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In 1066 Duke William of Normandy came to claim England and
brought many French nobles with him. Three of them were the sons of
Raoul de Tancarville, Chamberlain of Normandy. After the battle of
Hastings, the youngest son was given the land around the village of Glympton,
on the river Glyme, about 15 km NW of Oxford. The son took Glympton as the
family name. About sixty years later, about 1130, the family name was changed to Clinton.
(DAR Library, History of the Clintons.) In England, Clintons have been
in many areas of government, nobility, and local service. Some historical
notes are in the final section below.
In the U.S. Clintons have served at many local and state levels of
government and as vice-president of the United States. William
Jefferson Blyth changed his name to that of his step-grandfather
Clinton and as William Clinton became the 43rd president of the
U.S.
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Glympton, a village in Oxfordshire. This name was prominent in medieval
Irish records such as the Calender of Documents (1171-1307), the Justiciary
Rolls (1295-1314), the Ormond Deeds (1419-1603) and the Chancery Rolls
(1538-1629). Three Clintons appear in the lists of Jacobite outlawries,
while twenty-two are mentioned in the Dowdall Deeds (1250-1691). Stephen
Clinton from Clintonstown is recorded amongst those whose lands were
confiscated in the barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth under the Cromwellian
settlement of 1657. Later records include Thomas Clinton, who is recorded
amongst the List of Proprietors in Ireland whose estates were confiscated
and sold at Chichester House, Dublin in 1702 and 1703. Families of this name
were also established in other parts of the country, notably in County
Kilkenny.
http://www.hrc.sk/historia_znamych.htm
From Burkes-peerage.net :
CLINTON THE 22ND LORD (Baron) CLINTON(Gerard Nevile Mark FANE later
FANE TREFUSIS (deed poll 1959), JP (Bideford 1963), DL (Devon 1977)) [The Rt
Hon The Lord Clinton DL, Heanton Satchville, Okehampton, Devon EX20 3QE];
b 7 Oct 1934; Lineage: GEOFFREY
de CLINTON; Treasurer and Ld Chamberlain to HENRY I
THE 19TH EARL OF LINCOLN (Robert Edward Fiennes-Clinton) [The Rt Hon The Earl of Lincoln,
PO Box 8223, Warnbro, WA 6169, Australia]; b 19 June 1972; s
gf 2001
Lineage:
EDWARD CLINTON
alias FIENNES, 9th LORD (Baron) CLINTON (qv) and 1st Earl of
Lincoln (E), so cr 4 May 1572; had by his 2nd w.
The Complete History:
Geoffrey de Clinton
(d. c. 1134) was an
Anglo-Norman
noble, chamberlain and treasurer to
King Henry I of England. He was foremost amongst the men king Henry
"raised from the dust".[1].
He married Lescelina. Clinton's
family surname probably derives from the
village of
Glympton in Oxfordshire.[2],
though the family ultimately derived from
Saint-Pierre-de-Semilly (Manche, arr.
St. Lô, canton St.-Clair) in western Normandy.[3]
It appears
that Clinton spent some years as a minor official of the king's, until the
1118 fall of the treasurer Herbert camerarius, who was accused of
plotting against the king. By 1120 Clinton had taken his place. Not too long
afterwards Clinton was appointed sheriff of Warwickshire (by 1121), to act
as counterweight to the Earl of Warwick,
Roger de Beaumont, who Henry I did not trust. The 1122 rebellion of
Roger's cousin
Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester increased the king's
suspicions still further, and he compelled Roger to grant Clinton a
substantial part of his Warwickshire domains.[4] Clinton
further secured his position by starting work on the great castle of
Kenilworth, only two miles from the earl's central fortress at
Warwick.[5]Clinton
received other land grants from Henry I, and he used his position of
political influence to enrich himself in other ways[6].
In sum his total wealth was just below the level of the greatest magnates of
the kingdom.[7]
He had enough to spend 2,000 pounds to insure his nephew
Roger de Clinton's election as Bishop of Coventry.[8]
Baron
Clinton is a title in the
Peerage of England. It was created in
1298 for John de Clinton. The peerage was created by
writ, which means that it can descend through both male and female
lines. The first Baron's great-great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, fought
on the
Yorkist side in the
Wars of the Roses. He was attainted in
1461 but late restored to his title. His great-great-grandson, the ninth
Baron, was created Earl of Lincoln in
1572. The titles remained united until the death of his
great-great-great-grandson, the fifth Earl, in
1692. The earldom was inherited by the late Earl's cousin, the sixth
Earl (see the
Earl of Lincoln for later history of this title) while the barony fell
into
abeyance between his aunts.
The abeyance
was terminated in
1721 in favour of Hugh Fortescue, the fourteenth Baron. In
1746 he was created Baron Fortescue, of Castlehill in the County
of Devon, with remainder to his half-brother Matthew, and Earl Clinton,
with remainder to the heirs male of his body. Lord Clinton was childless and
on his death the earldom of Clinton became extinct while he was succeeded in
the barony of Fortescue according to the special remainder by his
half-brother, the second Baron (see the
Earl Fortescue for later history of this title). The barony of Clinton,
however, was passed on to the late Earl's cousin Margaret Walpole, the
fifteenth holder. She was the widow of
Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford. She was succeeded by her son, the
third Earl and sixteenth Baron. He was childless and on his death the
earldom passed to his uncle, the fourth Earl (see the
Earl of Orford for later history of this title), while the barony of
Clinton became dormant.
It was
successfully claimed in
1794 by the late Earl's kinsman Robert George William Trefusis, the
seventeenth Baron. He was a descendant of Lady Arabella, second daughter of
the fourth Earl of Lincoln. His younger son, the nineteenth Baron, notably
represented
Callington in the
House of Commons. He was succeeded by his son, the twentieth Baron. He
served as
Under-Secretary of State for India from
1867 to
1868 in the
Conservative administrations of the
Earl of Derby and
Benjamin Disraeli and was also
Lord Lieutenant of Devonshire. In
1867 Lord Clinton assumed by Royal license the additional surnames of
Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes, which were those of his father-in-law.
His son, the
twenty-second Baron, held minor office in the coalition government of
David Lloyd George and served as
Lord Warden of the Stannaries. On his death in
1957 the barony fell into abeyance between his two daughters Hon.
Harriet and Hon. Fenella. The abeyance was terminated in
1965 in favour of Gerald Neville Mark Fane Trefusis, the twenty-third
and (as of
2007) present holder of the title. He is the only son of Captain Charles
Nevile Fane (who was killed in the
Second World War), eldest son of the aforementioned Hon. Harriet. Lord
Clinton had already in
1958 assumed by
deed poll the additional surname of Trefusis. The
Heir Apparent is the present holder's son Hon.
Charles Patrick Rolle Fane-Trefusis
(b.
1962). The Heir Apparent's Heir Apparent is his son Edward Charles
Rolle Fane-Trefusis (b.
1994).
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