Eleanor de Clare 
Eleanor was born on October 12th, 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales.1 Eleanor's father was Gilbert the Red de Clare Earl of Gloucester and her mother was Joan of Acre Plantagenet. Her paternal grandparents were Richard de Clare Earl of Clare and Maude de Lacy; her maternal grandparents were Edward King Of England and Eleanor. She had a sister named Margaret. She was the younger of the two children. She had a half-brother named Thomas de Monthermer. She died at the age of 44 on June 30th, 1337.1 General Notes
[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
Co-heiress with her two sisters of her brother Gilbert.
They split the lands worth some L6000 gross, between them.
Rec'd Glamorgan & other scattered estates.
Concerning the partition of the de CLARE estates after the
death of the last Gilbert, p 170-171: "Hugh Despenser and
Eleanor [Gilbert's sister] received the lordship of Glamorgan,
the most important of all the Clare holdings, along with
Rotherfield in Sussex and scattered manors in Devon and
Somerset. In addition, each heir acquired two-ninths of the
liberty of Kilkenny in Ireland, although there is no evidence
that any of them every visited it. (P) The death of the
countess in the summer of 1320 completed the division of the
estates among th heirs. Maud probably died on July 2, and the
properties she held in dower must have been partitioned shortly
thereafter. Each received an equal portion of her third of
Kilkenny. The partition of the Clare estates has been
described as "the most important territorial upheaval of the
reign." [Denham-Young *Vita Edwardi Secundi, pp xii-xiii*]"
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.BET. 1153 - 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.BET. 1132 - 1137 in of Burkenham, Field Dalling, Norfolk d.1173 in Norfolk, England
- b.BET. 1180 - 1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England/Hertford, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Perres-Guirrec ( Penrose), Brittany, France
- b.23 Nov 1116 in of Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England/Tewkesbury, England d.1 JAN 1224/25
- b.BET. 1129 - 1134 in of Leicester, Leicestershire, England/Leicester, England d.24 Apr 1197
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Mellent, Gloucester, England d.15 Jul 1262 in Ashenfield, Canterbury, Kent
- b.1126 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales/Pembroke, Wales d.1165
- b.1146 in of Caversham, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Berkshire, England
- b.1127 in Pembroke, Wales or Salisbury, Wiltshire, England/Pembroke, Wales
- b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Wales d.15 JAN 1239/40 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England/Berkhamsted, England
- b.1125 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.BET. 1171 - 1173 in of Pembroke, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Wales
- b.1145 in Leinster, Ireland d.> 1186
- b.02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England/Christchurch, England d.07 Dec 1299 in Monmouth Castle, England
- b.1150 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.11 Oct 1190 in Palestine
- b.1171 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.1211 in of Pontefract, Yorkshire
- b.~ 1154
- b.1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.22 Jul 1240 in Stanlaw, Chester, England
- b.BET. 1153 - 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.BET. 1175 - 1184 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.1213
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England/Tewkesbury, England d.1 JAN 1224/25
- b.1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.10 MAR 1287/88 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England/Winchester, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Acre, Palestine or Damietta, Palestine
- b.1172 in of Winchester (Buckley), Hampshire d.~ 1219 in the Holy Land, Asia Minor
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 JAN 1234/35
- b.1208 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/Lincoln, England d.<30 Mar 1266 in Clerkenwell, England or Hampstead, England
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire (Monmouth), Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Stafford, England
- b.1180 in Chester, Chestershire, England d.BET. 1242 - 1243
- b.1155 in of Montfort, Eure, France d.12 Jul 1189 in Evreux, Eure, France
- b.12 Oct 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1337
- b.25 Mar 1132 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Lincolnshire
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine d.01 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England/Winchester, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1160 in Angoulême, Charente, France d.16 Jun 1202 in Limoges, France
- b.1188 in Angoulême, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault L'Abbe, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1160 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1218 in France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminser Palace d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-Sands, Near Carlisle
- b.BET. 1174 - 1180 in Barcelona, Spain or Aragón d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily or Perpinan, Roussillon, France
- b.1198 in of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France
- b.1180 in Sabran, Spain d.1224 in l'Abbaye de la Celle, France
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England/Amesbury, England
- b.20 May 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.1 MAR 1232/33 in Aoste, Savoy, France
- b.BET. 1198 - 1201 in of Ghamberg, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.~ 1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1236 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.1272 in Acre, Palestine d.23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England
- b.1137 in León, Spain d.22 JAN 1187/88 in Benavente, Italy
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, León, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villanueva de Soria, Castile
- b.1151 in Coimbra, Portugal d.16 Oct 1188 in Bamba, León, Spain
- b.1199 in Castile, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Soria, Castile d.06 Oct 1214 in Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain (near Avevalo)
- b.Aug 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain d.08 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain
- b.11 Oct 1162 in Falais, Calvados, France or Domfront, Normandy d.31 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Spain
- b.WFT Est. 1235-1254 in of Burgos, Castile, Spain d.WFT Est. 1260-1339 in Herdeby (near Grantham), Lincolnshire, England/Grantham, England
- b.1135 in of Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, England
- b.1180 in of Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, France
- b.1138 in Ponthieu, Ain, France d.>Oct 1200
- b.1216 in Abbeville, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
- b.1179 in of Normandy, France d.06 Oct 1221
- b.17 Apr 1199 in of Aumâle, Seine-Maritime, France d.Sep 1251 in Abbeville, France
- b.1170 d.>18 Jul 1218
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Details of Eleanor's family with Hugh le Despenser the Earl of Gloucester
1 SUSANNA KEENE.FTW
Further sources/citations:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to @ 74-32, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Pages: 324 @ 1st ed, pp 77-78, "Dade", Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Pages: 324 @ 1st ed, p 98-99 "Elsing", Royal Descents of Famous People, University of Hull Royal Database (England), Author Address:, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 : The Barons Named and Some of @ Line 14, p. 15, Alianore de Clare
Further sources/citations:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to @ 74-32, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Pages: 324 @ 1st ed, pp 77-78, "Dade", Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, Pages: 324 @ 1st ed, p 98-99 "Elsing", Royal Descents of Famous People, University of Hull Royal Database (England), Author Address:, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 : The Barons Named and Some of @ Line 14, p. 15, Alianore de Clare
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