Lord Gilbert De Clare 
Lord Gilbert was born on September 2nd, 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England. Lord Gilbert's father was Richard De Clare and his mother was Maud de Lacy. His paternal grandparents were Gilbert de Clare and Isabella (Marshall) Mareschal; his maternal grandparents were John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincey. He had three brothers and six sisters, named Thomas, Bevis Benet, Robert, Isabel, Margaret, Rohesia Agnes, Maud, Eglantine and Eleanor. He was the second oldest of the ten children. He died at the age of 52 on December 7th, 1295.General Notes
Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester, who by the King's procurement, married Alice, daughter of Guy, Earl of Angouleme, and a niece of the King of France, which monarch bestowed upon the lady a marriage portion of 5000 marks. This baron, who like his predecessors was zealous in the cause of the barons, but later abandoned the baronial cause, and having assisted in procuring the liberty of King Henry and Prince Edward, commanded the Second Brigade of the Royal Army at Evesham, which restored the kingly power to its former lustre. In reward of these eminent services he received a full pardon for himself and his brother Thomas, of all former treasons, and the custody of Bergavenny, during the minority of Maud, wife of Humphrey de Bohun. His Lordship veered again 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 these demands having been complied with, he thenceforth became a good and loyal subject of the crown.
Upon the death of King Henry III, Gilbert de Clare 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 in Tonebridge. In the 13th of Edward III, 1285, his Lordship divorced 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 married in 1289 Joane of Acre, daughter of King Edward I, upon which occasion he gave up the inheritance of all his castles and manors, in England and Wales, to his royal father-in-law, to dispose of as he might think proper, which manors, etc., 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 him. By this lady he had Gilbert, Alinore, wife of Hugh le Despenser, Margaret, wife of Hugh d'Audley, and Elizabeth, wife of John de Burgh.
Gilbert de Clare died 1295 and Joane married 2nd a plain esquire, Ralph de Montheimer, clandestinely, without the King, her father's permission, but to which alliance he was reconciled and became eventually much attached to his new son-in-law.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1084 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Abargavenny, Gwent, Wales, slain by the Welsh
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxford, England
- b.~ 1094 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.1136
- b.1162 in Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.~ 1100 in Harcourt, Eure, France
- b.1132 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1102
- b.1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucester, England
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Somersetshire, England
- b.~ 1090 in Bristol, Gloucester, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucester, England
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England d.1 JAN 1223/24
- b.1104 in Beaumont, Normandy, France d.05 Apr 1168 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
- b.1129 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Norfolk, England d.> 1168 in Convent of Nuneaton, England
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England d.15 Jul 1262 in poisoned near Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Kent, England
- b.~ 1096 in Normandy, France d.~ 1130
- b.~ 1105 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1164
- b.~ 1096 in Normandy, France
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, England
- b.~ 1087 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun 1165 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1090 in Todington, Bedford, England d.< 1147 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England d.17 JAN 1238/39 in Berkhampstead, Hereford Co., Engalnd
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tonbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1146/47 in Monmouthshire, England
- b.1130 in Turnbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1096 in Leicester, England d.~ 1147
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1100 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland d.01 May 1171
- b.~ 1141 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland d.1177
- b.~ 1114 in Ireland d.1191
- b.02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England d.07 Dec 1295
- b.~ 1128 in Holton, Yorkshire, England d.1160
- b.~ 1144 in Clavering, Essex, England d.11 Oct 1190 in Palestine
- b.~ 1128 in Holton, Yorkshire, England d.> 1193
- b.~ 1171 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.1211
- b.1102 in New Temple Church, Essex, England d.16 Sep 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1144 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1109 in Roycott, Oxford, England d.21 Oct 1166 in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England
- b.1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.22 Jul 1262 in Stanlaw, Chester, England
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxford, England
- b.1162 in Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.1132 in Buckenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1184 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.1213
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Somersetshire, England
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England d.1 JAN 1223/24
- b.1129 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1223 in Lincolnshire, England d.10 MAR 1287/88
- b.~ 1127 in Long Buckley, Northants, England d.BEF MAR 1196/97 in Manor of Bushley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, On Way To Holy Land, Palestine
- b.~ 1133 in Leuchars, Fifeshire, Scotland d.1181
- b.~ 1188 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.Aug 1257 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1121 in Beaumont, France d.1196 in Durazzo Provence, West Albania
- b.~ 1156 in Hampshire, England d.12 JAN 1234/35 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1124 in Leicester, England d.01 Apr 1212 in Leicester, England
- b.1208 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Gernon Castle, Normandy d.16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Merioneth, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Stafford, England
- b.~ 1106 in Gloucester, England d.29 Jul 1189 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.1181 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.06 Jun 1241
- b.~ 1110 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, France d.13 MAR 1180/81 in Evereux, Normandy, France
- b.1138 in Montfort, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1189
- b.~ 1112 in Evereux, Normandy, France d.1168
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‌Lord Gilbert and Joan were married in a religious ceremony in April 1290 in Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, England. They had a son and three daughters, named Gilbert, Lady Margaret, Alianor (Eleanor) and Elizabeth.
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Children
Lady Margaret De Clare
Lady Margaret was born in October 1292 in Tunbridge, Staffordshire, England. She died at the age of 49 on April 9th, 1342 in France. She was buried on April 13th, 1342 in Tonbridge Priory, Kent, England.
Alianor (Eleanor) de Clare
Alianor (Eleanor) was born in October 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales. She died at the age of 44 on June 30th, 1337 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Elizabeth de Clare
Elizabeth was born on September 16th, 1295 in Tewksbury, Gloucester, England. She died at the age of 65 on November 4th, 1360.
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