Talk:Gervase Clifton (died 1471)
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This needs to be sorted[edit]
From the piece:
Clifton served as Lieutenant of Dover Castle and as Captain of Pontoise, France where he was knighted. He came into an estate at Brabourne, Kent, by his marriage to an heiress, Isabel Herbert. He was Mayor of Canterbury in 1450, served as High Sheriff of Kent for 1439, 1450 and 1458 and represented Kent in the Parliament of 1455.
Clifton was not captain of Pontoise; he was not knighted there. There is no contemporary source that Clifton was ever at Pontoise; Hall is a Tudor historian. He was still an esquire when he became Treasurer of Calais in May 1451, not 1450.[3]
Obviously the second paragraph was inserted by someone who took issue with the first. That of course should be dealt with by editing and not by a 'That's not true!" remark. I don't have access to the reference quoted above so I cannot make the edit myself. The editor (3393bonita) does not appear to have a talk page so I cannot notify them.Cross Reference (talk) 15:50, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Category:People executed under the Lancastrians[edit]
As he was executed for fighting for the Lancastrians at Tewksbury would it not be more appropriate for him to be in Category:People executed under the Yorkists? While a case could be made that the Lancastrian Henry VI was still in power, it is a rather week one and most historians would consider the Yorkist Edward IV to be the de facto and de jure monarch by this point. Dunarc (talk) 19:36, 9 July 2018 (UTC)