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  TITLE:  Countess of LINCOLN
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  Note: Maud de LACY died in 1289. "Maud de Lacy, widow of Richard,earl of
  Gloucester, outlived her husband by more than a quarter of acentury, dying in March 1289. From 1262 until her death sheheld one-third of the Clare
  inheritance in dower, although her son Earl Gilbert the Red didsuccessfully challenge the original composition of her dowerportion, which was readjusted in 1267. Maud did not remarry,preferring to spend her long widowhood living off the revenuesof her estates, contributing handsomely to ecclesiasticalfoundations, and helping to promote her children. Heractivities on behalf of her daughters Margaret and Rohese havebeen noted [see note under her husband Richard], and she alsoattempted, with less success, to present her son Bogo to thechurch of Adlingfleet in Yorkshire. Her gifts to religioushouses were numerous. In 1248 Earl Richard founded ClarePriory, the first house of Austin Friars in England, and afterhis death the countess continued his generosity with severalgrants of land to the priory. In addition, a scheme to found anAugustinian nunnery attracted her. In 1284 she refounded thepriory of Canonsleigh in Devon. Canonsleigh was originallyestablished for seven Augustinian canons by Walter de Clavill, amesne tenant of the honor of Gloucester, but in 1284 Maudprovided an annual gift of L200 for the support of an abbess and40 canonesses of that order. She had originally had the idea ofdoing this for Sandleford Priory in Berkshire, but for somereason the plan fell through in 1274, and a decade later sherefounded Canonsleigh instead. By 1286 the new nunnery was inexistence, and the dispossessed canons were under royalprotection."
  --- Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England:The Clares,
  1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 36-37
  From same, p 62-63: "Negotiations for the second marriage [ofRichard] began even before Megotta de Burgh's death in November,1237. As early as 1236, before the original match was publiclyrevealed, King Henry had entertained notions of marrying theheir to one of his French relatives. The plan apparently fellthrough, perhaps when news of the first marriage came out. Inthe fall of 1237, while Meggotta was still alive, John de Lacy,earl of Lincoln, offered 5,000 marks, a sum roughly equivalentto the gross annual value of the Clare inheritance, to haveRichard's marriage for his own daughter Maud. The earl wasundoubtedly moved by many of the same considerations that hadprompted the wife of Hubert de Burgh, although he had no need toresort to the drastic actions she had taken in 1232. He was thehighest, and perhaps the only, bidder, but Henry still desiredto marry Richard to a foreign kinsman. Through the efforts ofhis brother Richard of Cornwall, the stepfather of the youngheir, a compromise was effected. On October 26, 1237, Henryoffered the marriage to Hugh de Lusignan, count of La Marche,for one of his daughters, with the proviso that if the count didnot agree to the proposal by the following January, the earl ofLincoln could have it for 3,000 marks. Hugh de Lusignan did notagree, and on January 25, 1238, Richard de Clare was married toMaud de Lacy. (P) By the time of his second marriage, Richardwas almost sixteen. He was to remain a ward of the king until1243, when he came of age and was formally granted seisin of hisinheritance. His fortunes shed a grim light on the politicaland financial manipulations of the rights of wardship andmarriage, and on the impact of those rights on nationalpolitics. His own attitudes and personal feelings never emergeduring this entire period. As Powicke has remarked, "one wouldlike 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
  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 Is

Details of (Countess) Maud De Lacy (De Lacie)'s family with (Earl) Richard De Clare Of GLOUCESTER