 1222 - 1262 (39 years)
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| Name |
Richard de Clare [1] |
| Title |
6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester |
| Birth |
4 Aug 1222 |
Gloucestershire, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
14 Jul 1262 |
John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England [1, 2] |
| Burial |
28 Jul 1262 |
Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England [1] |
| Person ID |
I8766 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford 1st Earl of Gloucester, b. 1182, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d. 25 Oct 1230, Penaroz, Departement du Finistère, Bretagne, France (Age 48 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Isabel Marshal, b. 9 Oct 1200, Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 17 Jan 1240, Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England (Age 39 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
9 Oct 1214 |
Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England [3] |
| Family ID |
F3447 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Maud de Lacy, b. 25 Jan 1223, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d. 10 Mar 1289, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
1237 |
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England [4] |
| Children |
| | 1. Governor of London Lord of Thormond Thomas de Clare, b. Abt 1248, Tunbridge, Kent, England d. 29 Aug 1287, Bunratty Castle, Thomond, Connaught, Clare, Ireland (Age 39 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Isabel de Clare, b. Abt 1240 d. Abt 1271 (Age 31 years) [natural] |
| | 3. 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, b. 2 Sep 1243, Christchurch, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales (Age 52 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Bevis (Bogo) (Benet) de Clare, b. 21 Jul 1248, Tunbridge, Kent, England d. Oct 1294 (Age 46 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Margaret "of Gloucester" de Clare, b. 1249 d. Feb 1312/13 (Age 64 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Rohese de Clare, b. 17 Oct 1252, Tunbridge, Kent, England d. Aft 1316, Hovingham, Ryedale District, North Yorkshire, England (Age > 65 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Eglantine de Clare, b. 2 May 1247, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 28 Aug 1247, Tonbridge, Kent, England (Age 0 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F3438 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and 2nd Earl of Gloucester, then in minority at the decease of his father in 1229. The wardship of this young nobleman was granted to the famous Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, Justiciar of England, whose dau., Margaret, to the great displeasure of the king (Henry III), he afterwards (1243) clandestinely married but from whom he was probably divorced, for we find the king marrying him the next year to Maude, dau. of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in consideration whereof the said John paid to the crown 5,000 marks and remitted a debt of 2,000 more. His lordship, who appears to have been a very distinguished personage in the reign of Henry III, was one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall (40th Henry III) [1256], when Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, with divers other prelates, pronounced that solemn curse, with candles lighted, against all those who should thenceforth violate Magna Carta. In two years afterwards, an attempt was made by Walter de Scotenay, his chief counselor, to poison the earl and his brother William, which proved effective as to the latter, while his lordship narrowly escaped with the loss of his hair and nails. In the next year the earl was commissioned, with others of the nobility by the appointment of the king and the whole baronage of England, to the parliament of France to convey King Henry III's resignation of Normandy and to adjust all differences between the two crowns; and upon the return of the mission, his lordship reported proceedings to the king, in parliament. About this period he had license to fortify the isle of Portland and to embattle it as a fortress. It is reported of this nobleman that, being at Tewkesbury in the 45th Henry III [1261], a Jew, who had fallen into a jakes upon the Saturday, refusing to be pulled out in reverence of the Jewish Sabbath, his lordship prohibited any help to be afforded him on the next day, the Christian Sabbath, and thus suffered the unfortunate Israelite to perish. He d. himself in the July of the next year (1262), having been poisoned at the table of Peter de Savoy, the queen's uncle, along with Baldwin, Earl of Devon, and other persons of note. His lordship left issue, Gilbert, his successor, Thomas, Rose, and Margaret. The earl was s. by his elder son, Gilbert de Clare.[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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Richard de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 8TH EARL OF CLARE, 6TH EARLOFHERTFORD (b. Aug. 4, 1222--d. July 15, 1262, Eschemerfield, near Canterbury, Kent, Eng.), the most powerful English noble of his time. He held estates in more than 20 English counties, including the lordship of Tewkesbury, wealthy manors in Gloucester, and the great marcher lordship of Glamorgan. He himself acquired the Kilkenny estates in Ireland and the lordship of Usk and Caerleon in south Wales, making him the greatest lord in south Wales; in Glamorgan especially he was almost an independent prince.
Son of Gilbert de Clare (the 6th Earl), Richard succeeded to the earldoms in October 1230. He refused to help King Henry III on the French expedition of 1253 but was with him afterward at Paris. Thereafter he went on a diplomatic errand to Scotland and was sent to Germany to work among the princes for the election of his stepfather, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, as king of the Romans. About 1258 Gloucester became a leader of the barons in their resistance to the king, and he was prominent during the proceedings that followed the Mad Parliament at Oxford in 1258. In 1259, however, he quarreled with Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester; the dispute, begun in ENG, was renewed in France, and he was again in the confidence of the king. This attitude, too, was only temporary, and in 1261 Gloucester and Montfort were again working in concord. [Encyclopedia Britannica CD, 1996, GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, 7TH EARL OF]
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| Sources |
- [S230] Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 28.
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- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 28, 107, 33.
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