Richard De CLARE b. 4 Aug 1222 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. 15 Jul 1262 Canterbury, Kent, England: Our Family History

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Name	Richard De CLARE
Born	4 Aug 1222	Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Gender	Male
FamilySearch ID	9M7Y-2W5
Title	[1]
	5th Earl of Hertford
TitleOfNobility	Gloucestershire, England [1]
	6th Earl of Gloucester
TitleOfNobility	Clare, Suffolk, England [1]
	8th Lord of Clare
_UID	B6542430B75546398AC2C15313BC3A66B8C9
Died	15 Jul 1262	Canterbury, Kent, England
Person ID	I25558	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

Father	Roger DE CLERE III, b. 1190, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom , d. 1248, Bramley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom (Age 58 years)
Mother	Maud DE FAY, b. 1191, Bromley, Poplar, Surrey, England , d. Dec 1249, Yorkshire, England (Age 58 years)
Family ID	F536728734	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Maud De LACY, b. Abt 1223, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England , d. Bef 10 Mar 1288 (Age ~ 65 years)

Married 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)

Last Modified 30 Dec 2022

Family ID F11555 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

"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] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for Richard De CLARE, person ID 9M7Y-2W5. (Reliability: 3).