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seized his estates, which, however, he afterwards restored to the 

 daughters, assigning them as wards to two of his own faithful 

 adherents : Isabella to Roger de Clifford, and Idonea to Roger de 

 Leyburn ; and both guardians thought they could best fulfil their 

 delicate charge by marrying their respective wards, as no doubt the 

 King had intended. 



Roger de CHfford had to wait only four or five years for his 

 ward reaching the then marriageable age of fifteen ; but the other 

 Roger (like Jacob of old) had to wait twice seven years, for his 

 wife' had to grow up from babyhood ; but grow up she did, and 

 was married to Roger Leyburn, who, with her, got one half of her 

 family possessions, including the castles of Brough and Pendraggon. 

 Idonea outlived her Roger, got another husband and outlived him, 

 and, dying at the age of eighty-six without issue, her half of the 

 Vetripont estates came to the grandson of her sister Isabella. 



And now, having reached the end of the Vetriponts, let us see 

 where Isabella's Roger de Clifford came from. Of course we must 

 go back to the inevitable Conqueror, in whose army came a soldier 

 of fortune, Richard Fitz Pune, grandson of the Duke of Normandy. 

 This Richard Fitz Pune had a son Walter, who married an heiress, 

 Margaret Poxey, and with her got the castle and lands of Clifford 

 in Herefordshire, when he assumed the name of De Clifford, and 

 dropped the old Norman name Fitz Pune. His son, the second 

 Lord Clifford, was also a Walter; he was father of that surpassing 

 beauty of her age. Fair Rosamond. 



The third Lord Clifford left no son, only a daughter Maud, 

 who succeeded to the Clifford estates, whilst her father's younger 

 brother, Roger de Clifford, took an estate in Worcestershire. He 

 also had a son Roger, and as father and son were contemporaries, 

 and were both active men in the wars of their time, they were 

 known as Roger the Elder and Roger the Younger respectively ; 

 and it was the younger Roger to whom fell as ward and wife the 

 Vetripont coheiress Isabella, she at her marriage being fifteen 

 years old, and Roger thirty-four. This was in 1269. 



For services in the wars of France, Ireland, and England, 

 Henry III. granted Roger valuable possessions and honours in 



