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Earl Gilbert Fitz Richard De Clare, Earl Of Clare

Earl Gilbert Fitz Richard De Clare, Earl Of Clare[1]

Male Bef 1066 - Bef 1117  (51 years)


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  • Name Gilbert Fitz Richard De Clare  [2, 3
    Prefix Earl 
    Suffix Earl Of Clare 
    Birth Bef 1066  Clare, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 1117  Of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Burial Lord Of Tunbridge, Founded Priory Of Clare, Lord Of Cardigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I52584  Cecilie Family
    Last Modified 1 Jan 2010 

    Father Earl Richard Fitzgilbert,   b. Bef 1035, Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1089, Priory Of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Mother Rochese Giffard,   b. Abt 1034, Longueville, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1133 (Age 100 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1054  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F21631  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Adeliza De Clermont,   b. Abt 1065, Of Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1117, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Marriage 1113 
    Children 
     1. Earl Richard Fitzgilbert De Clare, Earl Of Hertford,   b. 1084, Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1136, Slain By Welsh Near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
     2. Gilbert De Clare, Earl Of Pembroke,   b. 21 Sep 1100, Tunbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jan 1148, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
     3. Alice De Clare,   b. Abt 1093, Clare, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1163, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     4. Walter De Clare
     5. Baldwin De Clare
     6. Rohesia De Clare,   b. Abt 1110, Clare, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1149, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
    Family ID F21635  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Dec 2009 

    Family 2 Adeliza De Clermont,   b. Abt 1058, Of, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Bef 1076  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F21636  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Feb 2009 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Bef 1066 - Clare, Suffolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Bef 1076 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef 1117 - Of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Gilbert, feudal Lord of Clare, Suffolk and Cardigan, whose father Richard was son of the Count of Brionne, of an illegitimate line of the Dukes of Normandy). [Burke's Peerage]

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      Gilbert de Tonebruge, who resided at Tonebruge and inherited all his father's lands in England, joined in the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, but observing the king (William Rufus) upon the point of falling into an ambuscade, he relented, sought pardon, and saved his royal master. We find him subsequently, however, again in rebellion in the same reign and fortifying and losing his castle at Tunbridge. He m. in 1113, Adeliza, dau. of the Earl of Cleremont, and had issue, Richard, his successor, Gilbert, Walter, Hervey, and Baldwin. Gilbert de Tonebruge, who was a munificent benefactor to the church, was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]


      Gilbert m. Adeliza, dau, of the Earl of Claremont, and was father of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and Gilbert de Clare, created Earl of Pembroke. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 230, Giffard, Earls of Buckingham]

  • Sources 
    1. [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 3:156 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S134] Br, World Family Tree Vol. 16, Ed. 1, (Release date: December 15, 1997), Tree #1366 (Reliability: 3).
      Date of Import: 22 okt 1999

    3. [S40] FTW 16 tree 1366 H.
      Date of Import: 22 okt 1999

    4. [S1630] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis,, 153-1 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1631] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th, 177a-7 (Reliability: 3).