1090 - 1136 (46 years)
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Name |
Richard FitzGilbert de Clare [1] |
Title |
Lord of Tonbridge Lord of Cardigan |
Birth |
1090 |
Clare, Suffolk, England [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
15 Apr 1136 |
Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales [1, 2] |
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Burial |
Tonbridge, Kent, England [1] |
Person ID |
I1577 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
Family |
Alice de Meschines, b. Abt 1094, Gernons Castle, Normandy, France d. 1154 (Age 60 years) |
Marriage |
Abt 1115 |
Children |
| 1. Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare, b. 1116, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d. 1173, Oxfordshire, England (Age 57 years) [natural] |
| 2. Earl of Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, b. 1115 d. 1153 (Age 38 years) [natural] |
| 3. Adeliza (Alice) de Clare, b. 1121, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. Aft 1148, Tonbridge, Kent, England (Age > 28 years) [natural] |
| 4. Rohese de Clare, b. Abt 1124, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d. Aft 1175 (Age > 52 years) [natural] |
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Family ID |
F616 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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Notes |
- Lord of Cardigan in Wales
Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
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Sources |
- [S229] Ancestry.com, Web: International, Find A Grave Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).
- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 153.
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