Lord of Tonbridge Lord of Cardigan Richard FitzGilbert de Clare

1090 - 1136  (46 years)

• 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]
  	Age: 46
  Burial	Tonbridge, Kent, England   [1]
  Person ID	I1577	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Earl Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare,   b. Bef 1066, Clare, Suffolk, England d. Bef 1117 (Age < 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont,   b. Abt 1072, Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1086
  Family ID	F3312	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  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]
  Family ID	F616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1090 - Clare, Suffolk, England Burial - - Tonbridge, Kent, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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]

  
  

• 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.