Earl Gilbert DE CLARE
Sex: M
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1. *Maud DE BURGH ( - )
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7th Earl of Clare
Gilbert DE CLARE Earl of Pembroke
Sex: M
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Birth: 1100
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Death: 6 Jan 1148
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Father: Gilbert DE CLARE (Abt 1065-1114)
Mother: Adeliza DE CLERMONT ( - )
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1. *Isabel(Elizabeth) DE BEAUMONT (1097 - 1150)
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1. Agnes DE CLARE ( - )
2. Baldwin DE CLARE ( - )
3. Basilia DE CLARE ( - )
4. Richard DE CLARE Earl Of Pembroke (1130 - 20 Apr 1176)
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Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (63:25), (184:4). Known as "Strongbow".
Gilbert DE CLARE
Sex: M
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Birth: Abt 1065
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Death: 1114-1117
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1. *Adeliza DE CLERMONT ( - )
Marriage: Bef 1090
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1. Richard FITZ GILBERT Earl of Clare (1084-1090 - 15 Apr 1136)
2. Gilbert DE CLARE Earl of Pembroke (1100 - 6 Jan 1148)
3. Baldwin DE CLARE ( - 1154)
4. Roysa DE CLARE (Abt 1115 - )
5. Adeliza DE CLARE ( - 1163)
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Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (66:25), (177A:7), (184:3), (184A:3), (246:24), (246B:24), (246D:24).
He was heir to the English possessions of his father. By King HENRY I, 1107-77, he was also granted the Lordship of Cardigan. He is the common ancestor of the two powerful Clare families - the Earls of Hertford and Gloucester and the Earls of Pembroke.
Gilbert DE CLARE
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Father: Richard FITZ GILBERT Earl of Clare (1084-1136)
Mother: Adeliza-Of-Chester (1088- )
Gilbert DE CLARE
Sex: M
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Birth: 2 Sep 1243 Christs Church, Hampshire
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Death: 7 Dec 1299 Monmouth Castle, England
Burial: 22 Dec 1295 Tewkesbury
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Father: Richard DE CLARE Earl Of Clare (1222-1262)
Mother: Maud DE LACY (1223-1289)
Spouses and Children
1. *Alice DE LUSIGNAN (1239 - 1290)
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1. Isabel DE CLARE (1263 - 1322)
2. Joan PLANTAGENET (1272 - 23 Apr 1307)
Marriage: May 1290 London, , , England
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1. Elizabeth DE CLARE (16 Sep 1295 - 4 Nov 1360)
2. Alianore DE CLARE (Oct 1292 - 30 Jun 1337)
3. Margaret DE CLARE (1292 - 13 Apr 1342)
3. Alice Of Angouleme (Abt 1248 - )
Marriage: 1268 Christ Church, Hamp, Eng
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Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (8:29), (11:29), (63:30), (94A:32), (110:31), (117:30), (257:33), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford.
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Berkeley, p.129), identifies him as the father of Isabel. (Berkeley, p.130), identifies him as the father of Eleanor.
From Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965.: "The eldest son and heir, Gilbert, was born on September 2, 1243, and was called Gilbert Goch ("the Red") after the fiery color of his hair. The Red Earl had seisin of his estates in 1263-64 and was undoubtedly the single most powerful magnate of the realm, in the later years of HENRY III's reign and under KING EDWARD I, until his death on December 7, 1295. (pp. 34-36). "Like his father RICHARD, Earl Gilbert the Red was married twice. In 1253 RICHARD arranged for the marriage of his son, then about ten years old, to HENRY III's niece Alice, daughter of HUGH DE LUSIGNAN, count of La Marche and Angouleme. Although she had two daughters, the match proved to be both a personal and a political failure; Gilbert and Alice were formally separated in 1271 and the marriage was finally annulled in 1285. Even before the annulment, Earl Gilbert and KING EDWARD I had discussed the possibility of a marriage into the royal family. In May 1290, after a long delay pending the annulment and the necessity for a subsequent papal dispensation, Gilbert married EDWARD's fifth child and second surviving daughter JOAN, who had been born at Acre in Palestine in 1272. JOAN OF ACRE was to outlive the Red Earl by some twelve years, but between 1290 and his death in 1295 they had a son and heir, the last Earl Gilbert, and three daughters, the eventual coheiresses of the Clare inheritance. (P) The children of Earl Gilbert the Red by his two marriages comprised the last generation of the Clare family. ( p 37). "Earl Gilbert the Red left a son and five daughters. Of his daughters by Alice de Lusignan, the elder, Isabella, was born in 1263. In 1297 she was betrothed to Guy, son and heir of William de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick. Guy de Beachamp succeeded his father as earl in 1298, but the projected marriage, although still pending, never took place. Not until 1216 was Isabella married, at the advanced age of fifty-three, to the Gloucestershire baron Maurice de Berkeley, and she died without issue in 1338. The other daughter, Joan, probably born sometime between 1264 and 1271, was married in 1284 to Duncan, earl of Fife, who died in 1288. The marriage of their son Duncan (d. 1353) to Mary, daughter of JOAN OF ACRE and Ralph de Monthermer, has already been mentioned [see note under JOAN OF ACRE]. In 1302 or shortly thereafter, Joan married another Scots baron, Gervase Avenel. They entered the fealty of her kinsman Robert Bruce and were declared rebels by King Edward II. Her estates in England, which her father had given as a marriage portion at the time of her betrothal to the earl of Fife, were forfeited, and later granted to Hugh Despenser, husband of Joan's half sister Eleanor, the eldest daughter of Earl Gilbert the Red and JOAN OF ACRE." (p 39-40). "Gilbert de Clare, the "Red Earl" of Gloucester and Hertford, was after Simon de Montfort [RIN 2884*] the single most important figure in the later stages of the baronial opposition to HENRY III. From his father EARL RICHARD he inherited not only the great Clare estates and lordships in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also a position of leadership among the magnates of the realm; and he was destined to play an even more decisive role in the civil wars which determined the fate of the struggle between king and baronage than his father had played in the initial stages of the movement for reform." (p.94). "The victory at Lewes [over HENRY III, 14 May 1264] marked the high point of Simon de Montfort's fortunes. ..... (P) Simon's supremacy was short-lived. ... Simon's enemies were more determined than ever to end his regime by force. The marchers continually postponed their departure on various pretextx, and the earl was unable to enforce his orders. More ominously, a number of Simon's supporters now deserted him, including the earl of Gloucester [this Gilbert de Clare]. (P) Gilbert's defection proved the decisive factor in the situation. The chroniclers record a long list of grievances, and the chancery records bear at least some of them out. He had become increasingly dissatisfied with Simon's regime and reproached the earl for his supposed autocratic rule. He was jealous of the position the earl's sons held in the government. He quarreled with Simon over the control of royalist castles and manors, and the exchange of prisoners. He objected to the use of foreign knights in important castles and the failure to expel all the aliens from court. His support for Simon had not been unqualified, as the letter written in the winter of 1263-64 had shown. A combination of grievances thus drove him into opposition." (pp.104, 107-108) "Simon [de Montfort] took [Lord] EDWARD [the future KING EDWARD I] and HENRY [III] with him to the west, and encamped at Hereford until May 24 [1265]. Attempted negotiations proved fruitless, for Gilbert had already worked out a plan with EDWARD and ROGER MORTIMER [RIN 1064] which would seal Simon's fate. On May 28, with the assistance of THOMAS DE CLARE, Earl Gilbert's younger brother, EDWARD managed an escape. He joined forces with [ROGER] MORTIMER AT WIGMORE, and the next day Gilbert joined them in Ludlow. Wykes, perhaps the best informed chronicler of this period, records an important set of cnditions that Earl Gilbert demanded as the price of his support. The earl made EDWARD swear a solemn oath that, if victorious, he would cause the "good old laws" of the realm to be observed' evil customs would be abolished, aliens banished from the king's council and administration; and the king would rule with the counsel of his faithful subjects. If Wykes' account of the oath is substantially correct, it clearly shows that Gilbert remained firmly attracted to the principles of the Provisions [of Oxford (1258) and Westminster (1259), granted to the barons by HENRY III but not much adhered to], however vaguely envisioned and conventionally expressed, and to the xenophobia which the movement engendered. If he withdrew his support from Simon, it was not because he was willing, like his father EARL RICHARD in 1260, to repudiate the Provisions, but because he felt that Simon did not distinguish between the baronial ideals and his personal ambition. The cause of reform, in short, was not the exclusive prerogative of the earl of Leicester. (P) The military operations are quickly told. Under the leadership of EDWARD and Earl Gilbert, the royalists gathered at Gloucester, cutting off Simon's retreat across the Severn at that point. Boldly making his way into the march, Simon renewed his alliance with Llywelyn [II, Prince of North Wales (RIN 3517*)] in the middle of June. He then went through Monmouth to the borough of Newport in the Clare lordship of Gwynllwg and attempted to cross over to Bristol, but this plan was foiled when Earl Gilbert destroyed the convoy sent for that purpose. Simon managed to return to Hereford, and tried to join forces with an army led by his son. EDWARD and Gilbert, however, surprised the younger Simon at Kenilworth in Warwick on August 1, routed his forces, and immediately doubled back to intercept Earl Simon. The earl reached the Worcester manor of Evesham on August 3, but was surrounded by the royalists. The next day battle [of Evesham] was joined. As Simon advanced on a troop led by ROGER MORTIMER, Earl Gilbert, who commanded the second line, suddenly attacked from the rear. The outcome was less a battle than a slaughter. The only important marcher who fought with Simon, HUMPHREY DE BOHUN [RIN 3635] the younger, was captured and imprisoned at Beeston castle in Cheshire, where he died on October 27. Two other men with marcher affiliations, Henry de Hastings [RIN 5390*] and John fitz John, were also imprisoned. Otherwise the royalists showed no mercy. Simon de Montfort, his son Henry, his loyal friend Peter de Montfort the elder, the justiciar Hugh Despenser [RIN 3229*] and many others were slain. HING HENRY himself was rescued by Roger Leyburn. The Montfortian experiment was ended. (P) The death of Simon de Montfort did not produce peace. The ferocity with which the royalists had crushed their enemies carried over into a period of widespread seizures of rebel lands and indiscriminate plundering which produced further turmoil and unrest. In addition, the territorial policy adopted by the restored royal government provoked those supporters of Earl Simon still at large into guerilla operations which turned into full-scale warfare and prevented a final pacification of the kingdom until the end of 1267. In this period the actions of Gilbert de Clare again proved decisive. His support for the disinherited rebels was a major factor in the establishment of internal order following the two years of continued civil strife which constituted the aftermath of the battle of Evesham." (pp. 108-110). "The most striking feature of Gilbert de Clare's role in the later stages of the baronial movement is its consistency. The Red Earl's shifting allegiance was a sign not of vaillation but of independence. He was the moderating force against the extremes of both the royalist and the Montfortian sides. He was attracted to the baronial movement as a whole, but even more than his father EARL RICHARD he drew the crucial distinction between its policies and the great earl whose name is inseparably associated with the movement. Earl Gilbert was not convinced that Simon de Montfort's actions were always and indisputably right, and he withdrew his support when he felt that Simon's regime was no better in its way than KING HENRY's had been. His adherence to the royalists, however, was no less qualified. When two years of continued resistance to the restored government of HENRY III produced further social and political unrest, Earl Gilbert's rising proved the decisive factor in restoring unity and tranquillity to the realm. Unlike EARL RICHARD, Gilbert had not accepted HENRY's repudiation of the principles which underlay the Provisions of Oxford and Westminster. His activities, while strongly colored by personal animosities and conditioned by personal interests, nevertheless reveal a continuity of purpose which did much in helping to incorporate those principles into the fabric of the common law and the conduct of monarchy." (pp. 120-121). "On December 7 [1295] he [Gilbert] died at EDMUND OF LANCASTER's [RIN 3156] castle of Monmouth, and was buried two weeks later at Tewkesbuty Abbey. Most of the chroniclers merely noted his death without further comment, although an interpolation in the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough refers, in rather conventional fashion, to the earl's military prowess and staunch defense of his rights. The Red Earl's last years were spent under the shadow of EDWARD I's domination, and his stormy career ended in dispirited humiliation. Perhaps the soundest judgment is that contained in the otherwise undistinguished Osnay chronicle. In referring to the earl's marriage to JOAN OF ACRE in 1290, the chronicler calls Gilbert the greatest of the magnates of the realm in nobility and eminence, and incomparably the most powerful man in the kingdom -- next to the king. Later events proved that the chronicler's qualification was more significant than he could have realized at the time." (pp. 155-156).
Gilbert de Clare 6th Earl of Gloucester, "the Red" and Alice de Lusignan had the following children: 1.) Isabella de Clare. 2.) Joan de Clare.
As part of the marriage terms of Gilbert's marriage to JOAN, KING EDWARD I had insisted that Earl Gilberts's children by Alice would have no part in the inheritance of the Clare estates. Gilbert's heir was another Gilbert, son of JOAN, but the younger Gilbert, showing much promise as a suitable successor to the red earl was slain at the battle of Bannockburn, dying without issue. The Clare estates were divided between the husbands of his three sisters.
! 18 gg F-355 F-93636 Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke by Justice 12 & 13; Divorced Alice in 1286 due to insanity
Isabel DE CLARE
Sex: F
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Birth: 2 Nov 1226 England
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Death: 1264
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Father: Gilbert DE CLARE Earl of Gloucester (1182-1230)
Mother: Isabel MARESCHAL (1200-1239)
Spouses and Children
1. *Robert DE BRUS (1210 - 31 Mar 1295)
Marriage: May 1240
Children:
1. Bernard DE BRUS (1241 - )
2. Robert DE BRUS Earl of Carrick (Jul 1243 - 14 Jan 1304)
3. William DE BRUS (1245 - )
4. Richard DE BRUS (1248 - 1287)
5. Isabella DE BRUS (1250 - )
6. John DE BRUS (1252 - )
7. Alysia DE BRUS (1254 - )
8. Christina DE BRUS (1256 - )
Isabel DE CLARE
Sex: F
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Birth: 1172 Pembroke, , Pembrokeshire, Wales
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Death: 1220
Burial: Tintern Abbey
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Father: Richard DE CLARE Earl Of Pembroke (1130-1176)
Mother: Aoife MAC MURCHADA (1141-1177)
Spouses and Children
1. *William MARESCHAL Earl of Pembroke (1146 - 14 May 1219)
Marriage: Aug 1189 London, , , England
Children:
1. Sibyl MARESCHAL (1190 - 1281)
2. Margaret MARESCHAL (1190 - )
3. William MARESCHAL Earl of Pembroke (1190 - 15 Apr 1231)
4. Maud MARESCHAL (1192 - 27 Mar 1248)
5. Eva MARESCHAL (1194 - Bef 1246)
6. Earl Walter MARESCHAL Of Pembroke (1206 - 1245)
7. Gilbert MARESCHAL (1196 - 1241)
8. Isabel MARESCHAL (1200 - 16 Jan 1239)
9. Anselm MARESCHAL E Of Pembroke (Abt 1202 - )
10. Richard MARESCHAL (1200 - 1234)
11. Joan MARESCHAL (1202 - 1234)
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Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (63:28), (66:27), (69:27), (76:27), (80:27), (127:30), (261:30).
Isabel DE CLARE
Sex: F
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Birth: 1263
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Death: 1322
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Father: Gilbert DE CLARE (1243-1299)
Mother: Alice DE LUSIGNAN (1239-1290)
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1. *Guy DE BEAUCHAMP Earl Of Warwick (1278 - 10 Aug 1315)
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2. Sir Maurice DE BERKELEY (1281 - 31 May 1326)
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Isabel DE CLARE
Sex: F
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Birth: 1240
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Death: 1271
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Father: Richard DE CLARE Earl Of Clare (1222-1262)
Mother: Maud DE LACY (1223-1289)
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1. *Margrave Guillaume DE MONTFERRAT ( - )
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Margaret DE CLARE
Sex: F
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Birth: 1280
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Death: 1333
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Father: Lord Thomas DE CLARE (1244-1287)
Mother: Julianne FITZ MAURICE (1260-1279)
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1. Gilbert DE UMFRAVILLE ( - 1303)
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2. *Bartholomew DE BADLESMERE (1275 - 14 Apr 1322)
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Children:
1. Margery DE BADLESMERE (1306 - 18 Oct 1363)
2. Elizabeth DE BADLESMERE (1313 - 8 Jun 1355)
