Lord Richard FitzGilbert de Clare 
Richard FitzGilbert was born in Hertford,Hertfordshire,England. Richard FitzGilbert'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, Richard FitzGilbert de, Gilbert fitzGilbert of Pembroke, Gilbert, Hervey Walter, Adeliza fitzGilbert, Rohese, Rohesia, Margaret and Adeliza Alice. He died on April 15th, 1136 in Near Abergavenny,Monmouthshire,England - Slain.General Notes
Lord of Clare
Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Clare, was born before 1105. He was createdEarl of Hertford about 1136 for his miltary services, and being one ofthose who lived by the power of his sword, entered Wales, there plantedhimself and became lord of vast territories, but was finally slain in askirmish with a few Welsh noblemen on April 15, 1136. He married Alice,daughter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, who died in 1128, and marriedLucia, daughter of Algar, Earl of Mercia, son of Leofric and "LadyGodiva." His lordship died 1139 and was succeeded by his eldest son,Gilbert, 2nd Earl of Hertford, who died in 1151, and having no issue wassucceeded by his brother, Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford.
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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
- b.1000
- 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.Bet. 1084 - 1090 in Hertford,Hertfordshire,England d.15 Apr 1136 in Near Abergavenny,Monmouthshire,England - Slain
- 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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Children
Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare
Roger 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, Englad.
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Children
Robert Fitz Richard de Clare
Robert Fitz Richard was born in 1112. He died at the age of 22 in 1134.
Adeliza de Clare
Adeliza was born in 1114 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. She died at the age of 36 in 1150.
Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare
Roger 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, Englad.
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