Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford 
Gilbert Fitz Richard de was born before 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England. Gilbert Fitz Richard de's father was Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de Clare. His paternal grandparents were Gilbert FitzGodfrey Count d'Eu & Brionne and Constance d' Eu. He had two brothers and five sisters, named Richard FitzRichard de, Robert, Rohese FitzRichard de, Rohese FitzRichard de, Avice de, Ronais FitzGilbert de and Avoise de. He was the third youngest of the eight children. He died before 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales. He was buried in Lord of Tunbridge, founded Priory of Clare, Lord of Cardigan.General Notes
Gilbert, feudal Lord of Clare, Suffolk and Cardigan, whose father Richard was son of the Count of Brionne, of an illegitimate line of the Dukes of Normandy). [Burke's Peerage]
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Gilbert de Tonebruge, who resided at Tonebruge and inherited all his father's lands in England, joined in the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, but observing the king (William Rufus) upon the point of falling into an ambuscade, he relented, sought pardon, and saved his royal master. We find him subsequently, however, again in rebellion in the same reign and fortifying and losing his castle at Tunbridge. He m. in 1113, Adeliza, dau. of the Earl of Cleremont, and had issue, Richard, his successor, Gilbert, Walter, Hervey, and Baldwin. Gilbert de Tonebruge, who was a munificent benefactor to the church, was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
Gilbert m. Adeliza, dau, of the Earl of Claremont, and was father of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and Gilbert de Clare, created Earl of Pembroke. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 230, Giffard, Earls of Buckingham]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0891 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in killed at Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, France d.~ 0972
- b.~ 0953 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1015
- b.0935
- b.~ 0980 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.~ 0920 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France d.0968
- b.~ 0958 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.~ 0890 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.27 Mar 0964
- b.~ 0932 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.0970
- b.0915 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.10 Oct 0960 in Bruges, Aquitaine, France
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 0891 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in killed at Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, France d.~ 0972
- b.0970 in Eu, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.BEF 4 JAN 1038/39
- b.0935
- b.~ 1009 in Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0937 in Tillieres, Normandy, France d.~ 0963
- b.~ 0955 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0942 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0985 in Normandy, France d.< 1014
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
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