Richard de Clare , Earl Gloucester & Hertford 
Richard de was born on August 4th, 1222 in Gloucestershire, England. Richard de's father was Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester& Hertford and his mother was Isabel Marshal. His paternal grandparents were Richard de Clare , MCS, Earl of Hertford and Amice FitzRobert Countess of Gloucester; his maternal grandparents were William Marshal , 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare , Countess of Pembroke. He had a brother and a sister, named William de and Isabel de. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 39 on July 15th, 1262 in John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England. He was buried on July 28th, 1262 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Sir Richard de Clare, b. 4 Aug 1222, d. Ashenfield 15 July 1262, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford; m. (2) on or bef. 25 Jan 1237/8, Maud de Lacy. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and 2nd Earl of Gloucester, then in minority at the decease of his father in 1229. The wardship of this young nobleman was granted to the famous Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, Justiciary of England, whose dau., Margaret, to the great displeasure of the king (Henry III), he afterwards (1243) clandestinely married but from whom he was probably divorced, for we find the king marrying him the next year to Maude, dau. of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in consideration whereof the said John paid to the crown 5,000 marks and remitted a debt of 2,000 more. His lordship, who appears to have been a very distinguished personage in the reign of Henry III, was one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall (40th Henry III) [1256], when Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, with divers other prelates, pronounced that solemn curse, with candles lighted, against all those who should thenceforth violate Magna Carta. In two years afterwards, an attempt was made by Walter de Scotenay, his chief counsellor, to poison the earl and his brother William, which proved effective as to the latter, while his lordship narrowly escaped with the loss of his hair and nails. In the next year the earl was commissioned, with others of the nobility by the appointment of the king and the whole baronage of England, to the parliament of France to convey King Henry III's resignation of Normandy and to adjust all differences between the two crowns; and upon the return of the mission, his lordship reported proceedings to the king, in parliament. About this period he had license to fortify the isle of Portland and to embattle it as a fortress. It is reported of this nobleman that, being at Tewkesbury in the 45th Henry III [1261], a Jew, who had fallen into a jakes upon the Saturday, refusing to be pulled out in reverence of the Jewish sabbath, his lordship prohibited any help to be afforded him on the next day, the Christian sabbath, and thus suffered the unfortunate Israelite to perish. He d. himself in the July of the next year (1262), having been poisoned at the table of Peter de Savoy, the queen's uncle, along with Baldwin, Earl of Devon, and other persons of note. His lordship left issue, Gilbert, his successor, Thomas, Rose, and Margaret. The earl was s. by his elder son, Gilbert 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]
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Richard de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 8TH EARL OF CLARE, 6TH EARL OF HERTFORD (b. Aug. 4, 1222--d. July 15, 1262, Eschemerfield, near Canterbury, Kent, Eng.), the most powerful English noble of his time. He held estates in more than 20 English counties, including the lordship of Tewkesbury, wealthy manors in Gloucester, and the great marcher lordship of Glamorgan. He himself acquired the Kilkenny estates in Ireland and the lordship of Usk and Caerleon in south Wales, making him the greatest lord in south Wales; in Glamorgan especially he was almost an independent prince.
Son of Gilbert de Clare (the 6th Earl), Richard succeeded to the earldoms in October 1230. He refused to help King Henry III on the French expedition of 1253 but was with him afterward at Paris. Thereafter he went on a diplomatic errand to Scotland and was sent to Germany to work among the princes for the election of his stepfather, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, as king of the Romans. About 1258 Gloucester became a leader of the barons in their resistance to the king, and he was prominent during the proceedings that followed the Mad Parliament at Oxford in 1258. In 1259, however, he quarreled with Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester; the dispute, begun in England, was renewed in France, and he was again in the confidence of the king. This attitude, too, was only temporary, and in 1261 Gloucester and Montfort were again working in concord. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD, 1996, GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, 7TH EARL OF]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.JAN 1128/29 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1098 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.> 1142
- b.~ 1070 in Crowland & Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1130
- b.~ 1158 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.<28 Nov 1217
- b.1090 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 1154 in Field Dalling, Walsingham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.1173 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1109 in France
- b.~ 1180 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1070 in England & France
- b.23 Nov 1116 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 1055 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 MAR 1106/07 in At the battle of Falaise
- b.~ 1094 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1060 in St Germain, Normandy, France
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1 JAN 1224/25 in England
- b.~ 1049 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in As a monk at Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.1104 in Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1129 in Leicestershire, England d.24 Apr 1197
- b.1078 in Montford de Gael, Brittany, France
- b.1108 in Montford de Gael, Brittany, France
- b.1075 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England d.15 Jul 1262 in John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England
- b.~ 1045 in Normandy, France d. in Cheddar, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1075 in Somerset, England d.< 1130
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.1054 in Venoix near Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.> 1090 in Domesday tenant in East Worldham, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1090 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.1100 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1070 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.~ 1052 in Chaworth, Nottinghamshire, England d.> 1133 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1060 in Toddingham, Bedfordshire, England
- b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.17 JAN 1239/40 in Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1049 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in As a monk at Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1050 in Leinster, Ireland d.08 Dec 1115 in Killed in battle with Domnall Ua Briain
- b.1100 in Leinster, Ireland d.1 JAN 1170/71 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland
- b.1080 in Ireland
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.1089 in Leinster, Ireland
- b.1114 in Leinster, Ireland d.1191
- b.1094 in Leinster, Ireland
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Richard de and Margaret de were married in a religious ceremony in 1232 in 1st wife.
Richard de and Maud de were married in a religious ceremony in 2nd wife. They had two sons and a daughter, named Gilbert de, Thomas de and Roese de.
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Children
Gilbert de Clare , Earl Gloucester & Hertford
Gilbert de was born on September 2nd, 1243 in Christ Church, Hampshire, England. He died at the age of 52 on December 7th, 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was buried on December 22nd, 1295 in Tewksbury Abbey, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Thomas de Clare , Lord of Thomond, Gov London
Thomas de was born about 1248 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died in Bunratty Castle, Thormond, Clare, Ireland.
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