Kammala wannan jumla: Henry Clifford babban wasan kwaikwayo ne a cikin ayyukan uku wanda Isaac Albéniz ya tsara zuwa wani ɗan littafin Turanci wanda Francis Money-Coutts ya rubuta (a ƙarƙashin sunan "Mountjoy"). An fara shi ne a Gran Teatro del Liceo a ranar 8 ga Mayu, 1895. Opera ya dogara ne akan tarihin tarihi da abubuwan da suka faru kuma an saita shi a karni na 15 a Ingila a lokacin
Yaƙe-yaƙe na Roses, ya yi yaƙi tsakanin gidaje masu adawa na gidajen Lancaster da York. Halin da ake kira, Henry Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford, shi ne kawai dan John Clifford, wani kwamandan Lancastrian da aka kashe a cikin yakin da ya fi jini, yakin Towton, a ranar 29 ga Maris, 1461. Henry Clifford da kansa ya kasance daya daga cikin manyan kwamandoji a yakin Flodden da Scots a 1513.