Richard Fitzgilbert De Clare 
Richard was born in 1125 in Tunbridge, England. Richard's father was Gilbert De Clare and his mother was Isabel De Beaumont. His paternal grandparents were Gilbert Fitzrichard De Clare and Adeliza de Clermont; his maternal grandparents were Robert De Beaumont and Isabel (Elizabeth) de Vermandois. He had a brother and two sisters, named Baldwin, Agnes and Basilia. He was the youngest of the four children. He had a half-sister named Isabel Hedwig. He died at the age of 51 on April 20th, 1176 in Dublin, Ireland.General Notes
Pembroke, Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd Earl of - Britannica.com
Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
b. c. 1130
d. April 20, 1176, Dublin, Ire.
byname RICHARD STRONGBOW, also called RICHARD DE CLARE, Anglo-Norman
lord whose invasion of Ireland in 1170 initiated the opening phase
of the English conquest.
The son of Gilbert FitzGilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, he succeeded
to his father's estates in southern Wales in 1148/49. Pembroke had
evidently lost these lands by 1168; it was probably in that year
that he agreed to aid Dermot MacMurrough, king of Leinster, who had
been expelled from his kingdom by Roderic (Rory O'Connor), high king
of Ireland. King Henry II of England (reigned 1154-89) granted
Pembroke permission to invade Ireland, and on Aug. 23, 1170, the
earl landed near Waterford. Waterford and Dublin quickly fell to the
Normans. After the death of MacMurrough in May 1171, Pembroke was
besieged in Dublin by Roderic, but in September his forces broke out
and routed Roderic's army. In order to prevent Pembroke from setting
himself up as an independent ruler, Henry II had him acknowledge
royal authority over his conquests in Leinster. Pembroke helped the
king suppress a rebellion in Normandy in 1173-74, and in return
Henry granted him custody of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin. By the
time Pembroke died, all Ireland had been committed to his care, but
within Ireland his supremacy was recognized only in Leinster.
His son Gilbert de Striguil (or Strigoil) died unmarried, certainly
before 1189, and as a minor was never styled earl. The earldom
passed with Richard's daughter Isabel (d. 1220) to her husband
William Marshal, the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the Marshal line.
Pembroke, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of, called Strongbow (circa 1130-1176), Anglo-Norman lord, whose conquests in Ireland laid the foundation of English rule there. One of the principal Norman magnates in Wales, Pembroke led an army to Ireland in 1170 as the ally of Dermot MacMurrough, ruler of the Irish kingdom in Leinster. After taking Waterford and Dublin from Dermot's foes, he married the king's daughter and claimed the throne of Leinster when his father-in-law died. In 1171 he surrendered Dublin to his sovereign King Henry II of England, and recognized him as his overlord. After Pembroke's death Henry claimed Ireland for his own son John, and later English kings considered the country part of their domains.
Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2003. © 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
-
Ancestor Pedigree Chart
-
*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.BET. 953 - 966 in Brionne, Normandy, France d.1015 in Brionne, Normandy, France
- b.1000 in Normandy, France d.1054
- b.< 0965 in Castle At Guines, Pas-DE-Calais, France/Guines, France
- b.1024 in Bienfaite, Huntingdonshire, England d.1090 in Saint Neots Turnbridge, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.BET. 984 - 1005 in Tilliers, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1059 in Claire, Suffolk, England d.1117 in England
- b.BET. 970 - 980 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.BET. 1026 - 1063 in France
- b.BET. 1009 - 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.BET. 1084 - 1085 in France
- b.~ 0974 in Port-Audemer, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.1034 in Longueville, Normandy France d.1117 in England
- b.0985 in Longueville, France
- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.0985 in Longueville, France
- b.> 1091 in Tunbridge, England d.1149 in England
- b.0990 d.1060
- b.1010 in Clermont, Oise, France d.1098
- b.1030 in Clermont, Oise, France d.1101 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.0990 in Clermont, Oise, France
- b.1010 in Clermont, Oise, France
- b.1058 in Northampton, England d.~ 1117 in England
- b.0998 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.1063
- b.1014 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.1063
- b.1014 in Soissons, Aisneons, France d.1063
- b.BET. 1035 - 1045 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.1110
- b.0984
- b.1014 d.1063
- b.1125 in Tunbridge, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Ireland
- b.~ 0940 in Pontaudemer,Normandy,France
- b.~ 0980 in Pontaudemer,Normandy,France d.28 Sep 1044 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0974 in Port-Audemer, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.1022 in Pontaudemer,Normandy,France d.1094
- b.~ 0984 in Pontaudemer, Normandy, France d.20 Sep 1045
- b.1040 in Pont-Audemer,Beaumont,Normandy,France d.05 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire,England
- b.~ 0965 in Mellent, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0990 in Mellent,Normandy,France d.1069
- b.~ 0970 in Mellent, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Pontaudemer,Normandy,France
- b.0961 in Normandy,France
- b.~ 0994 in Mellent,Normandy,France
- b.1096 in Leicester, England d.1147
- b.27 MAR 972 in Orléans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, France
- b.1008 in Reims, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry, France
- b.0986 in Toulouse, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, France
- b.1053 in Vermandois,Normandy,France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus,Cilicie
- b.0980 in Kiev, Ukraine d.20 FEB 1053/54 in Kiev. Ukraine
- b.1036 in Kiev, Ukraine d. in France
- b.1001 in Uppsala, Sweden d.10 FEB 1049/50 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.1085 in Valois,Bretagne,France d.13 FEB 1130/31 in England
- b.0979 in Vermandois, France d. in France
- b.1028 in Vermandois, France d.1080 in France
- b.0990 in France
- b.1065 in Valois, France d. in Vermandois
- b.~ 1010 in Vexin,Normandy,France d.1064
- b.1034 in Valois,Bretagne,France d.1080
- b.~ 1012 in Vitry, France d.1043
-
Richard and Aoife were married in a religious ceremony on August 26th, 1171 in Waterford, Ireland. They had two daughters named Joan and Isabel.
-
Children
Isabel Fitzgilbert De Clare
Isabel was born in Pembroke, Wales. She died in 1220 in Pembroke, Wales.
Page last modified