Clifford Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Clifford Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Clifford

The Clifford family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Clifford is a locational name from parishes in Hereford, Gloucester and Bristol, and a Township near Leeds in Yorkshire. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland , Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout these countries. Examples of such are a Margaret de Clifford, County Oxfordshire, a Roger de Clifford, County Wiltshire, and a John de Clyfford, County Gloucestershire, who were all recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England , in the year 1273. A family of this name trace their descent from Walter de Clifford, eldest son of Richard Fitzpons, in the year 1154. He acquired the surname from Clifford Castle near Hayon-Wye, which was bestowed on him on the occasion of his marriage to the daughter of Ralph de Toeni. Clifford is sometimes an anglicized form of the Gaelic O'Clumhain name of County Cork, which was also changed to Coleman.