913), 292. in whose

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ship Clifford had been placed. He died in France without heirs, and without ever having

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, in 1350. Euphemia remarried within two years, to a son of Thomas, Lord Lucy, and lived until November 1393. He was succeeded by his brother

Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford, 9th Lord Clifford, 5th Baron of Westmoreland (10 July 1333 – 13 July 1389), was the son of Robert de Clifford, 3rd Baron de Clifford (d. 20 May 1344), second son of Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clif ...

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