de Clare Family

The de Clare family

Sveide the Viking d 0760, wife unknown

Children

1 Halfdan the Old d 0800

Halfdan the Old wife unknown

Children

1 M Ivar Earl of Uplands m�d (Ivar) but was dau of Eystein Glumra

Children

1 Eystein Earl of More b abt 0800, Norway m�d Aseda of Jutland

Eystein Earl of More m�d Aseda of Jutland b abt 0812, Maer, Norway dau of Rognvald (~0790-0850)

Children

1 Rognwald The Wise Earl of More b abt 0830, Maer, Norway d 0890, Maer, Norway m�d Hilda b abt 0848, Norway dau of Harolf\Rollo

Children

1 Rollo The Dane Duke of Normandy b 0870, Maer, Norway d 0931, Rouen, France m�d Poppa de Bayeux

Rollo The Dane Duke of Normandy b 0870, Maer, Norway d 0931, Rouen, France m�d Poppa de Bayeux b 0872, Bayeux, France d bef 0930 dau of Berengar

Children

1 William I Longsword Duke of Normandy b abt 0900, Normandy, France d Dec 17, 0943, France m�d Espirota/Adela De Bretagne dau of Hubert Count of Senlis (0852-)

William I Longsword Duke of Normandyb abt 0900, Normandy, France d Dec 17, 0943, France (Cause of Death Slain by Arnulf of Flanders) m�d Espirota/Adela De Bretagne

All the above came from "Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons/The Collins Genealogy," Collins, Jr., Carr P., Carr P. Collins, Jr., 1959, San Bernardino Public Library, San Bernardino, CA, Printed Book, Photocopy, Book only partially copied, pp. 87.

Children

1 Richard I The Fearless Duke of Normandy b 0932, Fecamp, France d Nov 20, 0996, Fecamp, France m�d abt 0978 Gunnora de Crepon

Richard I The Fearless Duke of Normandy b 0932, Fecamp, France d Nov 20, 0996, Fecamp, France m�d abt 0978 Gunnora de Crepon b 0936 d 1027 France dau of Harold VIII King of Denmark (0911-~0981) and Cyrid/Cynthia Queen of Sweden

RICHARD: Had a Danish marriage with Gunnora Crepon of Denmark (in I AR, Gunnor, dau of the forester of Arques) and an official marriage (960) with Emma (daughter of Hugh Capet, Count of Paris). After Emma's death (968), Richard and Gunnora had a Christian marriage to legitimize their children: Archbishop Robert and RICHARD II THE GOOD.

Unsure of source and cannot verify (in fact, this may "belong" to his son Richard II): Other children of Richard but not necessarily Gunnora were Geoffrey, Count of Eu and Brionne in Normandy, whose descendants founded the house of Clare, and Emma (m. Aethelred the Unrede and Canute/Cnut

"Royalty for Commoners- Second Edition," Stuart, Roderick W., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996, Home Library, Printed Book, Some authorities question some of the data, pp. 48, 86 and 87

Children

1 Richard II The Good Duke of Normandy b abt 0958, Normandy, France d Aug 28, 1027, Fecamp, France m�d Judith of Brittany Children Robert I The Devil Duke of Normandy b abt 1000, Normandy, France d Jul 28, 1035, Nicea, Turkey m'd Harlette/Harleva De Falaise

RICHARD: M1) Judith of Britanny (AR: Judith, dau of Conan I, count II of Rennes), by whom he had Richard III and ROBERT I. M2) and divorced from Estrith; no children by her. (AR: calls her Astrid (Margaret), dau of King Swen I of Denmark) M3) Poppa/ Papia of Envermeu. By her, two sons: Mauger (archbishop of Rouen) and William (Count of Arques), and a daughter, Papia (who married Gilbert St. Valerie and had a son, Richard, whose daughter, Ada de Hugleville, married Geoffrey de Newmarch).

(Royalty for Commoners- Second Edition," Stuart, Roderick W., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996, Home Library, Printed Book, Some authorities question some of the data, pp. 48)

2 Geoffrey/Godfrey Clare Count of Eu

Geoffrey/Godfrey Clare Count of Eu Unknown spouse

Children

1 Gislebert/Gilbert Count of Eu m�d Gunnora

Gislebert/Gilbert Count of Eu m�d Gunnora

Children

1 Richard Fitz Gilbert Earl of Clare b bef 1035 d 1090, Wales parents Gislebert/Gilbert Count of Eu and Gunnora He was a Kinsman and companion of William the Conqueror m�d Rohese/Rehais/Robesia Giffard dau of Walter Giffard Bolebec Earl of Buckingham

"Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons/The Collins Genealogy," Collins, Jr., Carr P., Carr P. Collins, Jr., 1959, San Bernardino Public Library, San Bernardino, CA, Printed Book, Photocopy, Book only partially copied, pp. 68

Sir Rinallt/Reginald Awbrey wife family

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Generations 1 through 12 below are as given in MC and Scots Peerage [denoted SP] (Bruce, Earl of Carrick; MacDonald, Lord of the Isles; Sinclair, Earl of Orkney; and Sinclair, Earl of Caithness).

Families

RICHARD DE BIENFAITE

The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch�, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

This great progenitor of the illustrious house of Clare, of the Barons Fitzwalter, and the Earls of Gloucester and Hertford, was the son of Gilbert, surnamed Crispin, Comte d'Eu and Brionne, grandson of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Count Gilbert was one of the guardians of the young Duke William, and was murdered by assassins employed by Raoul de Gac�, as already related in the memoir of the Conqueror (vol. i., p. 16). Orderic gives us the name of one of the assassins -- Robert de Vitot; and Guillaume de Jumi�ges tells us that two of the family of Giroie fell upon and murdered him when he was peaceably riding near Eschafour, expecting no evil. This appears to have been an act of vengeance for wrongs inflicted upon the orphan children of Giroie by Gilbert, and it is not clear what Raoul de Gac� had to do in the business.

Fearing they might meet their father's fate, Richard and his brother Baldwin were conveyed by their friends to the court of Baldwin, Count of Flanders.

On the marriage of Matilda of Flanders to Duke William in 1053, the latter, at the request of the Count, restored to the two sons of Gilbert the fiefs which in their absence he had seized and appropriated, Richard receiving those of Bienfaite and Orbec, from the first of which, latinized Benefacta, he derived one of the various names whereby he is designated and the reader of history mystified.

By Wace, who includes him among the combatants in the great battle, he is called "Dam Richart ki tient Orbec;"

and the exchange of Brionne for Tunbridge, in the county of Kent, obtained for him the appellation of Richard of Tunbridge. At the same time the gift of the honour of Clare in Suffolk added a fourth name to the list, which is swelled by a fifth, descriptive of his parentage, viz., Richard Fitz Gilbert. It is necessary for a reader to be acquainted with all these particulars, in order to identify the individual he meets with under so many aliases.

In the exchange of the properties above mentioned a most primitive mode of insuring their equal value was resorted to. A league was measured with a rope round the Castle of Brionne, and the same rope being brought over to England, was employed in meting out a league round Tunbridge; so that exactly the same number of miles was allotted to the latter estate as the former had been found to contain. (Continuator of Guillaume de Jumi�ges.) Besides Tunbridge, Richard possessed at the time of the compilation of Domesday one hundred and eighty-eight manors and burgages, thirty-five being in Essex and ninety-five in Suffolk.

He was associated with William de Warren as High Justiciaries of England during the King's visit to Normandy in 1067, and actively assisted in the suppression of the revolt of the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk.

Dugdale and others have confounded this Richard Fitz Gilbert or de Clare with his grandson of the same name, who was waylaid and killed by the Welsh chieftains, Joworth and his brother Morgan-ap-Owen, in a woody tract called "the ill-way of Coed Grano," near the Abbey of Lanthony, in 1135. (Florence of Worcester, Henry of Huntingdon, Welsh Chronicle, sub anno, Giraldus Cambrensis, cap. vi.) Richard, the son of Gilbert Crispin, would at that date have been nearly, if not quite, a hundred years old, and the Richard slain in "the Wood of Revenge," as it is still called to this day, was the second son of the Gilbert who was lord of Tunbridge at the beginning of the reign of Rufus, and joined in the rebellion of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, against that monarch in 1088. (Vide vol. i., page 97.)

The pedigree of this family is one of the most confused in Dugdale's "Baronage," and has been the subject of some very severe comments by Mr. Hornby, who, while conferring great obligations upon us by his correction of the errors into which Dugdale has fallen, forgot those we are under to the learned and laborious herald for the mass of information collected and rendered accessible to us by his research and industry, and which he made doubly valuable by faithfully indicating the innumerable sources whence it was derived, enabling us to test the accuracy of his quotations and the credibility of the evidence. Fortunately, my present task is limited to the life of Richard de Bienfaite, which must have terminated either before or very early in the reign of Rufus, as his son Gilbert was in possession of Tunbridge in 1088.

The continued alternation of the names of Richard and Gilbert in this particular line of Clare tends greatly to confuse the genealogist, and nothing but a rigid verification of dates can preserve us from the most inexplicable entanglements. Not only has Dugdale reversed the order of events, but ascribed the same acts to both father and son, and recorded the same fate to Richard and his grandson. There is a curious indication of the probable date of the death of Richard de Bienfaite in the long, rambling, and ridiculous story of an adventure which occurred to a priest named Walkelin, afterwards known as St. Aubin, bishop of Angers, and who in 1091 resided at Bonneval, in the diocese of Lisieux. At the commencement of the month of January in that year, having been summoned in the middle of the night to visit a sick man who lived at the further extremity of the parish, he was alarmed on his road homewards by what sounded like the tramp of a considerable body of soldiers, and thought it was part of the forces of Robert de Belesme on their march to lay siege to the Castle of Courci. Considering it prudent to avoid them, he made for a group of medlar trees at some distance from the road, with the intention of concealing himself behind them till the troops had passed; but he was suddenly confronted by a man of enormous stature, wielding a massive club, who shouted to him, "Stand! Take not a step further!" The priest, frozen with terror, remained motionless, leaning on his staff. The gigantic clubcbearer stood close beside him, and without offering to do him any injury, awaited silently the passage of the troops. The moon, we are assured, shed a resplendent light, and speedily there appeared an apparently interminable procession of deceased persons of both sexes and all classes, amongst whom the priest recognized many of his neighbors who had lately died, and heard them bewailing thc excruciating torments they were suffering for the evil they had done in their time. There were also ladies of high rank, and, mirabile dictu, bishops, abbots, and monks, many of whom were considered saints on earth, all groaning and wailing, and these were followed by a mighty host of warriors, fully armed, on great warhorses, and carrying black banners. There were seen, says the narrator, Richard and Baldwin, sons of Count Gilbert, who were lately dead, and amongst the rest Landri of Orbec, who was killed the same year; William de Glos, son of Barno, the steward of William de Breteuil and of his father, William, Earl of Hereford; and Robert, son of Ralph le Blond, the priest's own brother, with whom he had a long conversation on family matters.

I will spare the reader the more preposterous details of this absurd story and the sermons with which it is interlarded, merely observing that Orderic, who relates it, assures us that he heard it from the priest's own mouth, and saw the mark on his face which was left by the fiery hand of one of the terrible knights. We have, therefore, incidental evidence of one fact recorded in it, thc death of Richard de Bienfaite and his brother Baldwin, before January, 1091, or, according to our present calculation, 1090, for Orderic sometimes begins his year at Christmas, and at others at Easter. The wife of Richard de Bienfaite, Lord of Tunbridge and Clare, was Rohesia, the only daughter of Walter Giffard, thc first Earl of Buckingham, and by her he had six sons, Godfrey, Robert (from whom the Barons Fitz Walter), Richard, a monk at Bec, Walter and Roger, who both died without issue, and Gilbert, who succeeded him, and became the direct progenitor of the great Earl of Hertford and Gloucester. He had also two daughters, Rohesia, wife of Eudo Dapifer, and another unnamed, who married Ralph de Telgers.

The fact that the first Fitz Walter was the greatgrandson of Richard de Bienfaite is sufficient to prove that his (Fitz Walter's) name was subsequently introduced into the Roll of Battle Abbey.

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Descendants of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare

1 Richard FitzGilbert de Clare b: 1035 in Beinfaite, Normandy, France d: 1090 in England m�d Rohese Giffard b: Abt 1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France m: Abt 1054 in England/Wales d: Bef 1090. The wife of Richard FitzGilbert DE CLARE (1035 - 1090), Rohese GIFFARD, she was the daughter of Walter GIFFARD

Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons/The Collins Genealogy," Collins, Jr., Carr P., Carr P. Collins, Jr., 1959, San Bernardino Public Library, San Bernardino, CA, Printed Book, Photocopy, Book only partially copied, pp. 68

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WALTER GIFFARD

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WALTER TIREL AND HIS WIFE

Children 1 Gilbert Fitz Richard Earl of Clare b 1066, Clare, Suffolk, England d 1117 m�d Marguerita/Adeliza/Alice Clermont "Royal Ancestors of Magna Carta Barons/The Collins Genealogy," Collins, Jr., Carr P., Carr P. Collins, Jr., 1959, San Bernardino Public Library, San Bernardino, CA, Printed Book, Photocopy, Book only partially copied, pp. 68 and "Ancestry of Elizabeth of York," Lewis, Marlyn, HT Communications, Arvada, CO, 2001.

2 Isabel Clare m�d Sir Rinallt/Reginald Awbrey

Glenn, Thomas Allen, Merion in the Welsh Tract, _____, Norristown, PA, 1896, pp. 308.

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*** Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare b: 1065 in Clare, Suffolk, England d: 1117 in England m�d Adeliza Alice de Clermont b: 1058 in Nhants, England m: 1076-1115 The wife of Gilbert FitzRichard DE CLARE (c1066-1117), Alice DE CLAREMONT, she was the daughter of Hugh DE CLAREMONT. GILBERT de CLARE (67)., M Adelize, d. of Henry, Count of Clermont, & his wife Margaret, d. of Hildouin III, Count of Montdidier . Died 1115. He had issue: Weis, pp 157, 208 & 212. CP III, p 242

Founder of the Priory of Clare 1090 and Lord of Cardigan 1107-1111

*** This is were the de Clare family through the Clermont family links to Charlemagne.

Gilbert Fitz Richard Earl of Clare and Marguerita/Adeliza/Alice Clermont Children

Children

1 Gilbert de Clare Earl of Pembroke b 1100, Tunbridge, Kent, England d Sep 14, 114832 m'd Isabel Beaumont b abt 1100, Leicestershire, England parents: Robert de Beaumont Earl of Leicester (1049-1118) and Isabel Vermandois (1081-1131. She was known as a mistress of Henry I, King of England.

2 Alice Clare m'd Aubrey Vere II Children: 1 Rohese Vere d aft Oct 1166; m'd Geoffrey Mandeville

"Ancestry of Elizabeth of York," Lewis, Marlyn, HT Communications, Arvada, CO, 2001

3 Richard de Clare b: Abt 1090 in Hertford, Hertford, England d: April 15, 1136 in Slain near Abergavenny, Wales m�d Adeliza de Meschines b: 1088-1094 in Hertford, England. The wife of Richard FitzGilbert DE CLARE, Adeliz - no further information on her ancestry. RICHARD de CLARE, LORD of CLARE ., He is supposed by some authorities to have been created Earl of Hertford, however their appears to be no ground for this belief. M Adeliza, d. of Ranulf le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester . Died 15 April 1136. He had issue: Weis, pp 117 & 212 CP VI, p 498

"The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales" by Geraldus Cambrensis; Annotations

#In the vale of the Gronwy, about a mile above Pont Escob, there is a wood called Coed Dial, or the Wood of Revenge. Here again, by the modern name of the place, we are enabled to fix the very spot on which Richard de Clare was murdered. The Welsh Chronicle informs us, that "in 1135, Morgan ap Owen, a man of considerable quality and estate in Wales, remembering the wrong and injury he had received at the hands of Richard Fitz-Gilbert, slew him, together with his son Gilbert." The first of this great family, Richard de Clare, was the eldest son of Gislebert, surnamed Crispin, earl of Brion, in Normandy. This Richard Fitz-Gilbert came into England with William the Conqueror, and received from him great advancement in honour and possessions. On the death of the Conqueror, favouring the cause of Robert Curthose, he rebelled against William Rufus, but when that king appeared in arms before his castle at Tunbridge, he submitted; after which, adhering to Rufus against Robert, in 1091, he was taken prisoner, and shortly after the death of king Henry I., was assassinated, on his journey through Wales, in the manner already related.

Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996, First, pp. 157.

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27. Meschines - Keveliok Line

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Gilbert de Clare Earl of Pembroke b 1100, Tunbridge, Kent, England d Sep 14, 1148 m'd Isabel Beaumont

Children

1 Richard "The Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl of Pembroke b abt 1130, Tunbridge, Kent, England d Apr 5, 1176, Dublin, Ireland m'd Eva MacMurrough Countess of Ireland

Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare b: Abt 1090 in Hertford, Hertford, England d: April 15, 1136 in Slain near Abergavenny, Wales m�d Adeliza de Meschines.

Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996, First, pp. 157

Children

1 Roger de Clare b: 1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d: 1173 in Oxon, Oxfordshire, England m�d Maud St. Hilary b: 1132 in Buckenham, Dalling, Norfolk, England d: December 24, 1193 in Norfolk, England. dau of James St. Hilary

Faris, David, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996, First, pp. 31.

Next Gen

Richard "The Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl of Pembroke b abt 1130, Tunbridge, Kent, England d Apr 5, 1176, Dublin, Ireland m'd Eva MacMurrough Countess of Ireland dau of Dermond MacMurrough King of Leinster (1111-1171) and More

Children

1 Isabel Clare b 1173, Pembroke, Wales d 1220, Pembroke, Wales m�d Aug 1189, William Marshall Earl of Pembroke b 1146, Pembroke, Wales d May 14, 1219, Caversham, London, England. Son of John Marshall (-1164)

Children

1 Maud Marshall Death Mar 27, 1248 m�d William Warrene

*2 Isabella Marshall Countess of Cornwall d Jan 17, 1239, Berkhampstead, England m�d Sir Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glouceser

3 Sibyl Marshall m�d William Ferrers Earl of Derby

4 Eva Marshall d 1246 m�d William de Braiose Lord of Abergavenny

Note: Isbella father was Richard "The Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Eva MacMurrough Countess of Ireland and Sir Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucesor father was Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford (-1217) and Amice Fitz Robert (-1224)

Roger de Clare b: 1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d: 1173 in Oxon, Oxfordshire, England m�d Maud St. Hilary b: 1132 in Buckenham, Dalling, Norfolk, England d: December 24, 1193 in Norfolk, England. The wife of Roger DE CLARE (Aft 1115 - 1173) Maud DE ST HILARY dau of James St. Hilary . ROGER de CLARE, 1st EARL of HERTFORD (16)., In 1157 & in the following years he was engaged against Rhys ap Gruffyd & in 1164 took part in the Constitutions of Clarendon. M Maud (she M 2nd William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel), d. of James de St. Hilary. Died 1173. He had issue: CP, VI, pp 499-501 Foss, p 166

Roger de Clare and Maud St. Hilary children

1 Richard de Clare, Earl of Clare b: 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d: December 30, 1218 m�d Amice FitzRobert

Next Gen

Richard de Clare, Earl of Clare b: 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d: December 30, 1218 m�d Amice FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester b: 1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England d: January 01, 1224/25 RICHARD de CLARE, 2nd EARL of HERTFORD (12)., M Amice (Died 1 Jan.1224/5), d. of William, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, & his wife Hawise de Beaumont (See ENGLAND). He was present at the coronation of Richard I,1189. Sided with the barons against King John, & played a leading part in the negotiations for the Magna Carta & was one of the twenty-five sureties,1215. As a consequence he lost his lands & was excommunicated by the Pope. Died 1217. He had issue: CP, III, p 244 & VI, pp 501-3 Weis, p 67 Leese, p 374. Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, Surety of the Magna Carta, d. before 28 Nov 1217; m. Amicia, heiress of Gloucester, daughter of William fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester (d. 23 Nov 1183) and Amicia de Beaumont Richard de CLARE 6th Earl of Clare was born in 1162 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England. He died on 30 Dec 1218. He was married to Amice FITZWILLIAM Countess of Gloucester about 1180. Amice FITZWILLIAM Countess of Gloucester was born in 1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England. She died on 1 Jan 1224/25. Richard was also 3rd Earl of Hertford. He and Amice were divorced before 1200.

Children

1 Sir Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glouceser b abt 1180197 d Oct 25, 1230, Penrose, Brittany, France197 m'd Isabella Marshall Countess of Cornwall

Gilbert de Clare 5th Earl of Hertford, Surety b: 1180 d: October 25, 1230 in Penros, Brittany m�d Isabel Marshall b: Abt 1203 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales m:October 09, 1214 in Tewkesbury Abbey d: January 16, 1239/40 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. Gilbert de CLARE 1st Earl of Gloucester was born about 1180. He died on 25 Oct 1230 in Penros, Brittany. He was married to Isabella MARSHAL on 9 Oct 1214 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucester. A typo on the marriage so it could be 9 Oct 1217 GILBERT de CLARE, 3rd EARL of HERTFORD & 1st EARL of GLOUCESTER (6)., Born c. 1180. M 9 Oct. 1217 Isabel (Isabel de CLARE Countess Strigoil was born about 1174. She died in 1220). Isabel died in Pembroke, Wales. ), d. of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke, & his wife Isabel de Clare . He was one of the twenty-five Barons who acted as sureties of the Magna Carta, June 1215. For his defiance of King John the Pope excommunicated him, Dec. 1216. He fought on the side of Prince Louis of France on his invasion of England, at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217, & was taken prisoner by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. He sided with Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III, against the King in 1227. Died 25 Oct. 1230. He had issue: CP III, p 244, V, pp 694-6 & VI, p 503 Weis, p 67 Leese, p 374. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, Surety of the Magna Carta, d. 23 Nov 1230; m. Isabel le Marshal, daughter of William le Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Regent of England 1216-1219 (d. 14 May 1219) and Isabel de Clare, heiress of earldom of Pembroke

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William Marshal

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William Marshal;EVENTS IN LIFE AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Children

1 Sir Richard de Clare b Aug 4, 1222 d Jul 15, 1262, Ashenfild m'd Maude de Lacy

2 Isabel de Clare b: November 02, 1226 m�d Robert Bruce, Lord of Annadale

Next Gen

Isabel de Clare b: November 02, 1226 m�d Robert Bruce, Lord of Annadale b: 1210 m: May 1240. Robert, Earl of Carrick. He was dead by 3 May 1294. His first wife, whom he had married in or before 1240, was ISOBEL (born 1226, still living 1264), second daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 1st. Earl of Gloucester and Hertford.

Son Robert (2) Bruce, Lord of Annadale m�d Margaret > Son Robert I 'the Bruce', King of Scotland m�d +Isabel Mar > Daughter Marjory Bruce m�d +Walter Stewart > Son Robert II, King of Scotland. Isabel de Clare, m. Robert de Bruce, lord of Annandale, competitor for the Scottish crown (d. 1294), son of Robert de Bruce and Isabel of Huntingdon

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In their book "American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales" (1984), they list Adeliza's ancestry as follows:

1) Hugh Capet, King of France,d.996= Adelaide of Poitou

2) Edith of France=Rainir IV, Count of Hainault

3) Beatrix of Hainault=1)Ebles I, Count of Roucy

4) Alice of Roucy= Hiloun IV, Count of Montdidier

5) Margaret of Montdidier= Hugh I, Count of Clermont

6) Adeliza of Clermont= Gilbert de Clare

WFT

Direct Descendants of Hugh De Clare, 2D Count Of Clermont...

1 Hugh De Clare, 2D Count Of Clermont... +Marguerita

2 Adeliza (Adelaide) De Clare +Gilbert Fitz Richard

3 Richard Fitz Gilbert De Clare d: April 15, 1135 +Adeliza De Guernons

4 Roger De Clare, Earl Of Hertford d: 1173 +Maud De St. Hilary

5 Richard De Clare, 6Th Earl Of Clare d: Abt November 28, 1217 +Amice, Countess Of Gloucester d: January 01, 1224/25

6 Maud De Clare

This Richard and Amicia were parents of Gilbert de Clare [b. ca. 1185], father of the Richard de Clare who married Maud de Lacy, daughter of John de Lacy [b. ca. 1192], son of Maud "de Clere."

The Stories about the de Clare family.

From "A Baronial Family In Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314", by

A Baronial Family In Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314", by Michael Altschul, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965

A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314

From "A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314", by Michael Altschul, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press, 1965.

The Clares came to England with the Conqueror. Like many other great families which settled in England after the Conquest, they were related to the dukes of Normandy and had established themselves as important members of the Norman feudal aristocracy in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. The origin of the family can be traced to Godfrey, eldest of the illegitimate children of Duke Richard I (the Fearless), the Conqueror's great-grandfather. While the Duke granted Godfrey Brionne, he did not make him a count. Godfrey's comital title derives from the grant of the county of Eu made to him after 996 by his half-brother, Duke Richard II. After Godfrey's death, Eu was given to William, another of Duke Richard I's bastard sons, and Gilbert, Godfrey's son, was left with only the lordship of Brionne. However, under Duke Robert I, father of William the Conqueror, Gilbert assumed the title of count of Brionne while not relinquishing his claim to Eu. When Count William of Eu died shortly before 1040, Gilbert assumed the land and title, but he was assassinated in 1040 and his young sons, Richard and Baldwin, were forced to flee Normandy, finding safety at the court of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. When William the Conqueror married Count Baldwin's daughter, he restored Gilbert's sons to Normandy, although he did not invest them with either Brionne or Eu or a comital title. William granted the lordships of Bienfaite and Orbec to Richard fitz Gilbert, and Le Sap and Meules to Baldwin. While Gilbert's descendants later pressed a claim for Brionne, it was never restored.

Richard and Baldwin fitz Gilbert took part in the Norman conquest of England, and both assumed important positions in the Conqueror's reign. Baldwin was made guardian of Exeter in 1068, and appears in the Domesday Book as sheriff of Devon, lord of Okehampton and numerous other estates in Devon, Dorset, and Somerset. His sons William and Richard were also sheriffs of Devon and participated in the abortive Norman penetration of Carmarthen in the early twelfth century. However, the lasting position of the family in England must be credited to Baldwin's brother, Richard fitz Gilbert I. He was regent of England jointly with William de Warenne during the Conqueror's absence in 1075, and he served in various other important capacities for the King. King William rewarded his cousin well, granting him one of the largest fiefs in the territorial settlement. The lordship centered on Clare (obviously the origin of the Clare family name), Suffolk, which had been an important stronghold in Anglo-Saxon times. The bulk of Richard fitz Gilbert's estates lay in Suffolk, Essex, Surrey, and Kent, but comprised holdings in various other counties in the southern and eastern parts of the kingdom as well. In addition, King William arranged for Richard's marriage to Rohese, sister of Walter Giffard, later Earl of Buckingham, and her dowry, consisting of lands in Huntingdon and Hertford, became absorbed in the family inheritance.

After Richard's death, his extensive properties in Normandy and England were divided between his two eldest sons. The Norman fiefs of Bienfaite and Orbec passed to Roger, while Gilbert, inherited the English honors of Clare and Tonbridge. - the players -

Richard I, Duke of Normandy, died 996

Godfrey of Brionne and Eu died ca 1015

Gilbert, count of Brionne died 1040

-Richard fitz Gilbert (1035-1090) = Rohese de Giffard

Roger d.s.p. 1130

Gilbert fitz Richard I(ca1066-1117 ) = Adeliz daughter of Hugh Claremont Walter d.s.p.1138

Richard, abbot of Ely 1100

Robert d.1136

Adelice = Walter Tirel

Rohese = Eudo Dapifer -Baldwin fitz Gilbert died 1095

William d.s.p. 1096

Robert d.s.p.1101

Richard d.s.p.1137

While Gilbert fitz Richard I found himself at odds with the Conqueror's successor, William Rufus, he and other members of the family enjoyed great favor with Rufus' successor King Henry I. Some have suggested that Henry's largesse was due to the fact that Walter Tirel, husband of Richard's daughter Adelize, shot the arrow which slew Rufus. Proof of this is lacking, but with certainty the wealth and position of the Clare family increased rapidly during Henry's reign. One of Rohese Giffards brothers (Walter) was made Earl of Buckingham and another Bishop of Winchester. Gilbert fitz Richard's brothers were also rewarded: Richard, a monk at Bec, was made abbot of Ely in 1100; Robert was granted the forfeited manors of Ralph Baynard in East Anglia; Walter, who founded Tintern Abbey in 1131, was given the great lordship of Netherwent with the castle of Striguil in the southern march, territories previously held by Roger, son of William fitz Osborn, Earl of Hereford, who had forfeited them in 1075. In 1110 Gilbert was granted the lordship of Ceredigion (Cardigan) in southwestern Wales, and immediately embarked upon an intensive campaign to subjagate the area. - the players -

Gilbert fitz Richard I (ca1066-1117)=Adeliz d/o Hugh Claremont

Richard fitz Gilbert II (ante 1100-1136)=Adelize de Chester

Gilbert b. 1100

Baldwin d. 1154

Hervey

Walter

Margaret=William de Montifichet

Alice=Aubrey de Vere

Rohese=Baderon de Monmouth

After Gilbert fitz Richard I died in 1117, his children continued to profit from royal generosity and favorable connections. His daughters were all married to important barons; William de Montfichet, Lord of Stansted in Essex, the marcher Lord Baderon de Monmouth, and Aubrey de Vere, Lord of Hedingham in Essex and father of the first Vere Earl of Oxford. Of the five sons, little is known of two: Hervey, whom King Stephen sent on an expedition to Cardigan abt 1140, and Walter, who participated in the Second Crusade of 1147. Baldwin established himself as an important member of the lesser baronage by obtaining the Lincolnshire barony of Bourne through marriage. Richard fitz Gilbert II, the eldest and heir, was allowed to marry Adeliz, sister of Ranulf des Gernons, Earl of Chester, thus acquiring lands in Lincoln and Northampton as her marriage portion. He tried to consolidate the gains made by his father in Cardigan, but was killed in an ambush in 1136 and the lordship was soon recovered by the Welsh.

Of Gilbert fitz Richard I' sons, Gilbert was the only one to achieve any great prominence, being the founder of the great cadet branch of the family and the father of one of the most famous men in English history. Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare was high in the favor of Henry I, perhaps because his wife Isabell, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester, was one of Henry's favourite mistresses. When Gilbert's uncle Roger died without heirs, Henry granted Gilbert the lordships of Bienfaite and Orbec in Normandy. When another uncle, Walter, Lord of Netherwent in South Wales, died without issue in 1138, King Richard? gave Gilbert this lordship in addition to the lordship of Pembroke, which had been forfeited by Arnulf of Montgomery in 1102. Gilbert was also created Earl of Pembroke in 1138. At his death in 1148, he was succeeded by his son Richard fitz Gilbert, aka "Strongbow" who led the Norman invasion of Ireland and obtained the great lordship of Leinster in 1171.

Thus, in just two generations, the cadet branch of the Clares became one of the most important families in England. Strongbow was Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Netherwent, and Lord of Leinster being the most powerful of the marcher and Anglo-Irish magnates under King Henry II. Strongbow d. in 1176 and son Gilbert d. abt. 1185, ending the male line. In 1189, the inheritance passed to Strongbow's daugther Isabel and her husband, William Marshal.

Meanwhile, the senior side prospered. After Richard fitz Gilbert II died in 1136, Clare, Tonbridge, and other estates passed to the eldest son Gilbert fitz Richard II, who was created Earl of Hertford by King Stephen. Gilbert died probably unmarried in 1152, when his younger brother Roger inherited the estates and comital title. Roger resumed the the campaign against the Welsh in Cardigan where, after 8 years, he was defeated in 1165. However, Roger did add some lands and nine knights' fees through his marriage to Maud, daughter and heir of the Norfolk baron James de St. Hillary. Roger died in 1173 and his widow, Maud, conveyed the remainder of the inheritance to her next husband, William de Aubigny, Earl of Arundel. The Clare estates along with the earldom passed to Roger's son, Richard, who for the next 4 decades until he died in 1217, was the head of the great house of CLARE, adding immensely to the wealth, prestige, and landed endowment of his line.

Roger's son Richard, hereinafter Richard de CLARE acquired half of the former honor of Giffard in 1189 when King Richard I, in need of money for the Third Crusade, agreed to divide the Giffard estates between Richard de CLARE and his cousin Isabel, Strongbow's daughter based on their claims of descendancy to Rohese Giffard. Richard de CLARE obtained Long Crendon in Buckingham, the caput of the Giffard honor in England, associated manors in Buckingham, Cambridge, and Bedfordshire, and 43 knights' fees, in addition to some former Giffard lands in Normandy. When Richard de CLARE's mother Maud died in 1195, he obtained the honor of St. Hilary. Maud's 2nd husband, William de Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, who had held St. Hilary jure uxoris, d. in 1193, and despite the fact he had a son and heir, the honor reverted to Maud and after her death escheated to the crown. Richard de CLARE offered 360 and acquired it. The honor later became absorbed into the honor of CLARE and lost its separate identity.

Richard de CLARE's most important act, however, was his marriage to Amicia, 2nd daughter and eventual sole heir to William Earl of Gloucester. The Gloucester inheritance included the earldom and honor of Gloucester with over 260 knights' fees in England, along with the important marcher lordships of Glamorgan and Gwynllwg. It was not easy though!! William died 1183, leaving 3 daughters. The eldest, Mabel, married Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux, while the second, Amicia married Richard de CLARE. King Henry II meanwhile arranged the marriage of the youngest Isabel, to his son John, Count of Mortain, in 1189. When John became King in 1199, he divorced Isabel to marry Isabelle of Angoul�me, but, he kept the 1st Isabel in his custody. Then in 1200, John created Mabel's son Amaury Earl of Gloucester. In addition, Richard de CLARE and his son Gilbert were given a few estates and 10 fees of the honor of Gloucester of Kent; otherwise, John kept the bulk of the honor, with the great lordships of Glamorgan and Gwynllwg. Mabel's son Amaury died without issue in 1213. Shortly thereafter, John gave the 1st Isabel in marriage to Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who was also created Earl of Gloucester. When Geoffrey died, the inheritance was assigned to Hubert de Burgh, the justiciar. Hubert married Countess Isabel shortly before her death in Oct. 1217, however, he did not retain the estates, since they passed to Amicia, now recognized as Countess of Gloucesthire, and her husband Richard de CLARE, despite the fact Richard and Amicia had been separated since 1200.

Richard outlived Isabel by several weeks and by 28 Nov 1217, he was dead, leaving Gilbert, aged 38, as the sole heir to the Clare and Gloucester estates and title. Gilbert de CLARE assumed the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hertford and was charged �350 relief for the honors of Clare, Gloucester, St. Hilary and his half of the old Giffard barony. He controlled some 456 knights fees, far more than any other, and it did not include some 50 fees in Glamorgan and Gwynllwg. By a remarkable series of fortuitous marriages and quick deaths, the CLARES were left in 1217 in possession of an inheritance which in terms of social prestige, potential revenues, knights' fees, and a lasting position of great importance among the marcher lords of Wales. They were probably the most successful family in developing their lands and power during the 12th century and in many ways the most powerful noble family in 13th century England. By 1317, however, the male line of Clares became extinct and the inheritance was partitioned. Between 1217 and 1317 there were four Clare generations.

Gilbert de CLARE, born abt. 1180 had a brother Richard/Roger and a sister Matilda. Richard accompanied Henry III's brother, Richard of Cornwall, to Gascony in 1225-26 and was never heard from again. Matilda was married to William de Braose (died 1210 when he and his mother were starved to death by King John), eldest son of the great marcher baron William de Braose (died 1211), Lord of Brecknock, Abergavenny, Builth, Radnor, and Gower, who was exiled by King John. Matilda returned to her father and later (1219) sued Reginald de Braose, second son of William, for the family lands, succeeding only in recovering Gower and the Sussex baronry of Bramber. Gilbert de CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford from 1217 to 1230, married Oct. 1214 his cousin Isabel, daughter and eventual co-heiress of William Marshal (died 1219), earl of Pembroke. Gilbert and Isabel had three sons and two daughters, with the eldest son and heir Richard, born 4 Aug 1222, thus only 8, when his father died. In 1243, Richard de CLARE came of age and assumed the estates and titles of his father until he d. 15 July 1262. His brother William, b. 1228 held lands of Earl Richard in Hampshire and Norfolk for the service of a knight's fee. In June 1258, during a baronial reform program, William was granted custody of Winchester castle. A month later he died, reportedly by poison administered by the Earl Richard's seneschal (an official in a medieval noble household in charge of domestic arrangements and the administration of servants; a steward or major- domo. Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin), Walter de Scoteny, in supposed collaboration with Henry III's Poitevin half-brothers, who strongly opposed the baronial program and Earl Richard's participation in it. (Why didn't they poison Richard??) Earl Gilbert's daughters were very well placed. Amicia, born 1220, was betrothed (promised to be given in marriage) in 1226 to Baldwin de Reviers, grandson and heir to William de Reviers, Earl of Devon (died 1217). Baldwin was only a year or two older than Amicia and Earl Gilbert offered 2,000 marks to the King for the marriage and custody of some Reviers estates during Baldwin's minority. The marriage must have been consummated around 1235, since Baldwin's son and heir (Baldwin) was born the next year. After Baldwin died in 1245, Amicia (died 1283) controlled the lands of her son (died 1262) and was given permission to marry a minor English baron, Robert de Guines/Gynes, uncle of Arnold III, Count of Guines.

Earl Gilbert's other daughter, Isabel born 1226, married 1240 the Scots baron Robert Bruce, lord of Annandale (d 1295), and by him was the grandmother of the hero of Bannockburn. Her marriage was probably arranged by her mother Isabel and uncle, Gilbert Marshal who gave her the Sussex manor of Ripe as a marriage portion.

Isabel Marshal outlived Earl Gilbert de CLARE by ten years, during which time she was busy. In 1231 she married Richard of Cornwall, to the displeasure of Richard's brother King Henry III, who was trying to arrange another match for Richard. She died 1240, after 4 children by Richard, only one of which lived past infancy. According to the Tewkesbury chronicle, she wished to be buried next to her 1st husband, but Richard of Cornwall had her buried at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire, although as a pious gesture he allowed her heart to be sent to Tewkesbury. - the players -

Richard de CLARE, Earl of Hertford d. 1217

Richard/Roger d.s.p. 1228

Matilda = (1) William de Braose (2) ?? 1219 Rhys Gryg died 1233

Gilbert de CLARE (1180-1230) = 1214 Isabel =1231 Richard of Cornwall died 1272 William (1228-d.s.p. 1258)

Gilbert born 1229

Amicia (1220-1283) = (1) 1226 Baldwin de Reviers (2) 1247 Robert de Guines died 1283

Isabel born 1226 = 1240 Robert Bruce died 1295

Richard de CLARE (1222-1262) = (1) Margaret de Burgh died 1237 (2) Maud de Lacy d. 1289

Thomas (124?-1287) = Juliana of Offaly d. 1300

Bogo (1248-d.s.p. 1294)

Isabel (1240-1271) = 1258 William,Marquis de Montferrat

Margaret (1249-1312) = 1272 Edmund of Cornwall died 130

Rohese (1252-1299+) = 1270 Roger deMowbray died 1297

Eglentina (1257-1257)

Gilbert de CLARE (1243-1295) = 1254 (1) Alice de Lusignan (annulled)

Joan (1264/71-1322+ = 1284 (1) Duncan died 1289, 1302 (2) Gervase Avenel died 1322+ Isabella (1263-1358) = 1316 Maurice de Berkley = 1290 (2) Joan of Acredid died1307

Eleanor (1292-1337)=(1) 1306 Hugh Despenser died1326 (2) 1327 William la Zouche died 1337

Margaret (1293-1342)= (1) 1307 Peter Gaveston d.s.p. 1312 (2) 1317 Hugh D'Audley died 1347

Elizabeth (1295-1360)= (1) 1308 John de Burgh died 1313 (2) 1316 Theobald Verdun d.s.p. 1316 (3) 1317 Roger Damory d.s.p. 1322

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RICHARD DE CLARE (d. 1090?), founder of the house of Clare,

was a son [see Clare, family of] of Count Gilbert. Though here, for convenience, inserted among the Clares, he was known at the time as Richard de Bienfaite, Richard the son of Count Gilbert, Richard FitzGilbert, or Richard of Tonbridge, the last three of these styles being those under which he appears in 'Domesday.' He is, however, once entered (in the Suffolk 'invasiones') as Richard de Clare (Domesday, ii. 448 a). It was probably in 1070 that, with his brother, he witnessed a charter of William at Salisbury (Glouc. Cart. i. 387). On William's departure for Normandy he was appointed, with William of Warrenne, chief justiciar (or regent), and in that capacity took a leading part in the suppression of the revolt of 1075 (Ord. Vit. ii. 202). He is further found in attendance on the king at Berkeley, Christmas 1080 (Glouc. Cart. i. 374), and again, with his brother, at Winchester in 1081 (Men. Angl. iii. 141 ). The date of his death is somewhat uncertain. Ordericus (iii. 371) alludes to him as lately (nuper) dead in 1091, yet apparently implies that at this very time he was captured at the siege of Courcy. From Domesday we learn that he received in England some hundred and seventy lordships, of which ninety-five were in Suffolk, attached to his castle of Clare. In Kent he held another stronghold, the castle of Tunbridge, with its appendant Lowy (Lega), of which the continuator of William of Jumi�ges asserts (viii. 37) that he received it in exchange for his claim on his father's comt� of Brionne, while the Tintern 'Genealogia' (Monasticon Anglican. v. 269) states that he obtained it by exchange from the see of Canterbury, which is confirmed by the fact that, in later days, it was claimed by Becket as having been wrongly alienated, and homage for its tenure exacted from the earls (Materials, iii. 47, 251). By Stapleton (ii. 136) and Ormerod (Strig. 79) it has been held that he received the lordship of Chepstow as an escheat in 1075, but for this there is no foundation. The abbey of Bec received from him a cell, afterwards an alien priory, at Tooting (Mon. Arngl. vi. 1052-3). He married Rohaise, the daughter of Walter Giffard the elder (Ord. Vit. iii. 340), through whom his descendants became coheirs to the Giffard estates. She held lands at St. Neot's (Domesday), and there founded a religious house, where her husband is said to have been buried (Mon. Angl. v. 269). She was still living as his widow in 1113 (ib. iii. 473), and is commonly, but wrongly, said to have married her son-in-law, Eudes the sewer (Eudo Dapifer). By her Richard FitzGilbert left several children (Ord. Vit. iii. 340). Of these Roger, mentioned first by Ordericus, was probably the eldest, though he is commonly, as by Stapleton (ii. 136), styled the 'second.' He had sided with Robert in the revolt of 1077-8 (Ord. Vit. ii. 381), and is said by the continuator of William of Jumi�ges (viii. 37) to have received from Robert the castle of Hommez in exchange for his claims on Brionne, but it was, according to Ordencus (iii. 343), his cousin Robert FitzBaldwin who made and pressed the claim to Brionne. Roger, who witnessed as 'Roger de Clare' (apparently the earliest occurrence of the name) a charter to St. Evreul (Ord. Vit. v. 180) about 1080, was his father's heir in Normandy, but left no issue. The other sons were Gilbert (d. 1115?) [q.v.], the heir in England, Walter [see Clare, Walter de], Robert, said to be ancestor of the Barons FitzWalter (but on this descent see Mr. Eyton's criticisms in Add. MS 31938, f. 98), and Richard a monk of Bec (Ord. Vit. iii. 340), who was made abbot of Ely on the accession of Henry I (ib. iv. 93), deprived in 1102, and restored in 1107 (Eadmer, v. 143, 185). There was also a daughter Rohaise, married about 1088 to Eudes the sewer (Mon. Angl. iv. 609).

[Ordericus Vitalis, ed. Soci�t� de l'Histoire de France; William of Jumi�ges and his Continuatot; Domesday; Monasticon Anglicanum (new ed.); Eadmeri Historia (Rolls Ser.); Cartulary of St. Peter's, Gloucester (ib.); Materials for the History of Becket (ib.); Add. MSS. (Brit. Mus.); Stapleton's Rolls of the Norman Exchequer; Ormerod's Strigulensia.] J.H.R. Note that there are two names for a holding of the Clares: Striguil Castle = Chepstow.

RICHARD DE CLARE (d. 1136?),

was son and heir of Gilbert FitzRichard [see Clare, Gilbert de, d. 1115?], and was probably the first of his family who adopted the surname of Clare. He is generally believed to have been also the first of the earls of Hertford, and to have been so created by Stephen (Const. Hist. i.362). if not by Henry I (Chepstow Castle, p. 44). It may be doubted, however, whether there is ground for this belief (cf. Journ. Arch. Assoc. xxvi.150-1). It is as Richard FitzGilbert that he figures in 1130 (rot. Pip. 31 Hen. I), when the Pipe Roll reveals him in debt to the Jews, and under the same that he appears when surprised and killed by the Welsh near Abergavenny on his way to Cardigan (Iter Cambrense, pp. 47-8, 118), either in 1135 (Brut, p.105), or more probably 1135 (Ann. Camb. p. 40), on 15 April (Cont. Flor. Wig.). His death was the signal for a general rising, and his castles were besieged by the rebels. His widow was rescued by Miles of Gloucester, but his brother Baldwin, whom Stephen despatches for suppress the rising and avenge his death, failed discreditably (Gesta, pp. 10-13). Richard, who was bured at Gloucester, was founder of Tunbridge Priory, and about 1124 removed the religious house which his fatehr had gounded at Clare to the adhacent hill of Stoke (Mon. Angl. vi. 1052). He married a sister of Randulf, earl of Chester, whose name is said by Brooke to have been Alice (but cf. Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 389; Journ. Arch. Assoc. xxvi. 151). By her he left, with other issue, Gilbert, earl of Hertford (d. 1152), and Roger, fifth earl [q.v.]

[Florence of Worcester and his Continuator (Roy. Hist. Soc.); Gesta Stephani (ib.) Annales Cambrenses (rolls Ser.); Brut y Tywysogion (ib.); Gerald's Iter Cambrense (ib.); Monastico Anglicanum; Collectanea Top. et Gen; Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I; Brooke's Catalogue of the Nobility; Journal of the Archaeological Association; Stubb's Constitutional History; Marsh's Chepstow Castle.] J.H.R.

RICHARD DE CLARE, or RICHARD STRONGBOW,

second Earl of Pembroke and Striguil (d. 1176), was son of Gilbert Strongbow, or De Clare, whom Stephen created earl of Pembroke in 1138, and grandson of Gilbert de Clare d. 1115 ? [q. v.] [Ord. Vit. xiii.37]. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, earl of� Leicester and Mellent (Will. of Jumi�ges, viii. 37; Dugdale, i. 84). He appears to have succeeded to his father's estates in 1148 (Marsh, p. 55; Dugdale, i. 208); but the name of 'Richard, count of Pembroke,' first appears among the signatures to the treaty of Westminster (7 Nov. 1153), which recognised Prince Henry as Stephen's successor (Brompton, 1039n. 60). It appears that he was allowed to retain his title even after the accession of Henry II, when so many of Stephen's earldoms were abolished; but according to Giraldus Cambrensis he had either forfeited or lost his estates by 1167-8 (Expugn. Hib. i. cxii). We learn from Ralph de Diceto (i. 330) that he was one of the nobles who accompanied Princess Matilda on her marriage journey to Minden in Germany early in 1168.

According to the Irish historians it was in 1166 that Dermot [see MacMurchada Diarmid], driven from Leinster by the combined forces of Roderic O'Connor, king of Connaught, and Tighernan O'Ruarc, king of Breifni, appealed to Henry for aid in the recovery of his kingdom (Annals of Four Masters, i. 1161). This date, according to Giraldus, seems two years too early. Henry gave letters empowering any of his subjects to assist the dethroned monarch, who secured the services of Earl Richard, promising in return for his assistance to give him his eldest daughter in marriage, together with the successton to Leinster (Gir. Camb. v. 227-8; Anglo-Norman Poet, II. 328 &c.) The earl engaged to cross over with an army in the ensuing spring; but stipulated that he must have express permission from Henry before starting (Gir. 228; Anglo-Norman Poet, II.356-7). Earlier aid was promised by Robert FitzStephen and Maurice FitzGerald, who appear to have crossed over to Wexford about 1 May 1169 (Gir. 230; A.F.M. i. 1173). If this date be correct, the meeting of Dermot and the earl must have taken place about July 1168, to which year Hoveden assigns the invasion of Ireland (i. 269; Gir. 229, with which cf. A.-N.P. pp. 16-19). In the conquest of Wexford and the expeditions against Ossory and Dublin Earl Richard took no part; but according to Giraldus he was represented in this campaign by his nephew, Hervey de Mountmaurice.

It was apparently towards the close of this year that Dermot, despairing of the arrival of the Earl of Strigul, offered his daughter to Robert FitzStephen and Maurice FitzGerald, and on their refusal sent a pressing invitation to the earl: 'The swallows have come and gone, yet you are tarrying still.' On receiving this letter, EarlRichard, 'after much deliberation,' crossed over to Henry and received the requisite permission to carve out a heritage for himself in foreign lands; but, according to Giraldus, the king granted his request ironically rather than seriously (246-8). A much later writer, Trivet (c. 1300), has preserved a tradition that the earl had been an exile in Ireland previous to this (Trivet, 66-7).

Before crossing to Ireland himself, Earl Richard sent forward a small force under one of his own men, Raymond le Gros, the nephew of FitzStephen and FitzGerald. Landing near Waterford about the beginning of May 1170, he was immediately joined by Hervey de Mountmaurice (Gir. 248, &c.; A.-N.P. pp. 67, &c.). According to the 'Anglo-Norman Poet,' Earl Richard crossed 'very soon after' (ll. 1500-3); both accounts agree that he appeared before Waterford with from twelve to fifteen hundred men on St. Bartholomew's eve (23 Aug.). Within two days the city had fallen; but Dermot, accompanied by Maurice and Robert, came up in time to save the lives of the captives. The marriage between Eva and the earl was celebrated at once, and the whole army set out for Dublin, after setting an English guard at Waterford (A.-N.P. II.1508-1569; Gir. 255-6). If the 'Anglo-Norman Poet' may be trusted, there were from four to five thousand English who took part in the march to Dublin, before which town they arrived on 21 Sept. (l. 1626). Meanwhile, Roderic of Connaught had mustered thirty thousand men for its relief. While peace negotiations were going on, Milo de Cogan and Raymond le Gros took the city by assault, without the consent of either Dermot or the earl (A.-N.P. 11.1680-2; Gir. 256-7). Asculf MacTurkill, the Danish ruler, was driven into exile, and his town handed over to Earl Richard, who appears to have resided here till the beginning of October, when he started to attack O'Ruarc in Meath, leaving Dublin in charge of Milo de Cogan (Gir. 257; A.-N.P. ll.1709-23; A.F.M. 1177). From Mcath he seems to have withdrawn to Waterford for the winter; while Dermot took up his abode at Ferns, where he died on 1 May 1171 (Gir. 263; A.-N.P. 1724-31). Meanwhile, Henry II, who had grown jealous of his vassal's success, had forbidden the transport of fresh forces to Ireland, and ordered all who had already crossed to return by Easter 1171 (28 March). To prevent the enforcement of this decree, the earl despatched Raymond le Gros to the king in Aquitane, with instructions to place all his conquests at the king's disposal (Gir. 259). On the death of Dermot there was a general combination against the English. All the earl's allies, excepting some three or four, (A.-N.P. ll. 1732-43), deserted him, and a force of sixty thousand men was collected under Roderic O'Comtor to besiege Dublin about Whitsuntide (16 May) 1171. Earl Richard, to whose assistance Raymond le Gros had already returned, sent for aid to FitzStephcn at Wexford, from which place he received a reinforcement of thirty-six men, a step which so weakened the Wexford garrison, that it had to surrender later (? c. 1 July). On hearing of this disaster the earl, fearing starvation, offered to do fealty to Roderic for Leinster. Roderic, however, refused to concede more than the three Norse towns, Waterford, Dublin, and Wexford; if these terms were rejected, he would storm the town on the morrow (A.-N. P. pp. 85-9; Gir. 265, &c.). In this emergency the earl ordered a sudden sally in three directions, led by Milo, Raymond, and himself. A brilliant success was achieved; the siege was raised, and the earl was left free to set out to the relief of FitzStephen, whom the Irish had shut up in the island of Becherin. Dublin was once more entrusted to Milo de Cogan. On his march through Idrone he was attacked by O'Ryan, the king of this district; but hearing that the Irish had left Wexford for Becherin, he proceeded to Waterford, whence he sent a summons to his brother-in-law, the king of Limerick, to aid in an attack on MacDonchid, the king of Ossory. The 'Anglo-Norman Poet' (pp. 97-101) says that it was only the chivalrous honour of Maurice de Prendergast that now prevented the earl from acting with the utmost treachery to the latter king. The carl then departed �for Ferns, where he stayed eight days before going in pursuit of Murrough O'Brien, who was put to death at Ferns, together with his son. About the same time, acting as the over-king of Leinster, he confirmed Muirchertad ('Murtherdath') in his kingdom of Hy-Kinsellagh (near Wexford), and gave the 'pleis' of Leinster to Donald Kevenath, the faithful son of Dermot (A.-N.P. pp. 103-5).

Probably about the middle of August Hervey de Mountmaurice returned from a second mission to the king, and urged the earl to lose no time in making peace with Henry personally (Gir. 273; A.-N.P. pp. 1.05). After entrusting Waterford to Gilbert de Borard, Strongbow crossed over to England with Hervey, found the king at Newnham in Gloucestershire, and, after much trouble, succeeded in pacifying him, by the resignation of all his castles and maritime cities. On 18 Oct. the king reached Waterford, which was at once handed over to Robert FitzBernard (Gir. 273; Bened. i. 24, &c.; A.-N.P. 125). From Waterford the king marched through Ossory to Dublin, receiving the homage of the Irish princes as he went. He spent Christmas at Dublin, which on his departure he gave in charge to Hugh de Lacy (A.-N.P. ll. 2713-16). It would seem that during the greater part of the six months Henry spent in Ireland Earl Richard kept his own court at Kildare.

A Dyvelin esteit li reis Henriz

Et � Kildare li quens gentils (II. 2695-6)

That the king to some extent distrusted the intentions of his great vassal is evident by the steps he took to weaken the earl's party and power (Gir. 284).

Towards the beginning of Lent (c. 1 March 1172) Henry reached Wexford. Three or four weeks later came the news of the threatened rebellion of his sons; but his passage to England was delayed till Easter Monday (17 April). Before leaving Ireland he had made Hugh de Lacy lord of Meath, and entrusted Wexford to William FitzAldhelm. Meanwhile, Earl Richard withdrew to Ferns, where he married his sister Basilia to Robert de Quenci, who was given the constableship of Leinster (Bened. i. 25; Gir. 287; A.-N.P. II. 2741-50).

For the next two years Kildare seems to have been Earl Richard's headquarters (II. 2769-72), whence he appears to have made forays on the district of Offaly. On one of these expeditions Robert de Quenci was slain, upon which Raymond le Gros demanded the widow in marriage. This request, which implied a claim to the constableship of Leinster and the guardianship of Basilia's infant daughter, was refused, although the refusal seems to have cost the earl the services of Raymond and his followers, who at once returned to Wales (A.-N.P. pp. 133-6; but cf. Gir. 310). On the breaking out of the rebellion of 1173 (c. 15 April 1173) Henry summoned the earl to his assistance in Normandy, where, according to the 'Anglo-Norman Poet,' he was given the castle of Gisors to guard. From Ralph de Diceto we know that he was present at the relief of Verneuil (9 Aug.) (cf. Eyton, 172,176). He was apparently dismissed before the close of the first year of war, and as a reward of his fidelity received the restoration of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin. On reaching Ireland he at once despatched Robert FitzBernard, FitzStephcn, and others to aid against the rebels in England, where, if we may trust the 'Anglo-Norman Poet,' the Irish forces were present at the overthrow of the Earl of Leicester (17 Oct.) at Bury St. Edmunds (A.-N.P. pp. 136-41; Diceto, i. 375, 377; Gir. 298, but cf. remarks in list of authorities at end of article).

On Raymond's departure Earl Richard gave the constableship to Hervey de Mountmaurice (Gir. 308). Dissatisfied with his generalship, the troops clamoured for the reappointment of Raymond, whom Henry had sent back to Ireland with the earl, and their request was granted (ib. 298). About the latter part of 1174 the earl led his army into Munster, against Donald of Limerick, and met with the great disaster that forced him back to Waterford, where he was closely besieged by the Irish, while Roderic O'Connor advanced to the very walls of Dublin. In this emergency the earl sent over a messenger begging that Raymond would come to his aid, and promising him his sister's hand. The two nobles met in an island near Waterford. Earl Richard was brought back to Wexford, where the marriage was celebrated. On the next day Raymond started to drive the king of Connaught out of Meath (A.F.M. ii. 15-19, with which cf. Gir. 310-12; A.-N. P. pp. 142-4). It was now that, at Raymond's suggestion, the earl gave his elder daughter Alina to William FitzMaurice. To Maurice himself he assigned Wicklow Castle; Carbury to Meiler FitzHenry, and other estates to various other knights. Dublin was handed over to the brothers from Hereford. With his sister Earl Richard granted Raymond Fothord, Idrone, and Glaskarrig (Gir. 314; for full list, see A.-N. P. pp. 144-8). It appears that the earl was now supreme in Leinster, having hostages of all the great Irish princes (11. 3208, &c.)

It was probably in 1175 that Earl Richard was called upon to relieve Hugh de Lacy's newly built castle of Trim. After this success he withdrew to Dublin, having determined to send his army under Raymond against Donald O'Brien of Limerick. He does not seem to have taken any personal share in the latter expedition (c. 1 Oct. 1175), and indeed may possibly have been in England in this very month (Eyton, 196). After the fall of Limerick Hervey persuaded the king to recall his rival Raymond, whom, however, the peril of the English garrison detained in Ireland long after the receipt of the summons, since the carl's men refused to advance under any other leader. On Tuesday, 6 April 1176, Raymond once more entered Limerick, from which town he soon started for Cork, to relieve Dermot Macarthy, prince of Desmond. While thus engaged he received a letter from his wife, Basilia, informing him that 'that huge grinder which had caused him so much pain had fallen out.' By this phrase he understood that Earl Richard was dead (c. 1 June according to Giraldus; but 5 April according to Diceto). After Ravmond's arrival the earl was buried in the church of the Holy Trinity, where his tomb is still shown. Other accounts make him buried at Gloucester (A.-N.P. ll.3208, &c.; Giraldus; Diceto, i.407).

Earl Richard seems to have left an only daughter, Isabella by name. At the age of three she became the heiress to her father's vast estates, and was married by King Richard to William Marshall in 1189 (Hoveden, iii.7; Diceto, i.407). The question as to whether he had other issue has been fiercely contested by genealogists but there seems to be no reason for doubting that he was married before espousing Dermot's daughter. The earl's daughter, Alina, mentioned above, cannot well have been his child by Eva. In the 'Irish Annals' we read (A.D. 1171) of a predatory expedition led into Kildare by the earl's son (A.F.M. 1185). A Tintern charter granted by the younger William Marshall, and dated Strigul 22 March 1206, makes mention of 'Walter, filius Ricardi, filii Gilberti Strongbowe, avi mei' (Dugdale, v.267). But even this evidence can hardly be considered to confirm the current story as to how the earl met his son fleeing before the enemy and, enraged at such cowardice, clave him asunder with his sword. A tomb is still shown in Christ Church, Dublin, which passes for that of Richard Strongbow. This monument, which is described as displaying 'the cross-legged effigy of a knight,' is said to have been restored by Sir Henry Sidney in 1570. On the left lies a half-figure 'of uncertain sex,' which is popularly supposed to represent the earl's son. On it are inscribed the lines:

Nate ingrate mihi pugnanti terga dedisti:

Non mihi sed genti, regno quoque terga dedisti.

But there is no evidence as to the original state of this monument or the extent of Sir Henry's 'restorations.' The whole legend was well known to Stanihurst in 1584; but it may date much further back than the sixteenth century (Marsh, 62).

According to Giraldus's rhetorical phrase, Richard de Clare was 'vir plus nominis hactenus habeas quam ominis, plus genii quam ingenii, plus successionis quam possessionas.' More trustworthy, perhaps, is Giraldus's personal description of the earl: 'A man of a somewhat florid complexion and freckled; with grey eyes, feminine f�eatures, a thin voice and short neck, but otherwise of a good stature.' He was rather suited, continues the same historian, for the council chamber than the field, and better fitted to obey than to command. He required to be urged on to enterprise by his followers; but when once in the press of the fight his resolution was as the standard or the rallying-point of his side. No disaster could shake his courage, and he showed no undue exhilaration when things went well. In the pages of Giraldus the earl appears as a mere foil to the brilliant characters of the Fitzgeralds, and is never credited with any very remarkable military achievement. On the other hand, in the pages of the 'Anglo-Norman Poet' he fills a much more prominent position; he leads great expeditions, and is specially distinguished at the siege of Dublin. But even in the verse of this writer his special epithets are, 'li gentils quens,' 'le bon contur.' It is more rarely that we find him styled 'li quens vailland.'

[The two principal authorities for the career of Richard Strongbow are Giraldus Cambrensis and a poet who, towards the close of the twelfth century, wrote an account of the conquest of Ireland in Norman-French verse. The narrative of the latter, according to its author's statement, is largely based on the information derived from Dermot's interpreter or clerk, Maurice Regan. In many points these two writers are not in absolute accord, and the chronology is rendered still more obscure by the fact that the Anglo-Norman Poet gives no yearly dates at all, while Gitaldus is not entirely consistent with himself. Each author supplies much that is peculiar to himself; at other times, when they seem to differ it may be that they refer to different occasions. The latter view has been taken in the article in the case of Raymond's return to England. Gitaldus Cambrensis, Expugnatio Hibernica, ed. Dimock (Rolls Series), v.; Anglo-Norman Poet, ed. Wright and Michel (London, 1837); Eyton's Itinerary of Henry II; Green's English Princesses, i.; Benedict of Peterborough and Ralph de Diceto, ed. Stubbs (Rolls Series); Trivet, ed. Hog (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Dugdale's Baronage, i., and Monasticon (ed. 1817-1846); William of Jumi�ges, ap. Migne, cxxxix. col. 906; Brompton's Chronicon, ap. Twysden's Decem Scriptores; Annals of the Four Masters, ed. Donovan; Marsh's Chepstow Castle; Orderic Vitalis (Bohn), iv. 203; Journal of Archaeologieal Association, x. 265.] T.A.A.

ROGER DE CLARE, fifth Earl of Clare and third Earl of Hertford (d. 1173),

was the younger son of Richard de Clare (d. 1136?), [q. v.], and succeeded to his brother Gilbert's titles and estates in 1152 (Dugdale, Baronage, i. 210). In 1153 he appears with his cousin, Richard Strongbow, earl of Pembroke, as one of the signatories to the treaty at Westminster, in which Stephen recognises Prince Henry as his successor (Brompton, p. 1039). He is found signing charters at Canterbury and Dover in 1156 (Eyton, Itin. p. 15). Next year, according to Powell (History of Wales, p. 117), he received from Henry II a grant of whatever lands he could conquer in South Wales. This is probably only an expansion of the statement of the Welsh chronicles that in this year (about 1 June) he entered Cardigan and 'stored' the castles of Humfrey, Aberdovey, Dineir, and Rhystud. Rhys ap Gruffudd, the prince of South Wales, appears to have complained to Henry II of these encroachments; but being unable to obtain redress from the king of England sent his nephew Einion to attack Humfrey and the other Norman fortresses (Brut y Tywysogion, pp. 191, &c.). The 'Annales Cambriae' seem to assign these events to the year 1159 (pp. 47, 48); and the 'Brut' adds that Prince Rhys burnt all the French castles in Cardigan. In 1158 or 1160 Clare advanced with an army to the relief of Carmarthen Castle, then besieged by Rhys, and pitched his camp at Dinweilir. Not daring to attack the Welsh prince, the English army offered peace and retired home (ib. p. 193; Annales Cambr. p. 48; Powell). In 1163 Rhys again invaded the conquests of Clare, who, we learn incidentally, had at some earlier period caused Einion, the capturer of Humfrey Castle, to be murdered by domestic treachery. A second time all Cardigan was wrested from the Norman hands (Brut, p. 199); and things now wore so threatening an aspect that Henry II led an army into Wales in 1165, although, according to one Welsh account (Ann. Cambr. p.49), Rhys had made his peace with the king in 1164, and had even visited him in England. The causes assigned by the Welsh chronicle for this fresh outbreak of hostility are that Henry failed to keep his promises -- presumably of restitution -- and secondly that 'Roger, earl of Clare, was honourably receiving Walter, the murderer of Rhys's nephew Einion' (ib. p. 49). For the third time we now read that Cardigan was overrun and the Norman castles burnt; but it is possible that the events assigned by the 'Annales Cambriae' to the year 1165 are the same as those assigned by the 'Brut y Tywysogion' to 1163.

In the intervening years Clare had been abroad, and is found signing charters at Le Mans, probably about Christmas 1160, and again at Rouen in 1161 (Eyton, pp. 52,53). In July 1163 he was summoned by Becket to do homage in his capacity of steward to the archbishops of Canterbury for the castle of Tunbridge. In his refusal, which he based on the grounds that he held the castle of the king and not of the archbishop, he was supported by Henry II (Ralph de Diceto, i.311; Gervase of Canterbury, i.174, ii.391). Next year he was one of the 'recognisers' of the constitutions of Clarendon (Select Charters, p. 138). Early in 1170 he was appointed one of a band of commissioners for Kent, Surrey, and other parts of southern England (Gerv. Cant. i. 216). His last known signature seems to belong to June or July 1171, and is dated abroad from Chevaill�e (Eyton, p. 158). He appears to have died in 1173 (ib. p. 197), and certainly before July or August 1174, when we find Richard, earl of Clare, his son, coming to the king at Northampton (ib. p. 182). Clare married Matilda, daughter of James de St. Hilary, as we learn from an inspeximus (dated 1328) of one of this lady's charters to Godstow (Dugdale, iv. 366). He was succeeded by his son Richard, who died, as it is said, in 1217 (Land of Morgan, p. 332). Another son, James, was a very sickly child, and was twice presented before the tomb of Thomas � Becket by his mother. On both occasions a cure was reported to have been effected (Benedict. Mirac. S. Thomae ap. Memorials of Thomas Becket, Rolls Series, ii.255-7).

[Dugdale's Baronage, i.; Dugdale's Monasticon (ed. 1817-46), iv.; Eyton's Itinerary of Henry II; Powell's History of Wales (ed. 1774); Brut y Tywysogion and Annales Cambriae, ed. Ab Ithel (Rolls Series); Ralph de Diceto and Gervase of Canterbury, ed. Stubbs (Rolls Series); Clark's Land of Morgan in the Journal of the Archaeological Society, vol. xxxv. (1878); Stubbs's Select Charters; Brompton's Chronicon ap. Twysden's Decem Scriptores.] T.A.A.

�RICHARD DE BIENFAITE� The Conqueror and His Companions by J.R. Planch�, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

Fearing they might meet their father's fate, Richard and his brother Baldwin were conveyed by their friends to the court of Baldwin, Count of Flanders.

By Wace, who includes him among the combatants in the great battle, he is called "Dam Richart ki tient Orbec;"

The continued alternation of the names of Richard and Gilbert in this particular line of Clare tends greatly to confuse the genealogist, and nothing but a rigid verification of dates can preserve us from the most inexplicable entanglements. Not only has Dugdale reversed the order of events, but ascribed the same acts to both father and son, and recorded the same fate to Richard and his grandson. There is a curious indication of the probable date of the death of Richard de Bienfaite in the long, rambling, and ridiculous story of an adventure which occurred to a priest named Walkelin, afterwards known as St. Aubin, bishop of Angers, and who in 1091 resided at Bonneval, in the diocese of Lisieux. At the commencement of the month of January in that year, having been summoned in the middle of the night to visit a sick man who lived at the further extremity of the parish, he was alarmed on his road homewards by what sounded like the tramp of a considerable body of soldiers, and thought it was part of the forces of Robert de Belesme on their march to lay siege to the Castle of Courci. Considering it prudent to avoid them, he made for a group of medlar trees at some distance from the road, with the intention of concealing himself behind them till the troops had passed; but he was suddenly confronted by a man of enormous stature, wielding a massive club, who shouted to him, "Stand! Take not a step further!" The priest, frozen with terror, remained motionless, leaning on his staff. The gigantic clubcbearer stood close beside him, and without offering to do him any injury, awaited silently the passage of the troops. The moon, we are assured, shed a resplendent light, and speedily there appeared an apparently interminable procession of deceased persons of both sexes and all classes, amongst whom the priest recognised many of his neighbours who had lately died, and heard them bewailing thc excruciating torments they were suffering for the evil they had done in their time. There were also ladies of high rank, and, mirabile dictu, bishops, abbots, and monks, many of whom were considered saints on earth, all groaning and wailing, and these were followed by a mighty host of warriors, fully armed, on great warhorses, and carrying black banners. There were seen, says the narrator, Richard and Baldwin, sons of Count Gilbert, who were lately dead, and amongst the rest Landri of Orbec, who was killed the same year; William de Glos, son of Barno, the steward of William de Breteuil and of his father, William, Earl of Hereford; and Robert, son of Ralph le Blond, the priest's own brother, with whom he had a long conversation on family matters.

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