Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de Clare 
Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de was born before 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France. Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de's father was Gilbert FitzGodfrey Count d'Eu & Brionne and his mother was Constance d' Eu. His paternal grandparents were Godfrey FitzRichard Count of Brionne and Hawise de Guines; his maternal grandparents were William Hieme Count d' Eu and Beatrice le Goz. He had a brother and a sister, named Baldwin FitzGilbert of and Ann de. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died in May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England.General Notes
Richard Fitz Gilbert; also known as "de Bienfaite" (from the quantity of his fiefs [so states BP, but CP states Richard was lord of Bienfate & Orbec in Normandy]), "de Clare" or "de Tonbridge" (from actual fiefs); went with his cousin William I the Conqueror to England and was granted 176 Lordships, 95 of them associated with the Honour (feudal unit of administration) of Clare, Suffolk, and others with Tonbridge, Kent. [Burke's Peerage]
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Richard FitzGilbert, having accompanied the Conqueror into England, participated in the spoils of conquest and obtained extensive possessions in the new and old dominions of his royal leader and kinsman. In 1073 we find him joined under the designation of Ricardus de Benefacta, with William de Warren, in the great office of Justiciary of England, with whom, in three years afterwards, he was in arms against the rebellious lords Robert de Britolio, Earl of Hereford, and Ralph Waher, or Guarder, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and behaved with great gallantry. But afterwards, at the time of the General Survey, which was towards the close of William's reign, he is called Ricardus de Tonebruge, from his seat at Tonebruge (now Tunbridge) in Kent, which town and castle he obtained from the archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the castle of Brion, at which time he enjoyed thirty-eight lordships in Surrey, thirty-five in Essex, three in Cambridgeshire, with some others in Wilts and Devon, and ninety-five in Suffolk, amongst those was Clare, whence he was occasionally styled Richard de Clare, and that place in a few years afterwards becoming the chief seat of the family, his descendants are said to have assumed thereupon the title of Earls of Clare. This great feudal lord m. Rohese, dau. of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Roger, Walter, Richard, Robert, a dau. m. to Ralph de Telgers, and a dau. mo. to Eudo Dapifer. Richard de Tonebruge, or de Clare, whose is said to have fallen in a skirmish with the Welsh, was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Tonebruge. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 118, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0860 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.~ 0932 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0891 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in killed at Picardy, France
- b.0872 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 0938 in France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0880 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France d.~ 0912
- 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.0965
- b.~ 0958 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.~ 0865 in Flanders, France d.10 Sep 0918
- b.~ 0890 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.27 Mar 0964
- b.~ 0872 in Wessex, England d.07 Jun 0929
- b.~ 0937 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.0970
- b.0885 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.23 FEB 942/43 in St Quentin, France
- b.~ 0915 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.10 Oct 0960 in Bruges, Aquitaine, France
- b.~ 0890 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0931 in France
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 0860 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.~ 0932 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0891 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in killed at Picardy, France
- b.0872 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France d.~ 0938 in France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0880 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France d.~ 0912
- 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.0885 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- b.~ 0937 in Tillieres, Normandy, France d.~ 0963
- b.0913 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0955 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0921 in of Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0942 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0985 in Creully, Calvados, Normandy, France d.< 1014
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‌Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de and Rohese were married in a religious ceremony about 1054 in England. They had three sons and four daughters, named Richard FitzRichard de, Gilbert Fitz Richard de, Robert, Rohese FitzRichard de, Avice de, Ronais FitzGilbert de and Avoise de.
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Children
Rohese FitzRichard de Clare
Rohese FitzRichard de was born about 1055 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France. She died in 1121.
Richard FitzRichard de Clare , Abbot of Ely
Richard FitzRichard de was born in 1062 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died at the age of 45 in 1107 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
Ronais FitzGilbert de Clare
Ronais FitzGilbert de was born in 1064 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales.
Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford
Gilbert Fitz Richard de was born before 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England. 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.
Robert FitzRichard , Lord of Dunmow
Robert was born about 1075 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died in 1134 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England. He was buried in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England.
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