Lordship Title of Cliffords or Le Veel

County: Buckinghamshire
Parish: Swanbourne
History from: Pre-Conquest (1066)
History to: 1624

Documented history: Yes

Domesday Book: Yes
Interesting Facts:

Become the 36th Lord and Lady of Cliffords or Le Veel

1st Lord – Swein, Ansger the constable’s man, who owed service to Ansger.

2nd Lord – Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st High Sheriff of London and Middlesex and hereditary Constable of the Tower of London.

3rd Lord – William de Mandeville (Geoffrey’s son) is the keeper of the first person to be imprisoned in the Tower, Ranulph Flambard, who actually escaped.  As punishment Geoffrey has a third of his estates confiscated and Constable of the Tower taken away.

4th Lord – Geoffrey de Mandeville supported King Stephen in the Civil War and is rewarded with the Earldom of Essex and return of the Constableship of the Tower of London.  Geoffrey builds Walden Castle.  He is granted the offices of High Sheriff of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and London by Empress Maud.  This displeases King Stephen who made Geoffrey surrender Pleshy and Saffron Walden Castle and the Tower of London.

5th Lord – Geoffrey de Mandeville married Eustachia, an illegitimate daughter of King Henry I.

6th Lord – William de Mandeville crusaded with Count Philip of Flanders.

8th Lord – Geoffrey de Say inherits the de Mandeville hereditary titles, offices and lands and is also appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and Constable of Berkhamsted Castle and Chief Justiciar of England.

9th Lord – Geoffrey de Say married Isabel of Gloucester, King John’s ex-wife, and gains the Earldom of Gloucester.  King John charges Geoffrey 20,000 marks for his bride.  Geoffrey supports the rebel barons and serves as a surety to Magna Carta.  Geoffrey lead a force sieging Berkhamsted Castle.  A force from the castle crept out and  captured a large amount of Geoffrey’s luggage while they were setting up camp.

11th Lord – Humphrey de Bohun served as one of nine godfathers to Prince Edward (the future King Edward I).

17th Lord – John Moleyns, Steward of the King’s Household was made a knight banneret with an annual income of £100.  Sir John served as a Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.  He was one of the commissioners authorised to raise a Loan of £100,000 at Antwerp for the war in France.  King Edward returns from France and no money has been raised.  King Edward threw Sir John in prison and he is disgraced.  4 days later he escapes and his lands are forfeit.

22nd Lord – Sir Thomas de Missenden, King Edward III’s groom.

23rd Lord – Edmund de Missenden served in several military campaigns and was knighted.  Sir Edmund is appointed Coroner of Buckinghamshire, then elected a Knight of the Shire and Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire.

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