Richard FitzGilbert de Clare , Earl of Hertford, son of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford and Adeliza de "@N8320@" Claremont. Born 1090 at Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England, died Apr 15, 1136 at Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, 45 or 46 years, buried at Gloucestershire, England Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), son & heir, Lord of Clare, Suffolk, slain by Welsh near Abergavenny 15 Apr 1136, buried Gloucester; m. Adeliz (or Alice), daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by Lucy, widow (1) of Ivo Taillebois and (2) Roger Fitz Gerold. She m. (2) Robert de Condet (or Cundy), d. c 1141, lord of Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, etc., son of Osbert de Condet. [Ancestral Roots, Line 246b-25] --------------------------------- Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester] Married ± 1115 at 1st husband (approximately 21 years married) to: Adeliza Alice le Meschin, daughter of Ranulph le Meschin , 3rd Earl of Chester and Lucy (Lucia) of Mercia. Born ± 1098 at Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, died after 1142, 1st marriage to: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare , Earl of Hertford, 2nd marriage to: Robert de Condet , Lord of Thorngate Adeliz (or Alice), m. (1) Richard Fitz Gilbert (also styled de Clare), lord of Clare, Suffolk, d. 1136; m. (2) Robert de Condet (or Cundy), d. c 1141, lord of Thorngate Castle in the city of Lincoln, and of Wickhambreux, Kent, Grimston, co. Notthingham, and South Carlton, Thurlby, Eagle and Skellingthorpe, co. Lincoln, son of Osbert de Condet (or Cundy), d. by 1130, lord of Wickhambreux, Kent, Grimston, co. Nottingham, and South Carlton, Eagle and Skellingthorpe, co. Lincoln, by Adelaide, daughter and heir of William de Chesney, lord of Caenby and Glentham, co. Lincoln. [Magna Charta Sureties] ------------------------ Adeliz (or Alice), daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by Lucy, widow (1) of Ivo Taillebois and (2) Roger Fitz Gerold. She m. (2) Robert de Condet (or Cundy), d. c 1141, lord of Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, etc., son of Osbert de Condet. [Ancestral Roots, Line 246b-25] Children: 1. Adeliza de "@N8499@" ClareBorn ± 1115 at Tunbridge, Kent, England, died between 1148 and 1166, 50 or 51 years Alice or Adelaide de Tonbridge (died between 1148 and c1166), probably daughter of Richard FitzGilbert de (Lord of) Clare by Alice, sister of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. [Burke's Peerage] 2. Roger de Clare , Earl of HertfordBorn 1116 at Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England, died 1173 at Oxfordshire, England, 56 or 57 years, buried at Eynsham Priory, Oxfordshire, England Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, is likewise said to have born the title of Earl of Clare. In the 3rd Henry II, this nobleman obtaining from the king all the lands in Wales which he could win, marched into Cardigan with a great army and fortified divers castles thereabouts. In the 9th of the same reign, we find him summoned by the celebrated Thomas-+-Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, to Westminster, in order to do homage to the prelate for his castle of Tonebruge; which at the command of the king he refused, alleging that holding it by military service it belonged rather to the crown than to the church. His lordship m. Maude (who m. after his decease William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel), dau. of James de St. Hillary, by whom he had a son, Richard, his successor. This earl who, from his munificence to the church and his numerous acts of piety, was called the Good, d. in 1173, and was s. by his son, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester] 3. Rohese de ClareBorn ± 1123 at Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England, died after 1175 4. Adles ClareBorn ± 1125 at Tonbridge, Kent, England |