Earl Gilbert de Clare of Hertford, Gloucester & Clare 
Gilbert was born on September 2nd, 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England. Gilbert's father was Earl Richard de Clare IV of Gloucester and his mother was Maud de Lacy. His paternal grandparents were Earl Gilbert de Clare III of Gloucester & Hertford and Lady Isabella Marshall; his maternal grandfather was Earl John de Lacy of Lincoln and his maternal grandmother is Margaret de Quincy. He had a brother and a sister, named Thomas and Roese. He died at the age of 52 on December 7th, 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, England. He was buried on December 22nd, 1295 in Abbey, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
9th Earl of Clare
3rd Earl of Gloucester
7th Earl of Hertford
Gilbert is presumed to have been at least 10 years of age when he married Alice de Lusignan, daughter of Hughes XI de Lusignan and Yolande de Bretagne. Annulled in 1280.
Married on 30 Apr 1290 in Clerkenwell, England: Joan, Princess of England, daughter of Edward I, King of England (3938) and Eleanor, Princess de Castile; Gilbert was England's most powerful man, second only to the King.
Gilbert was not young when he married Joan and took her to live at his country retreat at Clerkenwell, not far from the Tower, where the King and the Queen resided. Joan left for her new home with great fanfare and loaded down with royal gifts including 40 golden cups, 20 zones of silk wrought and trapped with silver to give away to whom she pleased, numberless hampers, coffers, baskets and bags. One sumpter horse carried her chapel equipment, another her beddings, a third her jewels, a fourth her chamber furniture, a fifth her candles, a sixth her pantry stores. Died: on 7 Dec 1295 in England Joan was only 23 when the old Earl of Gloucester died at his castle.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1085 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1094 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1128
- b.ABT 1153/1232 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.~ 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, France d.~ 1154
- b.1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1109 in Norfolk, France
- b.ABT 1180/1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.ABT 23 Nov 1116/1126 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1160 in Tewksbury, Gloucester, England d.1 Jan 1224/1225
- b.1104 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.~ 1129 in Leicestershire, England d.24 Apr 1197
- b.~ 1108 in Norfolk, England
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England d.15 Jul 1262 in Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Kent, England
- b.~ 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.1114/1117 in Clare, Tonebridge, Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1126 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1164/1165
- b.1105 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1144/1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1100 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1147
- b.~ 1129 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.03 Jun
- b.~ 1112 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.< 1147 in Near The Choir, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembrokeshire, Wales d.17 Jan 1240 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.06 Jan 1177 in England
- b.1125/1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.ABT 1086/1096 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.~ 1147
- b.ABT 1172/1174 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1110/1111 in Ireland d.01 May 1171 in Ferns, Ireland
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.1177
- b.~ 1114 in Ireland d.1191
- b.02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England d.07 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, England
- b.1118/1128 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.1157/1163 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.1150 in Lincoln, Lincoln, England d.11 Oct 1190 in Palestine
- b.~ 1130 in Sprotborough, York, England d.> 1200
- b.1171 in Lincoln, Lincoln, England d.1214
- b.~ 1082 in Great Waltham, Essex, England d.16 Sep 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
- b.1140 in Rycott, Oxford, England
- b.1118 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.>21 Oct 1166 in England
- b.1192 in Lincoln, England d.1240
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England d.15 Jul 1262 in Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Kent, England
- b.ABT 1245/1248 in Tonbridge, Kent, England d.Feb 1287/1288 in Thomond, Connaught, County Clare, Ireland
- b.~ 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.BEF 10 Mar 1288/1289
- b.1175 in Lincoln, Lincoln, England d.01 Feb 1224
- b.~ 1250 in Wexford, Wexford, Ireland d.1286 in Ross, Ireland
- b.~ 1249 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland d.1300
- b.1250 in Ulster, Ireland d.1291
- b.~ 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.BEF 10 Mar 1288/1289
- b.~ 1127 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England d.<29 Sep 1197 in England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, On Way To Holy Land, Palestine
- b.~ 1133 in Leuchars, Fifeshire, Scotland d.1181
- b.ABT 1186/1188 in Winchester, (buckley), Hampshire, England d.Aug 1257 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1130 in Beaumont, France d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo Provence, West Albania
- b.~ 1156 in Hampshire, England d.12 Jan 1235/1236
- b.~ 1134 in Leicestershire, England d.01 Apr 1212 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
- b.1099 in Castle, Gernon, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in England
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, , Merionethshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Gloucestershire, England d.29 Jul 1189 in Chester, Chestershire, England
- b.ABT 1117/1121 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, France d.13 Mar 1181
- b.1155 in Chester, England d.12 Jul 1189 in Evreux, Eure, France
- b.~ 1130 in France
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Gilbert and Alice were married in a religious ceremony in England. They had a daughter named Isabel.
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Children
Isabel de Clare
Isabel was born in Winchcomb, Gloucester, England . She died in 1338 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England.
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Children
Margaret de Clare
Margaret was born about 1292 in Gloucestershire. She died on April 9th, 1342 in France.
Elizabeth de Clare
Elizabeth was born on September 16th, 1295 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England. She died at the age of 65 on November 4th, 1360. She was buried in St Mary, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England.
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