General Notes

After Sir Thomas' death, Dame Katherine took as her husband Sir William de Tendring of Stokes-by-Nayland. Through this marriage she became the distant grandmother of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of King Henry the V111, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth 1. Dame Katherine, is buried In the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk. Their memorial Brasses are among the finest in England. The Clopton Arms: ermine spot on the bend in base may be seen on the mantle of the depiction of Dame Katherine. The descendents of William Clopton and his wife, Ann Booth, are direct descendents of Guillaume Pecche and Alfwen, his wife, by both the Clopton-Mylde marriage and the Mylde de tendring marriage. See "Place of Lutons".

Note: Katherine's grandson, Robert Howard, by her daughter Alice was b. in 1383, far too early for Alice to be the daughter of a 1381 marriage.  The only published source (CP:VII:197) that I have names her "Catherine Clopton", which could be her married name (by her first marriage), in which case her first husband, Thomas Clopton, did not die in 1380/1 or 1383 as some have it, but by 1367, in order for her to have Alice by her 2nd husband by that date.