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 Earl Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare and his mother was Adeliza or Adelaide de Claremont. His paternal grandparents were Earl Richard deTonbridge Fitz Gilbert and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Count Hugh Clermont and Margaret Marguerite de Montdidier. He had seven brothers and five sisters, named Richard fitzGilbert of Hertford, Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, Baldwin fitz Gilbert of Bourne, Gilbert fitzGilbert of Pembroke, Gilbert, Richard FitzGilbert, Hervey Walter, Adeliza fitzGilbert, Rohese, Rohesia, Margaret and Adeliza Alice. 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.1 General Notes
Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being oneof those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himselfand became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in thoseparts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which hewas unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell inan engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks outof his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, andbestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every yearout of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl ofChester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, anda dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. Hislordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earlof Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford,Earls of Gloucester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0953 in Brionne, Normandie, France d.~ 1015
- b.~ 1000 in Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.~ 0958 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1024 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.~ 1090 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.Bet. 930 - 978 d.Bet. 963 - 1056
- b.Bet. 945 - 1012 d.Bet. 969 - 1088
- b.~ 0984 in France d.> 1024
- b.~ 0970 in Normandy,France d.> 1035
- b.~ 0985 in Normandie,France d.DECEASED
- b.< 1066 in Of, Clare, Suffolk, England d.1114/1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.0930 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0960 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1063 in Vanreuil, Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0916 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1085/1102 in Styford, Northumberland, England
- b.0930 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0974 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 0916 in Normandy, France
- b.1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1090
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- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.Bet. 1038 - 1108 in France
- b.~ 0965 in Evreux,Normandy,France d.1037
- b.1003 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.0968 in Normandy,France d.Bet. 990 - 1062
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b. in Of, Clermont, Oise, France d.> 1098
- b.~ 1030 in Of, Clermont, Oise, France d.1101
- b. in Of, Clermont, Oise, France
- b.1065 in Northamptonshire, England d.1117 in England
- b.~ 1021 in Of, Montdidier, Somme, France d.1063
- b.~ 1045 in Of, Montdidier, Somme, France d.~ 1110
- b.0994 d.1033
- b.~ 1014 in Of, Roucy, Aisne, France d.1063
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‌Richard FitzGilbert de and Adeliza Alice de were married in a religious ceremony about 1115. They had a son named Roger de.
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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.2
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