Richard FitzGilbert de Clare , Earl of Hertford 
Richard FitzGilbert de was born in 1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England. Richard FitzGilbert de's father was Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford and his mother was Adeliza de Claremont. He had two brothers and five sisters, named Baldwin FitzGilbert de, Gilbert de, Hawise de, Agnes de, Alice de, Margaret de and Rohesia de. He was the third oldest of the eight children. He died at the age of 46 on April 15th, 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was buried in Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), son & heir, Lord of Clare, Suffolk, slain by Welsh near Abergavenny 15 Apr 1136, buried Gloucester; m. Adeliz (or Alice), daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by Lucy, widow (1) of Ivo Taillebois and (2) Roger Fitz Gerold. She m. (2) Robert de Condet (or Cundy), d. c 1141, lord of Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, etc., son of Osbert de Condet. [Ancestral Roots, Line 246b-25]
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Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd 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 FitzGilbert de and Adeliza Alice le were married in a religious ceremony about 1115 in 1st husband. They had a son and three daughters, named Roger de, Adeliza de, Rohese de and Adles.
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Children
Roger de Clare , Earl of Hertford
Roger de was born in 1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England. He died at the age of 57 in 1173 in Oxfordshire, England. He was buried in Eynsham Priory, Oxfordshire, England.
Rohese de Clare
Rohese de was born about 1123 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England. She died after 1175.
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