Richard Fitzgilbert 1St Earl De lare [Lord De Bienfai 
Richard Fitzgilbert 1St Earl was born in 1035 in Beinfaite,Normandy,France and his baptism took place in Of,Brionne,Normandy,France. Richard Fitzgilbert 1St Earl's father was Gilbert "Crispin" Brionne and his mother was Gunnora D' AUNOU. His paternal grandparents were Godfrey D'Eu & Brionne , Count Of Brionne and Heloise De Guines; his maternal grandparents were Fulk D' Aunou and Beatrice De Goz. He had ten brothers and two sisters, named Osbern De, Baldwin Fitzgilbert Of, Baldwin, Richard De Clare "De Tonbridge", Richard, William, William, Robert, Milo, William , 1st Lord of Bramber, Esilia Elsie and Ann. He was the sixth youngest of the thirteen children. He had a half-sister named Ann. He died about 1090 in St. Neots,Huntingdon,England. He was buried in Priory,St Neot's,Huntingdonshire,England.1 General Notes
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Richard Fitz Gilbert; also known as "de Bienfaite" (from the quantity of his fiefs), "de Clare" or "de Tonbridge" (from actual fiefs); went with his cousin William I the Conqueror to England and was granted 176 Lordships, 95 of them associated with the Honour (feudal unit of administration) of Clare, Suffolk, and others with Tonbridge, Kent. [Burke's Peerage]
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Richard FitzGilbert, having accompanied the Conqueror into England, participated in the spoils of conquest and obtained extensive possessions in the new and old dominions of his royal leader and kinsman. In 1073 we find him joined under the designation of Ricardus de Benefacta, with William de Warren, in the great office of Justiciary of England, with whom, in three years afterwards, he was in arms against the rebellious lords Robert de Britolio, Earl of Hereford, and Ralph Waher, or Guarder, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and behaved with great gallantry. But afterwards, at the time of the General Survey, which was towards the close of William's reign, he is called Ricardus de Tonebruge, from his seat at Tonebruge (now Tunbridge) in Kent, which town and castle he obtained from the archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the castle of Brion, at which time he enjoyed thirty-eight lordships in Surrey, thirty-five in Essex, three in Cambridgeshire, with some others in Wilts and Devon, and ninety-five in Suffolk, amongst those was Clare, whence he was occasionally styled Richard de Clare, and that place in a few years afterwards becoming the chief seat of the family, his descendants are said to have assumed thereupon the title of Earls of Clare. This great feudal lord m. Rohese, dau. of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Roger, Walter, Richard, Robert, a dau. m. to Ralph de Telgers, and a dau. mo. to Eudo Dapifer. Richard de Tonebruge, or de Clare, whose is said to have fallen in a skirmish with the Welsh, was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Tonebruge. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 118, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0860 in Maer,Nord-Trondelag,Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame,Rouen,Seine-Maritime,France
- b.~ 0893 in Normandy,France d.17 DEC 942 in Picardy,France
- b.~ 0872 in Evreux,Normandy,Fr d.> 0925 in Normandy - Wife of Rollo the Viking
- b.28 AUG 933 in Faecamp Normandy d.20 NOV 996 in Faecamp Normandy
- b.~ 0884 in Of,Vermandois,Normandy,France d.23 FEB 942/943 in St Quentin,France
- b.~ 0878 in Bretagne,France d.< 0940
- b.~ 0897 in of Vermandois,France d.>Mar 0931 in France
- b.0953 in Normandy,France d.~ 1015 in ,,Normandy,France
- b.0860 in in Danmark d.0945 in in Gormshoj,Jellinge,Vejle,Danmark
- b.BET. 885 - 914 in Denmark d.BET. 955 - 1000 in Jomsborg,Denmark
- b.0865 d.0935
- b.~ 0946 in ,,Normandy,France d.1031 in ,,,France
- b.~ 0885 in Of,,,Sweden
- b.~ 0905 in ,,,Sweden d.1000 in Y
- b.~ 0886 in Of,Uppsala,Uppsala,Sweden
- b.~ 0979 in Of,,Normandy,France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.0800 in Jutland,Denmark d.0844 in battle at Walcheran
- b.~ 0840 in Friesland,Germany d.> 0873
- b.0905 in Germany,Thuringia d.0965
- b.~ 0830 in Alsace,Lorraine,France d.7 AUG 869 in ,Plaisance,Italy
- b.~ 0869 in ,,Lorraine,France d.0908
- b.0830 in Saxony - Dtr of Duke Ludolph? d.9 APR 868 in a nun
- b.~ 0958 in Castle At Guines,Pas-DE-Calais,France d.Deceased in Y
- b.0859 in Of,Flanders,Nord,France d.10 SEP 918 in Flandres,Nord,France
- b.~ 0889 in Gand Flanders Belgium d.27 MAR 964
- b.~ 0877 in Wessex,England d.0920 in buried
- b.~ 0939 in of,Flanders,Flanders,Belgium d.~ 0965 in Y
- b.~ 0884 in Of,Vermandois,Normandy,France d.23 FEB 942/943 in St Quentin,France
- b.Abt 910/915 in of,Vermandois,Normandy,France d.10 OCT 958/960 in Bruges
- b.~ 0897 in of Vermandois,France d.>Mar 0931 in France
- b.1035 in Beinfaite,Normandy,France d.~ 1090 in St. Neots,Huntingdon,England
- b.~ 0925
- b.~ 0952 in Germany d.Deceased
- b.~ 0969 in Courcy,Ardennes,France d.Deceased
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- b.~ 0985 in Aunou,Orne,Normandy,France d.> 1007 in Y
- b.~ 0970 in Normandy,France d.< 1020
- b.~ 0984 in Tillieres,Eure,France d.Deceased in Y
- b.0860 in Maer,Nord-Trondelag,Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame,Rouen,Seine-Maritime,France
- b.0937 in Tillieres,Normandy,France d.0962
- b.0913
- b.0963 in Normandy France
- b.0942 in Tillieres,Normandy,France
- b.~ 0985 in Normandy,France d.Deceased
- b.<964> in <Of,,Normandy,France>
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Richard Fitzgilbert 1St Earl and Rohese were married in a religious ceremony about 1054 in England. They had five sons and six daughters, named Roger Fitzrichard, Walter, Richard Fitzrichard, Robert (Fitzrichard), Gilbert FitzRichard , 2nd Earl, Rohese FitzRichard, Avice, Ronais Fitzgilbert, Adeliza, Avoise De and Hawise.
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Children
Rohese FitzRichard de Clare
Rohese FitzRichard was born in 1055 in Tunbridge,Kent,England. She died at the age of 66 in 1121 in ,,England.
Roger Fitzrichard De Clare [Lord Of Bienfai
Roger Fitzrichard was born in 1058 in Tunbridge,Kent,England. He died after September 1131.
Richard Fitzrichard de Clare
Richard Fitzrichard was born about 1062 in Tunbridge,Kent,England. He died in 1107 in England.
Robert (Fitzrichard) de Clare
Robert (Fitzrichard) was born in 1064 in Tunbridge,Kent,England.2 He died at the age of 72 in 1136 in England.3
Gilbert FitzRichard , 2nd Earl de Clare
Gilbert FitzRichard , 2nd Earl was born about 1065 in Clare,Suffolk,England. He died in 1114 in England.
Adeliza De Clare
Adeliza was born in 1069 in Tunbridge,Kent,England. She died about 1138 in England.
1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 184-2
2 {Norman, Nancy Ann}
3 New England, Irish, Scotish, Isle of Man
Further sources/citations:
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ 153-1, 157-1, The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ 153-1, 157-1, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 1069, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 1069, The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ line 153, 157
2 {Norman, Nancy Ann}
3 New England, Irish, Scotish, Isle of Man
Further sources/citations:
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ 153-1, 157-1, The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ 153-1, 157-1, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 1069, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 1069, The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ line 153, 157
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