 1222 - 1262 (39 years)
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| Name |
Richard IV De Clare |
| Prefix |
Earl |
| Birth |
4 Aug 1222 |
Gloucestershire, England  [2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
15 Jul 1262 |
Canterbury, Kent, England-Buried Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England [2, 3] |
| Person ID |
I7421 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2009 |
| Father |
Earl Of Gloucester Gilbert De Clare, b. 1182, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d. 25 Oct 1230, Penrose, Brittany, France (Age 48 years) |
| Mother |
Isabel Marshall, Countess Of Gloucestershire, b. 9 Oct 1200, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 16 Jan 1240, Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England (Age 39 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Oct 1217 |
1st Husband [4] |
| Family ID |
F3614 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Maud De Lacy, b. 4 Aug 1222, Lincoln, Lincoln, England d. Bef 10 Mar 1288 (Age 65 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Jan 1238 |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir Gilbert "The Red" De Clare, b. 2 Sep 1243, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouthshire, England (Age 52 years) |
| | 2. Thomas De Clare, Governor Of The City Of London, b. Abt 1248, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. Feb 1287-1288, Thomond, Caonnaught, County Clare, Ireland (Age 40 years) |
| | 3. Bozo De Clare |
| | 4. Richard De Clare |
| | 5. Margaret De Clare |
| | 6. Maud De Clare |
| | 7. Benedict De Clare |
| | 8. Roese De Clare |
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| Family ID |
F3611 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2009 |
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| Notes |
- 6th Earl of Hertford.
By the middle of the 13th century Richard de Clare had expelled the Welsh rulers from the western valleys of Glamorgan, as far as the Rhondda, whilst leaving the rest undisturbed.
Richard de Clare was a leading member of the reforming party of barons in England. King Henry Iii's personal style of government and his reliance on foreign advisers had antagonized many of the barons who regarded the royal policy as diminishing their own power and influence. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (d.1282), prince of Gwynedd, exploited this division and dissension amongst the English. On Richard's death in 1262, Llywelyn moved up the Usk valley, capturing the Brecon lands of Humphrey de Bohun (guardian of the young de Clare heir), and reaching the northern edge of Glamorgan. By 1267 Llywelyn had become master of the greater part of modern Wales, except for the southern coastal plain.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was born 4 August 1222. He was the son of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford and Isabel Marshall, daughter of William Marshall and Isabel de Clare. A year after he became of age, he was in an expedition against the Welsh. Through his mother he inherited a fifth part of the Marshall estates, including Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland. He joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope in 1246 against the exactions of the Curia in England. He was among those in opposition to the King's half-brothers, who in 1247 visited England, where they were very unpopular, but afterwards he was reconciled to them.
On April 1248, he had letters of protection for going over seas on a pilgrimage. At Christmas 1248, he kept his Court with great splendor on the Welsh border. In the next year he went on a pilgrimage to St. Edmund at Pontigny, returning in June. In 1252 he observed Easter at Tewkesbury, and then went across the seas to restore the honor of his brother William, who had been badly worsted in a tournament and had lost all his arms and horses. The Earl is said to have succeeded in recovering all, and to have returned home with great credit, and in September he was present at the Round Table tournament at Walden.
In August 1252/3 the King crossed over to Gascony with his army, and to his great indignation the Earl refused to accompany him and went to Ireland instead. In August 1255 he and John Maunsel were sent to Edinburgh by the King to find out the truth regarding reports which had reached the King that his son-in-law, Alexander, King of Scotland, was being coerced by Robert de Roos and John Baliol. If possible, they were to bring the young King and Queen to him. The Earl and his companion, pretending to be the two of Roos's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defense. They gained access to the Scottish Queen, who made her complaints to them that she and her husband had been kept apart. They threatened Roos with dire punishments, so that he promised to go to the King.
Meanwhile the Scottish magnates, indignant at their castle of Edinburgh's being in English hands, proposed to besiege it, but they desisted when they found they would be besieging their King and Queen. The King of Scotland apparently traveled South with the Earl, for on 24 September they were with King Henry III at Newminster, Northumberland. In July 1258 he fell ill, being poisoned with his brother William, as it was supposed, by his steward, Walter de Scotenay. He recovered but his brother died.
Richard died at John de Griol's manor of Asbenfield in Waltham, near Canterbury, 15 July 1262, it being rumored that he ad been rumored that he had been poisoned at the table of Piers of Savoy. On the following Monday he was carried to Canterbury where a mass for the dead was sung, after which his body was taken to the canon's church at Tonbridge and interred in the choir. Thence it was taken to Tewkesbury and buried 28 July 1262, with great solemnity in the presence of two bishops and eight abbots in the presbytery at his father's right hand.
His first wife was Margaret, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. She died in November 1237, and he married secondly, on or before 25 January 1237, Maud de Lacy, daughter of the Surety John de Lacy and Margaret Quincy. Maud, who had the manor of Clare and the manor and castle of Usk and other lands for her dower, erected a splendid tomb for her late husband at Tewkesbury. She died before 10 March 1288. Richard and Maud were the parents of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford.
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