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Isabel de Clare

Female 1263 - 1333  (69 years)


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  • Name Isabel de Clare 
    Born 10/10 Mar 1262/3 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1333 
    Person ID I6278  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Guy de Beauchamp,   b. From 1271 to 1275, of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1315, Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 44 years) 
    Married From 4 Mar 1291 to 11 May 1297 
    Divorced Yes, date unknown 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2732  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire, of Worcester and Elmley Castles, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Pirton, Salwarpe, Sheriff's Lench, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, etc., eldest surviving son and heir, born about 1271-5 (aged 23-27 in 1298, aged 30 and more in 1301). He married (1st) after 4 March 1291 (date of letter) and before 11 May 1297 (date of papal dispensation to remain in marriage, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) ISABEL DE CLARE, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter of Hugues XI le Brun (otherwise de Lusigian), Count of La Marche and Angoulême, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England) [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born 10 March 1262/3. They had no issue. He fought in the king's division at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, where he distinguished himself for bravery. In consequence of his services, the same year he was granted lands in Scotland belonging to Mowbray, Strivelyn, and Chartres. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1299, Acton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1309, Pillerton, Warwickshire, 1310, Notgrove, Gloucestershire, 1313, and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, 1313, and to the chapel of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, 1309, 1313. He took part in the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Com' Warr'. Guy and his wife, Isabel, were separated in or before 1302, and subsequently divorced; she married (2nd) about 1316 MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 6 for further details of her life]. Guy served under Edward, Prince of Wales, at the Siege of Stirling Castle in 1304. For his good services, he was granted Barnard Castle, co. Durham in 1307. He attended King Edward I on his last campaign and was present at his death 7 July 1307. Sometime in the period, 1307-11, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and other earls and barons, while assembled in the Parliament in London, wrote to the Pope praying for the canonization of Thomas de Cantelowe, late Bishop of Hereford. He was present at the Coronation of King Edward II in 1308, where he carried one of the Swords of State. He was prominent in procuring the banishment of Peter de Gavaston, Earl of Cornwall in 1308, and alone opposed his recall in 1309. Guy married (2nd) shortly before 28 Feb. 1309/10 ALICE DE TONY, widow of Thomas de Leyboume (or Leyburne), Knt., of Leybourne, Kent (died shortly before 30 May 1307), and daughter of Ralph de Tony, Knt., of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Walthamstow, Essex, Painscastle, Radnorshire, etc., by his wife, Mary [see TONY 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1282-5 (aged 24 or 27 in 1309). They had two sons, Thomas, K.G. [11th Earl of Warwick), and John [Lord Beauchamp], and five daughters, Maud, Emma (wife of Roland de Oddingseles), Isabel (wife of John de Clinton), Elizabeth, and Lucy (wife of Roger de Napton). Alice was heiress in 1309 to her brother, Robert de Tony, Knt., Lord Tony, by which she inherited extensive estates throughout England, including the manors of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Brinkley, Kirding, Long Stanton, and Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, Carnanton (in Mawgan), Cornwall, Walthamstow, Essex, Necton, Little Cressingham, and Saham Toney, Norfolk, Garsington, Oxfordshire, East Bergholt, Suffolk, Newton Tony and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc. He presented to the church of Pillerton, Warwickshire in 1310. He was one of the Lords Ordainers of Reform in 1310. In June 1312 he seized Gavaston at Deddington, Oxfordshire, and carried him off to Warwick Castle. On the Earl of Lancaster's arrival, Gavaston was handed over to Lancaster and executed without trial 19 June 1312. He presented to the churches of Notgrove, Gloucestershire and Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and to the chapel and chantry of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire in 1313. Although pardoned for his participation in the death of Gavaston in 1313, Guy and his confederate Earls refused to serve in the Bannockburn campaign the following year. SIR GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, 10th Earl of Warwick, died at Warwick Castle 12 August 1315, and was buried at Bordesley Abbey, Warwickshire. He left a will dated 25 July 1315. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) by license dated 26 October 1316 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER (formerly DE MORTIMER)*, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourn (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex, Justice in Eyre for forest pleas in Essex, Joint Keeper of Caerphilly Castle, Keeper of Glamorgan and Morganno, Chamberlain of Cardiff, Keeper of the Tower of London, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1328, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Walthamstow, Essex, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rumboldswyke), Sussex, Cherhill, Newton Tony, and Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, etc., younger son of Robert de Mortimer, of Richard's Castle and Puddlestone, Herefordshire, Burford, Milson, and Tilsop (in Burford), Shropshire, etc., by Joyce, daughter of William la Zouche [see RICHARD'S CASTLE 3 for his ancestry]. They had four sons, Ralph, Alan [2nd Lord Zouche], Robert, and Philip, and one daughter, Joyce. He apparently fought at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. In 1304 his kinsman, Alan la Zouche, Knt., Lord Zouche [see CHARLTON 5], settled the reversion of the manors of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Nutbourne (in Pulborough) and Treve (or River) (in Tillington), Sussex on him, on whose death in 1314, he entered into these estates. In 1313 William was pardoned for his participation in the death of Peter de Gavaston. He was summoned for service against the Scots, 1315-35, in Gascony, 1324-5, and in Ireland, 1332. In 1322-3 John Botetourt and his wife, Maud, conveyed to William and his wife, Alice, all their right in the manor of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. William was summoned to Parliament from 26 Dec. 1323 to 14 Jan. 1336/7, by writs directed variously Villelmo la Zousbe, Willelmo la Zouche de Castro Ricardi (or de Mortuo Mari, de Assheby, de Mortimer), whereby he is held to have become Lord Zouche. His wife, Alice, died shortly before 8 Jan. 1324/5. As a supporter of Queen Isabel, he was present at the extraordinary Council held at Bristol in October 1326, when Prince Edward was chosen as Keeper of the Realm. In Nov. 1326 he was sent with the Earl of Lancaster into Wales to pursue and capture Edward II. William married (2nd) about 26 Jan. 1328/9 (when he abducted her from Hanley Castle, Worcestershire) ELEANOR DE CLARE, widow of Hugh le Despenser ("the younger"), Knt., 2nd Lord le Despenser (hanged 24 Nov. 1326) [see DESPENSER 11], and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 2nd wife, Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, King of England [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan shortly before 23 Nov. 1292 (date of her mother's churching), and was co-heiress in 1314 to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and William (clerk). Soon after their marriage, orders were issued for their arrest 5 Feb. 1328/9 by Roger de Mortimer, acting in the king's name. Eleanor was subsequently imprisoned in the Tower of London and then in Devizes Castle. In Dec. 1329 she was compelled by the King to surrender the lordships of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, and the manors of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and Hanley, Worcestershire, until they should have paid an impossible fine of £50,000. They received a pardon 22 Feb. 1329/30. In Jan. 1330/1 she recovered her lands for a reduced fine of £5,000, which sum was never paid in full during her lifetime. In 1332 he had a protection going beyond seas with the Princess Eleanor for her marriage to Renaud, Count of Guelders, in the Low Countries. The same year he had license from the Bishop of Lincoln to have a chapel in his manor-house at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. In 1332 Anthony Citroun and Nicholas de Salvo acknowledged that they owed William and his wife, Eleanor, a debt of £20,000. In 1336 William la Zouche Mortimer, his step-son, Hugh le Despenser, Knt., and four others acknowledged that they owed debts of £266 to Asselmo Symonete, and £1600 to Gwido de La Chouche, merchants of Lucca, which they had not paid. SIR WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE MORTIMER, 1st Lord Zouche of Richard's Castle, died 28 Feb. 1336/7, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Eleanor, died testate 30 June 1337.
      (Footnote: *For instances of the style “William la Zouche Mortimer" in contemporary records, see Horwood Year Books of Edward III: Years XIV & XII (Roll Ser. 31(6)) (1883): 346-349; Year Books of Edward III, Years XIV & XV (Rolls Ser. 31(10)) (1889): 122-125; Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 164; Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 394; Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath &Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338; Wrottesley Crécy & Calais (1898): 100; List of Foreign Accounts (Lists & Indexes XI) (1900): 218; Year Books of Edward III, Years XVIII & XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(17)) (1905): 302-313; Year Books of Edward III, Year XIX (Rolls Ser. 31(18)) (1906): 92-95. For an instance of the style "William la Zouche de Mortimer," see National Archives, SC 8/179/8915 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searthasp). For instance of the styles "William la Souche" and 'William de la Zouche," see Crowley Wiltshire Tax List of 1332 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 45) (1989): 17, 112.)
      Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 226 (chart), 229-231 (sub Beauchamp). Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Account of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Nash Colls. for the Hist. of Worcestershire 1 (1781): 241; 2 (1782): 263 (Beauchamp ped). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 635 (Zouch ped.). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 149-150, 319-330. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 19 (Despenser ped.), 42 (Mortimer ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 354 (Tony ped.), 358 (Beauchamp ped.). Dalrymple Annals of Scotland 2 (1819): 157. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 110 (charter of William in Zouche). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414-415; 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1(1826): 52 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick), 53-54 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Surtees Hist. & Antiqs. of Durham 4 (1840): 65 (Beauchamp ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 337-338 (sub Mortimer), 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 513-514. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 32-34. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Gileberto de Clare filio Ricardi comitis Gloucestriæ, nondum cincto gladio militari, nascitur filia nomine Isabella, vi. idus Mardi [10 March], de uxore sua Alicia Lila comitis Marchiæ."). Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blisland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Stevenson Docs. Ill. of the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1870): 220-221 (Isabel de Clare styled "cousin" [cosine] by King Edward I of England in letter dated 4 March 1291). Mundy et al. Vis. of Nottingham 1569 & 1614 (H.S.P. 4) (1871): 145 (1569 Vis.) (Zouche arms: Gules, ten bezants, 4, 3, 2 and 1). Maclean Hist. of Trigg Minor 1(1876): 62-66. Tegg Wills of their Own (1876): 6-7 (will of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Kellawe Reg. of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine & Bishop of Durham 1314-1316 4 (1878): xxxi. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 244-246 (Percy ped.: "Guy Becham Ed of Warwyke son & heyre. = Ales doughter & heyre to Sir Raff Tony."). Carthew Hist. of the Parishes of West & East Bradenham (1883): 126. Clark Land of Mogan (1883): 93-166. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 327-328. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 578-579 (sub Warwick). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 7(1)) (1886): 115. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 243-244 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1301 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet plumed and with lambrequin, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Legend: ... GVI DON' • DE • BELLOCAM ... Beaded borders. Reverse: a shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine [WARWICK]. Suspended by a loop from a hook, and between two lions passant guardant. Legend: AMPO COM' • WARREWYK. [see also Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100), 474-475 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1305 - A shield of arms: a fess between six crosses crosslet [BEAUCHAMP]. Suspended by a strap, from a tree of three branches, and between two wavy scrolls of foliage and flowers. Legend: S' GVYDONIS: COM’ : DE: WARR'. Beaded borders.). Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 36; n.s. 10 (1893): 213; n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37; n.s. 19 (1903): 103-104; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 570; 2 (1895): 206 (Thomas son of the late Richard Thalebot [Talbot], priest, aged 20 years, styled "kinsman" of Guy de Beauchamp), 394. Bund Inqs. Post Morton for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): 59-65. Ralph of Shrewsbury Reg. of Ralph of Shrewsbuy Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 9) (1896): 275, 338. C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 563. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 157. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: A (1899): 162 (Isabel de Clare styled "kinswoman" by King Edward I of England). English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 16-17 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). List of Inqs. at Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 314. Mallet Abberley Manor, Worcestershire (1905): 29-37. MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 84-85. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 7, 72, 133-134, 137-138, 273, 418. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 728. VCH Rutland 2 (1907): 125. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 26, 201, 209. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 28 (biog. of Guy de Beauchamp). Salter Eynsbam Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 177-178. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 364. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 194. C.P. 2 (1912): 50-51 (sub Beauchamp); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser); 5 (1926): 437 (sub FitzJohn), 707 footnote j (sub Gloucester), 708 footnote a (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 349-350 (sub Hastings); 7 (1929): 638 (sub Leyburn); 12(1) (1953): 774 footnote i (sub Tony); 12(2) (1959): 370-372 (sub Warwick), 957-960 (sub Zouche). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 106-107; 4 (1924): 220-224, 332, Trans. Leicestershire Arch. Soc. 11 (1913-20): 377-378. Modern Philology 12 (1914-15): 45. Year Books of Edward II 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 164-166; 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 13-14. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 3 (letter of Eleanor le Despenser dated c.1326). Faster Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 48-50. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 102. Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1923): 100 (seal of Guy de Beauchamp). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71; 4 (1927): 348-362. Report on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 280-283. Reynolds Reg. of Walter Rgnolds Bishop of Worcester (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 5, 15, 39-40, 148-149, 151, 155-157. Moor Knights of Edward 11 (H.S.P. 80) (1929): 70-71. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138,170-171. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 171-174. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39: 1-13 (sub Beauchamp of Eknley); 130: 11. English Hist. Rev. 74 (1959): 70-89; 86 (1971): 449-472. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 75-76, 117-118. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 167-176. Phillips Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke 1307-1324 (1972): 263-264. TAG 49 (1973): 2. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 253-254. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8538, B.8971; 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.12440, B.12456. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-137, 265; 9 (1989): 226. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 93 (Deed A.S.501). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 133 (charter of William de la Zouche, lord of Glamorgan and Margam, and Eleanor his wife), 134. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): xxiv, lviij (Beauchamp ped), lx (Tosny ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2(1981): 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt. dated 1316 - A shield of arms: five roundels. Legend lost), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1328 - In a cusped and traceried circle, a shield of arms ten roundels), 117 (seal of William la Zouche Mortimer dated 1336 - In a cusped and traceried trefoil, a shield of arms: ten roundels. Legend lost). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 170-171. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 381-386. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 44 46 (biog. of Guy Beauchamp: "... a highly cultivated nobleman and 'one of the most bitter of Edward II's opponents"). VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 146. Ward Women of the English Nobility Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 108-109. Montacute Cal. Reg. of Simon de Montacute Bishop of Worcester 1334-1337 (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 15) (1996): 56. Brault Rolls of Ames Edward 12 (1997): 39 (arms of Guy de Beauchamp H 52, J 10, K 24, SP 32: Gules crusily and a fess or; he sealed with a fess between six crosses crosslet in 1299, 1301, and 1305), 448. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). Smith & London Heads of Religious Houses, England & Wales 2 (2001): 198. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. Fonge Cartulary of St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick (2004): 10-11. National Archives, SC 8/153/7633; SC 8/153/7634 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). National Archives, CF 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].
      Children of Guy de Beauchamp, Knt., by Alice de Tony:
      i. THOMAS DE BEAUCHAMP, KG, 11th Earl of Warwick [see next].
      ii. MAUD DE BEAUCHAMP, married (1st) GEOFFREY DE SAY, Knt., 2nd Lord Say [see SAY 10]; (2nd) EDMUND ___ [see SAY 10].
      iii. ELIZABETH DE BEAUCHAMP, married THOMAS DE ASTLEY, Knt., 3rd Lord Astley [see ASTLEY 11].
      Children of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., by Alice de Tony:
      i. RALPH LA ZOUCHE, living Hilary term, 1339. Year Books of Edward III: Years XII-XIII 2 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1885): 128-130. National Archives, CP 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].
      ii. ALAN LA ZOUCHE, Knt., 2nd Lord Zouche, of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, Merston, Treve (or River) (in Tillington), West Marden (in Up Marden), and Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rumboldswyke), etc., Sussex, son and heir, born in 1317. He married before 1338 ELEANOR ___. They had one son, Hugh, Knt. [3rd Lord Zouche]. He was never summoned to Parliament. He served in Flanders in 1340, in Scotland in 1341, and France in 1342. He was granted free warren at Swavesey, Cambridgeshire in 1344. He fought as a Banneret in the king's division at the Battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346. SIR ALAN LA ZOUCHE, 2nd Lord Zouche, died 12 Nov. 1346. In 1348 his widow, Eleanor, had a license for an oratory at Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. She married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) before 3 May 1354 NICHOLAS DAMORY (or DAMMORY), Knt., Steward of the Household to Isabel the king's daughter, Knight of the Shire for Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, 1361, 1365-6, 1368. His wife, Eleanor, died 6 March 1359/60. He served as one of the executors of the 1360 will of Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of Clare, formerly wife of Roger Damory, Knt., Lord Damory. He married (2nd) JOAN ___. SIR NICHOLAS DAMORY left a will dated at Depden, Suffolk 3 Feb. 1380/1, proved 8 May 1381, requesting burial in the church of Depden, Suffolk. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 635 (Zouch ped). BurkeDict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Gurney Rec. of the House of Gourncg 1 (1845): 227. Antiq. Communications 1 (1859): 216. Williams Parl. Hist. of Oxford (1899): 22-23 (biog. of Nicholas Dammory). Wrottesley Peels. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 418. C.P. 4(1916): 48, footnote c (sub Damory); 12(2) (1959): 960-961 (sub Zouche). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 110-113, 171-174. Ancient Deeds - Ser E (List & Index Soc. 181) (1981): 80. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 381-386. Smith & London Heads of Religious Houses, England & Wales 2 (2001): 197. National Archives, CP 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http:// www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].
      Child of Alan la Zouche, Knt., by Eleanor
      a. HUGH LA ZOUCHE, Knt., 3rd Lord Zouche, of Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Treve (or River) (in Tillington), West Marden (in Up Marden), and Wyke or Rumboldswyke (in Rumboldswyke), Sussex, etc., son and heir, born at Powick, Worcestershire 29 Sept 1338, and was baptized in the church there. The wardship of his lands was granted to John de Beauchamp 18 Nov. 1346, and his marriage to Wolfard de Gistellis 4 Feb. 1347/8. He was never summoned to Parliament. He married (1st) PHILIPPE ___. They had no issue. He accompanied John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster beyond seas in 1373. In 1373-4 he and his wife, Philippe, made a settlement of the manors of Swavesey and Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire on trustees. His wife, Philippe, was living 2 Jan. 1374/5. He did homage to King Richard II at his Coronation 16 July 1377. He had letters of protection in 1377 and 1380, he then going overseas with the Earl of Buckingham. He was a commissioner for receiving Brest Castle from the Duke of Brittany in 1378. He was ordered by the king to desist from threatening Nicholas Brakele because he brought an action of trespass against Robert Gore, servant of Sir Hugh. He took a leading part in putting down disturbances in Cambridgeshire at the time of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. He was going beyond seas on the king's service with the Bishop of Norwich in April 1383. In 1384 he was involved with a dispute with the Abbot and Convent of Lilleshall regarding the advowson of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. He married (2nd) by settlement dated 14 Sept. 1391 JOAN BRAMSHOTT, daughter of John de Bramshott, of Bramshott and Gatcombe, Hampshire, by Elizabeth, daughter of John de Lisle [see BRAMSHOTT 9 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1393 he presented to Holy Trinity chapel of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. In 1395 he and his wife, Joan, settled on Hugh Burnell, K.G., 2nd Lord Burnell, and his wife, Joyce Botetourt (Hugh la Zouche's cousin) the reversion of the manors of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Fulbourn and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and Treve (or River) (in Tillington) and Nutboum (in Pulborough), Sussex, together with 'the advowsons of the priory and chapel of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, and the church of West Chiltington, and the chapel of Treve (or River), Sussex. He was ordered to attend the king and council at Westminster in April 1398. SIR HUGH LA ZOUCHE, 3rd Lord Zouche, died 11 July 1399. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) before 24 May 1400 (as his 2nd wife) JOHN PELHAM, Knt., of Laughton, Sussex, Constable of Pevensey Castle, 1393-1429, Royal sword-bearer, 1399-1429, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, 1399, 1401, 1404, 1406-7, 1422, 1427, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1401-2, member of King Henry IV's council, 1404-6, Joint-treasurer of war, 1404-6, Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster south of the Trent, 1404-13, Keeper of New Forest, 1405, Keeper of New Forest, 1405, Chief Butler of Chichester and of all the ports of Sussex, 1407, Lord High Treasurer, 1411-13, member of King Henry V's council in England, 1417-22, son and heir of Thomas Pelham, of Warbleton, Sussex, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Gensing. SIR JOHN PELHAM died 12 Feb. 1428/9. He left a will dated 8 Feb. 1428/9, requesting burial at Robertsbridge Abbey, Sussex. His widow, Joan, presented to the church of Chiltington, Sussex in 1438. Joan, Lady Zouche left a will dated 8 June 1439, proved 17 July 1439. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 635 (Zouch ped). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Gentleman's Mag. 101(1831): 118. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 472 (sub Zouche of Mortimer). Cat. MSS: Lib. of the Univ. of Cambridge 1 (1856): 125. Antiq. Communications 1 (1859): 216. Ridgway Westminster Abbey (1865): 226-227. Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 6 (1876): 4. Gibbons Ely Episc. Recs. (1891): 392,400. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 126. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 355-356 (seal of John Pelham, Knt. dated 1428 - A shield of arms, couché & three pelicans vulning themselves, two and one, PELHAM. Crest on a helmet, affronté, and lambrequin or mantling, a peacock in his pride. Between two PELHAM buckles. Within a carved gothic quattilobe, ornamented along the inner edge with small quatrefoils or ball-flowers. Legend: .....hannis Pelham : militis.). D.N.B. 44 (1895): 248-250 (biog. of John Pelham). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. Revile & Petit-Dutallis Soulèvement des Travailleurs d'Angleterre en 1381 (1898): 241, 243, 246, 247. Legg English Coronation Recs. (1901): 166-167. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 44-45 (Bramshott ped.: "Joane [Bramshott] ux. John Pelham of Laughton."). C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 4. Deedes Extracts from the Episcopal Regs. of Richard Pao, S.7:P., Lord Bishop of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 4) (1905): 110-111. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 281, 418. John of Gaunt's Reg. 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Sen. 20) (1911): 31-32. C.P.R. 1370-1374 (1914): 14, 104. C.P.R. 1374-1377 (1916): 44. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 3 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 23) (1916): 205, 222. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 32-33. Report on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 280-283 (seal of Hugh la Zouche Knt. dated 1395-Exceedingly fine small circular seal of arms: ten roundles, four, three, two and one; the shield couchee from crested helm-out of a coronet a mule's head. Legend: SIGILLUM HUGONIS LA ZOUCHE). Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 203-213 (sub Pelham). Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele 2 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 669 (biog. of Sir John Pelham). VCH Cambridge 2 (1948): 315-318; 10(2002): 136-143. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 110-113, 158-160, 171-174. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.12683. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 4 (1992): 39-44 (biog. of John Pelham). McHardy Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham Bishop of Lincoln 1363-1398 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 86) (1997): 88. Smith & London Heads of Religious Houses, England & Wales 2 (2001): 198. Cal. IPM 23 (2004): 111.
      iii. ROBERT LA ZOUCHE, of Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire, younger son. In 1328 his father settled the reversion of the manor of Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire on him, with remainder to his brothers, Ralph and Alan la Zouche. He presented to the church of Farleigh Mortimer, Hampshire in 1361. He was living in 1371. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 364-366. Edington Reg. of William Edington Bishop of Winchester 1346-13661 (Hampshire Recs. 7) (1986): 202. National Archives, CP 25/1/205/21, #15 [see abstract of fine at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html].
      iv. JOYCE LA ZOUCHE, married JOHN BOTETOURT, Knt., 2nd Lord Botetourt [see BOTETOURT 10].
      Children of William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., by Eleanor de Clare:
      i. HUGH LA ZOUCHE (otherwise HUGH MORTIMER LA ZOUCHE), Knt. In 1362 he was granted an indult for a portable altar and plenary remission at the hour of death. He was a man-at-arms in Italy, where he became Captain-General of the White Company, a calvary company of 5,000 men. In July 1365, while fighting in Italy at San Mariano, he was taken prisoner and placed in jail in Perugia. In Sept 1368 Pope Urban V wrote the governors and commune of the city of Perugia exhorting them to grant the request of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, for the liberation of Hugh la Zouche, Knt., of England, detained by them in prison. He was released from imprisonment in Sept. 1369. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65 (Tewkesbury Abbey: "Elianoræ de Clare .... Post mortem ejus maritata fait domino Willielmo le Sowch, de quo genuit Hugonem Souch."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 587 (sub Zouche). Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 388, 397 (instances of Hugh la Zouche, 3rd Lord Zouche, styled "king's kinsman"). C.P.R. 1364-1367 (1912): 236. Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 605 footnote 60. Papal Regs.: Letters 4 (1902): 28. Sumption Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire (2002): 470 (erroneously identifies Hugh la Zouche Mortimer as grandson of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March). Villalon & Kagay Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus (Hist. of Warfare 25) (2005): 203-204. Caferro John Hawkwood (2006): 120.
      ii. WILLIAM LA ZOUCHE, monk at Glastonbury Abbey. In 1355-6 he leased an estate at Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire from his aunt, Elizabeth de Burgh, lady of Clare. In 1367 Edward le Despenser, lord of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, granted in mortmain to the Abbot of Glastonbury a rent of 100s. out of his manor of Sherston, Wiltshire for the life of his uncle, William is Zouche, fellow-monk of the abbot. He was living 6 March 1377. C.P.R. 1377-1381 (1895): 597. C.P.R 1374-1377 (1916): 438. Procs. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc. 85 (1964): 137 ("Brother William Zouche" mentioned in a letter of Walter de Monynton, Abbot of Glastonbury). Pugh Middle Ages: Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan, Morgannwg, Gower & Kilvey (Glamorgan County Hist. 3) (1971): 176, 605 footnote 60. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999): 87.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley, of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Wendon, Essex, Portbury, Somerset, etc., Warden of Gloucester, Captain of Berwick upon Tweed, Chief Justice of South Wales, Seneschal of Aquitaine, 1320, son and heir, born about 1271-81 (aged 40 and more in 1321). He married (1st) in 1289 EVE LA ZOUCHE, daughter of Eudes la Zouche, Knt., of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Tomes, Devon, Braunstone and Lubbesthorpe, Leicestershire, Calstone Calstone Wellington) and Caine, Wiltshire, etc., by Milicent, daughter of William de Cantelowe, Knt. [see CANTELOWE 6 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manors of Edingworth, Somerset and Milston and Brigmerston (in Milston), Wiltshire. They had five sons, Thomas, Knt. [3rd Lord Berkeley], Maurice, Knt., John, Eudes (or Yon) [Canon of Westbury], and [Master] Peter [Canon of St. David's, Bosham, etc.], and two daughters, Isabel and Milicent. He distinguished himself in the Scottish wars, 1295-1318, and was at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. He was summoned to Parliament from 16 August 1308 to 15 May 1321 by writs directed Mauricio de Berkeley. His wife, Eve, died 5 Dec. 1314, and was buried at Portbury, Somerset. He married (2nd) about 1316 ISABEL DE CLARE, divorced wife of Guy de Beauchamp, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 10], and elder daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter of Hugh le Brun (otherwise de Lusignan), Count of La Marche and Angouleme, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England) [see CLARE 8 for her ancestry]. She was born 10 March 1262/3. Her maritagium included the manors of Shipton and Burford, Oxfordshire, which she received by the gift of her brother, Gilbert de Clare. They had no issue. In 1312 he sued Nicholas Fermbaud regarding a transgression. He joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster in the rebellion against King Edward II and the Despenser family. After he, Roger de Mortimer, and others burnt the town of Bridgnorth, the king issued a writ to the Constable of Bristol commanding him to seize all of Berkeley's lands. Relying on letters of safe-conduct which were granted to him to go to the king for the purpose of conferring with him, he was made prisoner and conveyed to Wallingford Castle, Berkshire 20 Jan. 1321/2. In 1325 John de Goldingham, Knt. attempted to rescue him, but the attempt failed. His wife, Isabel, was imprisoned at Oxford Castle. SIR MAURICE DE BERKELEY, 2nd Lord Berkeley, died in prison at Wallingford Castle 31 May 1326, and was initially buried at Wallingford. His remains were subsequently removed to the south side of the conventual church of St. Augustine's, Bristol. His widow, Isabel, Lady Berkeley, was granted livery of the hundred of Portbury, Somerset 15 August 1326. She died in 1333.
      Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 348; 2 (1676): 349-369 (sub Berkeley). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 3 (1812): 591-627 (sub Earl of Berkeley). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 366. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 314-317 (biog. of Maurice de Berkeley: "[He] is said to have displayed a disposition for military pursuits at a very early period of his life. He was present at the tournaments held at Doncaster, Dunstable, Stamford, Blithe, and Winchester."). Rpt. on the Procs. on the Claim to the Barony of L'Isle (1829). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Gileberto de Clare filio Ricardi comitis Gloucestriæ, nondum cincto gladio militari, nascitur filia nornine Isabella, vi. idus Mardi [10 March], de uxore sua Alicia filia comitis Marchiæ."). Hardy Syllabus (in English) of the Docs. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 1 (1869): 206. Stevenson Docs. Ill. of the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1870): 220-221 (Isabel de Clare styled "cousin" [cosine] by King Edward I of England in letter dated 4 March 1291). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) Rpt. & Appendix 1 (1876): 337 (charter of Maurice de Berkeley, son and heir of Sir Thomas de Berkeley). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 57. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 244-246 (Percy ped.: "Morrys Lord Barkley maryed =... doughter of the Lord Sowche."). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Foreited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 43-45 (sub Berkeley). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Smyth Berkeley MSS 1(1883): 223-278 (Maurice de Berkeley styled "cozen" by King Edward II of England). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 170 (sub Berkeley). Tresswell & Vincent Vis. of Shropshire 1623, 1569 & 1584 1 (H.S.P. 28) (1889): 30 (1623 Vis) (Barkley ped.: "Mauricius Do. Berkley obit a[nn]o 19 Ed. 2. = Eua filia Eudonis Do. Zouch aranio 5 E. 2."). Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge (1892): xxii-xxiii (chart). Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 570; 2 (1895): 204. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 172-173; n.s. 18 (1902): 188-189; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: A (1899): 162 (Isabel [de Clare] and her sister, Joan, styled "kinswomen" by King Edward I in 1285). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 150, 386-387. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 339-343 (Berkeley, Pam. of). C.P. 2 (1912): 128-129, 145 (sub Berkeley); 3 (1913): 291 (sub Clifford); 5 (1926): 707 footnote j (sub Gloucester); 8 (1932): 581-585 (sub Mautravers). Tout Place of Edward II in English Hist. (1914): 395 (Maurice de Berkeley, Knt., styled "king's kinsman."). Modern Philology 12 (1914-15): 45. Gretton Burford Recs. (1920): 85-86, 89, 573, 594-595. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 102. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 100. Cat. Chancery Warrants (1927): 30 (Isabel de Clare styled "king's cousin"). Reynolds Reg. of Walter Reynolds (Dugdale Soc. 9) (1928): 97. Gandavo Reg. Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 600, 696, 811. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 55, 58-59, 145-146, 149. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. 1) (1939): 25. Lawrance Docs. Heraldry from Military Monuments before 1350 (H.S.P. 98) (1946): 3-4. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 71 (1952): 100-121; 84 (1965): 31-43. Davis Anc. of Nicholas Davis (1956): 185-187. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 55: 1-2 (sub Berkeley). English Hist. Rev. 74 (1959): 70-89. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 13 (omits generation). Haines Cal. Reg. of Wolstan de Branford (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 4) (1966): xxxv-xxxvi. Phillips Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke 1307-324 (1972): 263-264. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.12518. Orleton Cal. Reg. of Adam de Orleton (Worcestershire Hist. Soc. n.s. 10) (1979): 50, 107. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 138-139. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 47 (arms of Maurice de Berkeley: Gules crusily and a chevron argent, a label azure; he sealed with a crusily, a chevron, and a label as warden of Berwick in 1315). Berkeley Castle Muniments, BCM/A/2/90/1; BCM/A/2/90/2 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Gascon Rolls Project, C61/33 (Maurice de Berkeley, Knt., styled "king's kinsman" by King Edward II in 1320) (available at http://gsr-stg.cch.kcl.ac.uk/edition/calendars/C61_33/document.html).
      Children of Maurice de Berkeley, Knt., by Eve la Zouche:
      i. THOMAS DE BERKELEY, Knt., 3rd Lord Berkeley [see next].
      ii. MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., of Uley, Gloucestershire, married MARGERY DE VERE [see DEIGHTON 7].
      iii. [MASTER] PETER DE BERKELEY, King's clerk, 1327-40, younger son. He was granted a license to celebrate mass in oratory in his lodgings at Oxford in 1329. He was ordained a priest in 1331. He was appointed Canon of St. David's by papal provision, 1320; Canon of Bosham, Sussex and prebendary of Westbrook, 1327, exchanged 1331; prebendary of Iwerne Minster, Dorset, 1327; Canon of Salisbury and prebendary of Warminster, 1328; Canon of Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire and prebendary of Westbrook, 1328, exchanged 1331; Rector of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, 1328, revoked by 1329; Canon of Wells and prebendary of Easton in Gordano, 1328, exchanged 1331. He was appointed Provost of Wells, 1330, but his title was disputed; Prebendary of Horton, 1330, revoked 1330, re-appointed 1331; Canon of Lincoln and prebendary of St Botolph's, 1331; Canon and prebendary of Glasney, Cornwall, 1331, exchanged 1334; Rector of Donyat, Somerset, 1334, vacated same year; Canon of the King's free chapel in Hastings Castle, Sussex and prebendary of Brightling, 1340. [MASTER] PETER DE BERKELEY was living in 1340, but died in or before April 1342. Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fikbardinge (1892): xxii-xxiii (chart). Emden Biog. Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford 1 (1957): 175 (biog. of Peter de Berkeley). Chew Heming's Reg. (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 18) (1963): 180-181.
      iv. ISABEL DE BERKELEY, married (1st) ROBERT DE CLIFFORD, Knt., 3rd Lord Clifford [see CLIFFORD 11]; (2nd) THOMAS DE MUSGRAVE, Knt. [see CLIFFORD 11].
      v. MILICENT DE BERKELEY, married JOHN MAUTRAVERS, Knt., 1st Lord Mautravers [see ARUNDEL 7].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., 7th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, Steward of St. Edmund's Abbey, son and heir, born at Christchurch, Hampshire 2 Sept. 1243. He married (1st) in the spring of 1253 ALICE (or ALIX) DE LUSIGNAN (or DE LA MARCHE), daughter of Hugues [XI] le Brun (or de Lusignan), Count of La Marche and Angouleme, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine brother of Henry III, King of England), by Yolande, daughter of Pierre de Braille sled Mauclerc, Knt., Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond [see LUSIGNAN 6 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Joan. Earl Gilbert played an important role in the constitutional crisis and the Barons' War, 1258-67. Initially he supported the Baronial cause. He and Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester captured Rochester, Kent 18 April 1264, but shortly afterwards Tonbridge and Rochester fell to the royalists, who soon gained control over southeast England. On 6 May the royalist forces were camped at Lewes, Sussex. Attempts at arbitration failed, and on 14 May the Battle of Lewes was fought. Earl Gilbert commanded the 2nd line at the battle, where the king and his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, were captured. Prince Edward and his cousin, Henry of Almain, became hostages, being initially sent to Dover Castle. The king and Richard of Cornwall were taken to London with Montfort. Montfort made every effort to secure peace, as unrest within the realm continued. Earl Gilbert, then the most powerful lord in the kingdom, was annoyed because Bristol had passed into Montfort’s hands. Furthermore, the earl was jealous of Montfort’s monopoly of power. Consequently early in 1265 Earl Gilbert withdrew to the Welsh Marsh, the home of Montfort’s intractable enemies. In Feb. 1265 Montfort banned a tournament at Dunstable for fear of conflict between his men and the followers of Earl Gilbert. All efforts to arrange ameeting between Montfort and Earl Gilbert failed. On 28 May 1265 Prince Edward escaped from captivity to join Mortimer and Earl Gilbert at Wigmore. The following month, Prince Edward and Earl Gilbert were denounced as rebels by Montfort. Earl Gilbert shared Prince Edward's victory at Kenilworth 31 July-August 1265, and, at the Battle of Evesham, 4 August 1765 he commanded the 2nd division and contributed largely to the victory. At the end of 1266, Earl Gilbert quarreled with Mortimer, who favored a more violent policy of repression. Sometime before 1267, Earl Gilbert conveyed the manor of Sunworth (in Buriton), Hampshire to Roger de Loveday, to hold to him and his heirs by the annual payment of a pair of gilt spurs at Easter. Earl Gilbert and his wife, Alice, were legally separated at Norwich, Norfolk 18 July 1271. In 1271 he had license to enditch his new castle of Caerphilly in Wales. At the death of King Henry III 16 Nov. 1272, Earl Gilbert took the lead in swearing fealty to King Edward I, who was then in Sicily returning from the Crusade. He was Joint Guardian of England during the king's absence. In 1274-5 William de Valence and Joan his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Gloucester, and Robert de Boyton touching a tenement in Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. In 1275 Gilbert went to France to negotiate for peace. He was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1282. In 1278 he was among those selected to escort King Alexander III of Scotland to the king. He failed to recover his ancestors' lands in Normandy in the Paris Parlement in 1279. In May 1283 he was contracted to marry the king's daughter, Joan, provided he be formally divorced from his wife, Alice, and be free to marry where he will, and also that he obtain a dispensation from the Pope to marry to Joan, a 1st cousin once removed of Alice. In 1285 Gilbert was absolved from the contract of marriage between him and his former wife, Alice. He granted Alice various properties for her support, including the park and manor of Thaxted, Essex, and the manors of Warham, Wells, and Wiveton, Norfolk, Burford, Oxfordshire,and Speenhamland, Berkshire; she subsequently married Gilbert de Lindsey.* In 1286 and 1287 he was beyond seas with the king, and, in June 1287, he was again in Wales on the king's service. In 1287 he sued Cecily de Vivonne, widow of John de Beauchamp, and others regarding the wardship of Thomas de Hawy. He married (2nd) at Westminster Abbey 23 April 1290 (by dispensation dated 16 Nov. 1289, they being related in the 2nd & 3rd degrees of affinity) JOAN OF ENGLAND [sometimes styled JOAN OF ACRE], daughter of Edward I, King of England, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, daughter of [Saint] Fernando III, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Cordoba, Jaen, and Seville [see ENGLAND 7 for her ancestry]. She was born at Acre in Palestine in Spring 1272. They had one son, Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], and three daughters, Eleanor, Margaret, and Elizabeth. In 1291 his quarrels with the Earl of Hereford about Brecknock culminated in a private war between them. Both earls were imprisoned by the king, Earl Gilbert being fined 10,000 marks as the aggressor. In 1291 his wife, Joan, received a papal indult to enter Cistercian monasteries accompanied by eight honest matrons. In 1293 he was appointed Captain of the forces in Ireland, and resided there until some time in 1294. He presented to the churches of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, 1295, and Thurning, Northamptonshire, 1295. SIR GILBERT DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died at Monmouth Castle 7 Dec. 1295, and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) early in 1297 RALPH DE MONTHERMER, Knt., Privy Councillor, Keeper of Caerlyon, Cardiff, Caerfilly, Lantrissan, Newburgh, and Usk Castles, 1307, Steward of the lands of Earl of Buchan, 1308, Guardian and Lieutenant in Scotland, 1311, Steward of the lands of John ap Adam, 1311, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1315-20. Ralph was a native of Wales. Ralph was a native of Wales, and was near related to John Bluet, Knt., who served as his bachelor in Scotland in 1303. Ralph and Joan had two sons, Thomas, Knt. [2nd Lord Monthermer], and Edward, Knt. [Lord Monthermer], and one daughter, Mary (wife of Duncan of Fife, Knt., 10th Earl of Fife [see CLARE 8.ii.a below]). Their marriage enraged her father, the king, and he committed Ralph to prison in Bristol Castle 10-22 July 1297, and all of Joan's lands were seised into the king's hand. By the mediation of Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, peace was made between the king and his daughter, and her lands were restored to her 31 July 1297, save Tonbridge and the Isle of Portland. The king afterwards became much attached to his new son-in-law, who was summoned to Parliament as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford during the minority of his step-son, Gilbert de Clare. By Sept. 1297 Ralph and his wife were allowed to stay in the outer bailey of Windsor Castle, which the king had lent them. In 1297 he was summoned to serve with the king's overseas expedition. In 1298 he was appointed Captain of the 4th Division of the king's army in Scotland. He was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1299, 1300, and frequently thereafter. He fought at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298, and was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300. He presented to the churches of Pimperne, Dorset, 1299, and Naseby, Northamptonshire, 1305. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Rad'us de Monte H'meri Com' Glouc' & Herf’. In 1303 he and his wife, Joan, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert son of Thomas de Clare concerning a tenement in Plashes (in Standon), Hertfordshire. He was briefly Earl of Atholl in Scotland, 1306-7, he being defeated by King Robert de Brus in 1307. JOAN OF ENGLAND died 7 April 1307, and was buried in the Austin Friars at Clare, Suffolk. In August 1307 he surrendered to King Edward II custody of the lands of his step-son, Gilbert de Clare, a minor, and had a grant of 5,000 marks in lieu thereof. In 1308 John de Huntley, of cos. Somerset and Gloucester, owed him a debt of £15. The same year he had license to hunt in the king's forests or chases when passing through them. He was granted a charter for a weekly market and two yearly fairs at his manor of Llanfair Discoed, Monmouthshire in Nov. 1308. He was summoned to Parliament from 4 March 1308/9 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Rldulpho de Monte Hermerii, whereby he is held to have become Lord Monthermer. In 1309 he was granted the barony of Erlestoke, Wiltshire, including the manors of Stokenharn, Oakford, Pyworthy, and Sterte, Devon and Hunton, Hampshire. A similar grant of Warblington, Hampshire was made to him in Dec. 1310. He was going beyond seas in the king's service in May 1313. In 1313 Henry Fitz Alan brought a writ of replevin against him and complained that he had wrongfully seised his beasts, namely two bullocks, one calf, and two mares in Dodbrooke Burgh, Devon, whereby Henry claimed he suffered damages to the amount of £20. Ralph fought at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, where he was taken prisoner. In 1315 he had permission to go on pilgrimage to Santiago of Compostella in Spain. The same year he presented to the church of Stokenham, Devon. He likewise presented to the church of Shorncote, Wiltshire in 1316 and 1317, by reason of the land and heir of John ap Adam being in his hand. He married (2nd) before 20 Nov. 1318 (without the king's permission) ISABELLE DESPENSER, widow successively of Gilbert de Clare, Knt. (died shortly before 16 Nov. 1307) [see BADLESMERE 8.i] and John de Hastings, Knt., 1st Lord Hastings (died 10 Feb. 1312/3) [see HASTINGS 10], and daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Knt., Earl of Winchester, 1st Lord Despenser, by Isabel, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see DESPENSER 10 for her ancestry]. In Dec. 1318 perambulation was made by the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London of the land of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's in the parish of St. Dunstan [?in the East}, London on complaint of Thomas de Neusom, clerk of Sir Ralph de Monthermer, who stated that because the tenement of the Dean and Chapter adjoining that of Ralph was not built up along the street, vagabonds crossing the tenement by night broke down Ralph's party-walls and entered and done damage there. Ralph and his wife, Isabel, were pardoned by the king 12 August 1319 for marrying without the king's permission. In 1324 he was summoned for military service in Gascon in person. After the reduction of the Queen's household in1324, the king's daughers, Eleanor and Joan, were put in charge of Ralph and his wife in the king's castle of Marlborough. SIR RALPH DE MONTHERMER, 1st Lord Monthermer, died 10 May (or 5 April) 1325, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire. He left a will enrolled 15 July 1325. On 19 Feb. 1325/6 his widow, Isabel, was appointed custodian of the corpus of Marlborough Castle and of the houses within the walls for the safe dwelling of herself and of the king's daughters living with her. Isabel died testate 4 (or 5) Dec. 1334, and was buried at Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
      [Footnote 9. For evidence of Alice's 2nd marriage, see Cal. IP.M 3 (1912): 234-251; Genealogist n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. Alice's 2nd husband, Gilbert de Lindsey, is presumably Gilbert de Lindsey, Knt., of Molesworth, Huntingdonshire, who occurs in the period, 1279-1305/6 [see VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 92-96; DeWindt Royal Justice & the Medieval English Countryside. 2 (1981): 617; McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldly (2006): 93-94]. Presumably she is the Alice de la Marche, tenant in chief, who died shortly before 24 March 1290 [see C.F.R. 1 (1911): 277].]
      Weever Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631): 734-740. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 139-143. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 287. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nase (1792): 94. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 496-511 (sub Despenser). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(1) (1830): 148 ("1307. Obiit Johanna de Acres comitissa de Clare"); 6(3) (1830): 1600-1602 ("Dame Johan of Acris"). Nicolas Siege of Carlvarock (1828): 275-279 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 301. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 328-329 (sub Monthermer). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Cli. ped.). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 22-23. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 318-362. Monthermer Peerage. In the House of Lords. Case on Behalf of William Launder (1860). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset (1861): 296. Archives Hist. de Département de la Gironde 6 (1864): 345-346. Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXII-XXXIII (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1864): 176-179. Haddan Councils & Ecel Docs. Rel. Great Britain & Ireland 1 (1869): 612-613. Syllabus (in English) of the Docs. Rel. England & Other Kingdoms 1 (1869): 145, 153, 158, 163, 183, 184, 204. Luard Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 502 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1290- "Pridie kal. MaIi [30 April] Glilbertusi comes Gloucestriæ Johannam filiam regis duxit uxorem."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 302 (charters of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford, and his wife, Joan, dated 1290-91; "the third [seal] is a large one of the Earl on a horse in chain armour, with sword and shield charged with three chevrons; the horse's trappings are charged with the same (well cut); the heads of the horse and man and the feet of the horse are gone; on the obverse is a large shield of arms, the fourth [seal] is that of the Countess, a small seal, three lions."). Lennard & Vincent Vir. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P- 12) (1877): 282-285 (Spencer ped.: "Isabella [Despenser] ux. Joh'is Hastinges Dn'i Abergauennie, 2 Rad'i Monthermer"). Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 9 (1878): 51-59. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 687. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 65, 74, 96, 102, 135, 202, 215, 232, 259, 266, 279, 302, 303. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 93 (sub Athol); 2 (1886): 15-17 (sub Gloucester). Stafford Reg. of Edmund St4jhrd (1886): 339-340. Bain Cal. Docs. Rel Scotland 4 (1888): 370 (Sir John Bluet styled "bacheler and cousin" of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester in 1303). Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lanc. & Cheshire as (1889): 39 ("The first observed instance of a mantling or lambrequin, as it was then called, - a term still applied to by the modern French heralds, - occurs in the large seal of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 1299. This is engraved in Nicholas Upton, De Usu Militari [Bisse edition, 1654, p. 631. In Planche's Poursuivant the helmet and mantling alone are engraved from this seal. It is represented as a square handkerchief or shawl fastened at one end under the crest, and flying out loose behind. There is no hacking. Ralph de Monthermer was a 'plain esquire,' but attracted the attention and secured the love of Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward I. and relict of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. May we be allowed to fancy we see here the kerchief of the fair lady whose favour led to his advancement, and whose marriage eventually brought him his title?"). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 108. Stevenson Rental of all the Houses in Gloucester, A.D. 1455 (1890): 122 (ped. in Hist. of the Kings of England dated c.1470). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268 (undated seal of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet with vizor dou sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping. Arms: three chevrons [CLARE]. Legend: SIGILL' GILBERTI DE CLARE: COMITIS .....VERNIE. Reverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet with vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping. Arms: CLARE. Legend: SIGILL' GIL[EBEIRTI DE: CLARE: COMMS: HERTFORDIE. Beaded borders), 324 (seal of Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Glouester & Hertford dated 1301 - Obverse. A shield of arms, as in reverse, suspended by a loop from a forked tree, and between two wyverns with tails floriated. Legend: [....CO]M' : G[L]OV'NIE : HERTF[OR]D' .... Reverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, helmet with vizor down and furnished with a lambrequin (the crest, an displayed, see Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 16, is wanting), sword, shield of arms. Horse galloping, caparisoned and plumed, with the crest of an eagle displayed. Arms: an eagle displayed [MONTHERMER]. Legend: RTFORD: KLLKENI ET DNI GLA.... Beaded borders.). Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 525. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 245-246, 248. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 20 (1904): 71, 162-163; n.s. 21(1905): 78-82; n.s. 38 (1922): 169-172. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 438 '139 (Alice, contracted wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "niece" by Aymer de Valence, Bishop elect of Winchester, and Sir William de Valence in 1255); 3 (1908): 72, 131-132. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seth (1903): 9-10 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). C.P.R 1321-1324 (1904): 203. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls. (1905): 7, 133-134, 146, 341, 470-471. Hervey Suffolk in 1327 (Suffolk Green Books No. IX Vol. II) (1906): 131, 209, 211. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colts. 4 (Hist. MSS Corn. 55) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 4 (1908): 378-382 (biog. of Gilbert de Clare: "[He] was the most powerful English noble of his day."); 13 (1909): 773-774 (biog. of Ralph de Monthermer). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 298-299, 348; 3 (1925): 6, 70; 4 (1927): 23, 25, 300, 395-401, 510. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93, 134-136, 408-413. C.P. 1 (1910): 346 (sub Audley); 3 (1913): 244 (sub Clare); 4 (1916): 267-271 (sub Despenser), Appendix H, 671 (chart); 5 (1926): 346-349 (sub Hastings), 373, 702-712 (sub Gloucester), 753; 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford); 9 (1936): 140-142 (sub Monthermer). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 182-192. C.F.R. 3 (1912): 357. Cat Various Chancery Rolls 1277-1326 (1912): 69,348 Goan styled "king's daughter"). VCH Surrey 4 (1912): 87. C.P.R. 1266-1272 (1913): 684 (Alice, 1st wife of Gilbert de Clare, styled "king's niece"). Turner Cat Feet ofFines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8th Ser. 37) (1913): 39. Feet of Fines for Essex 2 (1913-28): 128,219,237. Year Books of Edward/115 (Selden Soc. 36) (1918): 218-225; 25 (Selden Soc. 81) (1964): 78-82. Wall Handbook of the Maude Roll (1919) unpaginated (ped. dated c.1461-85: "Johanna comitissa de Gloucester"). Lambert Bktchinglg 1 (1921): 88-105. Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 263-265, 267, 271-272, 276. Moor Knights of Edward I 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 190-192 (sub Sr Ralph de Monthermer). C.C.R. 1405-1419 (1931): 414 '115 (will of Ralph de Monthermer). Johnstone Letters of Edward Prince of Wales 1304-1305 (1931): 70 [Joan styled "very dear sister" [treschere soer] by Edward, Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward II)]. Thomas Cal. Plea & Memoranda Rolls of London 1381-1412 (1932): 291. Gandavo Reg. Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 569-570. English Hist. Rev. 58 (1943): 51-78 (St. Edmundsbury Chronicle, 1296-1301: "Mortuo cornite Glovernie Gilberto adhesit quidem iuvenis nomine Radulphus de marchia oriundus cognomine Mowhermer a secretis comitisse; quo militaribus a rege peticione dicte comitisse accincto sollempnitate tepide vel publice non promulgata dictam comitassam desponsavit."). Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 1 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 137-138. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 67-68. Watkin Great Chartulary of Glastonbury 3 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 64) (1956): 631-632 (charter of Gilbert de Clare dated 1281). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 13. Martival Regs. of Roger Martivat Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 55, 95. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 34-35, 42. Smith Itinerary of John Leland 4 (1964): 150-163. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey Gloucestershire 2 (1964): 436-437, 603-604. Altschul The Clares (1965). London Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 8) (1965): xiii, 11-12, 96 (charter of Gilbert de Clare). Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 288-289. Mills Dorset Lay Subsidy Roll of 1332 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 4) (1971): 75. Chew & Kellaway London Assize of Nuisance 1301-1431 (1973): 41-54 (no. 250). Treharne & Sanders Docs. of the Baronial Movement of Reform & Rebellion 1258-1 267 (1973). Rosenthal Nobles & Noble laje (1976): 174-175. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.RO. 1 (1978): 46 (seal of Ralph de Monthermer, earl of Gloucester and Hertford dated 1305 - In a cusped circle, hung from a hook, between two small leopards, a shield of arms: an eagle displayed [MONTHERMER]). DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 574. Ancient Deeds - Ser. DD (List & Index Soc. 200) (1983): 125. Merrick Morganiae Archaiogrephia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Medireval Studies 46 (1984): 245-265. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare); n.s. 3(4) (1989): 816 (sub Lusignan). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-12998 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 86,126,161,162. Williams England in the 15th Cent. (1987): 187-198. Harper-Bill Cartulary of the Augustinian Friars of Clare (1991). TAG 69 (1994): 129-139 (birth dates of daughters Eleanor and Margaret). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England 2 (Recs. of Soc. & Econ. Hist. n.s. 23) (1996): 46-47. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 264-271. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward .T 2 (1997): 106 (arms of Gilbert de Clare: Or, three chevrons gales), 300-301 (arms of Ralph de Monthermer: Or, an eagle displayed vert; at Caerlaverock, he displayed the arms of the earldom of Gloucester on his banner, they being Or, three chevrons gales). Sayer Original Papal Docs. in England & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 419. Underhill For Her Good Estate (1999). VCH Wiltshire 16 (1999): 8-49. Biancalana Fee Tail & the Common Recovery in Medieval England (2001): 154. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 157-158. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 3 (Selden Soc. 122) (2005): 245-249. Legg Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 160) (2009): 50. Burton et al. Thirteenth Century England XIII (2011): 154. National Archives, C 241/66/3; SC 7/31/14; SC 8/61/3004; SC 8/86/4286; SC 8/182/9085; SC 8/327/E825 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., by Alice de Lusignan:
      i. ISABEL DE CLARE, married (1st) GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 10]; (2nd) MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., 2nd Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 6].
      ii. JOAN DE CLARE, married (1st DUNCAN OF FIFE, 9th Earl of Fife (in Scotland), son and heir of Colban of Fife, Knt., 8th Earl of Fife, by Anne [see GROBY 8], daughter and co-heiress of Alan Durward, Knt., of Coull and Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, Lintrathen, Angus, Lundin, Fife, Reedie (in Airlie), Forfarshire, Urquhart, Moray, etc., Usher of the King of Scots, Justiciar of Scotland. He was born about 1262 (aged 8 in 1270). They had one son, Duncan, Knt. [10th Earl of Fife]. He was admitted to the possession of his Earldom in 1284. He was chosen one of the six Regents of the Kingdom [Scotland] in 1286. DUNCAN OF FIFE, 9th Earl of Fife, was murdered by Sir Patrick de Abernethy and others on the king's highway at Pitpollok 10 Sept. 1289, and was buried at Coupar Angus Abbey, Perthshire. In 1292 his widow, Countess Joan, paid a fine of 1,000 marks of silver to King Edward I to have her marriage and for leave to marry whomever she pleased. In 1299, while on her way between Stirling Castle and Edinburgh, she was abducted by Herbert de Morham, Knt., of Scotland, who imprisoned her in the house of Thomas his brother in an aborted attempt to get her to marry hi