Family Notes

[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]

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."