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- Sir Gilbert de Clare, Magna Charta Surety 1215, b. say 1180, d. Penrose,Brittany 25 Oct 1230, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford; m. as 1st husband9 Oct 1217, Isabel Marshal. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Holders of the honor of Clare (VII) 1217
Gilbert de Clare Earl of Hertford, also Lord of Clare, &c., son andheir, who, about 1218, was in right of his maternal descent recognized asEarl of Gloucester. He died 25 October 1230 and was buried atTewkesbury. [Complete Peerage III:244]
Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son and heir inherited from his father the Clare estates; from his mother those of Gloucester;from his grandmother the honour of St. Hilary, and from his ancestress,Rohese, a moiety of the Giffard estates. See fuller particulars subGLOUCESTER. [Complete Peerage VI:503, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, son and heir of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, more generally known as Earl ofClare, by Amice, 2nd daughter and coheir, and eventually sole heir, ofWilliam FitzRobert, Earl of Gloucester, inherited the Clare estates fromhis father, those of Gloucester from his mother, and a moiety of theGiffard estates from his ancestress Rohese. By the death of Isabel,Countess of Gloucester, 14 Oct 1217, his mother, Amice, became sole heirof her father, William, Earl of Gloucester, abovenamed, and appears tohave been recognised as Countess of Gloucester up to her death, circa 1Jan 1224/5. Gilbert was b. probably circa 1180. In June 1202 he wasentrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Mostrevilliers. In 1211 he held6 1/2 knights' fees in Kent of his mother's maritigium, and she as Amice,Countess of Clare, offered 40 marks for the recovery of certain fees ofwhich she had been disseised by Guy de Chanceaus. In Jun 1215 he was oneof the 25 barons made guardians of Magan Carta. In Dec 1216 he wasexcommunicated by Innocent III, and at that date and in the followingMarch had letters of protection. He fought on the side of Louis ofFrance at the battle of Lincoln, 19 May 1217, and was taken prisoner byWilliam Marshal, whose daughter he married later. In the following Julyhe was at Gloucester. In Nov 1217, shortly after the death of his aunt,Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, he appears to have been recognised asEarl of Gloucester. In the same month as Earl of Gloucester and Hertfordhe confirmed several benefactions. In Jan 1217/8 he was one of theKing's dilecti et fiedeles, and in Oct one of the Council, approving theKing's Seal. In July 1222 he was forbidden to attack the castle of DinasPowys, in Glamorgan. From this time he frequently attests royal grants.He joined the Earl Marshal, his brother-in-law, in an expedition intoWales in 1223. In 1225 he was present at the confirmation of the GreatCharter by Henry III, and in that year the sheriff of Gloucester wasordered to pay him 20 pounds "in the name of the county," as previousEarls of Gloucester had had it. He the took part of Richard, Earl ofCornwall, against the King in July 1227 with regard to the forest lawsand the misgovernment of Hubert de Burgh, and in Sep was one of thenobles accredited to meet the princes of the Empire at Antwerp. He ledan army against the Welsh in 1228 and captured Morgan Gam, who wasreleased next year.
He m. 9 Oct 1217, Isabel, daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke,by Isabel, daughter and heir of Richard de Clare, known as Strongbow,formerly Earl of Pembroke. Being engaged in an expedition to Brittany,he d. on his way back at Penros in that duchy, 25 Oct 1230. His body wasconveyed by way of Plymouth and Cranbourn to Tewkesbury, where he wasburied before the high altar, 10 Nov 1230, a monument being erected byhis widow. He made his will 20 Apr and 23 Oct 1230. His widow m.,2ndly, 30 Mar 1231, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, 2nd son of King John. Shed. 17 Jan 1239/40, in childbed, at Berkhampstead, of jaundice, and wasburied at Bealieu, Hants, her heart being sent to Tewkesbury Abbey.[Complete Peerage V:694-6]
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who, after the decease of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd wife of Isabel, thedivorced wife of King John, and in her right Earl of Gloucester, and herown decease, s. p., as also the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of theEarl of Evereux by Mabell, the other co-heiress, who likewise succeededto the Earldom of Gloucester, became Earl of Gloucester, in right of hismother, Amicia, the other co-heiress. This nobleman was amongst theprincipal barons who took up arms against King John, and was appointedone of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of Magna Carta.In the ensuing reign, still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of thecrown, he fought on the side of the barons at Lincoln, and was takenprisoner there by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; but he soonafterwards made his peace. His lordship m. Isabel (who m. after hisdecease, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III), one ofthe daus., and eventually co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl ofPembroke, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; William; Amicia,m. to Baldwin de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon; Agnes; Isabel, m. to Robertde Brus. The earl d. in 1229 and was s. by his eldest son, Richard deClare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage,London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls ofGloucester]
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