Richard de Clare , MCS, Earl of Hertford 
Richard de was born about 1158 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England. Richard de's father was Roger de Clare , Earl of Hertford and his mother was Maud de St. Hilary. He had two sisters named Elana de and Aveline de. He was the second oldest of the three children. He had a half-brother and two half-sisters, named William d', Avice (Agnes) d' and Maud d'. He died before November 28th, 1217.General Notes
Richard de Clare, Magna Charta Surety 1215, d. bet. 30 Oct & 28 Nov 1217, Earl of Hertford, son of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and Maud, daughter of James de St. Hilary; m. Amice, Countess of Gloucester, d. 1 Jan 1224/5, daughter & heir of William fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, who in the 7th Richard I gave £1,000 to the king for livery of the lands of his mother's inheritance with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. His lordship m. Amicia, 2nd dau. and co-heiress (with her sisters Mabell, wife of the Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and Isabel, the divorced wife of King John) of William, Earl of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, and Joan, m. to Rhys-Grig, Prince of South Wales. This earl, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, d. in 1218, and was s. by his son, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
Richard de and Amice FitzRobert Countess of were married in a religious ceremony in 1182. They had a son and two daughters, named Gilbert de, Maud de and Joan de.
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Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester& Hertford
Gilbert de was born about 1180 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. He died on October 25th, 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France. He was buried on November 10th, 1230 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.
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