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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Earl of Hertford, High Marshal and Chief Butler to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Privy Councillor, 1255, 1258, Warden of the Isle of Portland, Weymouth, and Wyke, 1257, son and heir, born 4 August 1222. His wardship was granted to Hubert de Burgh. He married (1st) at St. Edmund's Bury before Michaelmas 1236 MARGARET DE BURGH, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Kent, by his 3rd wife, Margaret, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland [see BARDOLF 8 and SCOTLAND 4.iii for her ancestry]. They had no issue. When the marriage was discovered, the couple was at once parted, he being interned in his own castle at Bletchingley, Surrey. Margaret died in November 1237. He married (2nd) about 25 Jan. 1237/8 MAUD DE LACY, daughter of John de Lacy, Knt. Earl of Lincoln, Magna Carta Baron, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy [see LACY 3 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Naseby, Northamptonshire. They had three sons, Gilbert, Thomas, Knt., and Boges (or Beges) (clerk) [Treasurer of York], and four daughters, Isabel, Margaret, Rose, and Eglantine. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Guy (or Gaudin), Knt. He served as a captain in the king's army in Guienne in 1241. In 1243-51 he reached agreement with Walter de Cantelowe, Bishop of Worcester, regarding the charging of tolls for the bishop's men coming to the market at Fairford and the presence of the earl's pigs in the bishop's glade in the forest of Malvern. He engaged in an expedition against the Welsh in 1244-5, and was knighted by the king in London 4 June 1245. He was co-heir in 1245 to his uncle, Anselm Marshal, 9th Earl of Pembroke, by which he inherited a fifth part of the Marshal estates, including Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland. Sometime after June 1247 he confirmed the grants of Hamo de Blean, John son of Terric, and William Box to the Priory of St. Gregory, Clerkenwell. He went on pilgrimages to St. Edmund at Pontigny in Champagne in 1248 and to Santiago in 1250. In 1248 Isabel, wife of William de Forz, Count of Aumale, sued Earl Richard and his wife, Maud, on a plea of warranty of charter. In 1250 he settled a dispute with the Abbot of Tewkesbury about the right of infangthef or punishment of thieves taken on the Abbey's lands, allowing the jurisdiction and gallows-right of the abbey. The same year, he was appointed joint Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV. In 1254 he was appointed joint Ambassador to Castile. He was sent to Edinburgh in 1255 for the purpose of freeing the young king and queen of Scotland from the hands of Robert de Roos. In 1256 he and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, were employed by the king in settling differences between Archbishop Boniface and the Bishop of Rochester. In March 1258 he was appointed joint Ambassador to France. In July 1258 he fell ill, being poisoned with his brother, as it was supposed, by his steward, Walter de Scotenay. He recovered, with the loss of his hair and nails, but his brother died. In 1259 he was appointed chief Ambassador to treat with the Duke of Brittany. At the commencement of hostilities between the king and the nobles, occasioned by Henry's predilection for his Poitevin relatives, he favored the Baronial cause. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died testate at Ashenfield (in Waltham), Kent 15, 16, or 22 July 1262 (rumored that he had been poisoned at the the Cathedral Church of Christ at Canterbury, where his entrails were buried before the altar of St. Edward the Confessor; the body was forthwith taken to the Collegiate Church of Tonbridge, Kent, where the heart was buried; and thence the body was finally borne to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and buried there in the choir at Tewkesbury Abbey at his father's right hand 28 July 1262. In 1276-7 John de Aulton, chaplain, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Countess Maud, and others touching common of pasture in Dauntsey, Wiltshire. In 1284 she founded an Augustinian nunnery for forty nuns at the church of St. John the Evangelist and St. Etheldreda at Legh, Devon. Maud, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, died 29 December, sometime before 10 March 1288/9.
Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Naseby (1792): 63-65. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65, 603 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated 1254); 5 (1825): 89, 266 (Obit. of Tintern Abbey: "Matilda de Clare comitissa Gloucestriæ et Herefordiæ [sic] obiit die xix. Decembris."). Coll Top. et Gen. 8 (1843): 72 (sub Kent). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Obiit vir nobilis et omni laude dignus, Ricardus de Clara comes Gloverniæ et Hertforcliæ, idus Julii [15 July]. Et sepultus est apud Theokesberiarn quinto kal. augusti [28 July], ad cujus sepulturam interfuerunt episcopus Wygorniæ Walterus de Cantilupo, et Willelmus episcopus Landavensis, et viii. abbates"); 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 353 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1262: "Obiit Ricardus comes Glocestriæ."); 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 131 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1262: "Die Sabbati proxima ante festum dicti Sancti Kenelmi [16 July] obiit vir nobilis Ricardus comes Gloverniæ in partibus Cantuarim, et cum magno honore sepultus est ad patres suos apud Teokesbury."). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1866): 377-378 (Appendix I). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 3 (1872): lxxiv-lxxv (grant of lease dated 1275 by Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester & Hertford, to Aline Despenser, Countess of Norfolk). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 448 (composition dated 1258 between Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 49 (charter of Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.1280). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 143. Doyle Oficial Baronage of England 2 (1886): 14 (sub Gloucester), 177 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford dated c.1250 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, [flat helmet], sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: three chevrons [CLARE]. Legend wanting. Reverse. A shield of arms of CLARE, as in obverse, suspended by a strap, and supported by two lions rampant addorsed. Legend wanting.). Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 282 (Elmer [recte Oliver] de Traci, clerk, of the diocese of Exeter, styled "earl's kinsman"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "22 Jul. Obiit Ricardus, comes de Clare."). Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98. Rigg et al. Cal. Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews 1(1905): 60-61. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 133-134, 146, 470-471. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 256. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 12. D.N.B. 4 (1908): 393-396 (biog. of Richard de Clare: "[He] was the most powerful English noble of his time ... Avarice ... was the leading characteristic of his mind ... [he] appeared as one pre-eminently skilled in the laws of his country ... He was a great lover of tournaments."). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 266. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 115-116 (sub Lacy). C.P. 3 (1913): 244; 5 (1926): 696-702 (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford). Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 30. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 6 (1915): 5-6, 276. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines AD. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 280-294. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 64-66, 69-87. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71, 104; 4 (1927): 300, 510. Cam Hundred &Hundred Rolls (1930): 266. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 192-193. C.C.R. 1261-1264 (1936): 83. Powicke Henry III & Lord Edward (1947). Woodcock Cartulary of the Priory of St. Gregory, Canterbury (Camden 3rd Ser. 88) (1956): 160-161 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 7-8. Clay York Minster Fasti 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 54. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey 2 (1964): 41-44, 400-402, 436-437, 563-564; 3 (1977): 1117. London Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 8) (1965): 1-2, 77 (charter of Maud), 77-80, 92-93, 95-97, 97 (acknowledgement of Maud), 98, 99 (charter of Maud), 99-102, 104. Clanchy Civil Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre 1249 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 26) (1971): 120. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eye of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 199,288. Adams Select Cases from Eccl. Courts of Canterbury 1200-1301 (Selden Soc. 95) (1981): 138-144 (suit dated c.1271-2, in which Earl Richard's widow, Maud, claimed one third of his moveables valued at £12,000). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 33 (acquittance of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, dated 1247). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Powicke Henry III & Lord Edward (1947). Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Sutton Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 125. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 230 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.1247), 230 (Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford styled "son" [i.e., son-in-law] in charter of Margaret de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln & Pembroke, dated 1247). Harper-Bill Cartulary of the Augustinian Friars of Clare (1991). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 93, 100-102, 107-109, 148, 151, 163. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003). Legg Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 160) (2009): 50 (memorandum names Richard de Brus as son of Isabel, sister of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford). Online resource: hap://www.brlanthnms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB1.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. Or three chevrons gules).
Children of Richard de Clare, Knt., by Maud de Lacy:
i. GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see next].
ii. THOMAS DE CLARE, Knt., of Thomond in Connacht, Ireland, married JULIANE FITZ MAURICE [see BADLESMERE 8].
iii. BOGES (or BOEGHES, BEGES) DE CLARE, clerk, papal chaplain, king's clerk, born 21 July 1248. In 1258 his father, Earl Richard, presented him to the church of Rotherfield, Sussex, but the appointment was disallowed Boges occurs as Canon of York from 5 Nov. 1265, Canon of Exeter, 1267, parson of St. Peter in the East, Oxford, Papal chaplain by 1282, Canon of Wells, 1284, King's Clerk by 1285, Treasurer of York, 1285-93, Chancellor of Llandaff, 1287-90, Canon of Chichester, 28 Sept. 1294, Dean of Stafford. In the period, 1275-85 he surrended to Queen Eleanor of Castile his tenement in Sideyard Street, Oxford called "la Oriole." In 1277-8 John de Kent and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Boges de Clare, parson of the church of Dorking, and others regarding a tenement in Dorking, Surrey. In 1280, acting as parson of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, he disputed the right of William le Brune to the assize of bread and ale in Fordingbridge, Hampshire; the case was tried before the justices in eyre, and was decided in favor of William le Brune. In 1290 Boges was fined £1,000 for summoning the Earl of Cornwall to appear before the Archbishop of Canterbury during Parliament. In 1291 he and his successors were granted a market and affair at his manor of Tollerton, Yorkshire. His extensive pluralism is shown in part in a letter from the Archbishop of York to the Archbishop of Canterbury dated 16 Feb. 1290/1 which gives a list of his benefices in the diocese and province York. In 1293 Boges de Clare, Dean of Stafford, and the Chapter, were sued by William Wyger in a writ of darrein presentement; Boges answered that he had the church to his own use by gift from the king. In 1294 he held the churches of Dunmow, Essex, Polstead and Soham, Suffolk, Levetington, Cambridgeshire, and a moiety of the church of Walpole, Norfolk. BOGES DE CLARE died at London 26 October 1294. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Year Books of Edward I: Years XX & XXI 1 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1866): 408-409. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 22 (1866): 214; 26 (1870): 149-160. Simpson Docs. Ill. the Hist. of St. Paul's Cathedral (Camden Soc. n.s. 26) (1880): 42 (sub 1294: "Obiit Dominus Bogo de Clare multarum Rector Ecclesiarum vel potius incubator."). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 47 (1886): 207; 50 (1889): 39 Burton Hist. & Antiqs. of the Parish of Hemingsbrough (1888): 48-50 (biog. of Bogo de Clare: "One consequence of this mass of preferment was that De Clare was always in litigation. He was never out of the king's and the bishop's courts, and he seems to have defied them all alike. He had a little army of bailiffs and receivers, whom often did not pay. The bishops were continually attacking him for non-residence and plurality, but he had his papal dispensations to flourish in their face ... In 1290 a poor wretched officer of the law went into De Clare's house in London to serve a writ. The servants, after making the poor wretch eat the document, seals and all, and imprisoned him. In this case De Clare was obliged to answer in person, but he threw the blame upon his servants, who took care to be out of the way when searched for. ... Here we have a man, receiving an income his ecclesiastical preferments of not less than 50,000/. a year in our money, neglecting every duty, and yet strong enough in his influence with the Court and at Rome to defy everyone who strove to call him to account ... De Clare died in London on 1st November, 1294, leaving an evil name behind."). Rogers Oxford City Docs., Financial & Judicial 1258-1665 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 18) (1890): 96-97. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 466, 486, 509-510, 519, 570. C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 63-65 (Boeghes de Clare styled "brother" [frere] by Margaret [de Clare], Countess of Cornwall), 118. Sussex Arch. Coll. 41 (1898): 52-53. VCH Hampshire 4(1911): 567-577. Assoc. Architectural Socs.’ Rpts. & Papers 33 (1915-16): 35-73. Archæologia 70 (1920): 1-56. Dew Hist. of the Parish & Church of Kilhampton (1928): 26, 30, 33. Jenkinson & Fermoy Select Cases in the Exchequer of Pleas (Selden Soc. 48) (1932): 113-116. Jour. Hist. Soc. of the Church in Wales 1 (1947): 15-25. Emden Biog. Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford 1 (1957): 423-424. Clay York Minster Fasti 1 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 123) (1957): 26-27; 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 54. Labarge Mistress, Maids & Men: Baronial Life in the 13th Cent. (1965). Prestwich Three Edwards: War & State in England (1980): 109. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Rolls & Reg. of: Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-12998 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 173. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 19-20 (biog. of Bogo Clare: "... the most notorious pluralist in medieval England."). Neve Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicans 1066-13005 (1996): 14, 38; 9 (2003): 21. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 41-43. Parsons Eleanor of Castile (1997): 186, 202. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003). Schofield Peasant & Community in Medieval England 1200-1500 (2003): 194 ("Bogo de Clare ... at his death in 1291 held, amongst other offices, 24 parishes and the income they generated (more than £2000), was atypical in his assiduity.").
iv. ISABEL DE CLARE, married at Lyons 28 March 1257 (as his 1st wife) GUGLIELMO (or WILLIAM) VII, Marquis [Marchese] of Monferrato, son and heir of Bonifacio II, Marquis of Monferrato, by Margherita, daughter of Amadeo IV, Count of Savoy. He was near kinsman of King Edward I of England. They had one daughter, Margarita (or Margherita). He married (2nd) in 1271 BEATRICE (or BEATRIZ) OF CASTILE, daughter of Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Galicia, Seville, Cordoba, Murcia, Jaen & the Algarve, by Violante (or Yolanda), daughter of Jaime I el Conquistador, King of Aragon, Majorca & Valencia, Count of Barcelona and Urgel, seigneur of Montpellier. They had one son, Giovanni (I) [Marquis of Monferrato] and two daughters, Yolanda (wife of Andronikas II Palxologus) and Alasina (wife of Poncello Orsini, signore of Montenascone, senator of Rome). His wife, Beatrice, was living in 1280. GUGLIELMO VII, Marquis of Monferrato, died in captivity at Alexandria 6 Feb. 1292. Dugdale Monasticon Angkcanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 662. Lambert Bletching4 1 (1921): 82. Hiklalguia Nos. 172-173 (1982): 324 (chart). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 63 (sub Castile), 200 (sub Montferrat); 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Sayer Original Papal Docs. in England & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 426 (William, marquis of Monferrato, styled "cousin" of King Edward I of England).
Child of Isabel de Clare, by Guglielmo VII of Monferrato:
a. MARGARITA (or MARGHERITA) OF MONFERRATO, married at Burgos in 1281 (as his 1st wife) JUAN OF CASTILE, senor of Valencia de Campos, Oropesa, Baena, Ponferrada, etc., younger son of Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Galicia, Seville, Cordoba, Murcia, Jaen & the Algarve, by Violante (or Yolanda), daughter of Jaime I el Conquistador, King of Aragon, Majorca & Valencia, Count of Barcelona and Urgel, seigneur of Montpellier. They had one son, Alfonso [senor of Valencia de Campos and Mansilla]. His wife, Margherita, was living in 1286. He married (2nd) before 11 May 1287 MARIA DIAZ DE HARO, senora of Vizcaya, daughter of Lope Diaz de Haro, senor of Vizcaya. They had two sons, Lope and Juan (senor of Vizcaya) and one daughter, Maria Diaz (wife of Juan Nuno de Lara, senor of Lara). JUAN OF CASTILE died at Vega de Granada 25 June 1319. Vilena El Limao Don Juan de Valencia el del Infante (1952). Hildalguia Nos. 172-173 (1982): 324 (chart). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 63 (sub Castile), 200 (sub Montferrat); 3(1) (1984): 124A (Valencia de Campos). Martinez Alfonso X, el Sabio (2003).
v. MARGARET DE CLARE, married EDMUND OF CORNWALL (usually styled EDMUND OF ALMAIN), Knt., Earl of Cornwall [see CORNWALL 6.11].
vi. ROSE DE CLARE, married ROGER DE MOWBRAY, Knt., 1st Lord Mowbray [see MOWBRAY 3].
vii. EGLANTINE DE CLARE. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Moigan (1883): 93-166. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare).
Illegitimate child of Richard de Clare, Knt., by an unknown mistress,
i. GUY (or GAUDIN) DE CLARE, Knt. In 1280-1 Thomas del Park arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in East Brightwell, Oxfordshire. In 1301 he witnessed a grant of land by Sir Robert Wandak (or Wandard), of Shotteswell, Oxfordshire, to his brothers, Robert, Rector of Shotteswell, and Thomas. Sometime prior to 1307, his brother Earl Gilbert de Clare's widow, Joan, granted him the manor of Easington (in Chilton), Buckinghamshire for life, of which he died seised. Royce Hist. Notices of the Parish of Cropredy, Oxon (Trans. North Oxfordshire Arch. Soc.) (1880): 6. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 50 (1889): 36. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 25. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 105 (arms of Gaudin de Clare: Argent, three chevrons gules, in chief two lions rampant sable). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lordjnarals/Lord_Marshal05/Lord%20Marshal5.htm.â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., 4th Earl of Hertford, Lord of Harfleur and Mostrevilliers in Normandy, 1202, son and heir, born about 1180. In 1211 he held 6-1/2 knights fees in Kent of his mother's maritagium. He and his father joined the confederacy of the barons against the king in 1215. He was as one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, which King John signed 15 June 1215. In consequence he and his father were excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215, but at this time, he was a party to the negotiations for peace. He had a safe-conduct from the king 9 Nov. 1215, which was repeated 27 March 1216, after the fall of Colchester. He fought on the side of Louis of France at the Battle of Lincoln 19 May 1217, and was taken prisoner by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. He was afterwards released, and his lands restored. He married 9 October 1217 ISABEL MARSHAL, 2nd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. She was born at Pembroke Castle 9 October 1200. They had three sons, Richard, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], William, Knt., and Gilbert, and three daughters, Amice, Agnes, and Isabel. He was recognized as Earl of Gloucester (in his mother's lifetime) in November 1217. In 1217 he gave the manor of Hambleden, Buckinghamshire to Milicent de Cantelowe for life in settlement of her other claims in dower on the estates of her former husband, Amaury, Count of Evreux (Gilbert's 1st cousin). In 1218 Hugh de Vivonne was ordered to give up the Forest of Keynsham to him. In July 1222 he was forbidden to attack the castle of Dinas Powys in Glamorgan. From this time forward he frequently attests royal grants. In 1223 he joined his brother-in-law, the Earl Marshal, in an expedition into Wales. Probably about 1223 he confirmed the grant of Hamo de Blean (alias Crevequer) to the Priory of St. Gregory, Clerkenwell. In 1224 the king ordered his bailiffs of Bristol to cause Earl Gilbert to have five tuns of the 40 tuns of wine that he lately took to the king's use in the vill of Bristol at the same market price. He was present in 1225 at the confirmation of Magna Carta by King Henry III. In 1227 he sued William de Similly for the manor of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, which he claimed as his right. In 1227 he served as witness to the king's charter permitting the removal of the cathedral from Old to New Salisbury and confirming the same rights to the new city as Winchester enjoyed. The same year he supported Richard, Earl of Cornwall, against the king, with regard to the forest laws and the misgovernment of Hubert de Burgh. The king soon gave way to the barons' threats, and meeting them at Northampton in August, promised them satisfaction of their demands. In Sept. 1227 he was one of the nobles accredited to meet the princes of the Empire at Antwerp. He led an army against the Welsh in 1228 and captured Morgan Gam, who was released the following year. In Feb. 1228 he had a gift of 40 rafters in the wood of Auvour to house himself at Cranborne, Dorset. In 1228 he again led an army against the Welsh and discovered iron, lead, and silver mines in Wales. In Feb. 1230 he and William Earl Marshal were ordered to yield up to the Archdeacon of Llandaff all the possessions of the bishopric which they had taken on the bishop's death. Early in 1230 he crossed over into Brittany with the king, where he served as a commander in the royal army. SIR GILBERT DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died at Penros in that duchy 25 October 1230, and was buried 11 November 1230 before the high altar at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. His funeral was conducted with great state. He left two wills, one dated 30 April 1230, the other 23 October 1230, proved before Michaelmas, 1233. By the terms of his will, he left a gilt silver cross to Tewkesbury Abbey, as well as the wood of Mythe by Severn side during the minority of his son. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) 30 March 1231 (as his 1st wife) RICHARD OF ENGLAND, Earl of Cornwall, Count of Poitou [see CORNWALL 6], Lieutenant of Guienne, 1226-7, Keeper of Castle and Honour of Wallingford, 1230-1, Lord of the Manor, Castle, and Honour of Knaresborough, 1235, Lord of the Manor and Castle of Lideford, 1239, Commander-in-Chief of the Crusaders, 1240-1, Privy Councillor, 1253, Joint Guardian of England, 1253-4, younger son of John, King of England, by his 2nd wife, Isabel, daughter of Ademar, Count of Angoulême [see ENGLAND 5 for his ancestry]. They had three sons, John, Henry, Knt., and Nicholas, and one daughter, Isabel. He was granted the borough of Wilton, Wiltshire by his brother, King Henry III, on the occasion of his marriage. In 1232-3 he fought in Wales against Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In 1237 he openly rebuked his brother the king for his greed and maladmininistration. He was on an embassy to Emperor Frederick in 1237. By March 1233 he had driven Llywelyn back and strongly fortified Radnor Castle. His wife, Isabel, died testate at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire in childbed of jaundice 17 Jan. 1239/40. Her body was buried at Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, her bowels went to Missenden, and her heart was sent to Tewkesbury Abbey for burial in her 1st husband's grave. In 1240 he left for the Holy Land on crusade, in the company of a large number of English knights and nobles. In 1241 negotiated a treaty with the sultan of Krak, by which many French captives were restored to liberty. He fought in Poitou in 1242-3. Richard married (2nd) at Westminster Abbey 23 Nov. 1243 SANCHE (or SANCHIA) OF PROVENCE, daughter and co-heiress of Raymond Berenger V, Count and Marquis of Provence, Count of Forcalquier, by Beatrice, daughter of Thomas (or Tommaso) I, Count of Savoy, Marquis in Italy. She was the sister of Eleanor of Provence, wife of his brother, King Henry III of England. She was born about 1225 at Aix-en-Provence. They had two sons, one unnamed and Edmund, Knt. [Earl of Cornwall]. In December 1243 the king demanded a written renunciation of any rights that Richard might possess in Ireland or Gascony, together with an explicit disclaimer of the award that had been made at Saintes. In return, Richard was confirmed in possession of Cornwall and of the honours of Wallingford and Eye. He was granted the honour of Bradninch, Devon in 1244. In 1246, together with King Henry III, he sought unsuccessfully to appose the efforts of Charles of Anjou, husband of Sanche's younger sister, Beatrice, to claim the entire dominion of Count Raymond Berengar V of Provence. He served as principal governor of the mint between 1247 and 1258, an office from which he derived considerable profit. He was Joint Plenipotentiary to France and Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV in 1250. He was elected King of the Romans (also styled King of Almain) 13 Jan. 1256/7, and was crowned at Aachen 17 May 1257. He failed to establish his authority in Germany, however, was soon dispossessed, and returned to England in Jan. 1259. In April 1261 he was elected senator of Rome for life, a purely honorary title which he made no attempt to exercise in person, and in which he was subsequently supplanted by Charles of Anjou. His wife, Sanche, died at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire 9 Nov. 1261. In1263 he secured a temporary truce after war had broken out between his brother the king and the English barons. In 1264, when conflict became inevitable, he supported his brother. He was taken prisoner with his brother at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. After the Battle of Evesham 4 August 1265, he was released and his lands restored. He married (3rd) at Kaiserslautern, Germany 16 June 1269 BEATRICE DE FALKENBURG (or FAUQUEMONT), daughter of Dietrich II de Falkenburg, seigneur of Montjoye, by Berta, daughter of Walram of Limburg, seigneur of Montjoye. They had no issue. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he had several illegitimate children, including Philip (clerk), Richard, Knt., and Walter, Knt. He purchased the honour of Trematon, Cornwall in 1270. RICHARD, King of the Romans, Earl of Cornwall, died testate at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire 2 (or 3) April 1272, and was buried with his 2nd wife, Sanche, at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, his heart being interred in the choir of the Franciscan church at Oxford. His widow, Beatrice, died testate 17 October 1277, and was buried before the high altar a the Friars Minors, Oxford.
Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 95-100. Rymer Fædera 1 (1816): 484 ("Richard de Romeyns" [i.e., Richard, King of the Romans] styled "uncle" by King Edward I of England). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charter of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 315-321. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Thomson Hist. Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (1829): 270-272 (biog. of Richard de Clare). Coll. Top. et Gen. 8 (1843): 120-122 (two charters of Richard, King of the Romans). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Sem:: 27) (1866): 101-102 & 106-107 (letters of Richard, Earl of Cornwall), 132-133 (Richard, King of the Romans, styled "brother" [fratri] by King Henry III of England), 174-175, 193-194 & 197-198 (letters of Richard, King of the Romans). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 72 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1231 - "Eodem anno venit Willelmus Marescallus de Britannia, et dedit sororem suam comitissam Gloucestriæ Ricardo comiti Cornubiæ, fratri regis, in conjugium"), 223-224 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1269 - "Eodem anno et eodern tempore idem Ricardus rex Alemanniæ, quinto idus Junii [9 June], duxit in uxorem quandam nobilem puellam et decoram valde, nomine Beatricem de Falkestan, quæ propter ejus pulchritudinem vocabatur gemma mulierum"), 248 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1272 - "Eodem anno quarto nonas Aprilis [2 April] apud castrum de Berkamestede obiit Ricardus rex Alemanniæ, et sepultus est in abbatia de Hailes, quam a fundamentis sumptibus suis construxerat."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Maclean Hist. of Trigg Minor 1 (1876): 189-190 (obit at Grey Friars, Bodmin, Cornwall: "Richardus Rex Almaniæ obiit 3 die Aprilis"). Arch. Jour. 34 (1877): 180-186 (charter of Richard, Earl of Poitou and Cornwall dated 1256) ("He [Richard] was for a time heir to the throne, and always exercised great influence in the affairs of the kingdom ... He was a far wiser man than his brother, who seems to have consulted him on many occasions, although they were often at variance. Wallingford ... was his chief seat, where he lived with great splendour ... The seal [on the charter] is imperfect, but what remains is well cut and clear ... On the upper side ... is a knight on horseback galloping to the proper left. He wears a loose plaited surcoat, girdled at the waist, and with the skirt freely flowing backwards, shewing the right leg from the knee in armour, apparently mail, with a prick-spur. The right arm, in mail, is extended backwards, and holds upright a long straight sword. Above the upper edge of the surcoat is seen the throat, closely fitted with mail, and on the head a flat-topped helmet. The left arm is covered with a heater shield, with conceals the breast and bears a lion rampant, with probably a border. The saddle is raised below and behind, and the two girths cross salute fashion under the horse's belly. Over the knight's right shoulder is a narrow embossed belt, for sword or dagger. The horse is cut with great freedom, and does not appear to be in armour. The legend is: `SIGIL[LUM RICARDI COMITIS CORNU]BIE.’ Upon the obverse is large, bold heater shield, about two inches high, bearing a lion rampant within a plain border, charged with fourteen roundels. Round and behind the shield is scroll work of an early English character. The legend, in place of the usual cross, commences with a crescent SIG[ILLVM] RICARDI COMITIS [CORN]UBIE.' It is remarkable that Richard did not bear the arms of England, but those of Poictou. 'Argent, a lion rampant gules, crowned or,' which he placed within 'a border sable, bezantee,' derived from the old Earls of Cornwall, and thus, as was not unsual, represented both his earldoms on his shield."). Table chronologique des Chartes et Diplômes imprimis concernant Belgique 5 (1877): 385-386 (Baudouin d'Avesnes [seigneur of Beaumont] styled "cher cousin et vassal" by Richard, King of the Romans in 1267). Genealogist 3 (1879): 225-230; n.s. 13 (1896): 98. Antiq. 2 (1880): 273; 21(1890): 232. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 2 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1880): 110-111. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 436-437 (sub Cornwall); 2 (1886): 13 (sub Gloucester), 177 (sub Hertford). Hart & Lyons Cartularium Monasterii do Rameseia 2 (Rolls Ser. 79) (1886): 330-331 (charter of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Ramsey Abbey). Clark Survey of the Antiqs. of Word 1 (1889): 366; 2 (1890): 295-297, 299, 303, 383-384, 407-408, 415, 417, 434. Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronescombe & Peter Quivil (1889): 178, 200 (charters of Richard, Earl of Cornwall and Poitou). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268 (seal of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, dated 1218 - Obverse: To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: three chevrons [CLARE]. Legend wanting. Reverse - a smaller counterseal. A shield of arms as above. Legend: * SIGILL' GILEBERTI DE CLARA), 338 (seal of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Count of Poitou dated before 1257 - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, coif, flat-topped helmet with vizor down, sword, shield of arms slung by the strap round the neck. Horse galloping with ornamental breast-band, crossed girths, and embroidered saddle. For the arms see the reverse. Legend: SIG[ILLVM RICARDI : COMITIS : PICTAVIE :; Reverse. On a background of foliage forming a tree of three branches elegantly designed with fruit in clusters, a shield of arms: a lion rampant crowned, POITOU, within a bordure bezantée, ANCIENT DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Legend: SIGILLVM : RICARDI : COMITIS : CORNVBIE.), 338 (another seal of Earl Richard dated 1227 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat of arms, flat-topped helmet, sword, convex shield of arms. Horse galloping, caparisoned. Arms as in reverse. Legend: SIGILL'M RICARDI FI…; Reverse. A shield of arms: a lion rampant, crowned, within a bordure charged with nine roundels. The art of this seal is apparently French, and it is of poor workmanship. Legend: TAVIENSIS.). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 October. [Obiit] Gilebertus de Clare, comes."). Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26. Browne Corporation Chrons. (1904): 95 (charter of Richard, Earl of Cornwall). Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1905): 264-265 (charters of Richard, King of the Romans), 281 (charter of Richard, Earl of Cornwall). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 133-134, 146. Auvray Registres de Grégoire IX 2 (1907): 977 (Roger, clerk, styled "nephew" [nepoti] of [Henry III] King of England and R[ichard], Earl of Cornwall in 1238); 3 (1908): 132 (papal dispensation dated 1239: "Rogero, clerico, nepoti regis Angliae et Riccardi, comitis Cornubiae, - cum quo olim ipse papa, intuitu devotionis quam praedictus comes Cornubiae, ejus patruus, ..."). D.N.B. 4 (1908): 378 (biog. of Gilbert de Clare); 16 (1909): 1051-1061 (biog. of Richard, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans) ("... Richard was the only Englishman who attempted to rule the holy Roman empire... He was at all times bountiful to the church. “John, Bishop of Lübeck, a contemporary of Richard's, described him as "orthodox, prudent, strenuous, wealthy, well connected, energetic, and moderate."). C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 489-491 (various charters of Richard, Earl of Cornwall). VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 260-267, 348; 3 (1925): 47, 70-71; 4 (1927): 396. Clark Carta et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 2 (1910): 359 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.1218), 359-360 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated 1218-29. Seal, dark wax, 2 7/8in. diam. The Earl, with a hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, vizor closed, right arm extended, sword uplifted, shield covering his breast, slung with strap round his neck; on a horse galloping to the proper left; caparisons charged with the chevrons of Clare. Counterseal, 1-1/8in. diam. Heater-shaped shield, with three chevrons as above), 360 (letter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford dated 1218-30. Seal, dark green, fine but imperfect, 3 in. diam. Device, the earl in armour, riding to the proper left; on his shield three chevrons. Reverse, a heater-shaped shield of arms: three chevrons). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. C.P. 3 (1913): 244, 430-432 (sub Cornwall); 5 (1926): 694-696 (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford); 10 (1945): 364, footnote a. Davis Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12353 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 10, 11, 14, 54. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 59-63. Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 238 (Richard, Earl of Cornwall: "...'a man of much more enterprise than his brother,' and accounted in his time the peace-maker of Europe... One of the most interesting personages noted in the pages of English history."). Antiqs. Jour. 18 (1938): 142-145 ("A Portrait of Beatrix of Falkenburg"). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 156 (confirmation charter of Richard, Count of Poitou and Cornwall dated c.1233 1). Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 1, 32, Denholm-Young Richard of Cornwall (1947). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 306-307 (charter of Richard, King of the Romans dated 1262). Woodcock Cartulary of the Priory of St. Gregory, Canterbury (Camden 3rd Ser. 88) (1956): 68-69 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 6-7. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 9-10, 14, 20-21, 34-35, 60, 62-64, 90-91, 93. Curia Regis Rolls 14 (1961): 61, 124, 433-435, 506-507, 520; 15 (1972): 50, 102-103, 343. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 32 (charter of Richard, King of the Romans dated 1265). Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey 2 (1964): 563-564. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 64 (arms of Gilbert de Clare: Or, three chevrons gules). Cheney Letters of Pope Innocent III 1198-1216 (1967): 172. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8659. Hockey Beaulieu Cartulary (Southampton Recs. Ser. 17) (1974): 202 (charter of Richard, Count of Poitou, Earl of Cornwall dated 1240-2; charter granted for the soul of his late wife, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester), 217-218. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 195 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated 1217-30). Gervers Hospitaller Cartulary in the British Museum (1981): 303 (charter of Gilbert de Clare). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Secunda Camera, Essex (Recs. of Social and Econ. Hist. n.s. 6) (1982): 547-548 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford & Gloucester). Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 61-65. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 156. Stevenson Durford Cartulary (Sussex Rec. Soc. 90) (2006): 81 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.Nov. 1217 names his "kinsman" [i.e., 1st cousin], Amaury [de Montfort], Earl of Gloucester), 91-92 (charter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.Nov. 1217).
Children of Gilbert de Clare, Knt., by Isabel Marshal:
i. AMICE DE CLARE, eldest daughter, born 27 May 1220. She married (1st) after 29 October 1226 (date of grant of his marriage) BALDWIN DE RIVERS (or REVIERS), Knt., 6th Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight, son and heir of Baldwin de Rivers, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Warin Fitz Gerold, King's Chamberlain. They had one son, Baldwin, Knt. [7th Earl of Devon], and two daughters, Isabel [Countess of Aumale and Devon] and Margaret (nun at Lacock). He was knighted by the king, and invested with the Earldom of Devon 25 Dec. 1239 at Winchester. He accompanied Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to the Holy Land in June 1240. He was with the King in Gascony in 1242. SIR BALDWIN DE RIVERS, 6th Earl of Devon, died 15 Feb. 1244/5, and was buried at Breamore Priory, Hampshire. Sometime in the period, 1245-58, his widow, Amice, gave to Breamore Priory, Hampshire all her land of Hordle, Hampshire and her rights therein, which she bought of Ralph Bardulf. She had permission 10 Jan. 1247/8 to marry (2nd) ROBERT DE GUINES, younger son of Arnold II, Count of Guines, if she consented. There is no evidence this marriage ever took place. In 1253 she took two beasts in New Forest, Hampshire, when returning from the court of the queen. In 1255 she went on a pilgrimage to St. Edmund's at Pontigny [Yonne]. In 1257 she was charged with enclosing a six acre tract at Langel' with a hedge without warrant, which hedge was ordered to be thrown down. In 1258 she was again going beyond seas. In 1276-7 John le Boteler arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Stanton-Drew, SomerSer. In 1278 she founded Buckland Abbey, Devon. Amice, Countess of Devon, Lady of the Isle (otherwise styled Countess of Wight), died shortly before 21 Jan. 1283/4, and was buried at Buckland, Devon. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 619-620 (Rivers ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanism 5 (1825): 712-713 (charter of Amice, Countess of Devon, Lady of the Isle), 714 (charter of Amice, Countess of Devon, Lady of the Isle). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 11 (1855): 213-227; 26 (1870): 149-160. Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6 (1877): 293-294. Contributions to a Hist. of the Cistercian Houses of Devon (1878): 25-33 (charters of Amice, Countess of Devon, Lady of the Isle). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 286. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 573 (sub Devon). Desc. Ca4 Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 270; 2 (1894): 432. Benolte et al. Vis. of Surrey 1530, 1572 & 1623 (H.S.P. 43) (1899): 66-68 (Lisle ped.: "Baldwin 3 Erie of Devon = Amicia Clare."). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 57-58 (charter of Amice de Rivers, Countess of Devon, Lady of the Isle). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 37 (1905): 426; 39 (1907): 219. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 535. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 408,630. C.P. 4 (1916): 318-319 (sub Devon); 5 (1926): 695, footnote m (sub Gloucester). Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 263-264. Jenkinson & Fermoy Select Cases in the Exchequer of Pleas (Selden Soc. 48) (1932): 58-60. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 1-7 (sub Redvers). VCH Oxford 6 (1959): 196-205; 11 (1983): 21-44, 143-159, 259-295. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.5540. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 54 (seal of Amice de Rivers, Countess of Devon dated 1274 - Hung from a three-branched tree, a shield of arms: a lion rampant with forked tail [RIVERS]. Legend: [S]AMICIE COMITISSE DEVON.). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 109-111 (charter of Amice, Countess of Devon dated 1245-65). Stagg Cal. New Forest Docs. 1244-1334 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 3) (1979); 71, 74-75. VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 86-105, 105-119; 16 (1999): 50-69, 149-165, 164-181. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 11-13 (biog. of Isabella Forz). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 99 (charter of Amice). Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 13, 15-16, 20, 27, 31, 35, 36, 78, 128, 130, 140-141. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 21-22. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry 1112 (2008): 113.
Children of Amice de Clare, by Baldwin de Rivers, Knt.:
a. BALDWIN DE RIVERS (otherwise known as BALDWIN DE LISLE), Knt., 7th Earl of Devon, son and heir, born 1 Jan. 1235/6. He married in 1257 MARGARET OF SAVOY, daughter of Thomas of Savoy, sometime Count of Flanders and Hainault, by his 2nd wife, Beatrice, daughter of Tedisio di Fiesco. She was a cousin to Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son, John (died young). The king took his homage and he had livery of his father's lands and the rest of his inheritance 29 Jan. 1256/7. He accompanied the king to France in July 1262. SIR BALDWIN DE RIVERS, 7th Earl of Devon, died in France shortly before 13 Sept. 1262, and was buried at Breamore Priory, Hampshire. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) in 1269 (as his 2nd wife) ROBERT D'AGUILLON, Knt., of Addington, Surrey, Stapleford and Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, Bures, Suffolk, Fulking and Perching (in Fulking), Sussex, etc., Custodian of Arundel Castle, son and heir of William d'Aguillon, of Perching, Sussex, by Joan, daughter of Peter son of Henry Fitz Ailwin. They had no issue. In 1270 he was granted license to fortify his house at Addington, Surrey. In 1278 he claimed view of frankpledge in his manor of Stapleford, Hertfordshire. SIR ROBERT D'AGUILLON died 15 Feb. 1285/6. His widow, Margaret, Countess of Devon, died shortly before 14 May 1292. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 619-620 (Rivers ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 714. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 11 (1855): 213-227. Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 10 (1878): 390-391. Rowe Contributions to a Hist. of the Cistercian Houses of Devon (1878): 25-33. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 573 (sub Devon). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 50 (1889): 181. Benolte et al. Vis. of Surrey 1530, 1572 & 1623 (H.S.P. 43) (1899): 66-68 (Lisle ped.: "Baldwin the last Erie of Devon."). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 37 (1905): 426. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 535. C.P. 4 (1916): 319-322 (sub Devon). VCH Essex 4 (1956): 262-269. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 1-7 (sub Redvers). VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 234-249; 6 (1959): 196-205; 11(1983): 143-159. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.D. 1 (1978): 54 (seal of Baldwin de Rivers, earl of Devon dated 1262 - A shield of arms: a lion rampant [RIVERS]. Legend: +S'BAL[D]EWINI:DE:IN[S]VLA.). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 13 (Deed A.S.67). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 86-105, 105-119; 16 (1999): 50-69, 149-165, 164-181. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III:1216-1377 (2002): 8, 15, 20, 35. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 22-23, 322-323, 339-342. Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB1.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Baldwin de Reviers, Earl of Devon: Or a lion rampant azure).
b. ISABEL DE RIVERS, elder daughter, born in July 1237 (aged 54 in 1292). She married (as his 2nd wife) in 1248-9 (date of fine) WILLIAM DE FORZ, Knt., titular Count of Aumale, Lord of Holdemess, Sheriff of Cumberland, 1255-60, Keeper of Carlisle Castle, Privy Councillor, son and heir of William de Forz, Knt., titular Count of Aumale, Lord of Holdemess, Magna Carta baron, 1215, by Aveline, daughter of Richard Montfitchet, of Stanstead, Essex. They had three sons, John, Thomas [titular Count of Aumalel, and William, and five daughters, Avice, Joan, Sibyl, Mabel, and Aveline. He married (1st) before 1241 CHRISTIAN OF GALLOWAY, daughter of Alan Fitz Roland, Lord of Galloway, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon [see BALLIOL 5 for her ancestry]. In 1255 he was appointed joint ambassador to Scotland. In 1259 he was appointed joint special deputy to ratify the peace with France. SIR WILLIAM DE FORZ, Count of Aumale, died at Amiens 23 May 1260, and was buried in Thornton Abbey. His widow, Isabel, was heiress in 1262 to her brother, Baldwin de Rivers, 7th Earl of Devon. She had livery of her brother's lands 17 August 1263, after which she styled herself Countess of Aumale and Devon, Lady of the Isle. She presented to the church of Naseby, Northamptonshire in 1262 and 1286. In 1281 Philip son of Simon le Chaumpyon arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against her regarding two parts of a messuage and land in Multon, Northamptonshire. In Nov. 1293 she sold the king the Isle of Wight for 6,000 marks. ISABEL, Countess of Aumale and Devon, Lady of the Isle, died testate at Stockwell, Surrey 10 Nov. 1293, and was buried in Breamore Priory, Hampshire. Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Nase (1792): 64-65, 94. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 619-620 (Rivers ped.), 672-673 (Aumale ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 712-713, 713-714 (charter of Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale & Devon, Lady of the Isle), 714. Cooper Account of the Most Important Public Recs. of Great Britain 2 (1832): 476-480. Palgrave Antient Kalendars & Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1(1836): 42, 45, 55, 63. Coll. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 94-95. Arch. Aeliana 2 (1852): 384-386 (Forz ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 11 (1855): 213-227. Jones Hist. & Antiq. of Harewood (1859). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6 (1877): 293-294. Rowe Contributions to a Hist. of the Cistercian Houses of Devon (1878): 25-33 (confirmation charter of Isabel de Forz, Countess of Aumale & Devon dated 1291). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 56; 45 (1885): 77, 148, 205-206, 325; 46 (1886): 130, 216, 279; 47 (1886): 140, 144, 163, 179; 48 (1887): 153; 49 (1888): 15, 93; 50 (1889): 30, 160, 181. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 27 (sub Albemarle), 574 (sub Devon). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 296 (seal of William de Forz, Count of Aumale dated 1251 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk and coif of mail, flat-topped helmet with vizor closed, [sword], shield of arms suspended by an embroidered strap round his neck. Horse galloping with ornamental breast-band. Arms as in reverse. Legend: * SIGILLVM WILLELMI DE FORTIBVS COM[MI]TIS ALBEMARLIE. Reverse: a shield of arms: a cross formée vairée [FORZ]; suspended by a strap on an ornamental tree of conventional and elegant design, between two wavy branches of foliage. Legend: * SIGILLVM WILLELMI DE FORTiBVS COMITIS ALBEMARLIE. Beaded borders.), 822 (seal of Isabel de Fora, Countess of Aumale and Devon dated 1276 - A shield of arms: a cross patonce, vair, AUMALE. Between three lions rampant, in allusion to the armorial charge of REDVERS. Legend: [S]ECRET' : ISABELLE : DE FORTIB' : COMITIISSE : DIEVONIE : ET : INSU… Beaded borders. The art of this seal is very fine.), (another seal of Isabel de Forz dated 1259-62 - Pointed oval: a shield of arms: illegible. Suspended from a tree and between two wavy scrolls of foliage. Legend: …FORTIB ; COMMSSE ALB…) Genealogist n.s. 8 (1892): 153. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 26. Benolte et al. Vis. of SurrEy 1530, 1572 & 1623 (H.S.P. 43) (1899): 66-68 (Lisle ped.: "Willm. de fortibus Comes Albemarle. = Issabella Comitissa Devon."). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 37 (1905): 426; 39 (1907): 219. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 535. C.P. 1 (1910): 353-356 (sub Aumale); 4 (1916): 322-323 (sub Devon). VCH Yorkshire N.E. 2 (1923): 492-497. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 168-174. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 196-203 (Forz arms: Gules a cross paty vair); 4 (1937): 69-73. Early Yorkshire Charters 7 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Extra Ser. 5) (1947): 1-30. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxiv (Curci ped.). VCH Essex 4 (1956): 262-269. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 1-7 (sub Redvers). VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 234-249; 6 (1959): 134-146, 196-205; 8 (1964): 80-91; 11 (1983): 21-44, 143-159, 194-208, 259-295. VCH Somerset 3 (1973): 235-249. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.11728. Ancient Deeds - Ser. BB (List & Index Soc. 137) (1977): 21-22, 76, 95-96. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 111-112 (charter of Isabel de Forx, Countess of Aumale and Devon dated c.1265). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 86-105, 105-119; 16 (1999): 50-69, 149-165, 164-181. Hockey Charters of Quarr Abbey (1991). Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003). Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 15, 16, 20, 35, 61, 78, 156-157. VCH Yorkshire E.R. 7 (2002): 213-223, 273-295, 340-349. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 24-29, 56, 73, 92-93, 519-520. Legg Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 160) (2009): 82-84, 86, 88, 236-239.
Children of Isabel de Rivers, by William de Forz:
1) THOMAS DE FORZ, titular Count of Aumale, son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born 9 Sept. 1253. He died without issue before 6 April 1269, and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, Stamford, Lincolnshire. Coll Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Arch. Aeliana 2 (1852): 384-386 (Forz ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 27 (sub Albemarle). Benolte et al. Vis. of Surrey 1530, 1572 & 1623 (H.S.P. 43) (1899): 66-68 (Lisle ped.: "Thomas ob. a child."). C.P. 1 (1910): 356 (sub Aumale); 4 (1916): 322-323 (sub Devon). VCH Yorkshire N.E. 2 (1923): 492-497. Early Yorkshire Charters 7 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Extra Ser. 5) (1947): 1-30. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 1-7 (sub Redvers). Legg Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 160) (2009): 82-84, 86.
2) AVELINE DE FORZ, occasionally styled Countess of Aumale, married EDMUND OF ENGLAND, Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby [see LANCASTER 7].
c. MARGARET DE RIVERS, nun at Lacock Abbey, younger daughter. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 712-714. Rowe Contributions to a Hist. of the Cistercian Houses of Devon (1878): 25-33. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 37 (1905): 426. C.P. 4 (1916): 319, footnote f (sub Devon). Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 78.
ii. RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see next].
iii. AGNES DE CLARE. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Jour. British Arch. Assoa 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92.
iv. ISABEL DE CLARE, married ROBERT DE BRUS, Knt., of Annandale in Scotland [see BRUS 6].
v. WILLIAM DE CLARE, Knt., of Petersfield and Mapledurham (in Buriton), Hampshire, and Walsingham, Wells, and Warharn, Norfolk, Constable of Winchester Castle, 2nd son, born 18 May 1228. Sometime in the period, 1245-58, he witnessed a charter of his sister, Amice de Rivers, Countess of Devon, to Brearnore Priory, Hampshire. In Nov. 1247 his brother, Richard, had a great tournament at Northampton in honor of William's knighthood. In 1248 William went beyond seas on a pilgrimage with his brother, Earl Richard, to St. Edmund's at Pontigny [Yonne]. The same year he was granted free warren in his demesne lands at Petersfield and Mapledurham (in Buriton), Hampshire. In 1252 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Little Walsingham, Norfolk. In 1255 he was granted two yearly fairs at his manor of Petersfield, Hampshire. In 1256 he was granted an annuity of 100 marks at the Exchquer until the king provide for him in an equivalent in wards or escheats. The same year William Finamour and Joan his wife conveyed the manor of Sunworth (in Buriton), Hampshire to him, in exchange for 53 acres of arable land, 15 acres of wood, and 2 acres of meadow in Mapledurham (in Buriton), Hampshire. In 1257 he was granted free warren in his demesne lands in Great and Little Walsingham, Wells, and Warham, Norfolk, and Sunworth (in Buriton), Hampshire, and a weekly market at his manor of Little Walsingham, Norfolk. Sometime before 1258, he gave 30 acres of wood to Durford Priory, Sussex outside their close next to their land on the north side of the manor of Sunworth (in Buriton), Hampshire, one virgate within the canons' close at Holte, and 6s. yearly rent, together with pasture for 200 sheep and 16 animals in the demesne pasture of Sunworth. He was poisoned in May 1258, with his brother, Richard, while at breakfast with Prince Edward at Winchester, Hampshire. SIR WILLIAM DE CLARE died from the effects at Retherford. He was initially buried at Durford Abbey, Sussex 23 July 1258, but was later reinterred beside his father at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. He left no issue. In 1259 Walter de Scotenay, seneschal of Earl Richard de Clare, was condemned for having administered poison to William de Clare, was dragged into the city of Winchester by a horse of the said William, and afterwards hanged. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 932-935. Halliwell Chron. of the Monastry of Abingdon (1844): 13, 50-51. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 165. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 333, 334, 377, 449, 475. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 497. MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 57-58 (Sir William de Clare styled "my brother" [fratre meo] in charter of Amice de Rivers, Countess of Devon). Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 101 ("Will. de Clare, brother of Richard Earl of Gloucester" witness to deed), 256. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 9, 12, 66, 456, 505, 638, 644. D.N.B. 4 (1908): 393-396 (biog. of Richard de Clare). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 6 (1915): 228. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 82-83. C.P. 5 (1926): 695, footnote m (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Stevenson Durford Cartulary (Sussex Rec. Soc. 90) (2006): 67 (charter of William de Clare), 71-72. Online resource: http://www.briantirruns.net/rollsofarms/rolls/gloversB1.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of William de Clare: Gules three chevrons or a label azure).
vi. GILBERT DE CLARE, 3rd son, born 12 Sept. 1229. In 1241 the abbot of Tewkesbury was permitted to present William de Staneway to the church of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, allowing Gilbert de Clare, a minor ["pupilliâ€], a pension of 16 marks in compensation for the benefice until other provisions could be made for him. In 1244, being then a resident of the diocese of Worcester, he was granted a papal dispensation at the request of his step-father, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to hold beneficies to the yearly value of 300 silver marks. His subsequent history is unknown. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 207. Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 362-363. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 72-73. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 76. C.P. 5 (1926): 695, footnote m (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare).â€
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
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