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. His paternal grandparents were Richard FitzGilbert 1st Earl de Clare and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Hugh de Creil Count of Clermont and Margaret de Roucy. 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]
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- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0953 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1015
- b.0935
- b.~ 0980 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.~ 0958 in Castle at Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- 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.~ 0985 in Creully, Calvados, Normandy, France d.< 1014
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 0945 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1035
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 0960 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 0985 in Evereux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Evereux, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.0990 in Creil, Oise, Picardy, France d.1060 in Creil, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1010 in Creil, Oise, Picardy, France d.1098 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1030 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.1101
- b.0990 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1010 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 0990 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.0995 in France
- b.1045 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.1110 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.0988 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.11 May 1033 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
- b.0992 in Hainault, France d.> 1035
- b.~ 0965 in France d.~ 1013
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