'Clare1'
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Families covered: Clare of Clare, Clare of Gloucester, Clare of Hertford, Clare of Pembroke
| Gilbert FitzRichard de Toneburge (Tonbridge) and Clare (b c1065, d 1114/7) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Adeliza de Clermont (dau of Hugh, Count of Clermont, by Marguerite) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, '1st' Earl of Hertford (b 1084-90, d 15.04.1136) | ||||||||||||||
| BE1883 reports that Richard "first bore the title of Earl of Hertford". However, TCP (Clare) notes that Richard "is often supposed to have been cr. Earl of Hertford by King Stephen, if not by Henry I. There appears, however, to be no ground for this belief." As so many sources follow the BE1883 numbering, we do so also but, in deference to TCP, show also the TCP numbering. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Adeliza/Alice de Meschines (b 1088/94, d 1128, dau of Ranulph 'de Briquessart' de Meschines, 1st Earl of Chester) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Gilbert de Clare, 1st/2nd Earl of Hertford, 'Earl of Clare' (dsp c1152) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Roger de Clare, 2nd/3rd Earl of Hertford, 'Earl of Clare' (b 1116, d 1173) | ||||||||||||||
| m(1). ?? | |||||||||||||||
| Presumably because she was several years older than her brother Richard, TCP suggests that Mabel may have been by an earlier marriage. | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Mabel de Clare | -- | |||||||||||||
| m(1). William de Helion (a 1142) | |||||||||||||||
| This may also have been the Mabel who married ... | |||||||||||||||
| m(2). Nigil de Mowbray (d 1191) | -- | ||||||||||||||
| m(2). Maud de St. Hilary (d 1173, dau of James de St. Hilary by Aveline) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Richard de Clare, 3rd/4th Earl of Hertford, 'Earl of Clare' (b 1162, d 11.1217)§C |
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| m. (1180, div before 1200) Amicia FitzRobert (b 1160, d 01.01.1225, dau of William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Gilbert de Clare, 4th/5th Earl of Hertford, 1st Earl of Gloucester (b c1180, d 25.10.1230)§C |
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| m. (09.10.1217) Isabel Marshal (b 1203, d 17.01.1240, dau of William Mareschal, 1st Earl of Pembroke) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Richard de Clare, 5th/6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b 04.08.1222, d 15.07.1262) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Margaret de Burgh (dsp 11.1237, dau of Hubert de Bourgh, Earl of Kent) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (by 25.01.1238) Maud de Lacy (b c1223, d 10.03.1288, dau of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Gilbert 'the Red' de Clare, 6th/7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester (b 02.09.1243, d 07.12.1295) | ||||||||||||||
| TCP acknowledges that some sources (BE1883 is one) identifies Gilbert's 1st wife as daughter of Guy de Lusignan but shows her father as Guy's elder brother, viz: | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (1253, div 1271) Alice de Lusignan (dau of Hugh de Lusingan, Earl of Angouleme, by Yolande) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Isabel de Clare (b 10.03.1262/3, dsp 1338) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (before 11.05.1297, div) Guy de Beauchamp, 2nd Earl of Warwick (d 12.08.1315) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (c1316) Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Lord Berkeley (b 04.1271, d 31.05.1326) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Johanna de Clare (a 1322) | -- | |||||||||||||
| m1. Duncan, 9th Earl of Fife (b c1262, d 25.09.1288) | -- | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (after 22.04.1299) Sir Gervase Avenel | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (30.04.1290) Joan Plantagenet 'of Acre' (b 1272, d 04.1307, dau of King Edward I of England) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Gilbert de Clare, 7th/8th Earl of Hertford, 4th Earl of Gloucester (b 10/1.05.1291, d Bannockburn 24.06.1314) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.09.1308) Maud de Burgh (d 1320, dau of Richard de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | John de Clare (b 03.04.1312, d 1312) | ||||||||||||||
| (iv) | Alianore de Clare (b 1292, d 30.06.1337) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (after 14.06.1306) Hugh Despencer, 'the younger', Lord Despencer (d 11.1326) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (c01.1328/9) William Zouche of Ashby, 1st Lord Zouche of Mortimer (d 28.02.1336/7) | |||||||||||||||
| (v) | Margaret de Clare (b c1292, d 13.04.1342) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (01.11.1307) Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall (d 19.06.1312) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (28.04.1317) Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester (d 10.11.1347) | |||||||||||||||
| (vi) | Elizabeth de Clare (b 16.09.1294/5, d 04.11.1360) | Y | |||||||||||||
| m1. (30.09.1308) John de Burgh of Ulster (b c1290, dvp 18.06.1313) | Y | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (04.02.1315/6) Sir Theobald de Verdon, 2nd Lord, Justice of Ireland (b 08.09.1278, d 27.07.1316) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. (before 03.05.1317) Sir Roger Damory, Lord (d 13.4..03.1321/2) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Sir Thomas de Clare (b c1245, d 02.1287/8, Governor of London) | ||||||||||||||
| BE1883 names Thomas's wife as Amy but TCP (Badlesmere) calls her "Julian (not Amy)". | |||||||||||||||
| m. Juliana FitzMaurice (a 1309, dau of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Lord Justice of Ireland) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Richard de Clare (dvp) | ||||||||||||||
| (a) | Thomas de Clare (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| BE1883 shows the following as daughters of Thomas, shown by BE1883 as 3rd son of Governor Thomas but named by TCP (Gloucester) as his heir, but TCP (Badlesmere and Clifford) identifies them as daughters rather than granddaughters of Governor Thomas. | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Maud de Clare (b c1279, d 1326/7) | Y | |||||||||||||
| m1. (03.11.1295) Robert de Clifford, 1st Lord (d Bannockburn 1314) | Y | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Robert de Welle | |||||||||||||||
| TCP (Welles) reports that, contrary to what was reported in the earlier-released TCP (Clifford), the Robert de Welle who was Maud's second husband was not Robert de Welles, 2nd Lord. | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Margaret de Clare (b 1286/7, d 1333) | Y | |||||||||||||
| m1. Gilbert de Umfraville (d before 1307) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (by 30.06.1308) Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord (b c1274, d 1322) | Y | ||||||||||||||
| (iv)+ | other issue - Thomas, Gilbert (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| (C) | Isabel de Clare (b 05.1240) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Marquess of Montferrat | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Margaret de Clare (b 1249, dsp 1313) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1272, div 1293/4) Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall (b 1249, dsp 1300) | |||||||||||||||
| (E) | Roese de Clare (b 17.10.1252) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1270) Roger de Mowbray, 1st Lord (d by 1297) | |||||||||||||||
| (F)+ | other issue - Bevis/Benet (b 21.07.1248), Robert?, Eglentine (b 1257, d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Amicia de Clare (b 27.05.1220, d before 21.01.1283/4) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1226) Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, Earl of the Isle of Wight (d 1245) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Isabel de Clare (b 08.11.1226, d 1254) | JR | |||||||||||||
| m. (05.1240) Sir Robert de Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (b 1210, d 1295) | JR | ||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue - Sir William (b 18.05.1228, d 23.07.1258), Gilbert (b 12.09.1229), Agnes | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Maud de Clare (b 1175/84, d 1213) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Roger de Lacy | |||||||||||||||
| Various web sites show this as the Roger de Lacy who died in 1211 (## see here ##). Even if the marriages were the other way round, if the dates are to be believed, she could not have borne all his children. We hope to investigate this further in due course. | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (c1197) William de Braose of Totnes (d 1210) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Joan de Clare | ||||||||||||||
| m. Rhys Grig, Lord of Cammot Mawr (d 1234) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Aveline de Clare (d before 04.06.1225) | HJY | |||||||||||||
| m1. (before 1186) William de Munchensy of Gooderstone (d before 07.05.1204) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (by 29.05.1205) Geoffrey FitzPiers, 1st/4th Earl of Essex (d 02.10.1213, Justiciar) | HJY | ||||||||||||||
| iv.+ | other issue - John, Richard | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Adela de Clare shown by BP1934 (Northumberland) but not by BE1883 | Y | |||||||||||||
| m. William de Percy | Y | ||||||||||||||
| D. | Rohese de Clare | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln (b c1120, d 1156/60) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Robert (Sewer of William de Percy and son of Robert son of Fulk) | |||||||||||||||
| E. | Alice de Clare | ||||||||||||||
| m. Cadwalar (d 1172, ap Gruffydd, Prince of North Wales) | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Baldwin FitzGilbert of Bourne (b 1088/92, d Lincoln 1154) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Adeline de Rollos (dau of Richard de Rollos) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Emma (d by 1168) shown by TCP (Wake) but not by BE1883 | HJY | |||||||||||||
| m. Hugh le Wake (d by 12.1176) | HJY | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Margaret | ||||||||||||||
| This Margaret is mentioned in TCP (vol X, appendix J) though the de Vere page suggests that this was wrong. BE1883 reports that a Margaret who was Baldwin's daughter married Montfichet but TCP (Pembroke) identifies that Margaret as sister of Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. | |||||||||||||||
| m. (after 1176) Robert de Vere | |||||||||||||||
| C.+ | other issue - William, Robert, Richard | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Gilbert FitzGilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b 21.09.1100, d c1148) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (by 1130) Elizabeth de Beaumont (Isabel de Meulan) (d c1147, dau of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Richard 'Strongbow' de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, 'Earl of Strigul or Striguil' (b c1125/30, d 05/20.04.1176) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (26.08.1171) Eve of Leinster (d 1177, dau of Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Gilbert de Clare of Strigoil, '3rd Earl of Pembroke' (b 1173, dsp after 1184) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Isabel de Clare (b c1151, d 1220) | HJRY | |||||||||||||
| m. William le Mareschal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d 1219) | HJRY | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Basilia de Clare | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Raymond FitzGerald, 'the fat', Constable of Leinster | |||||||||||||||
| Raymond is identified by BE1883 as son of William FitzGerald of Ireland. Basilia and Raymond are thought by some to be progenitors of the Grace family where reference is found suggesting that Raymond's father was named Walter. | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Geoffrey FitzRobert | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Alice/Adeliza de Clare (b c1080, d c1163) | GHJSY | |||||||||||||
| m. Alberic de Vere, Great Chamberlain of England (d c1140) | GHJSY | ||||||||||||||
| 5. | Margaret de Clare (a 1185) | ||||||||||||||
| m. William de Montfichet (d 1135/6) | |||||||||||||||
| 6.+ | other issue - Walter (dsp), Hervey de Monte Mariscoe | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BE1883 (Clare of Hertford & Gloucester) with support/input from TCP (Hertford), TCP (Gloucester), TCP (Pembroke), BE1883 (Clare of Pembroke)
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