Abt 1094 - 1157 (63 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Maud FitzHamon was born about 1094 in Gloucestershire, England; died in 1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Maud married 1st Earl of Gloucester Robert de Caen about 1115 in Gloucestershire, England. Robert (son of King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" and Sibyl Corbet) was born about 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France; died on 31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Maud FitzRobert de Caen
was born in 1117 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, England.
- 3. 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert
was born on 23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales.
- 4. of Gloucester Christian
was born about 1118 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
- 5. Philip FitzRobert de Grey
was born about 1122 in Wooton Basset and Broadtown, Wiltshire, England; died in 1167.
- 6. Mabira de Caen
was born about 1115 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died after 1190.
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Generation: 2
2. | Maud FitzRobert de Caen (1.Maud1) was born in 1117 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, England. Maud married 2nd Earl of Chester Ranulph de Gernon about 1141 in Gloucestershire, England. Ranulph (son of Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester and Lucy de Taillebois) was born in 1099 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France; died on 16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 7. 3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester
was born in 1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England; was buried in St. Werburgs, Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 8. Johanna de Gernon
was born about 1140 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 9. Alice de Meschines
was born about 1142 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
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3. | 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert (1.Maud1) was born on 23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales. Notes:
[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.
William married Hawise de Beaumont about 1150. Hawise (daughter of 2nd Earl of Leicester Robert II de Beaumont and Amice de Gael) was born in 1129 in Leicestershire, England; died on 24 Apr 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 10. Countess of Gloucester Isabel FitzRobert
was born about 1165 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England.
- 11. Countess of Gloucester Amicia
was born in 1160 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 1 Jan 1224/25 in England.
- 12. of Gloucester Mabel FitzRobert
was born about 1152 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1198 in Evereux, Eure, Normandy, France.
- 13. Robert FitzWilliam
was born in Cardiff, Wales; died in 1166 in Cardiff, Wales.
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6. | Mabira de Caen (1.Maud1) was born about 1115 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died after 1190. |
Generation: 3
7. | 3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester (2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born in 1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England; was buried in St. Werburgs, Chester, Cheshire, England. Notes:
This nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against King Henry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry's pretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner with the Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soon afterwards upon the king's reconciliation with the young prince. Again, however, hoisting the standard of revolt both in England and Normandy, with as little success, he was again seized and then detained a prisoner for some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty and restoration of his lands when public tranquility became completely reestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. His lordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and had issue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son and four daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom of Chester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, and had a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John de Baliol, declared King of Scotland in the reign of Edward I; 2. Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus, and was mother of Robert de Brus, who contended for the crown of Scotland, temp. Edward I; 3. Maud, d. unm.; Ada, m. to Henry de Hastings, one of the competitors for the Scottish crown, temp. Edward I; II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel; III. Agnes, m. to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester.
The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia, * m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must the be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."
The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place of his birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester.
* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "a tan assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
Hugh married Bertrade de Montfort in 1169 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France. Bertrade (daughter of Count d'Evereux Simon III de Montfort and Amicia (Maud) de Beaumont) was born in 1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France; died on 12 Jul 1189 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 14. Mabel de Meschines
was born about 1172 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died before 1232 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 15. Hawise de Kevelioc
was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died on 6 Jun 1243 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 16. Maude "of Chester" de Kevelioc
was born in 1171 in Chester, Chestershire, England; died on 6 Jan 1233.
- 17. 4th Earl of Chester Ranulph de Blundeville
was born about 1172 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England; died in 1232; was buried in St. Werburgs, Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 18. Agnes de Meschines
was born about 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died on 2 Nov 1247.
- 19. Beatrix de Meschines
was born about 1170 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales.
- 20. Helga de Meschines
was born about 1173 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales.
- 21. Amicia de Meschines
was born about 1177 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales; died in Chester, Cheshire, England.
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10. | Countess of Gloucester Isabel FitzRobert (3.William2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1165 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. 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]
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11. | Countess of Gloucester Amicia (3.William2, 1.Maud1) was born in 1160 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 1 Jan 1224/25 in England. 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]
Children:
- 22. Richard (Roger) de Clare
was born in 1174/1202; died in 1228.
- 23. Maud de Clere
was born about 1176 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1213.
- 24. Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford 1st Earl of Gloucester
was born in 1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 25 Oct 1230 in Penaroz, Departement du Finistère, Bretagne, France; was buried on 10 Nov 1230 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.
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12. | of Gloucester Mabel FitzRobert (3.William2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1152 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1198 in Evereux, Eure, Normandy, France. 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]
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Generation: 4
14. | Mabel de Meschines (7.Hugh3, 2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1172 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died before 1232 in Chester, Cheshire, England. Mabel married 4th Earl of Arundel William d'AubignyChester, Cheshire, England. William (son of 3rd Earl of Arundel William d'Aubigny and Mabel de Chester) was born about 1173 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 1 Feb 1220/21 in Cainell near Rome, Latium, Italy; was buried in Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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15. | Hawise de Kevelioc (7.Hugh3, 2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died on 6 Jun 1243 in Chester, Cheshire, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Name: Hawise de Meschines
- Birth: 1170, Chester, Cheshire, England
- Death: Bef 3 Mar 1242/43
Family/Spouse: Robert de Quincy. Robert (son of Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester IV and Margaret de Beaumont) was born in 1172 in Winchester Buckley, Hampshire, England; died in Aug 1257 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 28. Margaret de Quincy
was born about 1206 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died before 30 Mar 1266 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England; was buried in Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England.
- 29. Lucy de Quincy
was born in 1218 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1268 in London, Middlesex, England.
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Family/Spouse: Warren de Bostock. Warren was born about 1180 in Henbury, Cheshire, England; died about 1206. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 30. Henry Bostock
was born about 1205 in Henbury, Cheshire, England.
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16. | Maude "of Chester" de Kevelioc (7.Hugh3, 2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born in 1171 in Chester, Chestershire, England; died on 6 Jan 1233. Family/Spouse: 8th Earl of Huntingdon David Huntington. David (son of 3rd Earl of Huntingdon Henry Dunkeld and Ada (Adelaide) de Warenne) was born about 1144 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England; died on 17 Jun 1219 in Yardley, Northants, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 31. Margaret Huntington
was born about 1180 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland; died in 1212.
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17. | 4th Earl of Chester Ranulph de Blundeville (7.Hugh3, 2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1172 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England; died in 1232; was buried in St. Werburgs, Chester, Cheshire, England. Ranulph married Duchess of Brittany Constance on 3 Feb 1186/87. Constance (daughter of Conan of Penthièvre, Duke of Brittany IV and Margaret de Huntingdon) was born about 1161; died on 5 Sep 1201 in Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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18. | Agnes de Meschines (7.Hugh3, 2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died on 2 Nov 1247. Agnes married 4th Earl of Derby William II de Ferrers on 2 Nov 1192. William (son of 3rd Earl of Derby William de Ferrers and Sybil de Braose) was born in 1172 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England; died on 22 Sep 1247. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 32. William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby III
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.
- 33. Agnes de Ferrers
was born about 1220 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England.
- 34. Sibyl de Ferrers
was born on 25 Jul 1216 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England; died in 1247.
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21. | Amicia de Meschines (7.Hugh3, 2.Maud2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1177 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales; died in Chester, Cheshire, England. Notes:
The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia, * m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."
* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "a tan assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
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23. | Maud de Clere (11.Amicia3, 3.William2, 1.Maud1) was born about 1176 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1213. 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]
Children:
- 37. John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln
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.
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24. | Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford 1st Earl of Gloucester (11.Amicia3, 3.William2, 1.Maud1) was born in 1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 25 Oct 1230 in Penaroz, Departement du Finistère, Bretagne, France; was buried on 10 Nov 1230 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. 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]
Children:
- 38. 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester Richard de Clare
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.
- 39. Amicia de Clare
was born in 1220; died in 1283.
- 40. Isabella de Clare, Countess of Hertford and Cornwall
was born on 2 Nov 1226 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died after 10 Jul 1264 in Cleveland, Yorkshire, Scotland; was buried in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England.
- 41. William de Clare
was born in 1228; died in 1258.
- 42. Gilbert de Clare
was born in 1229; died in 1230/1319.
- 43. Agnes de Clare
was born in 1224 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 26 Dec 1261.
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