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Male Gilbert "Strongbow" de Clare Click to view Gilbert "Strongbow" de Clare in the family tree

Gilbert "Strongbow" was born on September 21st, 1100 in Tunbridge,Kent,England.  Gilbert "Strongbow"'s father was Gilbert FitzRichard , 2nd Earl de Clare and his mother was Adeliza De Clermont.  His paternal grandparents were Richard Fitzgilbert 1St Earl De lare [Lord De Bienfai and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Hugh I De Creil Clermont [Count Cleremont] and Margaret de Roucy. He had four brothers and four sisters, named Richard FitzGilbert, Hervey , de Clare, John (The Marshal), Baldwin FitzGilbert , Lord Bourne, Alice, Margaret, Rohesia and Rose. He had a half-brother named Herve De.  He died at the age of 47 on September 14th, 1148 in Wales.  He was buried in Tintern Abbey,Chapel Hill,Monmouthshire,Eng.1 


Gilbert "Strongbow"'s family with Isabel (Elizabeth) de Beaumont

‌Gilbert "Strongbow" and Isabel (Elizabeth) were married in a religious ceremony in <Tunbridge,Kent,England>.  They had a son named Richard Strongbow Fitzgilbert.

1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 66-25
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