Maud De LACY

Abt 1223 - Bef 1288  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Maud De LACY
  Birth	Abt 1223	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	L6FQ-C1W
  TitleOfNobility	[1]
  	Countess of Hertford and Gloucester
  Name	Matilda DE LACY  [1]
  _UID	182EF1C8C89F4D3586B15798B3EE0F1DDB76
  Death	Bef 10 Mar 1288
  Person ID	I25560	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	John De LACY,   b. 1192, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d. 22 Jul 1240, Stanlow Abbey, Cheshire, England (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Margaret De QUINCY,   b. 1206, Winchester, Hampshire, England d. 30 Mar 1266, Hampstead, Clerkenwell, London, England (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	1221
  Family ID	F388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard De CLARE,   b. 4 Aug 1222, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. 15 Jul 1262, Canterbury, Kent, England (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	25 Jan 1237
  Children	1. Sir Thomas CLARE   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Bogo De CLARE   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Margaret De CLARE   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Isabel DE CLARE,   b. May 1240, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 1271, Tonbridge, Kent, England (Age ~ 30 years)   5. Gilbert I "The Red Earl" De CLARE, Sir Knight/9Th Earl/Gloucester,   b. 2 Sep 1243, Christchurch, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales (Age 52 years)   6. Eglentina de Clare,   b. 2 May 1247, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England d. 28 Aug 1247, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling Borough, Kent, England (Age 0 years)   7. Maud de CLARE,   b. Abt 1252, Tonebridge, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown   8. Rose DE CLARE,   b. 17 Oct 1252, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 1316, Hovingham, Yorkshire, England (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F11555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Her name is Maud or Matilda de Lacy, she IS the daughter of John de Lacy and Margaret or Margery de Quincy. --------------------------------------- "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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for Maud De LACY, person ID L6FQ-C1W. (Reliability: 3).