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4th Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare

4th Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare

Male Abt 1153 - 1217  (64 years)

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  • Name Richard de Clare 
    Title 4th Earl of Hertford 
    Birth Abt 1153  Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1217  [1, 2
    Person ID I8771  Bob Juch's Tree
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2022 

    Father Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare,   b. 1116, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1173, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Maud de St. Hilaire,   b. Abt 1132, Burkenham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Dec 1193, Field Dalling, Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1152  Field Dalling, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F575  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Countess of Gloucester Amicia,   b. 1160, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jan 1224/25, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1180 
    Children 
     1. Richard (Roger) de Clare,   b. 1174/1202   d. 1228 (Age 26 years)  [natural]
     2. Maud de Clere,   b. Abt 1176, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1213 (Age 37 years)  [natural]
     3. Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford 1st Earl of Gloucester,   b. 1182, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Oct 1230, Penaroz, Departement du Finistère, Bretagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F3442  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2022 

  • Notes 
    • Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, who in the 7th Richard I gave 1000 pounds to the king for livery of the lands of his mother's inheritance with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. His lordship m. Amicia, 2nd dau. and co-heiress (with her sisters Mabell, wife of the Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and Isabel, the divorced wife of King John) of William, Earl of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, and Joan, m. to Rhys-Grig, Prince of South Wales. This earl, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, d. in 1218, and was s. by his son, Gilbert de Clare, 5th 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 
    1. [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 28, 153.

    2. [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 63-27.