Richard Fitz Gilbert De Clare 
Richard Fitz Gilbert De was born in 1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England and his baptism took place in Of, Clare, Suffolk, England. Richard Fitz Gilbert De's father was Gilbert Fitz Richard De Clare [Earl Hertford] and his mother was Adeliza De Clermont. His paternal grandparents were [Lord De Bienfai Richard Fitzgilbert 1St Earl De Clare [Lord De Bienfai and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Hugh I De Creil Clermont [Count Cleremont] and Margaret De Montdidier [Countess Of Cle. He had four brothers and five sisters, named Walter De, Baldwin Fitzgilbert De, Gilbert "Strongbow" De, Hervey De, Adeliza (Alice) De, Hawise De, Margaret De, Agnes De and Rohesia De. He had a half-brother named John "The Marshall". He died at the age of 46 on April 15th, 1136 in Slain By Welsh Near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was buried in Gloucester, Glouc., Eng.General Notes
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]
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8WKM-46
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0990 in Tilliers, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.~ 1035 in Brione, Normandy, France d.< 1090 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1010 in Tillieres, Eure, France
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in Of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133 in Clare, Suffolk, Eng
- b.~ 0985 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1000 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1422
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain By Welsh Near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.1010 in Creil, Oise, Picardy, France d.> 1098 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France d.1101 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.1010 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France d.Unknown in England
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.1045 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.1110 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.1014 in Roucy, Aisne, France d.1062
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‌Richard Fitz Gilbert De and Adeliza Alice De were married in a religious ceremony about 1115 in England. They had four sons and four daughters, named Gilbert De, Roger De, Robert, Richard De, Adeliza De, Rohese De, Alice De and Rose De.
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Children
[Earl Hertford] Gilbert De Clare [Earl Hertford]
Gilbert De was born in 1112 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. He died at the age of 40 in 1152 in England. He was buried in Clare, Suffolk, England.
Adeliza De Adeliza Alice Adelaide De
Adeliza De was born about 1115 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. She died in St Osyths Priory.
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, Great Britain. He was buried in Eynsham Priory, Oxfordshire, England.
Robert Fitzrichard
Robert was born about 1116 in Of, Woodham Walter, Essex, England. He died in 1134. He was buried in Priory, St Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England.
[Countess] Rohese De Clare [Countess]
Rohese De was born in 1120 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England. She died after 1175 in England.
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