Sir John Giffard

Abt 1233 - 1299  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Sir John Giffard  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	Abt 1233
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1257
  	Commanded to be at Bristol with horse and arms to march into South Wales against Llewellyn ap Griffin
  Occupation	1282
  	A commander with the expedition made by Gilbert de Clare (Earl of Gloucester) against Llewellyn, Prince of Wales
  Occupation	1282
  	Joined on the battlefield by Edward de Mortimer, they killed the prince and dispatched his head to the king
  Occupation	1290
  	Governor of Dynevor Castle in Wales
  Occupation	24 Jun 1295
  	1st Lord Giffard "de Brimmesfeld"
  Died	29 May 1299	Boyton, Wiltshire, England
  Buried	Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England
  Person ID	I21449	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Sir Elias Giffard of Brimpsfield,   b. Abt 1180,   d. 1248  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Alice Mautravers
  Married	Abt 1230
  Family ID	F11641	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud de Clifford,   b. Abt 1235,   d. 1282  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Married	1270
  Children	1. Eleanor Giffard,   b. Abt 1270,   d. Bef 1323  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F11643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume V, pp. 639-644. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 126, 222 & 500. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 31:29A-29.