Eleanor de Clare 
Eleanor was born on October 12th, 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales. Eleanor's father was Sir Gilbert the Red de Earl of Gloucester and her mother was Joan of Acre Plantagenet Cts de Gloucester. Her paternal grandparents were Richard de Clare Earl of Gloucester & Hertford and Maude de Lacy Cts de Lincoln; her maternal grandparents were Edward I Longshanks King of England and Eleanora de Castile Cts de Ponthieu. She had a brother and two sisters, named Gilbert de Clare, Margaret and Elizabeth. She had two half-brothers and four half-sisters, named Thomas de Monthermer, Edward de Montthermer, Isabella, Joan, Mary and Joan. She died at the age of 44 on June 30th, 1337.General Notes
Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (The Johns Hopkins Press) 1965, concerning the partition of the de CLARE estates after the death of the last Gilbert, p 170-171: "Hugh Despenser and Eleanor [Gilbert's sister] received the lordship of Glamorgan, the most important of all the Clare holdings, along with Rotherfield in Sussex and scattered manors in Devon and Somerset. In addition, each heir acquired two-ninths of the liberty of Kilkenny in Ireland, although there is no evidence that any of them every visited it. (P) The death of the countess in the summer of 1320 completed the division of the estates among th heirs. Maud probably died on July 2, and the properties she held in dower must have been partitioned shortly thereafter. Each received an equal portion of her third of Kilkenny. The partition of the Clare estates has been described as "the most important territorial upheaval of the reign." [Denham-Young *Vita Edwardi Secundi, pp xii-xiii*]"
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Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (The Johns Hopkins Press) 1965, concerning the partition of the de CLARE estates after the death of the last Gilbert, p 170-171: "Hugh Despenser and Eleanor [Gilbert's sister] received the lordship of Glamorgan, the most important of all the Clare holdings, along with Rotherfield in Sussex and scattered manors in Devon and Somerset. In addition, each heir acquired two-ninths of the liberty of Kilkenny in Ireland, although there is no evidence that any of them every visited it. (P) The death of the countess in the summer of 1320 completed the division of the estates among th heirs. Maud probably died on July 2, and the properties she held in dower must have been partitioned shortly thereafter. Each received an equal portion of her third of Kilkenny. The partition of the Clare estates has been described as "the most important territorial upheaval of the reign." [Denham-Young *Vita Edwardi Secundi, pp xii-xiii*]"
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.BET. 1153 - 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.BET. 1132 - 1137 in of Burkenham, Field Dalling, Norfolk d.24 Dec 1195 in Norfolk, England
- b.BET. 1180 - 1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Perres-Guirrec ( Penrose), Brittany, France
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England d.1 JAN 1224/25
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Mellent, Gloucester, England d.15 Jul 1262 in Ashenfield, Canterbury, Kent
- b.1146 in of Caversham, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Berkshire, England
- b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Wales d.15 JAN 1239/40 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England
- b.BET. 1171 - 1173 in of Pembroke, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Wales
- b.02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England d.07 Dec 1299 in Monmouth Castle, England
- b.1171 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.1211 in of Pontefract, Yorkshire
- b.1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.22 Jul 1240 in Stanlaw, Chester, England
- b.BET. 1153 - 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.BET. 1175 - 1184 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire d.1213
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England d.1 JAN 1224/25
- b.1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.10 MAR 1287/88 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Acre, Palestine or Damietta, Palestine
- b.1172 in of Winchester (Buckley), Hampshire d.~ 1219 in the Holy Land, Asia Minor
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 JAN 1234/35
- b.1208 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.1258 in Clerkenwell, England or Hampstead, England
- b.1180 in Chester, Chestershire, England d.BET. 1242 - 1243
- b.12 Oct 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1337
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Lincolnshire
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine d.01 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, England
- b.1160 in AngoulIme, Charente, France d.16 Jun 1202 in Limoges, France
- b.1188 in AngoulIme, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault L'Abbe, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1218 in France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.BET. 1174 - 1180 in Barcelona, Spain or AragUn d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily or Perpinan, Roussillon, France
- b.1198 in Of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France
- b.1180 in Sabran, Spain d.1224 in l'Abbaye de la Celle, France
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.20 May 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.1 MAR 1232/33 in Aoste, Savoy, France
- b.BET. 1198 - 1201 in of Ghamberg, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.~ 1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1236 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.1272 in Acre, Palestine d.23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England
- b.1137 in LeUn, Spain d.22 JAN 1187/88 in Benavente, Italy
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, LeUn, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villanueva de Soria, Castile
- b.1151 in Coimbra, Portugal d.16 Oct 1188 in Bamba, LeUn, Spain
- b.1199 in Castile, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Soria, Castile d.06 Oct 1214 in Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain (near Avevalo)
- b.Aug 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain d.08 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain
- b.11 Oct 1162 in Falais, Calvados, France or Domfront, Normandy d.31 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Spain
- b.1240 in of Burgos, Castile, Spain d.29 Nov 1290 in Herdeby (near Grantham), Lincolnshire, England
- b.1135 in of Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, England
- b.1180 in of Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, France
- b.1138 in Ponthieu, Ain, France d.>Oct 1200
- b.1216 in Abbeville, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
- b.1179 in of Normandy, France d.06 Oct 1221
- b.17 Apr 1199 in of Aum, le, Seine-Maritime, France d.Sep 1251 in Abbeville, France
- b.1170 d.>18 Jul 1218
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Eleanor and Hugh le Despenser the Younger were married in a religious ceremony in May 1306 in Westminster, England. They had three sons and two daughters, named Hugh, Gilbert, Sir Edward, Isabel and Elizabeth.
Eleanor and Sir William la Zouche were married in a religious ceremony in 1327.
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