Sir Thomas Clere (died 1545) was a successful poet at the court of Henry VIII.
He was engaged to Mary Shelton, a former mistress of the King's, in 1545,[1] but died before their love match could be made into a marriage.
Thomas Clere was the third son of Sir Robert Clere (c.1493 - 10 August 1529) of Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, and his wife Alice, the daughter of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Margaret Ormond (otherwise Butler), daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond.
[3] Clere died on 14 April 1545 from wounds received at the siege of Montreuil in 1544, fighting for the Earl of Surrey.
[4] Thomas Clere was buried in the Church of St Mary at Lambeth in Surrey.