Richard De CLARE

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• FamilySearch ID: 9M7Y-2W5
• Title: ; 5th Earl of Hertford
• TitleOfNobility: Gloucestershire, England; 6th Earl of Gloucester
• TitleOfNobility: Clare, Suffolk, England; 8th Lord of Clare
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"Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, pp. 193-195" Douglas Richardson (2013):

"RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Earl of Hertford, High Marshal and Chief Butler to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Privy Councillor, 1255, 1258, Warden of the Isle of Portland, Weymouth, and Wyke, 1257, son and heir, born 4 August 1222. His wardship was granted to Hubert de Burgh. He married (1st) at St. Edmund's Bury before Michaelmas 1236 MARGARET DE BURGH, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Kent, by his 3rd wife, Margaret, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland [see BARDOLF 8 and SCOTLAND 4.iii for her ancestry]. They had no issue. When the marriage was discovered, the couple was at once parted, he being interned in his own castle at Bletchingley, Surrey. Margaret died in November 1237. He married (2nd) about 25 Jan. 1237/8 MAUD DE LACY, daughter of John de Lacy, Knt. Earl of Lincoln, Magna Carta Baron, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy [see LACY 3 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Naseby, Northamptonshire. They had three sons, Gilbert, Thomas, Knt., and Boges (or Beges) (clerk) [Treasurer of York], and four daughters, Isabel, Margaret, Rose, and Eglantine. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Guy (or Gaudin), Knt. He served as a captain in the king's army in Guienne in 1241. In 1243-51 he reached agreement with Walter de Cantelowe, Bishop of Worcester, regarding the charging of tolls for the bishop's men coming to the market at Fairford and the presence of the earl's pigs in the bishop's glade in the forest of Malvern. He engaged in an expedition against the Welsh in 1244-5, and was knighted by the king in London 4 June 1245. He was co-heir in 1245 to his uncle, Anselm Marshal, 9th Earl of Pembroke, by which he inherited a fifth part of the Marshal estates, including Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland. Sometime after June 1247 he confirmed the grants of Hamo de Blean, John son of Terric, and William Box to the Priory of St. Gregory, Clerkenwell. He went on pilgrimages to St. Edmund at Pontigny in Champagne in 1248 and to Santiago in 1250. In 1248 Isabel, wife of William de Forz, Count of Aumale, sued Earl Richard and his wife, Maud, on a plea of warranty of charter. In 1250 he settled a dispute with the Abbot of Tewkesbury about the right of infangthef or punishment of thieves taken on the Abbey's lands, allowing the jurisdiction and gallows-right of the abbey. The same year, he was appointed joint Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV. In 1254 he was appointed joint Ambassador to Castile. He was sent to Edinburgh in 1255 for the purpose of freeing the young king and queen of Scotland from the hands of Robert de Roos. In 1256 he and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, were employed by the king in settling differences between Archbishop Boniface and the Bishop of Rochester. In March 1258 he was appointed joint Ambassador to France. In July 1258 he fell ill, being poisoned with his brother, as it was supposed, by his steward, Walter de Scotenay. He recovered, with the loss of his hair and nails, but his brother died. In 1259 he was appointed chief Ambassador to treat with the Duke of Brittany. At the commencement of hostilities between the king and the nobles, occasioned by Henry's predilection for his Poitevin relatives, he favored the Baronial cause. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died testate at Ashenfield (in Waltham), Kent 15, 16, or 22 July 1262 (rumored that he had been poisoned at the the Cathedral Church of Christ at Canterbury, where his entrails were buried before the altar of St. Edward the Confessor; the body was forthwith taken to the Collegiate Church of Tonbridge, Kent, where the heart was buried; and thence the body was finally borne to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and buried there in the choir at Tewkesbury Abbey at his father's right hand 28 July 1262. In 1276-7 John de Aulton, chaplain, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Countess Maud, and others touching common of pasture in Dauntsey, Wiltshire. In 1284 she founded an Augustinian nunnery for forty nuns at the church of St. John the Evangelist and St. Etheldreda at Legh, Devon. Maud, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, died 29 December, sometime before 10 March 1288/9.

Children of Richard de Clare, Knt. By Maud de Lacy:
i.GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt. Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see next].
ii.THOMAS DE CLARE, Knt., of Thomond in Connacht, Ireland, married JULIANE FITZ MAURICE.
iii.BORGES (or BOEGHES, BEGES) DE CLARE, clerk, papal chaplain, king's clerk, born 21 July 1248.
iv.ISABEL DE CLARE, married at Lyons 28 March 1257 (as his 1st wife) GUGIELMO (or WILLIAM) VII, Marquis [Marchese] of Monferrato, son and heir of Bonifacio II, Marquis of Monferrato, by Margherita, daughter of Amadeo IV, Count of Savoy.

Richard married Maud De LACY on 25 Jan 1237. Maud (daughter of John De LACY and Margaret De QUINCY) was born about 1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died before 10 Mar 1288. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sir Thomas CLARE and died.
2. Bogo De CLARE and died.
3. Margaret De CLARE and died.
4. Isabel DE CLARE was born in May 1240 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died in 1271 in Tonbridge, Kent, England.
5. Gilbert I "The Red Earl" De CLARE, Sir Knight/9Th Earl/Gloucester was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried on 22 Dec 1295 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
6. Eglentina de Clare was born on 2 May 1247 in Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England; died on 28 Aug 1247 in Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England; was buried in 1247 in Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England.
7. Maud de CLARE was born about 1252 in Tonebridge, Suffolk, England; and died.
8. Rose DE CLARE was born on 17 Oct 1252 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died in 1316 in Hovingham, Yorkshire, England; was buried in High Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.

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Roger married Maud DE FAY. Maud (daughter of Ralph DE FAYE, III and Beatrice DE TURNHAM) was born in 1191 in Bromley, Poplar, Surrey, England; died in Dec 1249 in Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title (Nobility): ; Countess of Gloucester

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Maud de Fay was the sister of:

John de Fay of Brumlegh manor in Surrey;
Philippa

Maud had children:

Agatha, who had children:
Alice, who was married to Richard de Lungespeye

Brumlegh manor in Surrey was held of the king in chief by John de Fay by service of 3 knight's fees, until his death, when it was partitioned between his two sisters, Maud and Philippa, and Maud had a daughter Agatha, who had a daughter Alice, and Alice was the wife of Richard de Lungespeye and together they held a moiety of the manor of Brumlegh, until Richard's death before 27 December, 46 Henry III, which was in 1261.

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Ralph married Margaret FITZPETER OF LONDON. Margaret was born in 1171 in London, England, United Kingdom; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ralph married Beatrice DE TURNHAM. Beatrice was born in 1160 in Shropshire; died before 18 Aug 1244. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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