RICHARD DE CLARE DESCENDANTS

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Homer Beers Genealogy
A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, Michael Altschul
Various posts to this group
Descendants of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare

Descendants of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare

Generation No. 1

1. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE

Child of RICHARD FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE is:
2. i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD DE CLARE, b. Bef. 1066, Clare, SUF, ENG; d. 1117,
ENG.

Generation No. 2

2. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD DE CLARE was born Bef. 1066 in Clare, SUF, ENG, and
died 1117 in ENG. He married ADELIZ OF CLERMONT, daughter of HUGUES and
MARGUERITE.

Notes for GILBERT FITZ RICHARD DE CLARE:
2nd Earl of Clare, Lord of Tonbridge, Lord of Cardigan(Clare, Tonbridge;
Cardigan)

Children of GILBERT and ADELIZ are:
3. i. ALICE DE CLARE, b. 1-Jan-1091/92; d. 1163.
ii. BALDWIN DE CLARE, d. 1154.
iii. HERVEY DE CLARE.
iv. WALTER DE CLARE.
v. MARGARET DE CLARE, m. WILLIAM DE MONTFICHET.
vi. ALICE DE CLARE, m. AUBREY DE VERE.
vii. ROHESE DE CLARE, m. BADERON DE MONMOUTH.
4. viii. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT II DE CLARE, b. Abt. 1090, Hertford, HRT, ENG;
d. 15-Apr-1136, Slain near Abergavenny, Wales.
5. ix. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE, b. 1100; d. 1148.

Generation No. 3

3. ALICE DE CLARE was born 1-Jan-1091/92, and died 1163. She married
ALBERIC DE VERE II, son of ALBERIC and BEATRIX.

Notes for ALICE DE CLARE:
Became a nun at St. Osyth's Priory after the death of her husband.

Notes for ALBERIC DE VERE II:
Lord of Hedlington, Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Justice, master
Chamberlain of England. He was in high favor with King Henry I and was
constituted Great High Chamberlain of England in 1133, to hold the same fee to
himself and his heirs. He replaced Robert Malet, Lord of Eye in Suffolk, who
had been banished and disinherited from that office.

In the 5th year of Stephen, 1140, while a joint sheriff [with Richard Basset,
then Justiciary of England] of Surrey, Cambridge, Essex, and several other
counties, he was slain in a popular tumult in London. He died May 15, 1141,
was buried in Colne Priory.

Children of ALICE and ALBERIC are:
6. i. ROBERT DE VERE.
ii. GEOFFREY DE VERE.
iii. WILLIAM DE VERE.

Notes for WILLIAM DE VERE:
Chancellor of England

iv. ADELIZA DE VERE, m. HENRY DE ESSEX.
v. ROHESIA DE VERE, m. (1) GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE; m. (2) PAYNE DE BEAUCHAMP.

Notes for GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE:
Earl of Oxford

7. vi. ALBERIC (AUBREY) DE VERE III, b. Abt. 1110; d. 26-Dec-1194.
8. vii. JULIANA DE VERE, b. Abt. 1116, of NOR, ENG.

4. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT II DE CLARE was born Abt. 1090 in Hertford, HRT,
ENG, and died 15-Apr-1136 in Slain near Abergavenny, Wales. He married
ADELIZA DE MESCHINES.

Notes for RICHARD FITZ GILBERT II DE CLARE:
(Clare, Tonbridge, Cardigan)

Children of RICHARD and ADELIZA are:
i. ALICE DE CLARE, b. Abt. 1115, Tunbridge, Kent, ENG; m. WILLIAM DE PERCY.
ii. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD II DE CLARE, b. 1115; d. 1152.

Notes for GILBERT FITZ RICHARD II DE CLARE:
Earl of Hertford 1138 (Clare, Tonbridge) d.s.p.

9. iii. ROGER DE CLARE, b. 1116, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, ENG; d. 1173, Oxon,
OXF, ENG.

5. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE was born 1100, and died 1148. He married
ISABEL/ELIZABETH DE BEAUMONT, daughter of ROBERT and ISABEL.

Notes for GILBERT FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE:
Earl of Pembroke 1138 (Beinfaite, Orbec, and Netherwent from Roger d.s.p. 1130
and Walter d.s.p. 1138, brothers of Gilbert fitz Richard I)

Notes for ISABEL/ELIZABETH DE BEAUMONT:
Mistress of King Henry I. of England. They had a son, Reginald, who married
Beatrix, daughter of William Fitz Richard, a potent lord of Cornwall. From
this marriage there was a daughter, Matilda Fitz Richard, who married Robert,
Count of Meulent, son of Waleran II., Count of Meulent. They also had a
daughter Isabel.

Children of GILBERT and ISABEL/ELIZABETH are:
i. BASILEA OF CLARE.
10. ii. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE, b. 1130, Turnbridge, Kent, ENG; d.
1176, Dublin, IRL.

Generation No. 4

6. ROBERT DE VERE He married MATILDA DE FURNELL, daughter of ROBERT DE
FURNELL.

Notes for ROBERT DE VERE:
Lord of Twiwell, co. Northampton
Feudal Lord of Drayton and Adington Manors, Northampton

Child of ROBERT and MATILDA is:
11. i. HENRY DE VERE.

7. ALBERIC (AUBREY) DE VERE III was born Abt. 1110, and died 26-Dec-1194.
He married (1) EUFEME DE CAUNTELO. He married (2) BEATRICE OF BOURBORG Abt.
1139, daughter of HENRY and SIBYL. He married (3) AGNES DE ESSEX 1162,
daughter of HENRY and CICLEY.

Notes for ALBERIC (AUBREY) DE VERE III:
1st Earl of Oxford. Third Baron by tenure, of Kensington, Count of Ghisnes,
for his fidelity to the Empress Maud, was confirmed by that princess in the
office of Great Lord Chamberlain, and all his father's territorial
possessions. He had likewise other important grants with the Earldom of
Cambridge, provided that dignity was not vested in the King of Scots, but if
it were, then he was to have his choice of the Earldoms of Oxford, Berkshire,
or Dorsetshire, all which grants being ratified by King Henry II., he was
created Earl of Oxford, with the usual grant to earls, of the third penny of
the pleas of the county. In the 12th year of King Henry II., on the levy of
the aid for portioning the king's daughter, the Earl of Oxford certified his
knight's fees to be in number twenty-eight, for which he paid £20, and in the
2nd year of King Richard I., he paid a fine of 500 marks to the king, "for the
sister of Walter de Bolebec, to make a wife for his son." In four years
afterwards he contributed £30, 2 shillings, and 6 pence for the knight's fees
he then held, towards the sum at that time raised for the ransom of the king.
The earl married (1) Euphamia Cantilupe, daughter of William de Cantilupe, by
whom he had no issue, and (2) Lucia Abrincis, daughter and heiress of William
de Abrincis.

Children of ALBERIC and AGNES are:
i. ALBERIC (AUBREY) DE VERE, d. 1214, dsp.

Notes for ALBERIC (AUBREY) DE VERE:
2nd Earl of Oxford and Great Chamberlain, was Sheriff of Essex and
Herefordshire from the 10th to the 15th year of King John, inclusive, and was
reputed one of the "evil councillors" of that monarch.

ii. WILLIAM DE VERE, d. 1199.

Notes for WILLIAM DE VERE:
Bishop of Hereford in 1186

iii. HENRY DE VERE.
iv. ADELIZA DE VERE.
v. SARAH DE VERE.
12. vi. ROBERT DE VERE, b. Abt. 1164, (see notes); d. Bef. 25-Oct-1221.

8. JULIANA DE VERE was born Abt. 1116 in of NOR, ENG. She married HUGH
BIGOD, son of ROGER BIGOD and ALICE.
Notes for HUGH BIGOD:
First Earl of Norfolk. When his elder brother William accidently drowned with
the king's children in a shipwreck and leaving no issue, Hugh succeeded as
lord steward of the King's household to King Henry I. He was mainly
instrumental in raising Stephen, Count of Boulogne, to the throne, and was
rewarded with the earldom of East Angles [Norfolk & Suffolk] about 1140. He
was faithful in his allegiance to King Stephen and continued to enjoy royal
favor, being re-created Earl of Norfolk and suffolk by Henry II, and obtaining
a grant of the office of lord high steward of the kingdom, an office his
father had held. In 1177, as a Crusader, he made a pilgrimage to the Holy
Land, and died in 23rd of king Henry II before March.

Homer Beers James Genealogy shows a second marriage to Adeliza (Alice) Clare,
daughter of Gilbert de Tonebridge and mother of Roger.

Child of JULIANA and HUGH BIGOD is:
13. i. ROGER BIGOD, b. Abt. 1148, of NOR, ENG; d. Bef. 1-Aug-1221.

9. ROGER DE CLARE was born 1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, ENG, and died
1173 in Oxon, OXF, ENG. He married MAUD DE ST. HILARY, daughter of JAMES and
AVALINE .....

Children of ROGER and MAUD are:
14. i. RICHARD OF CLARE, b. 1153, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, ENG; d. 30-Dec-1218.
ii. JAMES OF CLARE, b. 1164, Clare, SUF, ENG.
iii. MABLE OF CLARE, b. 1166, Clare, SUF, ENG; d. 1203; m. WILLIAM HELION.
iv. ROGER OF CLARE, b. 1168, Middleton, NOR, ENG; d. 1241.
v. JOHN OF CLARE, b. 1170, Clare, SUF, ENG.

Notes for JOHN OF CLARE:
d.s.p.

15. vi. AVELINE DE CLARE, b. Abt. 1172, Hereford, ENG; d. Abt. 4-Jun-1225.
vii. HENRY OF CLARE, b. 1172, Clare, SUF, ENG.

10. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE was born 1130 in Turnbridge, Kent, ENG, and
died 1176 in Dublin, IRL. He married EVA MCMURROUGH, daughter of DERMOT
MCMURROUGH.

Notes for RICHARD FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE:
Led the Norman invasion of Ireland and obtained the great lordship of Leinster
in 1171. Strongbow, as earl of Pembroke [1153], lord of Netherwent and lord
of Leinster [1171], was the most powerful of the marcher and Anglo-Irish
magnates under King Henry II.

Children of RICHARD and EVA MCMURROUGH are:
i. GILBERT DE CLARE, b. 1173; d. 1185.

Notes for GILBERT DE CLARE:
d.s.p.

16. ii. ISABEL DE CLARE, b. 1173, of Pembroke, Wales; d. 1220, Pembroke,
Wales.

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