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: My Family History

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1182 - 1230 (48 years)

Name	Gilbert de Clare [1]
Suffix	5th Earl of Hertford 1st Earl of Gloucester
Birth	1182	Hertford, Hertfordshire, England [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Death	25 Oct 1230	Penaroz, Departement du Finistère, Bretagne, France [1, 2]
Burial	10 Nov 1230	Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England [1]
Person ID	I8784	Bob Juch's Tree
Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

Father	4th Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare, b. Abt 1153, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d. 1217 (Age 64 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Countess of Gloucester Amicia, b. 1160, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 1 Jan 1224/25, England (Age 65 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	Abt 1180
Family ID	F3442	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Isabel Marshal, b. 9 Oct 1200, Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 17 Jan 1240, Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England (Age 39 years)

Marriage 9 Oct 1214 Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England [3]

Children

	1. 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester Richard de Clare, b. 4 Aug 1222, Gloucestershire, England d. 14 Jul 1262, John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England (Age 39 years) [natural]
	2. Amicia de Clare, b. 1220 d. 1283 (Age 63 years) [natural]
	3. Isabella de Clare, Countess of Hertford and Cornwall, b. 2 Nov 1226, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England d. Aft 10 Jul 1264, Cleveland, Yorkshire, Scotland (Age > 38 years) [natural]
	4. William de Clare, b. 1228 d. 1258 (Age 30 years) [natural]
	5. Gilbert de Clare, b. 1229 d. 1230/1319 (Age 90 years) [natural]
	6. Agnes de Clare, b. 1224, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 26 Dec 1261 (Age 37 years) [natural]

Family ID F3447 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 31 Dec 2022

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Birth - 1182 - Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

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Notes

Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who, after the decease of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd wife of Isabel, the divorced wife of King John, and in her right Earl of Gloucester, and her own decease, s.p., as also the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of the Earl of Evereux by Mabell, the other co-heiress, who likewise succeeded to the Earldom of Gloucester, became Earl of Gloucester, in right of his mother, Amicia, the other co-heiress. This nobleman was amongst the principal barons who took up arms against King John, and was appointed one of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. In the ensuing reign, still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the crown, he fought on the side of the barons at Lincoln, and was taken prisoner there by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; but he soon afterwards made his peace. His lordship m. Isabel (who m. after his decease, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III), one of the daus., and eventually co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; William; Amicia, m. to Baldwin de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon; Agnes; Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus. The earl d. in 1229 and was s. by his eldest son, Richard 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]

[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, 153.
[S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 28, 145, 153.