Gilbert de Clare , 1st Earl of Pembroke 
Gilbert de was born on September 21st, 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. Gilbert de's father was Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford and his mother was Adeliza de Claremont. His paternal grandparents were Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de Clare and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Hugh de Creil Count of Clermont and Margaret de Roucy. He had two brothers and five sisters, named Baldwin FitzGilbert de, Richard FitzGilbert de, Hawise de, Agnes de, Alice de, Margaret de and Rohesia de. He was the second youngest of the eight children. He died in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was buried in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England.General Notes
Earldom of Pembroke: Those who were created Earls of Pembroke before the rise of the Herberts from the 15th century on were predominantly close relatives of the reigning mocharch. This was not so in the first and historically most important case, however, Gilbert Fitz Gilbert or de Clare was made Earl of Pembroke in 1138 by King Stephen, his elder brother Richard Fitz Gilbert or de Clare being father of the Alice/Adelaide who married William de Percy. In the period of unrest and indecisive civil war known as the Anarchy, when followers of Stephen, Henry I's nephew, struggled with the Empress Maud, Henry I's daughter, Gilbert Earl of Pembroke sided with each one. He already held Chepstow, on the Welsh-English borders. In 1144 he pushed far into South Wales and established himself at Carmarthen. [Burke's Peerage]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.1101 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.1045 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.1110 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
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Gilbert de and Isabel Elizabeth de were married in a religious ceremony before 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. They had a son named Richard Strongbow de.
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Children
Richard Strongbow de Clare , 2nd Earl Pembroke
Richard Strongbow de was born about 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died on April 20th, 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.
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