Gytha FitzOsgood

Gytha married Earl of Hereford Ralph de Sudeley about 1038. Ralph (son of Count of Mantes and the Vexin Walter "Dreux" de Vexin and Princess of England Goda (Godgifu)) was born about 1030 in Nantes, Normandy, France; died on 21 Dec 1057 in Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emma FitzOsbern. Emma (daughter of Earl of Hereford William FitzOsbern and Adeliza (Adelina) de Toeni) was born about 1059 in Breteuil, France; died after 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ralph rebelled against William I, and was stripped of lands

Family/Spouse: Emma Avice de Vermandois. Emma (daughter of Hugh "The Great" Capet, Duke of France and Burgundy and Adelaide de Vermandois) was born in 1075 in Vermandois, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amice married 2nd Earl of Leicester Robert II de Beaumont in 1120/1151 in Brittany, France. Robert (son of 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, Count Meulan I and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1104 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, Normandy, France; died on 5 Apr 1168 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of Lincoln Richard. Richard (son of King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" and Ansfride) was born before 1101; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship near Barfleur, Manche, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert about 1150. William (son of 1st Earl of Gloucester Robert de Caen and Maud FitzHamon) was born on 23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Petronella de Grandmesnil in 1152/1180. Petronella (daughter of Baron Hinckley Hugh de Grandmesnil and Alice de Beaumont) was born about 1130 in Leicestershire, England; died on 1 Apr 1212 in Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John divorced her on the ground of consanguinity; her grandfather Robert being an illegitimate son of Henry I. Burke also names her as Avisa.

Also known as Hawise, Joan, Eleanor.

The Complete Peerage vol. V, pp 689-692.

[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]

An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at any rate after the Conquest, is Robert FitzHamon's son-in-law, another Robert, who was an illegitimate son of Henry I and was so created 1122. The Earldom passed to his eldest son, William FitzRobert, and from him to John, later King John and husband from 1189 to 1199 (when he divorced her) of Isabel, the youngest of William FitzRobert's three daughters. On John's coming to the throne the title did not merge in the Crown for it was not his in his own right but in right of his wife.

Isabel's situation now became that of a great heiress, for whoever she married next would gain the Earldom. John prevented her taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless and Isabel, who towards the end of John's reign married as her second husband Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex and in right of his new wife now Earl of Gloucester too, died childless after marrying in the autumn of 1217 yet a third husband, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.

The latter seems not to have been recognized as Earl of Gloucester as well as of Kent, despite his wife's undoubted possession of the former Earldom by the time of their marriage. But then she died only a few days later and her sister Amice, by now the only one of William FitzRobert's daughters still living, seems to have been recognized as Countess of Gloucester till her own death some seven and a half years later. On the other hand Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usually called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition this other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217.

Isabel married 5th Earl of Essex Geoffrey de Mandeville before 1216. Geoffrey (son of 1st Earl of Essex Geoffrey FitzPiers and Beatrix de Say) was born about 1184 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England; died on 23 Feb 1215/16 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Trinity Priory within Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married King of England John I "Lackland" Plantagenet on 19 Aug 1189 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England. John (son of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 1st Earl of Kent Hubert de Burgh about Oct 1217. Hubert was born about 1165; died on 12 May 1243; was buried in Blackfriars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amicia married 4th Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare about 1180. Richard (son of Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare and Maud de St. Hilaire) was born about 1153 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England; died in 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[From Burke' Peerage - see source for details]

John (King of ENG) prevented her (Isabel, youngest daughter of William FitzRobert) taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless.

Mabel married Comte d'Evereux Amaury V de Montfort about 1170. Amaury (son of Count d'Evereux Simon III de Montfort and Amicia (Maud) de Beaumont) was born about 1151 in Evereux, Eure, Normandy, France; died in 1191 in Evereux, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester IV in 1173 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Saer (son of Robert de Quincy, Lord of Buckley and Countess of Leuchars Orabilis de Leuchars) was born in 1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died on 13 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt; was buried in Acre, Northern District, Israel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Laurette de Braose. Laurette (daughter of 4th Lord of Bramber William III de Braose and Maud de St. Valery) was born in 1176 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died on 4 Mar 1266 in Hackington, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Lord Bramber William IV The Younger de Braose in 1197. William (son of 4th Lord of Bramber William III de Braose and Maud de St. Valery) was born about 1170 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England; died in 1210 in Corfe, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Lacy. Roger (son of Constable of Chester John de Lacy and Alice de Mandeville) was born about 1171 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Gilbert married Isabel Marshal on 9 Oct 1214 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. Isabel (daughter of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born on 9 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 17 Jan 1240 in Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Beaulieu, New Forest District, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married 4th Earl of Oxford Hugh de Vere in 1223. Hugh (son of 3rd Earl of Oxford and Lord Chamberlain of England Robert de Vere and Isabel de Bolebec) was born in 1210 in Oxford, England; died in 1263. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married Walter de Hungerford in 1224 in Hungerford, Berkshire, England. Walter (son of Everard de Hungerford) was born in 1186 in Heytesburg, Wiltshire, England; died in 1231 in Heytesburg, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Maud de Bohun about 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Ferrers. Eleanor (daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III and Sibyl Marshal) was born about 1190; died on 16 Oct 1274. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Helen "of Galloway". Helen (daughter of Lord of Galloway Alan FitzRoland) was born about 1196 in Wigtownshire, Scotland; died after 21 Nov 1245 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1172

Family/Spouse: Hawise de Kevelioc. Hawise (daughter of 3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort) was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died on 6 Jun 1243 in Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Eva Marshal on 2 May 1230. Eva (daughter of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born in 1194 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 1246 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nicknamed "Tadody" by the Welsh when he was hidden in Gower as a child after King John had his father and grandmother killed. He was later in the custody of Engelard de Cigogny (castellan of Windsor) along with his brother Giles. Cigogny was ordered to give the two boys up to William de Harcourt in 1214. At this time John became separated from his brother. He was present at the signing of the Magna Charta in 1215.

John disputed his uncle Reginald's claim to the Braose lands, sometimes resorting to arms. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, helped him to secure Gower(1219). In 1221, with the advice and permission of Llewelyn, he repaired his castle of Abertawy (Swansea). He purchased the Rape of Bramber from Reginald and his son William in 1226. In that year John confirmed the family gifts to Sele Priory, near Bramber, and to the Abbey of St Florent, Saumur, and added others. After the death of Reginald(1228) he became Lord of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle, the three Marcher castles, by charter from the king but he lost these in 1230 to Hugh de Burgh at the same time as Gower became a subtenancy of de Burgh's Honor of Carmarthen and Cardigan.

See Castle of Abertawy, Swansea

Joan de Braose, surnamed Tadody, had been privately nursed by a Welshwoman at Gower. This John had grants of lands from King Henry III and was also possessed of the Barony of Brembye, in Sussex, where he died in 1231, by a fall from his horse, his foot sticking in the stirrup. He married, it is stated, Margaret, dau. of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, by whom (who m. afterwards Walter de Clifford) he had a son, his successor, William de Braose. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]

John married Margaret verch Llewelyn in 1219 in Wales. Margaret (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales and Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Joan Plantagenet) was born in 1210 in Caernarvonshire, Wales; died in 1263 in Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John, undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown in the space of four years for the livery of the lands of his inheritance and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer; further obliging himself by oath that, in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance and adhere to the king's enemies, all his possessions should devolve upon the crown; promising also that he would not marry without the king's license. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow 40 pounds per annum for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him upon hostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. But the next year he obtained letters of safe conduct to come to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters upon the accession of Henry III, in the 2nd year of which monarch's reign he went with divers other noblemen into the Holy Land. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, "to the end that she might be countess and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;" which grant was confirmed by the king and, at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, was created by charter, dated at Northampton, 23 November, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-named Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's legate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted governor of the castle of Chester. The earl d. in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife, surviving, who re-m. William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. His lordship left issue, Edmund, his successor, and two daus., which ladies in the 27th Henry III, were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king's own daus.; of these, Maud m. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883]

John married Margaret de Quincy on 20 Jun 1221. Margaret (daughter of Robert de Quincy and Hawise de Kevelioc) was born about 1206 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died before 30 Mar 1266 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England; was buried in Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Richard married Maud de Lacy in 1237 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Maud (daughter of John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln and Margaret de Quincy) was born on 25 Jan 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died on 10 Mar 1289 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Megotta de Burgh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Isabella (Isobel) de Clare

Isabella married Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale in May 1240. Robert (son of Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale and Isobel Huntingdon) was born about 1215; died on 31 Mar 1295 in Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; was buried in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Sanford. Alice (daughter of Gilbert de Sanford) was born in 1231 in Saunford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 9 Sep 1312 in Canfield, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Maud de Heytesbury in 1259 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England. Maud was born in 1235 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England; died in 1308 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 6th Earl of Buchan Alexander Comyn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron Zouche of Ashby Alan la Zouche. Alan was born in 1210 in Ashby, Leicester, England; died on 12 Aug 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III. William (son of 4th Earl of Derby William II de Ferrers and Agnes de Meschines) was born in 1193 in Derby, Derbyshire, England; died before 28 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 31 Mar 1254 in Merevale Abbey. Merevale, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke. Walter (son of 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare) was born in 1196; died on 24 Nov 1245. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln on 20 Jun 1221. John (son of Roger de Lacy and Maud de Clere) was born about 1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died on 22 Jul 1240 in Bur Stanlaw, Cheshire, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Humphrey de Bohun. Humphrey (son of 2nd Earl of Hereford Humphrey de Bohun and Maud de Lusignan) died on 27 Oct 1265 in Beeston Castle, Chesire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married 1st Baron Wigmore Roger de Mortimer in 1247. Roger (son of Ralph de Mortimer and Princess of Wales Gwladys "The Dark" verch Llewelyn) was born in 1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales; died on 27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Clare. Isabel (daughter of 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy) was born about 1240; died about 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester Richard de Clare in 1237 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Richard (son of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford 1st Earl of Gloucester and Isabel Marshal) was born on 4 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Jul 1262 in John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1262 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt May 1227, Lincolnshire, England

Edmund married Alice de Saluzzo in May 1247 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England. Alice was born in 1231 in Saluzzo Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy; died on 25 Sep 1292 in England; was buried in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas, governor of the city of London, 1st Edward I [1272-3], and was killed in battle in Ireland fourteen years after, leaving by Amy, his wife, dau. of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Gilbert, who d. s. p.; Richard, d.v. p., leaving a son, Thomas, who d. s. p.; Thomas, whose daus. and eventual co-heiresses were Margaret, wife of Bartholomew, 1st Lord Badlesmere, and Maud, wife of Robert, Lord Clifford, of Appleby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Thomas married Juliana FitzMaurice in 1275 in Essex, England. Juliana (daughter of Lord of Offaly Justiciar of Ireland Maurice FitzMaurice and Emmeline Longespee) was born about 1266 in Dublin, Ireland; died after 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Braose. William (son of Lord of Bramber and Gower John de Braose and Margaret verch Llewelyn) was born in 1230; died in 1291. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gilbert "The Red Earl" de Clare

Notes:

Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester, who, by the king's procurement, m. in 1257, Alice, dau. of Guy, Earl of Angouleme, and niece of the king of France, which monarch bestowed upon the lady a marriage portion of 5,000 marks. This noble man, who, like his predecessors, was zealous in the cause of the barons, proceeded to London immediately after the defeat sustained by the insurrectionary lords at Northampton (48th Henry III) [1264], in order to rouse the citizens, which, having effected, he received the honor of knighthood from Montfort, Earl of Leicester, at the head of the army at Lewes; of which army, his lordship, with John Fitz-John and William de Montchensi, commanded the second brigade, and having mainly contributed to the victory in which the king and prince became prisoners, while the whole power of the realm fell into the hands of the victors, the earl procured a grant under the great seal of all the lands and possessions lying in England of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, one of the most faithful adherents of the king, excepting the castles of Riegate and Lewes, to hold during the pleasure of the crown, and he soon after, with some of the principal barons, extorted from the captive monarch a commission authorizing Stephen, then bishop of Chichester, Simon Montford, Earl of Leicester, and himself, to nominate nine persons of "the most faithful, prudent, and most studious of the public weal," as well prelates as others, to manage all things according to the laws and customs of the realm until the consultations at Lewes should terminate. Being jealous, however, of the power of Leicester, the earl soon after abandoned the baronial cause and, having assisted in procuring the liberty of the king and prince, commanded the second brigade of the royal arm at the battle of Evesham, which restored the kingly power to its former luster. In reward of these eminent services he received a full pardon for himself and his brother Thomas of all prior treasons, and the custody of the castle of Bergavenny during the minority of Maud, wife of Humphrey de Bohun. His lordship veered again though in his allegiance and he does not appear to have been sincerely reconciled to the royal cause until 1270, in which year, demanding from Prince Edward repayment of the expenses he had incurred at the battle of Evesham, with livery of all the castles and lands which his ancestors had possessed and, those demands having been complied with, he thenceforward became a good and loyal subject of the crown. Upon the death of King Henry, the Earl of Hertford and Gloucester was one of the lords who met at the New Temple in London to proclaim Prince Edward, then in the Holy Land, successor to the crown, and so soon as the new monarch returned to England, his lordship was the first to entertain him and his whole retinue with great magnificence for several days at his castle of Tonebruge. In the 13th Edward I [1285], his lordship divorced his wife Alice, the French princess, and in consideration of her illustrious birth, granted for her support during her life, six extensive manors and parks, and he m. in 1289, Joan of Acre, dau. of King Edward I, upon which occasion he gave up the inheritance of his castles and manors, as well in England as in Wales , to his royal father-in-law, to dispose of as he might think proper; which manors, and c., were entailed by the king upon the earl's issue by the said Joane, and in default, upon her heirs and assigns, should she survive the lordship. By this lady he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Alianore, Margaret, and Elizabeth. His lordship d. in 1295, and the Countess Joan surviving, m. a "plain esquire," called Ralph de Monthermer, clandestinely, without the king, her father's, knowledge, but to which alliance he was reconciled through the intercession of Anthony Beke, the celebrated bishop of Durham, and became eventually much attached to his now son-in-law. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, pp. 119-120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester (1243-1295), 8th earl of Gloucester and 9th earl of Clare, was born at Christchurch, Hampshire, on Sept. 2, 1243. He married Alice of Angouleme, niece of king Henry III, succeeded his father in July 1262, and joined the baronial party led by Simon de Montfort. With Simon, Gloucester was at the battle of Lewes in May 1264, when the king himself surrendered to him, and after this victory he was one of the three persons selected to nominate a council. Soon, however, he quarreled with Simon. Leaving London for his lands on the Welsh border he met Prince Edward, afterward king Edward I, at Ludlow, just after his escape from captivity; and contributed largely to the prince's victory at Evesham in August 1265. But this alliance was as transitory as the one with Leicester, Gloucester championed the barons who had surrendered at Kenilworth in November and December 1266, and after putting his demands before the king, secured possession of London (April 1267). The earl quickly made his peace with Henry III and with Prince Edward. Under Edward I he spent several years in fighting in Wales, or on the Welsh border; in 1289 when the barons were asked for a subsidy he replied on their behalf that they would grant nothing until they saw the king in person (nihi prius personaliter viderent in Anglia faciem regis), and in 291 he was fined and imprisoned on account of levying private war on Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford. Having divorced his wife Alice, he married in 1290 Edward's daughter Joan, or Johanna (d. 1307). The "Red Earl," as he is sometimes called, died at Monmouth on Dec. 7, 1295, leaving, in addition to three daughters, a son, Gilbert, earl of Gloucester, killed at Bannockburn. [Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 10, p. 434, GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF.]

Ninth Earl Clare

Gilbert married Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Joan (daughter of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried on 26 Apr 1307 in Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilbert married Alice de Lusignan on 2 Feb 1253. Alice (daughter of Count of La Marche Hugh de Lusignan, X and Countess of Angoulême Isabella Taillefer) was born in 1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, France; died on 9 Feb 1256 in Warren, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Baron Mowbray Roger de Mowbray. Roger (son of Roger de Mowbray and Maud Beauchamp) was born in 1245 in Thirsk Hovingham, North Ride, Yorkshire, England; died in 1296 in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Robert Bruce

Robert married Marjorie, Countess of Carrick in 1271. Marjorie was born in 1256; died before 9 Nov 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married William de Warenne in Jun 1285. William (son of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and Alice de Lusignan) was born on 9 Feb 1256 in Warren, Sussex, England; died on 15 Dec 1286 in Croydon, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Margaret Mortimer in 1282 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England. Margaret (daughter of 1st Baron Wigmore Roger de Mortimer and Maud de Braose) was born in 1269 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died in 1296 in Grey Friars, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 1308, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England

Walter married Elizabeth Fitzjohn in 1329 in Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England. Elizabeth was born in 1312 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 21 Mar 1410 in Holbroke, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Joan de Latimer in 1256/1308. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 8th Earl of Angus Gilbert de Umfreville. Gilbert was born about 1244; died before 12 Oct 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord of Warkworth and Clavering Robert FitzRoger. Robert (son of Lord of Warkworth and Clavering Roger FitzRoger and Isabel) was born in 1247; died in 1310. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alianore de Bohun. Alianore (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Braose) died in 1313. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 24 Jan 1288, Groby, Leicestershire, England

Family/Spouse: Anna Durward. Anna (daughter of Alan Durward and Marjory) was born in 1248 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England; died in 1280 in Groby, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Groby, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Maud de Fiennes about 1275. Maud was born in 1235/1258; died before 1298. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 6th Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers. Robert (son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III and Margaret de Quincy, son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III) was born in 1239; died in 1279. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married 7th Earl of Arundel John FitzAlan in 1261/1271. John (son of 6th Earl of Arundel John FitzAlan and Maud le Botiller) was born on 14 Sep 1246 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 18 Mar 1272 in Clun, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Fiennes. Margaret (daughter of William II de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne) was born about 1270 in France; died on 7 Feb 1333 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 6th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere in 1282 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England. Robert (son of 5th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere and Alice de Sanford) was born on 24 Jun 1257 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England; died on 17 Apr 1331 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William de Braose, in the 22nd of Edward I [1293], had summons to attend the king with other great men to advise regarding the important affairs of the realm. And about the beginning of the ensuing September, he was one of those who embarked at Portsmouth with horse and arms in the king's service for Gascony. In the 28th and 29th of the same reign,he was in the wars of Scotland, and in the latter year he had summons to parliament as a baron. In the 32nd [1304], he was again in the Scottish wars and then enjoyed so much favour that the king not only confirmed to him and his heirs the grant of Gower Land, made by King john to his ancestor, but granted that he and they should thenceforth enjoy all regal jurisdiction, liberties, and privileges there in as ample a manner as Gilder de Clare, son of Richard de Clare, sometimes Earl of Gloucester, had in all his lands of Glamorgan. For several years afterwards, his lordship appears to have been constantly engaged upon the same theatre of war and was always eminently distinguished. In the 14th Edward II [1321], according to Thomas of Walsingham, being "a person who had a large patrimony but a great unthrift," his lordship put up for sale his noble territory of Gower Land, and absolutely sold it under the king's license to the Earl of Hereford; but its contiguity to the lands of the younger Spencer (who was then high in royal favour, and the king's chamberlain), attracting the attention of that minion, he forcibly possessed himself of the estate and thus gave rise to the insurrection headed by Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Lord Braose m. Aliva, dau. of Thomas de Moulton, and had issue, Aliva, m. 1st, to John de Mowbray, and 2ndly, to Sir Richard de Pershall, and Joan, m. to John* de Bohun, of Midhurst. His lordship, who had regular summons to parliament to 18 September, 1322, d. in that year, when the Barony of Braose, of Gower, fell into abeyance between his daus. and co-heirs, and it so continues with their representatives. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, pp. 72-73, Braose, Barons Braose, of Gower]

* The Bohun entry on pg. 58 in the same source cited above, states it was James de Bohun, younger brother of John de Bohun, who d.s.p., that Joan married.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth de Sully. Elizabeth (daughter of Raymond de Sully) was born in 1263 in Sully, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; died in 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas, governor of the city of London, 1st Edward I [1272-3], and was killed in battle in Ireland fourteen years after, leaving by Amy, his wife, dau. of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Gilbert, who d. s. p.; Richard, d.v. p., leaving a son, Thomas, who d. s. p.; Thomas, whose daus. and eventual co-heiresses were Margaret, wife of Bartholomew, 1st Lord Badlesmere, and Maud, wife of Robert, Lord Clifford, of Appleby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Thomas married Juliana FitzMaurice in 1275 in Essex, England. Juliana (daughter of Lord of Offaly Justiciar of Ireland Maurice FitzMaurice and Emmeline Longespee) was born about 1266 in Dublin, Ireland; died after 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Braose. William (son of Lord of Bramber and Gower John de Braose and Margaret verch Llewelyn) was born in 1230; died in 1291. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gilbert "The Red Earl" de Clare

Notes:

Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester, who, by the king's procurement, m. in 1257, Alice, dau. of Guy, Earl of Angouleme, and niece of the king of France, which monarch bestowed upon the lady a marriage portion of 5,000 marks. This noble man, who, like his predecessors, was zealous in the cause of the barons, proceeded to London immediately after the defeat sustained by the insurrectionary lords at Northampton (48th Henry III) [1264], in order to rouse the citizens, which, having effected, he received the honor of knighthood from Montfort, Earl of Leicester, at the head of the army at Lewes; of which army, his lordship, with John Fitz-John and William de Montchensi, commanded the second brigade, and having mainly contributed to the victory in which the king and prince became prisoners, while the whole power of the realm fell into the hands of the victors, the earl procured a grant under the great seal of all the lands and possessions lying in England of John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, one of the most faithful adherents of the king, excepting the castles of Riegate and Lewes, to hold during the pleasure of the crown, and he soon after, with some of the principal barons, extorted from the captive monarch a commission authorizing Stephen, then bishop of Chichester, Simon Montford, Earl of Leicester, and himself, to nominate nine persons of "the most faithful, prudent, and most studious of the public weal," as well prelates as others, to manage all things according to the laws and customs of the realm until the consultations at Lewes should terminate. Being jealous, however, of the power of Leicester, the earl soon after abandoned the baronial cause and, having assisted in procuring the liberty of the king and prince, commanded the second brigade of the royal arm at the battle of Evesham, which restored the kingly power to its former luster. In reward of these eminent services he received a full pardon for himself and his brother Thomas of all prior treasons, and the custody of the castle of Bergavenny during the minority of Maud, wife of Humphrey de Bohun. His lordship veered again though in his allegiance and he does not appear to have been sincerely reconciled to the royal cause until 1270, in which year, demanding from Prince Edward repayment of the expenses he had incurred at the battle of Evesham, with livery of all the castles and lands which his ancestors had possessed and, those demands having been complied with, he thenceforward became a good and loyal subject of the crown. Upon the death of King Henry, the Earl of Hertford and Gloucester was one of the lords who met at the New Temple in London to proclaim Prince Edward, then in the Holy Land, successor to the crown, and so soon as the new monarch returned to England, his lordship was the first to entertain him and his whole retinue with great magnificence for several days at his castle of Tonebruge. In the 13th Edward I [1285], his lordship divorced his wife Alice, the French princess, and in consideration of her illustrious birth, granted for her support during her life, six extensive manors and parks, and he m. in 1289, Joan of Acre, dau. of King Edward I, upon which occasion he gave up the inheritance of his castles and manors, as well in England as in Wales , to his royal father-in-law, to dispose of as he might think proper; which manors, and c., were entailed by the king upon the earl's issue by the said Joane, and in default, upon her heirs and assigns, should she survive the lordship. By this lady he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Alianore, Margaret, and Elizabeth. His lordship d. in 1295, and the Countess Joan surviving, m. a "plain esquire," called Ralph de Monthermer, clandestinely, without the king, her father's, knowledge, but to which alliance he was reconciled through the intercession of Anthony Beke, the celebrated bishop of Durham, and became eventually much attached to his now son-in-law. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, pp. 119-120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester (1243-1295), 8th earl of Gloucester and 9th earl of Clare, was born at Christchurch, Hampshire, on Sept. 2, 1243. He married Alice of Angouleme, niece of king Henry III, succeeded his father in July 1262, and joined the baronial party led by Simon de Montfort. With Simon, Gloucester was at the battle of Lewes in May 1264, when the king himself surrendered to him, and after this victory he was one of the three persons selected to nominate a council. Soon, however, he quarreled with Simon. Leaving London for his lands on the Welsh border he met Prince Edward, afterward king Edward I, at Ludlow, just after his escape from captivity; and contributed largely to the prince's victory at Evesham in August 1265. But this alliance was as transitory as the one with Leicester, Gloucester championed the barons who had surrendered at Kenilworth in November and December 1266, and after putting his demands before the king, secured possession of London (April 1267). The earl quickly made his peace with Henry III and with Prince Edward. Under Edward I he spent several years in fighting in Wales, or on the Welsh border; in 1289 when the barons were asked for a subsidy he replied on their behalf that they would grant nothing until they saw the king in person (nihi prius personaliter viderent in Anglia faciem regis), and in 291 he was fined and imprisoned on account of levying private war on Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford. Having divorced his wife Alice, he married in 1290 Edward's daughter Joan, or Johanna (d. 1307). The "Red Earl," as he is sometimes called, died at Monmouth on Dec. 7, 1295, leaving, in addition to three daughters, a son, Gilbert, earl of Gloucester, killed at Bannockburn. [Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 10, p. 434, GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF.]

Ninth Earl Clare

Gilbert married Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Joan (daughter of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried on 26 Apr 1307 in Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilbert married Alice de Lusignan on 2 Feb 1253. Alice (daughter of Count of La Marche Hugh de Lusignan, X and Countess of Angoulême Isabella Taillefer) was born in 1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, France; died on 9 Feb 1256 in Warren, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Baron Mowbray Roger de Mowbray. Roger (son of Roger de Mowbray and Maud Beauchamp) was born in 1245 in Thirsk Hovingham, North Ride, Yorkshire, England; died in 1296 in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 5 Feb 1311, Holborn, Greater London, England

Family/Spouse: Margaret Longespee, Countess of Salisbury. Margaret (daughter of William Longespee and Margaret de Clifford) was born on 23 Dec 1256 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died on 8 Oct 1306 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere on 28 Apr 1317 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Bartholomew (son of Guncelin de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBarnard) was born on 18 Aug 1275 in Badlesmere, Swale, Kent, England; died on 14 Apr 1322 in Blean, Canterbury, Kent, England; was buried in Badlesmere, Swale, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert de Umfreville. Gilbert (son of 8th Earl of Angus Gilbert de Umfreville and Elizabeth Comyn) was born before 1276; died before 23 May 1303. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1276, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

11/11/1315 Abducted and Forcibly Remarried by Robert de Welles

Matilda married Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford on 13 Nov 1295 in Clifford's Castle, Herefordshire, England. Robert (son of Justice of Forests Roger III de Clifford and Isabel de Vipont) was born on 1 Apr 1274 in Clifford Castle, Hereford, England; died on 24 Jun 1314 in Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, Scotland; was buried in Shap Abbey, Eden District, Cumbria, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, (c. 1294-1360), foundress of Clare College, Cambridge, was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1295) by his second marriage to Edward I's daughter Joan of Acre (1271-1307). She was married first to John Burgh (d. 1313), heir to the earldom of Ulster, to whom she bore her only son William. Following the childless death of her only brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, she became a great heiress and was abducted in 1316, probably with her consent, by Theobald Verdon, who died later the same year and to whom she bore a posthumous daughter Isabel. A daughter Elizabeth was born by her third marriage to Roger Damory, who died in 1321. Still only in her mid-twenties, with dowers from all three husbands and with an inheritance worth at least 2,000 a year, she was an obvious target both for marriage and for molestation by the Despensers, who defrauded her of her lordship of Usk. This was recovered after their overthrow and she did not marry again, taking a vow of chastity by 1344. At her death her inheritance descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward III's son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and thence passed to the Mortimers and house of York.

Elizabeth's widowhood is illuminated by the finest set of household accounts still surviving. These reveal that she lived in stately splendour at Clare in Suffolk, where she received a stream of visitors, including her kinsfolk Edward III and Queen Philippa. 250 people received her livery in 1343, many of them members of her household, and at least 3,000 a year and sometimes more was spent by her wardrobe and household. This was not because Elizabeth was extravagant; she ran her household and estates efficiently, obtained value for her money, and took a strong line with poachers. That 93 esquires took her livery indicates her role as a great local aristocrat, particularly in East Anglia, which also emerges from her religious patronage.

As an heiress, Elizabeth held estates in her own right, not for life, and could thus give generously to the Church without first saving up wealth, as her friend Mary of St Pol had to do. Already before her husbands' deaths, she had vowed to go on pilgrimage to Santiago and the Holy Land, a promise she was unable to fulfill, and from the early 1330s was giving property to Ely cathedral priory, Tremenhall and Anglesey priories, and West Dereham Abbey. Her attention was attracted by 1336 to the notoriously under-financed University Hall at Cambridge, which she was persuaded to take over as Clare Hall, to endow (1346), and for which she devised statutes in 1359. All this involved dealing tactfully but firmly with the university and unsatisfactory fellows. Clare College was the first college deliberately planned to include undergraduates. While Elizabeth's example may have prompted Mary of St Pol to found Pembroke College, certainly it was Mary who interested Elizabeth in the Franciscans. In 1343 Elizabeth gave a church to Mary's abbey of Franciscan nuns (Minoresses) at Denney, in 1347 she founded a Franciscan friary at the pilgrimage centre of Walsingham priory, from 1355 (like Mary) she was authorised to stay overnight in Minoress houses, and in 1360 her will asked for burial at the Aldgate house of Minoresses. Her influence helps explain the foundation of the final English house of Minoresses at Bruisyard by her granddaughter and her husband Clarence with nuns from Denney. [Michael Hicks, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, London, 1991]

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Elizabeth m. 1st, John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue, William, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left a dau. and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who m. Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K.G., and had an only dau. and heiress, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edward Mortimer, Earl of March. Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, m. 2ndly, Theobald de Verdon, and 3rdly, Roger d'Amory; by the last she had two daus., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Elizabeth de Clare, the youngest sister of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, m. John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, and through this alliance the honour of Clare came into the possession of the de Burghs. The heiress of Clare left a son, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

Elizabeth married Lord d'Amory Roger d'Amorie before 3 May 1317. Roger was born about 1284 in of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, England; died on 13 Mar 1322 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married 2nd Lord Verdon Theobold de Verdon on 4 Feb 1315/16 in England. Theobold was born on 8 Sep 1278 in of Alton, Staffordshire, England; died on 27 Jul 1316 in Alton, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John de Burgh on 30 Sep 1308 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. John was born about 1297 in Ulster, Ireland; died on 18 Jun 1313 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 3rd Lord le Despenser1 Hugh "the younger" le Despenser on 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. Hugh (son of 1st Earl of Winchester Hugh le Despenser and Isabel Beauchamp) was born in 1290 in Barton, Gloucester, England; died on 24 Nov 1326 in Herford, Herfordshire, England; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married William de la Zouche in Jan 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 8th Earl of Gloucester Hugh d'Audley on 28 Apr 1317 in Winsor, England. Hugh (son of Lord Audley Hugh (Alditheley) d'Audley and Isolda de Mortimer) was born about 1289; died on 10 Nov 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers Gaveston. Piers was born about 1284; died on 19 Jun 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 10th Earl of Warwick Guy Beauchamp on 11 May 1297 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. Guy (son of 9th Earl of Warwick William Beauchamp and Maud FitzGeoffrey) was born in 1262 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 12 Aug 1315 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Maurice de Berkeley, III in 1316. Maurice was born in Apr 1281 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 31 May 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Donnchadh, 7th Earl of Fife III. Donnchadh (son of Colban, Earl of Fife and Anna Durward) died in 1288. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John de Mowbray, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 26 August, 1307, to 5 August, 1320. This nobleman, during his minority, was actively engaged in the Scottish wars of King Edward I, and had livery of all his lands before he attained majority in consideration of those services. In the 6th Edward II [1313], being then sheriff of Yorkshire and governor of the city of York, he had command from the king to seize upon Henry de Percy, then a great baron in the north, in consequence of that nobleman suffering Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, to escape from Scarborough Castle in which he had undertaken to keep him in safety. The next year Lord Mowbray was in another expedition into Scotland, and he was then constituted one of the wardens of the marches towards that kingdom. In the 11th of the same reign [1318], he was made governor of Malton and Scarborough Castles, in Yorkshire, and the following year he was once more in Scotland, invested with authority to receive into protection all who should submit to King Edward, but afterwards taking part in the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, he was made prisoner with that nobleman and others at the battle of Boroughbridge and immediately hanged at York, anno 1321, when his lands were seized by the crown and Aliva, his widow, with her son, imprisoned in the Tower of London. This lady, who was dau. and co-heir of William de Braose, Lord Braose, of Gower, was compelled, in order to obtain some alleviation of her unhappy situation, to confer several manors of her own inheritance upon Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester. In the next reign, however, she obtained from the crown a confirmation of Gowerland, in Wales, to herself and the heirs of her body by her deceased husband, with remainder to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and his heirs. Lady Mowbray m. 2ndly, Sir R. de Peshale, Knt., and d. in the 5th Edward III [1332]. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 387, Mowbray, Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey]

Died:
hanged

Family/Spouse: Aline de Braose. Aline (daughter of Baron of Braose William VI de Braose and Elizabeth de Sully) was born about 1286 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales; died before 20 Jul 1331 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel in 1305. Edmund (son of 8th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan and Alasia di Saluzzo) was born on 1 May 1285 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England; died on 17 Nov 1326 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Warenne was only six months old when his father died, and was 7 years old when his mother died. He succeeded his grandfather as earl when he was 19.

He was one of the great nobles offended by the rise of the Edward II's favorite Piers Gaveston, and help secure Gaveston's 1308 banishment. The two were somewhat reconciled after Gaveston's return the next year, but in 1311 Warenne was one of the nobles who captured Gaveston. He was however unhappy about Gaveston's execution at the behest of the earl of Warwick, which pushed him back into the king's camp.

The baronial opposition was led by the king's cousin Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and he and Warenne became bitter enemies. Private war erupted between the two, and over the new few years Warenne lost a good part of his estates to Lancaster.

Warenne was one of the four earls who captured the two Roger Mortimers, and in 1322 he was one of the nobles who condemned to death the earl of Lancaster.

Warenne and his brother-in-law Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel were the last two earls to remain loyal to Edward II after the rise to power of Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer. After Arundel's execution he went over to the queen's side, urging Edward II's abdication in 1327.

He was the guardian of his cousin Edward Balliol, and after Balliol lay claim to the Scottish throne, accompanied him on his campaign in Lothian. Balliol created Warenne earl of Strathern, but this was in name only for the properties of the earldom were held by another claimant.

On May 25, 1306 Warenne married Jeanne of Bar, daughter of count Henry III of Bar and Eleanor, eldest daughter of king Edward I of England. The two were soon estranged and live apart, and had no children, though the marriage was never dissolved. Warenne instead took up with Matilda de Nerford, by whom he had several illegitimate children, and later with Isabella Holland, sister of Thomas Holand, later earl of Kent.

Warenne died in 1347 and is buried at the monastery of Lewes. He was succeeded as earl by his nephew Richard Fitzalan, who was also earl of Arundel.

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John married Jeanne de Bar on 25 May 1306. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 4 Jan 1360

Family/Spouse: Maud de Badlesmere. Maud (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born in 1310 in Badlesmere, Swale Borough, Kent, England; died on 23 May 1366 in Earls Colne, Essex, England; was buried in Earls Colne, Braintree District, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Thomas married Eleanor Strug in 1350 in England. Eleanor (daughter of John Strug) was born in 1334 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England; died in 1376 in Farleigh Castle, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joan Hussey in 1376 in Farleigh Castle, Somerset, England. Joan (daughter of Edmund Hussey and Joan Ann) was born in 1350 in Holbroke, Somerset, England; died on 21 Mar 1412 in Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England; was buried in Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 10 Aug 1349, Buchan Manor, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; Age: 77

Notes:

Died:
Age: 77

Alice married Henry de Beaumont on 14 Jul 1310 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Henry (son of Louis de Brienne and Agnes de Beaumont) was born in 1272 in Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 10 Mar 1340 in Buchan Manor, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Clare. Margaret (daughter of Governor of London Lord of Thormond Thomas de Clare and Juliana FitzMaurice) was born on 1 Apr 1287 in Thormond, Connaught, Clare, Ireland; died on 3 Jan 1333 in Aldgate, City of London, Greater London, England; was buried in Badlesmere, Swale Borough, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lucy de Kyme. Lucy was born before 1294. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ranulph Neville 1st Baron Neville. Ranulph (son of Robert Neville and Mary FitzRandolph) was born on 18 Oct 1262 in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died after 18 Apr 1331; was buried in Coverham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen de Menteith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://battle-of-boroughbridge.wikiverse.org/

The Battle of Boroughbridge was a small but important battle in the conflicts between Edward II of England and his rebellious barons. The battle took place near at important bridge across the Wye called Boroughbridge, northwest of York .

Early in 1322, King Edward took forces north in England to subdue his cousin Thomas, Earl of Lancaster . Lancaster was pushed further north, where he may have been hoping to join up with forces from Scotland. However on March 16, he found his way across the river Wye barred by forces of Sir Andrew Harclay. Sir Andrew used the infantry tactics which were later to prove so effective against the French at Crecy, and the rebels were defeated.

Of the rebel leaders, Humphrey de Bohun , 4th Earl of Hereford, was killed, and the rest captured. The prisoners were later convicted of treason and executed.

Humphrey married Elizabeth "of Rhuddlan" Plantagenet on 14 Nov 1302 in Westminster Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born on 7 Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Carnarvon; died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Alasia di Saluzzo in 1280/1299. Alasia (daughter of 4th Marquess di Saluzzo Thomas I di Saluzzo and Marquess of Ceva Luisa di Ceva) was born about 1271 in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy; died on 25 Sep 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Joan de Greneville on 6 Oct 1306 in Shropshire, England. Joan (daughter of Piers de Greneville) was born on 2 Feb 1285 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1356 in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud Fitz John. Maud was born in 1244 in Bernard Castle, Warwickshire, England; died on 16 Apr 1301 in Grey, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 4 Jan 1360

Family/Spouse: Maud de Badlesmere. Maud (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born in 1310 in Badlesmere, Swale Borough, Kent, England; died on 23 May 1366 in Earls Colne, Essex, England; was buried in Earls Colne, Braintree District, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 2nd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray. John (son of 1st Baron Mowbray Roger de Mowbray and Rohese de Clare) was born on 4 Sep 1286 in Thirsk, North Ride, Yorkshire, England; died on 23 Mar 1321/22 in York, Yorkshire, England; was buried in His corpse left dangling at York for 3 years.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere on 28 Apr 1317 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Bartholomew (son of Guncelin de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBarnard) was born on 18 Aug 1275 in Badlesmere, Swale, Kent, England; died on 14 Apr 1322 in Blean, Canterbury, Kent, England; was buried in Badlesmere, Swale, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert de Umfreville. Gilbert (son of 8th Earl of Angus Gilbert de Umfreville and Elizabeth Comyn) was born before 1276; died before 23 May 1303. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1276, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

11/11/1315 Abducted and Forcibly Remarried by Robert de Welles

Matilda married Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford on 13 Nov 1295 in Clifford's Castle, Herefordshire, England. Robert (son of Justice of Forests Roger III de Clifford and Isabel de Vipont) was born on 1 Apr 1274 in Clifford Castle, Hereford, England; died on 24 Jun 1314 in Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, Scotland; was buried in Shap Abbey, Eden District, Cumbria, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William de Braose, in the 22nd of Edward I [1293], had summons to attend the king with other great men to advise regarding the important affairs of the realm. And about the beginning of the ensuing September, he was one of those who embarked at Portsmouth with horse and arms in the king's service for Gascony. In the 28th and 29th of the same reign,he was in the wars of Scotland, and in the latter year he had summons to parliament as a baron. In the 32nd [1304], he was again in the Scottish wars and then enjoyed so much favour that the king not only confirmed to him and his heirs the grant of Gower Land, made by King john to his ancestor, but granted that he and they should thenceforth enjoy all regal jurisdiction, liberties, and privileges there in as ample a manner as Gilder de Clare, son of Richard de Clare, sometimes Earl of Gloucester, had in all his lands of Glamorgan. For several years afterwards, his lordship appears to have been constantly engaged upon the same theatre of war and was always eminently distinguished. In the 14th Edward II [1321], according to Thomas of Walsingham, being "a person who had a large patrimony but a great unthrift," his lordship put up for sale his noble territory of Gower Land, and absolutely sold it under the king's license to the Earl of Hereford; but its contiguity to the lands of the younger Spencer (who was then high in royal favour, and the king's chamberlain), attracting the attention of that minion, he forcibly possessed himself of the estate and thus gave rise to the insurrection headed by Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Lord Braose m. Aliva, dau. of Thomas de Moulton, and had issue, Aliva, m. 1st, to John de Mowbray, and 2ndly, to Sir Richard de Pershall, and Joan, m. to John* de Bohun, of Midhurst. His lordship, who had regular summons to parliament to 18 September, 1322, d. in that year, when the Barony of Braose, of Gower, fell into abeyance between his daus. and co-heirs, and it so continues with their representatives. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, pp. 72-73, Braose, Barons Braose, of Gower]

* The Bohun entry on pg. 58 in the same source cited above, states it was James de Bohun, younger brother of John de Bohun, who d.s.p., that Joan married.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth de Sully. Elizabeth (daughter of Raymond de Sully) was born in 1263 in Sully, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; died in 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, (c. 1294-1360), foundress of Clare College, Cambridge, was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1295) by his second marriage to Edward I's daughter Joan of Acre (1271-1307). She was married first to John Burgh (d. 1313), heir to the earldom of Ulster, to whom she bore her only son William. Following the childless death of her only brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, she became a great heiress and was abducted in 1316, probably with her consent, by Theobald Verdon, who died later the same year and to whom she bore a posthumous daughter Isabel. A daughter Elizabeth was born by her third marriage to Roger Damory, who died in 1321. Still only in her mid-twenties, with dowers from all three husbands and with an inheritance worth at least 2,000 a year, she was an obvious target both for marriage and for molestation by the Despensers, who defrauded her of her lordship of Usk. This was recovered after their overthrow and she did not marry again, taking a vow of chastity by 1344. At her death her inheritance descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward III's son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and thence passed to the Mortimers and house of York.

Elizabeth's widowhood is illuminated by the finest set of household accounts still surviving. These reveal that she lived in stately splendour at Clare in Suffolk, where she received a stream of visitors, including her kinsfolk Edward III and Queen Philippa. 250 people received her livery in 1343, many of them members of her household, and at least 3,000 a year and sometimes more was spent by her wardrobe and household. This was not because Elizabeth was extravagant; she ran her household and estates efficiently, obtained value for her money, and took a strong line with poachers. That 93 esquires took her livery indicates her role as a great local aristocrat, particularly in East Anglia, which also emerges from her religious patronage.

As an heiress, Elizabeth held estates in her own right, not for life, and could thus give generously to the Church without first saving up wealth, as her friend Mary of St Pol had to do. Already before her husbands' deaths, she had vowed to go on pilgrimage to Santiago and the Holy Land, a promise she was unable to fulfill, and from the early 1330s was giving property to Ely cathedral priory, Tremenhall and Anglesey priories, and West Dereham Abbey. Her attention was attracted by 1336 to the notoriously under-financed University Hall at Cambridge, which she was persuaded to take over as Clare Hall, to endow (1346), and for which she devised statutes in 1359. All this involved dealing tactfully but firmly with the university and unsatisfactory fellows. Clare College was the first college deliberately planned to include undergraduates. While Elizabeth's example may have prompted Mary of St Pol to found Pembroke College, certainly it was Mary who interested Elizabeth in the Franciscans. In 1343 Elizabeth gave a church to Mary's abbey of Franciscan nuns (Minoresses) at Denney, in 1347 she founded a Franciscan friary at the pilgrimage centre of Walsingham priory, from 1355 (like Mary) she was authorised to stay overnight in Minoress houses, and in 1360 her will asked for burial at the Aldgate house of Minoresses. Her influence helps explain the foundation of the final English house of Minoresses at Bruisyard by her granddaughter and her husband Clarence with nuns from Denney. [Michael Hicks, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, London, 1991]

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Elizabeth m. 1st, John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue, William, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left a dau. and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who m. Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K.G., and had an only dau. and heiress, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edward Mortimer, Earl of March. Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, m. 2ndly, Theobald de Verdon, and 3rdly, Roger d'Amory; by the last she had two daus., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Elizabeth de Clare, the youngest sister of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, m. John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, and through this alliance the honour of Clare came into the possession of the de Burghs. The heiress of Clare left a son, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

Elizabeth married Lord d'Amory Roger d'Amorie before 3 May 1317. Roger was born about 1284 in of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, England; died on 13 Mar 1322 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married 2nd Lord Verdon Theobold de Verdon on 4 Feb 1315/16 in England. Theobold was born on 8 Sep 1278 in of Alton, Staffordshire, England; died on 27 Jul 1316 in Alton, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John de Burgh on 30 Sep 1308 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. John was born about 1297 in Ulster, Ireland; died on 18 Jun 1313 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 3rd Lord le Despenser1 Hugh "the younger" le Despenser on 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. Hugh (son of 1st Earl of Winchester Hugh le Despenser and Isabel Beauchamp) was born in 1290 in Barton, Gloucester, England; died on 24 Nov 1326 in Herford, Herfordshire, England; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married William de la Zouche in Jan 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 8th Earl of Gloucester Hugh d'Audley on 28 Apr 1317 in Winsor, England. Hugh (son of Lord Audley Hugh (Alditheley) d'Audley and Isolda de Mortimer) was born about 1289; died on 10 Nov 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers Gaveston. Piers was born about 1284; died on 19 Jun 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 10th Earl of Warwick Guy Beauchamp on 11 May 1297 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. Guy (son of 9th Earl of Warwick William Beauchamp and Maud FitzGeoffrey) was born in 1262 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 12 Aug 1315 in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Maurice de Berkeley, III in 1316. Maurice was born in Apr 1281 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 31 May 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Donnchadh, 7th Earl of Fife III. Donnchadh (son of Colban, Earl of Fife and Anna Durward) died in 1288. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John de Mowbray, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 26 August, 1307, to 5 August, 1320. This nobleman, during his minority, was actively engaged in the Scottish wars of King Edward I, and had livery of all his lands before he attained majority in consideration of those services. In the 6th Edward II [1313], being then sheriff of Yorkshire and governor of the city of York, he had command from the king to seize upon Henry de Percy, then a great baron in the north, in consequence of that nobleman suffering Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, to escape from Scarborough Castle in which he had undertaken to keep him in safety. The next year Lord Mowbray was in another expedition into Scotland, and he was then constituted one of the wardens of the marches towards that kingdom. In the 11th of the same reign [1318], he was made governor of Malton and Scarborough Castles, in Yorkshire, and the following year he was once more in Scotland, invested with authority to receive into protection all who should submit to King Edward, but afterwards taking part in the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, he was made prisoner with that nobleman and others at the battle of Boroughbridge and immediately hanged at York, anno 1321, when his lands were seized by the crown and Aliva, his widow, with her son, imprisoned in the Tower of London. This lady, who was dau. and co-heir of William de Braose, Lord Braose, of Gower, was compelled, in order to obtain some alleviation of her unhappy situation, to confer several manors of her own inheritance upon Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester. In the next reign, however, she obtained from the crown a confirmation of Gowerland, in Wales, to herself and the heirs of her body by her deceased husband, with remainder to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and his heirs. Lady Mowbray m. 2ndly, Sir R. de Peshale, Knt., and d. in the 5th Edward III [1332]. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 387, Mowbray, Earls of Nottingham, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls-Marshal, Earls of Warren and Surrey]

Died:
hanged

Family/Spouse: Aline de Braose. Aline (daughter of Baron of Braose William VI de Braose and Elizabeth de Sully) was born about 1286 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales; died before 20 Jul 1331 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 25 Dec 1281, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales

Alice married Eubolo le Strange in 1324. Eubolo (son of Lord Strange John V le Strange and Maud d'Eiville) was born about 1286 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England; died in 1335 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster in 1294, and was divorced in 1319. Thomas (son of Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and of Artois Blanche Capet) was born about 1278 in England; died on 22 Mar 1322 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England; was buried in Pontefract Abbey, West Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton in 1335 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England. William (son of 4th Earl of Hereford Humphrey VIII de Bohun and Elizabeth "of Rhuddlan" Plantagenet) was born in 1312 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1360 in London, Greater London, England; was buried in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edmund de Mortimer on 27 Jun 1316 in Earnwood, Kinlet, Shropshire, England. Edmund (son of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Greneville) was born in 1302 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 16 Dec 1331 in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford. John (son of 6th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere and Margaret Mortimer) was born on 12 Mar 1312; died on 27 Jan 1360 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Thomas Waller about 1333. Thomas was born in 1303 in Lamberhurst, Sussex, England; died in 1390 in Groombridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1300, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire

Family/Spouse: 2nd Baron Percy Henry de Percy. Henry (son of 1st Baron Percy Henry de Percy and Eleanor FitzAlan) was born on 6 Feb 1300 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died on 27 Feb 1351 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 21 Mar 1299, Clifford Castle, Herefordshire

Notes:

Conflict here:

In Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage books it states that Roger was "b. 21 Jan or 2 Feb. 1299/1300; joined rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, against Edward II and his favorites and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Boroughridge 16 March 1321/2: dsp, being executed at York 23 March 1322."

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From this site:
Roger Clifford, 2nd Lord of Skipton

He was involved in a rebellion against King Edward I's favourite Huge Lord de Despencer, and ultimately against the King him self. The rebel forces were brought to battle by the King's forces in Boroughbridge in March 1322 at which Roger Clifford received severe wounds. Forced to surrender, he was condemned to death and held captive in York. Reprieved, probably because of his wounds, he survived until 1326. His estates were forfeited, including Skipton castle. They were restored to Robert, 3rd Lord of Skipton in 1327.

All this is from The Skipton Castle Teachers Resource Pack.

http://battle-of-boroughbridge.wikiverse.org/

The Battle of Boroughbridge was a small but important battle in the conflicts between Edward II of England and his rebellious barons. The battle took place near at important bridge across the Wye called Boroughbridge, northwest of York.

Early in 1322, King Edward took forces north in England to subdue his cousin Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. Lancaster was pushed further north, where he may have been hoping to join up with forces from Scotland. However on March 16, he found his way across the river Wye barred by forces of Sir Andrew Harclay. Sir Andrew used the infantry tactics which were later to prove so effective against the French at Crecy, and the rebels were defeated.

Of the rebel leaders, Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, was killed, and the rest captured. The prisoners were later convicted of treason and executed.

Family/Spouse: Juliann de Bower. Juliann was born in 1303 in Whinfield, Westmorland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 20 May 1344, Skipton-In-Craven, Yorkshire

Elizabeth married 3rd Lord Bardolf John Bardolf before 25 Dec 1327. John (son of 2nd Lord Bardolf Thomas II Bardolf and Agnes de Grandison) was born on 13 Jan 1313/14 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 29 Jul 1363 in Assisi, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Isabel, who had the Castle of Ludlow, as 4th co-heiress, m. to Henry Ferrers, Lord Ferrers, of Groby, which Henry d. 17th Edward III [1344], leaving by the said Isabel, William, Lord Ferrers, Philippa, m. to Guy de Beauchamp, and Elizabeth, m. to --- de Assells. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 548, Verdon, Barons Verdon]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby. Henry (son of William de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby and Ellen de Menteith, son of William de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby) was born in 1303; died in 1343. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, b. 1312, s. his grandfather in 1326, was knighted at London, 1328, and sat in the parliament held in Dublin the following year. He was murdered 6 June, 1333, by Robert FitzRichard Mandeville and others. He m. Maud, 3rd dau. of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, and by her (who m. 2ndly, Sir Ralph de Ufford, lord justice of Ireland), had an only child, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 162, de Burgh, Earl of Ulster]

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William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left an only child and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who married Lionel Plantagenet, 3rd son of King Edward III. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

William married Maud Plantagenet on 1 May 1327 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland. Maud (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1298 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England; died on 5 May 1377 in Campsey Abbey, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Anne de Ferrers on 20 Apr 1334 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 10th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan on 9 Feb 1321. Richard (son of Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne) was born about 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1311, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Family/Spouse: John Comyn, Earl of Buchan. John was born in 1260 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died in 1308 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan Plantagenet about 28 Feb 1326/27. Joan (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1306 in Grismond Castle, Monmouth, England; died on 7 Jul 1349 in Bur Byland Abbey, Yorks, Land, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Eleanor "of Lancaster" Plantagenet on 5 Feb 1345 in Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckingham. Eleanor (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born about 1318 in Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England; died on 11 Jan 1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Isabel le Despenser on 9 Feb 1321. Isabel (daughter of 3rd Lord le Despenser1 Hugh "the younger" le Despenser and Eleanor de Clare) was born in 1312; died in 1356. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford in 1325. John (son of 4th Earl of Hereford Humphrey VIII de Bohun and Elizabeth "of Rhuddlan" Plantagenet) was born on 23 Nov 1306 in St Clements, Oxfordshire, England; died on 20 Jan 1336 in Kirkby-Thore, Westmorland, England; was buried in Stratford Langthorne Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aline married Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange before Jul 1351. Roger (son of Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange and Maud de Coucy) was born about 1327 in Knockin, Shropshire, England; died on 23 Aug 1382 in Kenwick's Wood, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice FitzWalter. Alice was born about 1343 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died on 29 Apr 1401. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Courtenay. Elizabeth (daughter of 10th Earl of Devon Hugh Courtenay 2nd Earl of Devon and Margaret de Bohun) was born in Norfolk, Exeter, Devon, England; died on 7 Aug 1395 in Dunster, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Salisbury Cathedral

Walter married Eleanor Berkeley on 8 May 1439 in Beverstone, Gloucestershire, England. Eleanor was born in 1400 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England; died on 1 Aug 1455 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Katherine Peverell on 18 Sep 1402 in Park Hamitilly, Penhale, Cornwall, England. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Peverel, Sheriff of Cornwall and Margaret Courtenay) was born in 1380 in Park Hamitilly, Penhale, Cornwall, England; died on 14 Jun 1426 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: May 1342, Scotland; Age: 24
• Death: 10 May 1342, Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; Age: 24

Notes:

Buried:
Lewes Priory

Died:
Age: 24

John married Eleanor "of Lancaster" Plantagenet on 23 Aug 1337 in Marr, Yorkshire, England. Eleanor (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born about 1318 in Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England; died on 11 Jan 1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 1st Duke of Lancaster Henry "of Grosmont" Plantagenet about 1335. Henry (son of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1310 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 24 Mar 1361 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilbert married Maud de Lucy before 3 Oct 1383. Maud was born before 1359; died on 18 Dec 1398. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ralph de Nevill, 2nd baron, was summoned to parliament from 20 November, 1331, to 20 January, 1336. This nobleman, in the time of his father, was retained by indenture to serve the Lord Henry de Percy for life, in peace and war, against all men except the king, with twenty men-at-arms, whereof five to be knights receiving Â100 sterling per annum. Theeeeee disputee with ttthhhe prior of Durham, regarding the presentation of the stag was revived and finally set to rest in the abandonment of his claim by this Lord Nevill. The matter is thus detailed by Dugdale: "In this year likewise, doing his fealty to William, prior of Durham, upon Lammas Day, for the manor of Raby, he told him, 'that he would offer the stag as his ancestors had done; saving that, whereas his father required that the prior's servants should be set aside at that time and his own serve in their stead, he would be content that his should attend together with those of the prior's; and, whereas his father insisted that his servants should only be admitted at dinner, he stood upon it that his should be there entertained the whole day and likewise the morrow at breakfast.' Whereupon the prior made answer, 'that none of his ancestors were ever so admitted and that he would rather quit the stag than suffer any new custom to the prejudice of their church.' But, to this Ralph replied, 'that he would perform the whole service or none and put the trial of his right upon the country.' The prior, therefore, knowing him to be so powerful and that the country could not displease him, declined the offer; howbeit, at length, to gain his favour, in regard he had no small interest at court and might do him a kindness or a displeasure, was content for that one time he should perform it as he pleased so that it might not be drawn into example afterwards; and, to the purpose proposed, that indentures should be made betwixt them. Whereupon the Lord Nevill brought but few with him and those more for the honour of the prior than a burthen; and so, shortly after dinner, took his leave, but left one of his servants to lodge there all night and to take his breakfast there on the next day; 'protesting that, being both a son and tenant to the church, he would not be burthensome to it, in respect it would be no advantage to himself but might much damnifie him if he should bring with him as great a train as he would, saying, 'what doth a breakfast signify to me? nothing. And likewise, that if the prior would shew that he had no right to what he so claimed, he would freely recede therefrom; and if he had a right, he would accept a composition for it rather than be burthensome to the convent; but if they should put him to get his right by law, then he would not abate anything thereof.' Whereupon inquiry being made amongst the eldest monks of the house, they affirmed that, being of eight years standing when his father was before repulsed, they had often seen the stag offered, and that he never staid dinner but when the prior invited him, and some ancient men of the country testified as much; also, that so soon as the stag was brought, they carried him to the kitchen, and those who brought him were taken into the hall to breakfast, as they that bring their rents used to be.

"Moreover, when it happened any of the Lords Nevill to be desired to stay dinner with the prior, his cook was admitted into the kitchen to prepare a dish for him; so, likewise, another servant in the cellar to choose his drink; and in like manner, some other at the gate who knew his servants and followers, merely to let them in and keep out others who, under pretence of being servants, might then intrude. But this was only done by the prior, as out of courtesy and respect, and not at all out of right."

In the 7th Edward III [1314], Lord Nevill was one of the commissioners sent into Scotland, there to see that the covenants between Edward de Baliol, King of Scots, and his royal master were ratified by the parliament of that kingdom; and the next year he was joined with Henry de Percy in the wardenship of the marches of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. He had, subsequently, other high and confidential employments and was constantly engaged in the wars of Scotland and France. His lordship m. Alice, dau. of of Sir Hugh de Audley, and by her (who m 2ndly, Ralph, Lord Greystock, and d. 1374) had issue, John, Thomas, Robert, Alexander, Ralph, Euphemia, Catherine, Margaret, Isabel, and Eleanor.

He d. in 1367 and was buried in the church of Durham, on the south side thereof, being the first layman that had sepulture there, which favour he obtained from the prior and convent for a vestment of red velvet, richly embroidered with gold silk, great pearls, and images of the saints standing in tabernacles by him given to St Cuthbert. His body being brought in a chariot drawn by seven horses to the boundary of the churchyard and thence conveyed upon the shoulders of knights into the middle of the church where the abbot of St. Mary's in York (by reason of the bishop's absence and impotency of the dean), performed the office of the dead, and celebrated the morrow mass, at which were offered eight horses, viz., four for the war, with four men armed, and all their harness and habiliments; and four others for peace; as also three cloths of gold, of blue colour, interwoven with flowers. Four of those horses were redeemed after the funeral by Sir John, his son and heir, for 100 marks. His lordship was s. by his eldest son, Sir John de Nevill. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 393, Nevill, Barons Nevill, of Raby, Earls of Westmoreland]

Sources for Clavering, Neville and FitzRandolph:
FitzRandolph Traditions: A Story of a Thousand Years. Published 1907 by
L. F. V. FitzRandolph, life member N. J. Historical Society, pp. 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 29, 31; Chapter 9, pp. 117-121, Review of the Descent from Rolf, the
Norman and Dane.
Edmondson's Baronagium Genealogical, Vol. 4, pp. 350-351.
Burke's Genealogical History of the Dorman Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct
Peerages of Great Britain, pp. 393-396.
Browning's Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pp. 87-90, 98-9.
Wurts' Magna Charta, pp. 569-70.

Ralph married Alice d'Audley on 14 Jan 1324 in Hadley, Staffordshire, England. Alice (daughter of Lord Audley Hugh (Alditheley) d'Audley and Isolda de Mortimer) was born in 1300 in Hadley, Staffordshire, England; died on 11 Jan 1374 in Greystoke, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Verdun. Isabel (daughter of 2nd Lord Verdon Theobold de Verdon and Elizabeth de Clare) was born on 21 Mar 1316/17 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 25 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth de Badlesmere in 1335 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord of Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born in 1313 in Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England; died on 9 Jun 1378 in Blackfriars, London, England; was buried in Ludgate, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 1st Earl of Ormonde James Butler in 1327. James died on 6 Jan 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]