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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.”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“Children of King William “the Lion,” by Ermengarde de Beaumont…
iii. MARGARET (or MARGERY) OF SCOTLAND, married at York, Yorkshire in June 1221 (as his 3rd wife) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt. [see BARDOLF 8], Earl of Kent, of Henlow, Bedfordshire, Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire, Soham, Cambridgeshire, Corfe Mullen and Winford, Dorset, Kingsdown, Newington, and Tunstall, Kent, Beeston, Burgh, Cawston, Newton, Rougham, Norfolk, Sotherton, Suffolk, Banstead and Sheen, Surrey, Compton, Warwickshire, etc., Chamberlain to John, Count of Mortain [future King John], 1198-9, King's Chamberlain, 1199-1205, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1200-4,1215, Sheriff of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire, 1200-4, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1201, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1201, 1215-24, Warden of the Marches of Wales, 1201, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1202, Sheriff of Berkshire, 1202-4, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1208-13, Seneschal of Poitou, 1213-15, Justiciar of England, 1215-32, Sheriff of Kent, 1215-17, Sheriff of Surrey, 1215-16, Warden of the Exchange and Mint, 1215, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1217-27, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1228-34, Justiciar of Ireland, 1232, Constable of the Tower of London, 1232, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Wormegay, North Runcton, and Stow Bardolf, Norfolk, and Finborough, Suffolk, Fletching and Portslade, Sussex, son and heir of [?Walter] de Burgh, by his wife, Alice [see BURGH 1 for his parentage]. They had one daughter, Margaret. He became Chamberlain to John, Count of Mortain, in or before 1198. At John's accession to the throne, he became the most important official in the country, and received many grants of lands, wardships and offices, including Shrievaltys successively of eleven counties, the manor of Cawston, Norfolk, and the honour of Camel, Somerset formerly belonging to William de Roumare. Sometime before 1202, he gave the church of East Camel, Somerset to Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. He held the castle of Chinon for King John, but after a year's siege, he was obliged to evacuate it. In the fight to break through the French lines was severely wounded and taken prisoner 23 June 1205, after which he was in disgrace and did not appear in public affairs for several years. He temporarily lost the honour of Camel, Somerset between 1205 and 1207, but recovered possession and held it until 1228, when he exchanged it for other royal lands. At the meeting at Runnymede he sided with King John, and was named in Magna Carta, and was one of those appointed to uphold the twenty-five Barons who were made custodians thereof. In August 1217 he defeated a French fleet off Dover at the Battle of South Foreland. In Sept. 1217 he was a party to the treaty of peace made by Prince Louis at Lambeth before he left England. In 1221 he demanded that the royal castles, which had been seized by the Barons, and some of which were in the hands of foreigners likes Faukes de Breaute, should be restored to the Crown. In 1221 he gave the advowson of the church of Portslade, Sussex to Bradsole Abbey. About 1221 he founded a house of Dominican friars near Ludgate in London, and gave them land in Holborn for their house. In 1222 he suppressed a riot in London with great severity. In 1222 Matthew nephew of Geoffrey Wake fined 200 marks with him for a quitclaim to Ebbesbome Wake, Wiltshire. In 1223 the Earl of Chester with Faukes de Breauté and others combined against him, but he overcame them; in August 1224 he captured Breauté's castle of Bedford and secured his banishment. He was granted a market at Burgh next Aylsham, Norfolk in 1226. He was created Earl of Kent 19 Feb. 1226/7, entailed on the issue of Hubert by his 3rd wife, Margaret. In 1227 he and his wife, Margaret, were granted an unspecified number of fairs at three manors, including Nayland, Suffolk. In March 1227 the king granted him the manor of Upper Arleigh, Staffordshire, which formerly belonged to his brother, Thomas de Burgh, Knt. In 1228 he and his wife, Margaret, were granted unspecified markets and fairs at four manors, including Hadleigh, Essex and Haughley and Nayland, Suffolk. In 1229 Roger de Dauntsey, Knt., and his wife, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, sold him one moiety of the manor of Long Compton, Warwickshire, including the capital messuage. In October 1229 he and his wife, Margaret, were granted the manor, castle, and honour of Knaresborough, Yorkshire; he also had a grant of the honour of Eye, Suffolk. He accompanied the king on his expedition to Poitou and Gascony in 1230, for the failure of which he was blamed. In 1231 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at Long Compton, Warwickshire. In 1231 Anketill Mallore was summoned by Earl Hubert to state by what warrant he held the manor of [Upper] Arleigh, Staffordshire, which was the demesne of the Lord the King, and which the said Earl had by gift of the King. The King acknowledged that the Earl was in seisin, and had been disseised by him. Thus, it was considered that the Earl should recover his seisin, and that Anketill was in mercy. In early 1231 or early 1232 the pope set up an inquiry into Hubert's marriage on the grounds that Margaret his 3rd wife was related to his 2nd wife. Hubert's anger was widely known and provoked a papal letter of rebuke 9 June 1232. King Henry chafed at the restraints which his powerful minister imposed on him, and found an excuse to break him, depriving him of the Justiciarship. He was ordered to surrender the castles of Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Windsor, Odiham, Hertford, Colchester, the Tower, and all his other castles. He was pardoned by the king in 1234; his lands were restored to him and he recovered his earldom. However, for the rest of his life he had little part in public affairs. In 1238 Howard de Bikelegh brought a suit against him for seizure of the fair at Holwell, Somerset. SIR HUBERT DE BURGH, Earl of Kent, died testate at Banstead, Surrey shortly before 5 May 1243. His widow, Margaret, Countess of Kent, died 15 Nov. 1259. They were buried in the church of the Black Friars, London. Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 36-37. Martene & Durand Veterum scriptorum et monumentorum 1 (1724): 1253 (letter of Hubert de Burgh). Morice Memoires pour Servir de Preuves a l'Hist. de Bretagne 1 (1742): 876-877 (letter of Hubert de Burgh). Morant Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex 1 (1768): 268. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 3 (1806): 39-41 & 10 (1809): 263-269 (author misidentifies parents of Earl Hubert de Burgh as Reyner de Burgh, and his wife, Joan, daughter and coheir of John Pouchard, lord of North Tudenham, Norfolk). Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials 1 (1809): 13-22 (articles of accusation against Hubert de Burgh). Dunkin Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundreds of Bullington & Ploughley 1 (1823): 138. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 325 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent; charter witnessed by Walter de Burgh); 6(1) (1830): 74 (gifts by Sir Hubert de Burgh of the churches of Oulton, Norfolk and Badingham, Suffolk to Walsingham Priory); 6(2) (1830): 942 (two charters of Hubert de Burgh). James Maidment Analecta Scotica: Collections illus. of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary Hist. of Scotland (1834): 229-230 (charter of Margaret, Countess of Kent, widow of Hubert de Burgh, formerly Earl of Kent, in which she styles herself "sister of the King of Scotland" [soror regis Scotie]). Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londenensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege 1 (1835): 405-406, 465. Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 138 (sub A.D. 1221: "Eodem anno tradita est domina Margareta, filia pie recordationis Willelmi regis Scone, et soror domini Alexandri regis, domino Huberto de Bore, justiciario Anglie, scilicet et Scotie ..."). Gilbert Parochial Hist. of Cornwall 3 (1838): 350 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, King's Chamberlain). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Extracta e minis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 92 (sub A.D. 1220: "Humbertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglie, disponsauit Margaretam sororem regis Alexandri apud Londone, anno predicto."). Giles Roger of Wendover's Flowers of Hist.: The Hist. of England from the Descent of the Saxons to AD. 1235 2 (1849): 373-375. Thorpe Florentii Wigomiensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2 (1849): Benjamin Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 174 (sub 1225: "Johannes, episcopus Eliensis, obiit II. non. Maii [6 Maii]; successit ei Galfridus, Eater Huberti de Burgo justitiarius"), 174 (sub 1228: "Galfridus de Burgo, episcopus Eliensis, obiit XVI. kal. Januar. [17 Dec.]"), 179 (sub 1243: "Hubertus de Burgo, comes Cantiæ, obiit III. id. Maii [13 May]."). Sussex Arch. Colls. 6 (1853): 107-128 ([Alice], Countess of Eu, styled "niece" [neptis] by William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and "kinswoman" [cognate] of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, in a letter dated pre-1227). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 1858 (1858): 282-284 (reproduction of an early seal of Hubert de Burgh, king's chamberlain, dated pre-1215 which exhibits three lions passant in pale; a 2nd seal dated 1220-27 appended to two different docs, exhibits his well known arms, masculy). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry III 1 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1862): 42 ([Alice], Countess of Eu, styled "your kinswoman" [neptis vestræ] by Earl William de Warenne in letter to Hubert de Burgh dated 1219), 79-80 (letter of William Brewer to Hubert de Burgh, Justiciar of England), 523-526 (docs. rel. to the fall of Hubert de Burgh). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 289 (Annales de Waverleia sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Isabel comitissa Gloucestriæ"); 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 102-103 (Annals of Dunstable sub A.D. 1226: "Eodem anno Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius domini regis, factus est comes Cantin; et Remendus, nepos ejus, duxit in uxorem comitissam Essexiæ; et filia ejus nupsit primogenito Elio comitis Glocestriæ."), 128 (Dunstable Annals sub A.D. 1232: "Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Angliæ, conventus super peregrinatione sanctæ Crucis per literas Papæ, per absolutionem Pandulfi legati tunc Angliæ, se rationabiliter expedivit. Super aivortio vero tertiæ uxoris suæ, scilicet filiæ regis Scotiæ, conventus, super eo quod erat consanguinea secundæ uxoris suæ, scilicet comitissæ Gloverniæ ...."); 4 (Rolls Series 36) (1869): 419 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1226: "T[homas de Blunville] nepos Huberti de Burgo consecrator in episcopum Norwicensem Dominica proxima ante Natale Domini [20 December]."). Matthew of Paris Matthai Parisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Et eodem anno, iiio, idus Maii [12 May], post multas, quas in mundo toleraverat patienter, persecudones, comes Canciæ Hubertus de Burgo, de quo multa praescribuntur, laudabiliter diem clausit extremum apud Banstude, manerium suum. Et delatum est corpus suum tumulandum Londoniis, in domo fratrum Prædicatorum, quibus vivens multa bona contulerat, et corpus veneranter intumulandum delegaverat."). Herald & Gen. 4 (1867): 337-340. Cal. Docs. Rd. Ireland 1(1875): 329 (Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent styled "uncle" of Richard de Burgh, of Connacht in Ireland in 1234). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-166. Wrottesley Feet of Fines: Henry III (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 238-259. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6(1) (1885): 29-36. Rye Short Cal. of Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1(1885): 62. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 271-274 (sub Kent). Archaeologia 50 (1887): 494. Luard Flores Historiarum 2 (Rolls Ser. 95) (1890): 437 (sub A.D. 1259: "Circa idem tempus, obiit comitissa Cantiæ, dictum plena et matura motto dejecta. Hæc autem multum dapsilis et commendata uxor fuit quondam Huberti de Burgo, quandoque justiciarii Anglin et comitis Kantiæ."). East Anglian n.s. 5 (1893-4): 104-107. Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 258-259 (seal of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, dated 1227-1233 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: seven lozenges, three, three, and one vaire (or lozengy of fifteen pieces) [BURGH]; Reverse. A shield of arms as described in the obverse. Legend destroyed), 259 (another seal of Hubert de Burgh - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat of arms: round cap, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms as in the reverse. Legend wanting; Reverse. A kite-shaped shield of arms: masculy or lozengy of nine pieces, five, three, and one, wire [BURGH]. Legend wanting). Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 472-473. List of Sherrffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 6, 21, 59, 67, 78, 86, 122, 135, 150. Farrer Final Concords of Lancaster 1 (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 39) (1899): 94-96. Desc. Cat. of Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 159-160. Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 24-30, 235 (Obit Kalendar: "9 May - Obijt Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglie [A.D. 1242]."). Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 118. Eng. Hist. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711 [citing Dunstable Annals (Ann. Mon. iii. 28): 'Super divortio vero tertiae uxoris suae, scilicet filiae regis Scotiae, conventus, super eo quod erat consanguinea secundae uxoris suae, scilicet comitissae Gloverniae,' etc. They further state precisely that when she was the widow of Geoffrey, Earl of Essex, Hubert married her (relictam ipsius duxit) and that she ‘post paucos dies decessit.' (Ibid., p. 45)]; 50 (1935): 418-432 (mentions charter of Hubert de Burgh which names his ancestor, William de Boseville). Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Rec. Soc. of Lancashire & Cheshire 47) (1904): 124-125. Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 5 (sub Kings of Scotland). Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 76-86. VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 115-118; 7 (1999): 84-93. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 83. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 6-7. VCH Lancaster 8 (1914): 77, 85, 189, 192, 207, 231. Harben Dictionary of London (1918). G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 225-226. G.H. Fowler 'Roll of the Justices in Eyre, 1240' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 87-88, 101, 134, 137. C.P. 5 (1926): 689-692 (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 133-142 (sub Kent) (arms of Hubert de Burgh: Lozengy argent and vair). Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1 (Dugdale Soc. 11) (1932): 86. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1, 26-35. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 52-58. Slade Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King John, Michaelmas 1210 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 26) (1951): 50. Ellis Hubert de Burgh: A Study in Constancy (1952). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King John, Michaelmas 1211 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 4, 21. Paget (1957) 106:1 (chart only). Barnes & Slade Medieval Miscellany for Doris May Stenton (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 36) (1962): 78,80. Bedingfield Cartulary of Creake Abbey (Norfolk Rec. Soc. 35) (1966): 1-2 (Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of Ely [brother of Earl Hubert de Burgh], styled "kinsman" [nepos] by Alice Pouchard, wife of Robert de Nerford, Knt.). Viator 5 (1974): 235-252. Ancient Deeds - Series A (List and Index Soc. 151) (1978): 103-104. Jour. British Studies 19 (1980): 1-17. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 58. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 142 ( Canterbury Obituary Lists: "14 October [2 Id. Oct.] Obierunt Ysabel comitissa Gouemie, soror et benefactrix nostra"). Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 2 (Suffolk Rec. Soc) (1994): xii. Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain (2001): lxiii-lxv (sub Scottish Royal Lineage). VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 289-290. Birmingham City Archives: Lyttleton of Hagley Hall, MS 3279/351062 (grant dated 1227/43 from Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent to Robert son of Robert de Gloverina of land which the latter held from Thomas de Burgh, brother of the said Hubert in Erleigh [Upper Arley], Staffordshire) (abstract of document available online at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index asp). McCray Catalogue, Aynho Deeds, Magdalene College, Oxford Unversity, pg. 31 #36 (undated grant of Thomas de Crewelton, son of Robert de Niwerman, of Frutewelle to the Hospital at Aynho, Northamptonshire" to hold upon condition of celebrating yearly on the day of St. Mathute [15 November] the anniversary of Margaret Countess of Kent, deceased, on which day; the brethren shall have from the said land a pittance of 12d.); citation courtesy of Andrew B.W. MacEwen.
Child of Margaret of Scotland, by Hubert de Burgh, Knt:
a. MARGARET DE BURGH, married RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see CLARE 7].”
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