Richard de Tonbridge FitzGilbert de Clare

• Birth Notes
  • B: Abt. 1024

• Death Notes
  • D: Abt. 1090

• General Notes
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        The eldest son of Gislebert, was the founder of the House of Clare. He accompanied his kinsman, William the Conqueror, into England and participated in the spoils of conquest. He became possessed of 38 lordships in Surrey, 35 in Essex, 3 in Cambridgeshire, 95 in Suffolk, and some in Wiltshire and Devonshire. One was the manor of Westley in Suffolk (Manors of Suffolk, pages 112-113) and another was that of Clare, on the borders and in the county of Suffolk, which subsequently became his chief seat and his descendants were known as the Earls of Clare although never so created. The manor of Westley descended to Gilbert de Clare, his grandson (son of Gilbert de Clare, No. 12a), who was created by King Stephen, in 1138, Earl of Pembroke, and who married Elizabeth, sister of Waleran, Earl of Muellent, and on his death in 1149. The Earldom of Clare was created in 1138, i.e., in the reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154.
    
        Clare is a small village in the County of Suffolk. Richard was the son of Gilbert of Tunbridge, and being the eldest son assumed the surname of Clare, Richard's second brother, nicknamed "Strongbow", being created Earl of Pembroke in the third year of King Stephen; he was sealed chevronally; the chevron on a shield is probably the earliest known representation on an English shield. Gilbert de Clare was killed at Bannockburn in 1314, and as some members of his family were in residence at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and he himself having expressed a wish to be buried there, he was interred in the Abbey, where his memorial may still be seen.
    
        Richard FitzGilbert, having accompanied the Conqueror into England, participated in the spoils of conquest and obtained extensive possessions in the new and old dominions of his royal leader and kinsman. In 10873 we find him joined under the designation of Ricardus de Benefacta, with William de Warren, in the great office of Justiciary of England, with whom, in three years afterwards, he was in arms against the rebellious lords Robert de Britolio, Earl of Hereford, and Ralph Waher, or Guarder, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and behaved with great gallantry. But afterwards, at the time of the General Survey, which was towards the close of William's reign, he is called Ricardus de Tonebruge, from his seat at Tonebruge (now Tunbridge) in Kent, which town and castle he obtained from the archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the castle of Brion, at which time he enjoyed thirty-eight lordships in Surrey, thirty-five in Essex, three in Cambridgeshire, with some others in Wilts and Devon, and ninety-five in Suffolk, amongst those was Clare, whence he was occasionally styled Richard de Clare, and that place in a few years afterwards becoming the chief seat of the family, his descendants are said to have assumed thereupon the title of Earls of Clare. This great feudal lord m. Rohese, dau. of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Roger, Walter, Richard, Robert, a dau. m. to Ralph de Telgers, and a dau. mo. to Eudo Dapifer. Richard de Tonebruge, or de Clare, whose is said to have fallen in a skirmish with the Welsh, was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Tonebruge. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 118, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
    
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    Subject: Re: Richard DE CLARE
    From: Gordon Fisher <gfisher@SHENTEL.NET>
    Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:25:00 -0500
    Message-Idaho: <199611291625.LAA25611@head.globalcom.net>
    
    Gordon Fisher gfisher@shentel.net
    
    Descendants of Richard FITZRICHARD DE CLARE - 29 Nov 1996
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    FIRST GENERATION
    
    1. Richard FITZRICHARD DE CLARE died before 1090.
    
    Richard FITZRICHARD DE CLARE and Rohese\Rohais GIFFARD had the following
    children:
    
    +2 i. Gilbert FITZRICHARD DE CLARE Lord.
    +3 ii. ADELIZA DE CLARE.
    
    
    SECOND GENERATION
    
    2. Gilbert FITZRICHARD DE CLARE Lord was born before 1066. He died in 1114
    in or
    1117.
    
    Gilbert FITZRICHARD DE CLARE Lord and Adeliza de CLERMONT had the following
    children:
    
    +4 i. Gilbert (1) de CLARE.
    +5 ii. Richard (2) FITZGILBERT DE CLARE.
    
    3. ADELIZA DE CLARE.
    
    
    THIRD GENERATION
    
    4. Gilbert (1) de CLARE died in 1147/48.
    
    Elizabeth (Isabel) de BEAUMONT (daughter of Robert (1) de BEAUMONT 1st Earl
    Leicester and ISABEL OF VERMANDOIS) was born after 1101. Gilbert (1) de
    CLARE and
    Elizabeth (Isabel) de BEAUMONT had the following children:
    
    +6 i. Richard (1) de CLARE Strongbow.
    
    5. Richard (2) FITZGILBERT DE CLARE died on 15 Apr 1136. He was buried in
    Gloucester, England.
    
    Richard (2) FITZGILBERT DE CLARE and Adeliz (w of R FitzGilbert) --- had
    the
    following children:
    
    +7 i. Isabel de CONDET.
    +8 ii. Roger de CLARE.
    
    
    FOURTH GENERATION
    
    6. Richard (1) de CLARE Strongbow was born about 1130. He died about 20 Apr
    1176.
    
    Aoife (Eve) MACMURCHADA died in living 1186. Richard (1) de CLARE Strongbow
    and
    Aoife (Eve) MACMURCHADA had the following children:
    
    +9 i. Isabel de CLARE.
    
    7. Isabel de CONDET died in living 1166.
    
    Hugh BARDOLF died about 1176. Isabel de CONDET and Hugh BARDOLF had the
    following children:
    
    +10 i. Juliana BARDOLF.
    
    8. Roger de CLARE died in 1173.
    
    Roger de CLARE and Maude ST. HILARY had the following children:
    
    +11 i. Aveline de CLARE.
    +12 ii. Richard (2) de CLARE 6th Earl of Clare, etc.
    
    
    FIFTH GENERATION
    
    9. Isabel de CLARE died in 1220.
    
    William MARSHAL Sir (son of John MARSHAL and Sybil de SALISBURY) was born
    about
    1146. He died on 14 May 1219 in Caversham, England. He was buried in Temple
    Church, London, England. Isabel de CLARE and William MARSHAL Sir had the
    following children:
    
    +13 i. EVA MARSHAL.
    +14 ii. Isabel MARSHAL.
    
    10. Juliana BARDOLF died before 1220.
    
    Nicholas (1) de POYNTZ died before 2 Nov 1223. Juliana BARDOLF and Nicholas
    (1) de
    POYNTZ had the following children:
    
    +15 i. Hugh (1) de POYNTZ.
    
    11. Aveline de CLARE died before 1225.
    
    Geoffrey FITZPETER Earl of Essex died on 14 Oct 1213. He was buried in
    
    
    
    
    Shouldam
    Priory. Aveline de CLARE and Geoffrey FITZPETER Earl of Essex had the
    following
    children:
    
    +16 i. Hawise FITZPETER.
    
    12. Richard (2) de CLARE 6th Earl of Clare, etc died about 28 Nov 1217.
    
    (d of Wm FitzRobert) AMICE Countess of Gloucester (daughter of William
    FITZROBERT 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Hawise de BEAUMONT) died on 1 Jan
    
    
    
    
    1224/25.
    Richard (2) de CLARE 6th Earl of Clare, etc and (d of Wm FitzRobert) AMICE
    Countess
    of Gloucester had the following children:
    
    +17 i. Gilbert (2) de CLARE 7th Earl of Clare, etc.
    
    Descendants of Richard FITZRICHARD DE CLARE - 29 Nov 1996 -- >>
    
    >From "A Baronial Family In Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314", by Michael Altschul, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965
    
    Part II--Just to keep the players straight:
    
    Richard I, duke of Normandy d. 996
    :
    Godfrey of Brionne and Eu d. ca 1015
    :
    Gilbert, count of Brionne d. 1040
    :
    -Richard fitz Gilbert (1035-1090)=Rohese de Giffard
    :
    Roger d.s.p. 1130
    Gilbert fitz Richard I(ca1066-1117)=Adeliz d/o Hugh Claremont
    Walter d.s.p. 1138
    Richard abbot of Ely 1100
    Robert d. 1136
    Adelize=Walter Tirel
    Rohese=Eudo Dapifer
    
    -Baldwin fitz Gilbert d. 1095
    :
    William d.s.p. 1096
    Robert d.s.p. 1101
    Richard d.s.p. 1137
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    Richard de CLARE, earl of Hertford d. 1217
    Richard/Roger d.s.p. 1228
    Matilda= (1) William de Braose
    (2) ?? 1219 Rhys Gryg d.1233
    Gilbert de CLARE (1180-1230) = 1214 Isabel =1231 Richard of Cornwall d.
    1272
    William( 1228-d.s.p. 1258)
    Gilbert b. 1229
    Amicia (1220-1283) = (1) 1226 Baldwin de Reviers
    (2) 1247 Robert de Guines d.
    1283
    Isabel b. 1226 = 1240 Robert Bruce d. 1295
    Richard de CLARE (1222-1262) = (1) Margaret de Burgh d. 1237
    (2) Maud de Lacy d. 1289
    Thomas (124?-1287) = Juliana of Offaly d. 1300
    Bogo (1248-d.s.p. 1294)
    Isabel (1240-1271) = 1258 William, marquis de Montferrat
    Margaret (1249-1312) = 1272 Edmund of Cornwall d. 1300
    Rohese (1252-1299+) = 1270 Roger de Mowbray d. 1297
    Eglentina (1257-1257)
    Gilbert de CLARE (1243-1295) = 1254 (1) Alice de Lusignan
    (annulled 1285)
    Joan (1264/71-1322+ = 1284 Duncan d. 1288
    1302
    Gervase Avenel d. 1322+
    Isabella (1263-1358) = 1316 Maurice de Berkley
    
    1290 (2)
    Joan of Acre d 1307
    Eleanor (1292-1337)=(1) 1306 Hugh Despenser
    
    
    
    
    d.1326
    (2) 1327
    
    
    
    
    William la Zouche d. 1337
    Margaret (1293-1342)= (1) 1307 Peter Gaveston
    d.s.p. 1312
    (2) 1317
    Hugh D'Audley d. 1347
    Elizabeth (1295-1360)= (1) 1308 John de Burgh d.
    1313
    (2) 1316
    Theobald Verdun d.s.p. 1316
    (3) 1317
    Roger Damory d.s.p. 1322
    
    Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314*, Baltimore Maryland (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965, p 41-42:
    
    "Taken as a whole, the Clare family represents what might be termed one of the most successful joint enterprises in medieval English history. More than two centuries of steady territorial growth raised the family to a position of pre-eminence in the ranks of the higher nobility. The major factors in this development in the twelfth century were undoubtedly royal favor and shrewdly chosen marriages. The Clares prospered from their intimate connections with successive rulers of England, and the male members of the house were rewarded with a series of important fiefs and well-placed ladies. The power and prestige of the family reached their highest level in the thirteenth century and the fortunes of its members help illuminate almost every aspect of the social and political life of the English baronage in this period."
    
    Clare (family), family of English nobles prominent in the 12th and 13th centuries. The 1st earl of Clare, the founder of the family, was Richard Fitz-Gilbert (flourished 1070-1091?), a knight who accompanied William the Conqueror (King William I of England) on the Norman invasion of England in 1066. He received extensive lands in Suffolk County, and in the village of Clare he built a castle, the ruins of which still exist. His great-grandson, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known as Strongbow, laid the foundations for English rule in Ireland (see Pembroke, Richard de Clare, 2nd earl of). Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Clare (died 1217), and his son Gilbert de Clare, 7th earl of Clare (flourished 1215-1230), were leaders of the barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
    
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