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John "The Butcher" Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford is my 14th great-grandfather.
He was born in an English castle in 1435. He was a Lancastrian military leader,
dying on March 28, 1462 during the Battle of Towton in the War of the
Roses, when an arrow struck him in the throat after removing a piece of
armor known as a gorget. He is notorious for the slaying of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, younger
brother of the future King Edward IV, following the Battle of Wakefield
in 1460.
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The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford
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