Family Notes

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Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,
1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 62-63:
"Negotiations for the second marriage [of Richard] began even before Megotta de Burgh's death in November, 1237.

As early as 1236, before the original match was publicly revealed, King Henry had entertained notions of marrying the heir to one of his French relatives.  The plan apparently fell through, perhaps when news of the first marriage came out.
In the fall of 1237, while Meggotta was still alive, John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, offered 5,000 marks, a sum roughly equivalent to the gross annual value of the Clare inheritance, to have Richard's marriage for his own daughter Maud.  The earl was undoubtedly moved by many of the same considerations that had prompted the wife of Hubert de Burgh, although he had no need to resort to the drastic actions she had taken in 1232.  He was the highest, and perhaps the only, bidder, but Henry still desired to marry Richard to a foreign kinsman.  Through the efforts of his brother Richard of Cornwall, the stepfather of the young heir, a compromise was effected.  On October 26, 1237, Henry offered the marriage to Hugh de Lusignan, count of La Marche, for one of his daughters, with the proviso that if the count did not agree to the proposal by the following January, the earl of Lincoln could have it for 3,000 marks.  Hugh de Lusignan did not agree, and on January 25, 1238, Richard de Clare was married to Maud de Lacy.  (P)  By the time of his second marriage, Richard was almost sixteen.  He was to remain a ward of the king until 1243, when he came of age and was formally granted seisin of his inheritance.  His fortunes shed a grim light on the political and financial manipulations of the rights of wardship and marriage, and on the impact of those rights on national politics. His own attitudes and personal feelings never emerge during this entire period.  As Powicke has remarked, "one would like to know how Richard de Clare felt about it all."
   --- Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,
1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 62-63.

Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., *Ancestral Roots
of Certain American Colonists*, 7th edition, Baltimore MD (Genealogical
Publishing Co) 1992-3, p 67:

She was married to Sir Richard (3) de CLARE 8th Earl of Clare, etc (son of
Gilbert (2) de CLARE 7th Earl of Clare, etc and Isabel MARSHAL) about 25 Jan
1237/38.  Sir Richard (3) de CLARE 8th Earl of Clare, etc was born on 4 Aug
1222.  He died on 15 Jul 1262.  "SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, b. 4. Aug. 1222, d.
15 July 1262, 8th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester; m. (2) ca.
25 Jan. 1237/8, MAUD DE LACY ... Countess of Lincoln, d. bef. 10 Mar. 1288/9."