Earl Gilbert de Clare III of Gloucester & Hertford 
Gilbert was born in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. Gilbert's father was Richard de Clare III and his mother was Amicia de Bellomont of Gloucester. His paternal grandparents were Roger de Clare and Maud de St. Hilary; his maternal grandparents were Earl William ("Mafonache") FitzRobert of Gloucester & Chester and Hawise ("de Beaumont") de Beaumont of Leicester. He had two sisters named Maud and Maud. He had a half-brother named John. He died on October 25th, 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France. He was buried on November 10th, 1230 in Tewksbury, Gloucester, England.General Notes
Earl of Gloucester 4th
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who, after the decease of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd wife of Isabel, the divorced wife of King John, and in her right Earl of Gloucester, and her own decease, s. p., as also the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of the Earl of Evereux by Mabell, the other co-heiress, who likewise succeeded to the Earldom of Gloucester, became Earl of Gloucester, in right of his mother, Amicia, the other co-heiress. This nobleman was amongst the principal barons who took up arms against King John, and was appointed one of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. In the ensuing reign, still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the crown, he fought on the side of the barons at Lincoln, and was taken prisoner there by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; but he soon afterwards made his peace. His lordship m. Isabel (who m. after his decease, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III), one of the daus., and eventually co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; William; Amicia, m. to Baldwin de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon; Agnes; Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus. The earl d. in 1229 and was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare. [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.1024/1035 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.1114/1117 in Clare, Tonebridge, Cardigan, Wales
- b.1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.1085 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales
- b.~ 1030 in Clermont, Oise, France d.1101 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1058 in Northamptonshire, England d. in England
- b.~ 1045 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.~ 1110
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.ABT 1025/1050 in Normandy, France d.1129
- b.ABT 1060/1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.Jan 1128/1129 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.ABT 1033/1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1094 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1128
- b.ABT 1036/1040 in Cristot, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1114
- b.ABT 1054/1074 in Spalding, Lincolnshire d.~ 1136
- b.ABT 1039/1044 in France
- b.ABT 1153/1232 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.30 Dec 1218
- b.~ 1060
- b.ABT 1080/1090 in Dalling, Norfolk, England d.1115 in Dalling, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, France d.~ 1154
- b.1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.24 Dec 1193 in Norfolk, England
- b.ABT 1031/1033 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b. in Scotland d.23 Apr 1124 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.1042/1045 in Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1109 in Norfolk, France
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b. in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1075 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England d.> 1157
- b.ABT 1180/1182 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandie, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1046 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire, England
- b.ABT 1086/1096 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.~ 1147
- b.~ 1085 in Valois, France d.13 Feb 1131 in England
- b.ABT 23 Nov 1116/1126 in Gloucestershire, England d.23 Nov 1183
- b.~ 1032 in France
- b.~ 1070 in East Chester, England d.10 Mar 1107
- b.~ 0971 in Belesme, Perche, France
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1018/1022 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1066 in St Germain Mntgm, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1026 in Alencon, Eure, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Chateau de Bures-Sur-Dives, France
- b.1160 in Tewksbury, Gloucester, England d.1 Jan 1224/1225
- b.~ 1022 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France d.~ 1094
- b.~ 1046 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1014 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France d.08 Apr 1081
- b.1104 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.1053/1057 in Vermandois, France d.18 Oct 1102 in Tarsus, , Cilicie
- b.~ 1085 in Valois, France d.13 Feb 1131 in England
- b.~ 1065 in Valois, Isle De France, France d.28 Sep 1120/1124
- b.~ 1129 in Leicestershire, England d.24 Apr 1197
- b.< 1040 in Gael, Brittany, France d.> 1095
- b.~ 1078 in Montfort, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1059 in Breteuil, Normandy, France d.> 1095
- b.~ 1108 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1030 in Poitiers, Poitou, France d.20 Feb 1070/1071 in Flanders
- b.1075 in Breteuil, Normandy, France d.> 1095
- b.~ 1035 in Tosni, France
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Gilbert and Isabella were married in a religious ceremony on October 9th, 1217 in England. They had two sons and two daughters, named Richard, William, Avicia and Isabel.
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Children
Earl Richard de Clare IV of Gloucester
Richard was born on August 4th, 1222 in Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 39 on July 15th, 1262 in Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Kent, England. He was buried on July 28th, 1262 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Lady Isabel de Clare
Isabel was born on November 2nd, 1226 in Gloucestershire, England. She died at the age of 38 in 1264.
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