Sir John Clay

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Sir John Clay was a combatant in the Wars of the Roses who fought on the Yorkist side in the Battle of Tewkesbury, fought on May 4, 1471. King Edward IV of England knighted him, and his coat of arms depicts three lions facing another and engaging in a quarrel. [1] He is an ancestor of U.S. political figures Henry Clay and Cassius Marcellus Clay.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ The Lance and Longbow Society

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