Richard De Clare 
Richard was born about 1090 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales. Richard's father was Gilbert Fitzrichard De Clare and his mother was Adeliza De Clermont. His paternal grandparents were Richard Fitzgilbert De Clare and Rohese Giffard; his maternal grandparents were Hugh De Creil and Margaret De Roucy. He had a brother and two sisters, named Gilbert, Adeliza and Rose. He was the oldest of the four children. He died in 1136 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> 1st Earl Of Hertford
Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, 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.28 Aug 933 in Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 966 in Fécamp, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0953 d.~ 1015
- b.~ 0979 in Brionne, Normandy, France d.~ 1040
- b.~ 1030 in Brionne, Normandy, France d.~ 1090 in England
- b.~ 1005
- b.~ 1065 in Tonbridge, Kent, England d.Bet 1114 and 1117
- b.~ 0970 in Longueville, Normandie
- b.~ 0970 d.> 1048
- b.~ 0974 in Longueville, Normandie
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1113
- b.~ 0985 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales d.1136 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales
- b.0970
- b.0990 d.~ 1060
- b.~ 1000
- b.~ 1030 in In Clermont, Beauvais, France d.1101
- b.~ 0940
- b.~ 0970
- b.~ 1000
- b.~ 1050 in Clermont, Beauvais, France
- b.~ 0960 d.~ 0992 in Jerusalem
- b.~ 0980 in Birth: 995 In d.> 1063
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.~ 1063
- b.~ 1035 in Montdidier, Somme, France
- b.~ 0956 in Reims, Marne, France d.Bet 991 and 1000 in Reims, Marne, France
- b.~ 0988 in Reims, Marne, France d.11 May 1033
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, France d.1063
- b.~ 0950 d.1013
- b.~ 0997 in Hainaut, , Belgium d.> 1035
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They had a son named Roger.
Family Notes
CHAN17 May 2004
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Children
Roger De Clare
Roger was born about 1116 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. He died about 1173 in Oxfordshire, England. He was buried in Eynham Priory, Oxfordshire, England.
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