Anne Clifford. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford was an English peeress.
In 1605 she inherited her father's ancient barony by writ and became suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford. She was a patron of literature and as evidenced by her diary and many letters was a literary personage in her own right.
She held the hereditary office of High Sheriff of Westmorland which role she exercised from 1653 to 1676. Lady Anne was born on 30 January 1590 in Skipton Castle, and was baptised the following 22 February in Holy Trinity Church in Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
She was the only surviving child and sole heiress of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland of Appleby Castle in Westmorland and of Skipton Castle, by his wife, Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford. Her childhood tutor was the poet Samuel Daniel.
On the death of her father on 30 October 1605, she succeeded suo jure to the ancient title Baroness de Clifford, a barony created by writ in 1299, but her father's earldom passed as was usual, to the heir male, namely his younger brother Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, to whom he had willed his estates. He had bequeathed to Anne the sum of E15,000. In her young adulthood she engaged in a long and complex legal battle to obtain the family estates, which had been granted by King Ed
In 1605 she inherited her father's ancient barony by writ and became suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford. She was a patron of literature and as evidenced by her diary and many letters was a literary personage in her own right.
She held the hereditary office of High Sheriff of Westmorland which role she exercised from 1653 to 1676. Lady Anne was born on 30 January 1590 in Skipton Castle, and was baptised the following 22 February in Holy Trinity Church in Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
She was the only surviving child and sole heiress of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland of Appleby Castle in Westmorland and of Skipton Castle, by his wife, Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford. Her childhood tutor was the poet Samuel Daniel.
On the death of her father on 30 October 1605, she succeeded suo jure to the ancient title Baroness de Clifford, a barony created by writ in 1299, but her father's earldom passed as was usual, to the heir male, namely his younger brother Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, to whom he had willed his estates. He had bequeathed to Anne the sum of E15,000. In her young adulthood she engaged in a long and complex legal battle to obtain the family estates, which had been granted by King Ed
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