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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144, son and heir. In 1128 he witnessed an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fecamp. He married about 1150 HAWISE OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Robert (living c.1170), and three daughters, Mabel, Amice, and Isabel. In 1128 he was a witness to an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fécamp. In 1141 he served as surety for his father, then a prisoner at Rochester. In 1147 he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he signed a treaty with Roger, Earl of Hereford, by which William agreed to hold faith and give aid to Roger as his man, against all men except their lord, Henry; William promised aid especially for the purpose of disinheriting Gilbert de Lacy. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he granted Margam Abbey land in Margam, in exchange for the land of Baldwin the Harper of Newborough. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he gave to the church and monks of St. Giles, Little Malvern, Worcestershire ten acres in the forest of Malvern with appurtenances in the said forest for inclosure and cultivation. In 1148 he gave a confirmation to Gloucester jointly with his mother. In 1153 he was one of the witnesses to the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]; he also witnessed a charter of Duke Henry dated at Bristol. In 1158 he and his wife and son Robert were captured at Cardiff Castle by Ivor the Little and carried into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until the earl redressed Ivor's grievances. He witnessed a charter of his father-in-law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated c.1150-60. He founded Keynsham Priory in Somerset in 1169, and was a benefactor to many other religious foundations. About 1170 he granted his son, Robert, land in Margam, which Robert thereupon gave to Abbot Conan and the convent. In 1173 he took the king's part against his sons, and later that year went to the help of the king's forces at the Battle of Fornham. In 1174 he submitted to the king, and in 1175 he surrendered Bristol Castle to him. In 1178 he witnessed King Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. In 1183 the king imprisoned a number of magnates of whose loyalty he was doubtful, including Earl William. About 1183 Earl William granted Walter Lageles land which his father held, for an annual rent of eight shillings. About 1183 he granted Kenaithur son of Herbert son of Godwinet and his brothers the lands of Keleculum and Treikik WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester, died 23 Nov. 1183, and was buried at Keynsham Abbey, Somerset. In the period, 1183-97, his widow, Hawise, granted W. de Arundel her servant a burgage situated beside the bridge of her borough of Fairford. In the same period, she granted to the burgesses of Peters field all the liberties and free customs which William her husband formerly granted to them by his charter. In 1189-90 she witnessed a charter of his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Hawise, Countess of Gloucester, died 24 April 1197.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1095 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester). Arch. Cambrensis 3,th Ser. 8 (1862): 276 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub 1183: "Obiit Willielmus Comes Gloucestri."), 276 (sub 1197: "Obiit Hawysia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 53 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1183: "Nicholaus episcopus Landavensis et Willelmus comes Glocestriae obierunt."), 55 (sub A.D. 1197: "Obiit Hawisa comitissa Glocestriæ, viii. kal. Mail [24 April]."). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 49-50 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 3 (1872): lxxiii-lxxiv (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester dated 1172-83; charter witnessed by his wife, Countess Hawise, and Hamon le Gras); 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 124 (sub A.D. 1182: "Obiit Guillermus, comes Gloecestriae, sine heredibus, absque tribus filiabus, quarum una est comitissa Ebroicensis; altera, uxor Guillermi, comitis de Clara; tercia est in manu Dei et domini regis, et cui voluerit dabit eam."). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1158-1159 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 1) (1884): 42 (sub Devonshire: Thomas "kinsman" of Earl of Gloucester [Thomas nepos Comitis Gloec.] "deb L. m. p t[er]ra sua de Chilcheton [Kilkhampton]" in 1158-59). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1159-1160 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 2) (1884): 51 (sub Devonshire: Thomas styled "kinsman of [William] Earl of Gloucester" [Thomas nepos Com[itis] Gloec.] in 1159-60). Gross Gild Merchant 2 (1890): 28-29 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II of England). Clark Carta et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 80, 83, 85, & 101 (charters of William, Earl of Gloucester), 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 472 (Ex Obituatiis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Maii Obiit Hawis, comitissa Gloecestræ."), 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "23 Nov. Obiit Willelmus, comes Glocestriæ."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Report & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 465,469 (Extracts from the Pipe Rolls 5 Henry II, 1158-1159, Devonshire: Thomas, grandson of the Earl of Gloucester - In 1158-1159 he owed 50 marks for his land of Chittlehampton, Devon and 50 marks from a plea of William Fitz John). C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 546 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman"[cognatus] by King Henry II of England in undated charter). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1175-1176 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 25) (1904): 160 ("Tomas nepos comitis Gloec' [Thomas kinsman of the Earl of Gloucester] et Ricardus filius ejus reddt. comp. de .xl. m. pro eodem. In thesauro .xx. m. Et debent .xx. m."). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1176-1177 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 26) (1905): 22 ("Tomas nepos Comitis Gloecestr' [Thomas kinsman of the Earl of Gloucester] et Ricardus filius ejus reddunt comp. de .xx. m. pro eodem. In thesauro .x. 1. Et in perdona per breve Regis Ricardo de Graenuill' patri ipsius Tome .v. m. Et quieti suer."). Ballard British Borough Charters 1042-1216 (1913): 27-28 (charter of Hawise, Countess of Gloucester dated 1183-97). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated c.1150-60). Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 259-260. C.P. 5 (1926): 687-688 (sub Gloucester), 6 (1926): 502. Delisle & Berger Reared des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre, Duc de Normandie 3 (1927): 136 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II of England). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. David Walker "Charters of the Earldom of Hereford, 1095-1201," in Camden Miscellany Vol. XXII (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 1) (1964): 19-20. Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Register I) (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 29-30. VCH Worcester 2 (1971): 156-158 (Priory of Cookhilll had "the mill of Carnpden [Chipping Campden, Gloucester] by the gift of Thomas, nephew of the earl of Gloucester."); also see Trans. Bristol & Gloucestershire Arch. Soc. 9 (1884-85): 175. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 190-191. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 148-149 (gift and confirmation of Thomas "nephew [recte kinsman] of the earl of Gloucester and Mabilla his wife; charter names Mabel's uncle, Richard de Greinvilla, "whose patrimony was all the land of Kilkhampton (Chilcumtonia)," Devon) [Note: Richard de Greinville was presumably the uncle of Thomas, not of his wife Mabel; see the Pipe Roll entry for 1176-7 above]. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William Ito Richard 12 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 600-601 (Jocelin [de Bohun], Bishop of Salisbury, styled "kinsman" by William, Earl of Gloucester). University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #01400102 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester dated 1147-48) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Worcestershire Rec. Office, Berrington Coll. 705:24/77 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Children of William Fitz Robert, by Hawise of Leicester:
i. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER, son and heir apparent, son and heir, born at Cardiff. He died unmarried at Cardiff in 1166. C.P. 5 (1926): 689 (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Cornwall Rec. Office: Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice, AR/20/1 (Robert, son of Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" by King Henry II of England).
ii. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married in 1170 AMAURY III DE MONTFORT, Count of Evreux in Normandy. They had one son, Amaury [IV] [Count of Evreux, Earl of Gloucester]. Amaury III, Count of Evreux, died in 1187-93. She fined for custody of her heir and some or all of his lands by 1195. His widow, Mabel, died in 1198. C.P. 5 (1926): 689, 692-693 (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 32, 63, 64, 212, 230, 235, 294.
iii. AMICE OF GLOUCESTER, married RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., 3rd Earl of Hertford [see CLARE 5].
iv. ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, married (1st) JOHN, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou [see ENGLAND 5]; (2nd) GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2.i]; (3rd) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt., Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.1].
Illegitimate child of William Fitz Robert, by an unknown mistress, ___:
i. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. He married AGNES ___. His wife, Agnes, is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls in 1191, 1192, and 1194: Stenton Great Rolls of the Pipe: Mich. 1191 and Mich. 1192 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 2) (1926): 18 (Date: Mich. 1191 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis Gloec' debet lv m. per cartam."), 225 (Date: Mich. 1192 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis de Gloecr.' debet l m. per cartam."); Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe: Michaelmas 1194 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 96 (Date: Mich. 1194 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis de Gloecr' debet 1 m. per cartam.").â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt, 3rd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), of Clare, Suffolk, son and heir. He married AMICE OF GLOUCESTER, daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., by Hawise, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the town of Sudbury, Suffolk and 6- 1/2 knights fees in Kent. They had four sons, Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], Richard, Roger, and Henry, and three daughters, Maud, Hawise, and [?Joan] (wife of Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor or Ystradtywi, Prince of South Wales). Sometime in or before 1172 he gave assent to the grant of his father, Earl Roger de Clare to the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem of the advowson of Tonbridge, Kent. He and his father-in-law, William, Earl of Gloucester, were both suspected of complicity, if not direct involvement, in the rebellion of Earl Hugh le Bigod in 1173-4. Clare subsequently supported the king, when the king's son, Henry, rebelled against his father. In the period, 1185-4214, he gave the advowson of the church of Yalding with the chapel of Brenchley, Kent to the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Tonbridge, Kent. In 1188 he and Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, disputed for the honor of carrying the banner of St. Edmund in battle. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I at Westminster in 1189. In 1191 he was one of the eleven appointed by the Chancellor to determined the questions between himself and Prince John. In 1193 he was enjoined by the Chancellor to accompany him on his return to King Richard, then a prisoner in Germany. In 1194/5 he had acquittance as being with the King in the army in Normandy. At the start of the reign of King Richard I the barony of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire (which had escheated to the crown in 1164) was divided between him and William Marshal, Knt., later Earl of Pembroke. He had a grant from King John of a moiety of the Giffard estates in Normandy and England. In 1198 he excused himself from personal attendance on the king at Hertford. Sometime before Michaelmas 1198, Earl Richard and his wife, Amice, were separated by order of the Pope on grounds of consanguinity, at which date she claimed the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, which had been her marriage portion. They were evidently divorced by 1200, when Amice was styled "formerly the Countess of Clare." In 1202-3 she repeated her claim to the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, and, in 1205-7, she claimed the advowson of St. Gregories, Sudbury, Suffolk, which the Prioress of Eton said had been granted to Eton by Earl William, Amice's father. The issue of the validity of their marriage was presumably resolved, as Amice styled herself in later charters the "Countess of Clare." Regardless, they appeared to have been estranged at the time of Earl Richard's death, as her charters make no mention of her husband, but only their son and heir, Gilbert. In 1201 he paid £100 in order to obtain possession of the manor of Saham, Norfolk by writ of mort d'ancestor against Roger de Tony, but Tony subsequently recovered the manor. Sometime prior to 1206, he granted the church of Yalding, Kent with the chapelry of Brenchley to Tonbridge Priory. In 1211 Amice, Countess of Clare, offered 40 marks for the recovery of certain fees of which she had been disseised by Guy de Chanceaux. In 1214 the canons of Nutley Abbey secured the church of Bottesham, Cambridgeshire against Richard de Clare. He joined the confederacy of the barons against the king in 1215. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, which King John signed 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. On 9 Nov. 1215 he was one of the commissioners on the part of the Barons to treat of peace with the king. On returning to fealty 5 October 1217, he had restitution of his lands. On the death of her sister, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester (former wife of King John) in 1217, Amice became sole heir to their father, William, Earl of Gloucester. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, Earl of Hertford, died between 30 October and 28 Nov. 1217. Following his death, Tonbridge Priory petitioned the bishop to grant indulgence "to all who pray for the soul of Sir Richard de Clare, formerly Earl of Hertford, whose body lies in the church of St. Mary Magdalen of Tonbridge, and the souls of all faithful departed deceased and those who have assisted in the building or upkeep of the lights, etc." of the church of St. Mary Magdalen in Tonbridge. His widow, Amice, caused the earl's body to be carried to Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, where it was buried in the choir of the Abbey. In the period, 1217-23, in her widowhood ["viduitate meaâ€], she gave to Stoke by Clare Priory a messuage and possessions of the hospital of St. Sepulchre in Sudbury, Suffolk. In the period, 1217-36, Amice, Countess of Clare, in her widowhood ["viduitate meaâ€] confirmed grants made to Margam Abbey by her grandfather, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and William, Earl of Gloucester. At an unknown date, Countess Amice founded the hospital of St. Sepulchre in Sudbury, Suffolk, as well as one dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. At an unknown date, Amice granted Abraham Fitz Ralph of Thaxted three acres at Holgate in her fee at Sudbury, Suffolk at a yearly rent of 12d. Amice, Countess of Clare, allegedly died 1 January 1224/5.*
(* Note: C.P. 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford) says Amice de Clare, Countess of Hertford "is stated to have died 1 January 1224/5, before which date she appears to have been recognized as Countess of Gloucester." This statement regarding her being acknowledged Countess of Gloucester appears to be without foundation. In Amice's own charters which have survived and in contemporary records, she is styled solely as Countess of Clare (i.e., Hertford), and never as Countess of Gloucester [see, for instance, Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester); Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26; Clark Carke et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 2 (1910): 358 (charter of Arnice, Countess of Clare, widow); Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 41-48 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare); Mortimer Charters of St. Bartholomerv's Priory (Suffolk Charters 15) (1996): 25-26 (charter of Amice, Countess of Clare)]. Rather, Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 33 states that Amice's son and heir, Gilbert de Clare, took up the twin earldoms of Gloucester and Hertford in 1217, which occurred during his mother's lifetime. In Nov. 1217, shortly after the death of his aunt, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, Gilbert confirmed several benefactions as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see Stevenson Durford Cartulary (Sussex Rec. Soc. 90) (2006): 811. In the same month there was a plea between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Cauntelo and his wife, Milicent, widow of Amaury, Count of Evreux. Livery of various lands was also ordered [see CP. 5 (1926): 694 (sub Gloucester)]. Gilbert certainly had possession of the Gloucester inheritance before 1220/1, when the Pipe Rolls sub Norfolk and Suffolk state that "Isti habunt quietancias per brevia ... Comes de Clara de 131 f etc." [see Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1221, cited in C.P. 6 (1926): 503, footnote c]. Presumably Amice was excluded from the Gloucester inheritance by the terms of her father's agreement with King Henry II in 1176, by which King Henry's son, John (later King John) was acknowledged as heir to William Earl of Gloucester (as future husband of his youngest daughter, Isabel); in return for this grant, the king agreed to give £100 yearly rental to Earl William's older daughters, Mabel and Amice [see Lambert Bletchingley A Parish Hist. 1 (1921): 53-54, 59, footnote 2].)
Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 36. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(2) (1830): 806-807 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford), 913 (charter of Richard [de Clare], Earl of Hertford); 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester). 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). Palgrave Rotuli Curiæ Regis 2 (1835): 180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 127. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("Earl Richard's seal is extant, and bears the three chevrons.â€). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 176 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268-269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford - To the right. In hauberk, surcoat, conical helmet, sword, kite-shaped shield. Legend wanting.). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 298-299 (charter dated 1172-99 by Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford); charter names his father, Earl Roger; and his mother, Countess Maud; charter witnessed by his "brothers" [fratribus], Richard de Clare and James de Clare. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford; charter names his parents, Earl Roger and Countess Maud). Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 13. Ramsay Angevin Empire (1903): 195. VCH Buckingham 1 (1905): 377. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 146. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93. Clark Carter et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 2 (1910): 343, 358 (charter of Amice Countess of Clare, widow to Margam Abbey). Lambert Bletchingly 1 (1921): 52-59. Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 186, 249; 4 (1929): 13, 15, 139-140, 172; 6 (1932): 3, 30, 89, 108, 358; 14 (1961): 92; 15 (1972): 343. C.P. 5 (1926): 694-69 (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 501-503 (sub Hertford) ("Whatever the nature of the separation of the Earl and Countess, it did not affect the position of their son, Gilbert."). English Hist. Rev. 61 (1946): 292, footnote 2. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 48) (1948): 15, 17 (charter of Richard de Clare dated 1185-1214), 18-19, 45. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 6. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6, 34-35, 63. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey 2 (1964): 436-437, 563-564. Cheney Letters of Pope Innocent III 1198-1216 (1967): 172. Gervers Hospitalier Cartulary in the British Museum (1981): 304 (charter of Richard 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): 548 (charter of Richmi de Clare, Earl of Hertford). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 3, 12, 23, 30 (notification of Richard, Earl of Clare dated 1173-80; charter witnessed by his brother, Richard de Clare), 31-32 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1185-88; charter witnessed by his uncle [avunculus], Richard de Clare), 32 (charter of Richard de Clare dated 1173-89), 33 (confirmation charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1173-85), 33-34 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated c.1192-1217; charter witnessed by Sir Richard de Clare), 37, 41-48 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare); 2 (Suffolk Charters 5) (1983): 321, 323, 325. Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 151. (sub Clare); 3(2) (1983): 354. Smith English Episc. Acta 6 (1990): 109-110, 216-217, 333-334, 365. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 24-25 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1173-90; charter witnessed by Richard de Clare and John de Clare). Mortimer Charters of St. Bartholomew's Priory (Suffolk Charters 15) (1996): 25-26 (charter of Amice, Countess of Clare).
Children of Richard de Clare, Knt., by Amice of Gloucester:
i. GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see next].
ii. RICHARD DE CLARE, younger son. He was murdered at London 4 May 1228. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 70. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92. C.P. 6 (1926): 503, footnoted (sub Hertford). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare).
iii. ROGER DE CLARE, of Middleton, Norfolk, and, in right of his wife, of Norton, Suffolk, Chipstead, Surrey, and Southwick and Wickham, Sussex, younger son. Probably about 1223 he witnessed a confirmation charter of his brother, Earl Gilbert de Clare, to the priory of St. Gregory, Clerkenwell. In Feb. 1225 Roger had the grant of land in Ashingdon, Essex formerly belonging to John de Beauchamp, which land he restored in March 1225. In 1226 he received the grant of an annual fee of £25 from the Exchequer, on going to Gascony with Richard, Earl of Cornwall. In 1230 he was granted £15 in lands, and his annual wage accordingly reduced to £10. He married before Feb. 1231 ALICE DE DAMMARTIN, widow of John de Wauton (died shortly before Sept. 1230), of Walton-on-the Hill, Surrey, and daughter of Eudes Dammartin, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk, and Chipstead, Effingham, Mickleham, and Tandridge, Surrey, presumably by ___, sister of Richard de Lucy. They had no issue. His wife, Alice, was heiress in 1225 to her brother, Eudes de Dammartin. In 1232 he was one of those sent to accompany Margaret, Countess of Kent, to London. In March 1233 he had a gift of the king of two stags and ten hinds to be taken from his late brother, Earl Gilbert's park at Bletchingley, Surrey. He served in the Welsh campaign of 1233-4. In 1236 he had the gift of two stags from the king to be taken from his nephew, Earl Richard's park at Hundon, Suffolk. Before Jan. 1241 he left for the Holy Land, presumably in the English expedition led by Richard, Earl of Cornwall. In May 1241 his essoin in an action was adjourned for five weeks he then returning from the Holy Land. ROGER DE CLARE presumably died on the way home shortly before August 1241, when an order was issued to take his lands into the king's hands. In Jan. 1241/2 his widow, Alice, agreed to pay 200 marks to the king at the rate of £25 a year to have seisin of Roger's lands in Middleton, Norfolk, until his unnamed heirs were of age or married. She evidently died about 1255. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("Roger de Clare, Earl Gilbert's brother, was allowed £12 on the 11th February 1226, for his expenses in the King's service with the Earl of Cornwall in Poitou."). Cal. Liberate Rolls 1 (1916): 1, 77, 105, 125, 177. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 66-69. Surrey Arch. Colls. 54 (1955): 58-65. Woodcock Cartulary of the Priory of St. Gregory, Canterbury (Camden 3rd Ser. 88) (1956): 68-69. Curia Regis Rolls 14 (1961): 327, 332-333; 16 (1979): 112, 17 (1991): 84, 277, 394, 465. Meekings 1235 Surrey Eyre 1 (Surrey Rec. Soc. 31) (1979): 180-182 (biog. of Roger de Clare). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare).
iv. HENRY DE CLARE, younger son. In 1228 he was granted a yearly wage of £20, being then in the king's service. His subsequent history is unknown. Cal. Liberate Rolls 1(1916): 77 (Henry styled "brother" of Roger de Clare). Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 67.
v. MAUD DE CLARE, married WILLIAM DE BREWES, of Bramber, Sussex [see BREWES 6].
vi. HAWISE DE CLARE, married GEOFFREY DE SAY, Knt., of Edmonton, Middlesex [see SAY 6].
vii. [?JOAN] DE CLARE, married in 1219 (as his 2nd wife) RHYS GRYG, lord of Dynevor or Ystradtywi, Prince of South Wales, younger son of Lord Rhys ap Griffith, Prince of South Wales. They had two sons, Maredudd and Howel. RHYS GRYG died in 1233, and was buried in St. David's Cathedral. Vincent A Discoverie of Errours (1622): 122. Thomson Hist. Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (1829): 270-272 (biog. of Richard de Clare). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Bridgeman Hist. of the Princes of South Wales (1876): 73-110, 185-202. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("The Chronicles state that the daughter of the Earl of Clare in 1217 married Rhys Bahan (Vachan). She may have been a natural daughter."). Arch. Cambrensis 5th Ser. 15 (1898): 226-227. Caradog of Llancarvan Brut y Tynysogion 1 (2001): 304-305 (sub A.D. 1219: "The ensuing year, Rhys the Hoarse [Rhys Gryg] married the daughter of the earl of Clare.").
Children of [?Joan] de Clare, by Rhys Gryg:
a. MAREDUDD AP RHYS GRYG, of Dryslwyn and Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, younger son by his father's 2nd marriage, born in or before 1222. He married 1234/41 ___, niece of Gilbert Marshal, 7th Earl of Pembroke, hereditary Master Marshal of England, and granddaughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke, by Isabel, daughter of Richard de Clare. They had one son, Rhys, Knt. Sometime before 1241, he was granted the commotes of Ystlwyf and Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire by Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. He was at variance with his nephew, Rhys Fychan ap Rhys Mechyll, during the greater part of their lives. He accompanied Llywelyn ap Gruffudd on his victorious expeditions of 1256, and was rewarded with grants of lands around Llanbadarn and Cantref Buellt. He took a leading part in the Welsh victory of Cymerau in 1257. In 1258 he went over to the English king, who conceded to him all the lands he then held, as well as lands belonging to his nephew, Rhys, in Mabuderith, Mabelneu, etc. In 1258 he concluded an alliance with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. In 1259 he defected from Llywelyn, who had him imprisoned. Llywelyn demanded that he surrender Newcastle Emlyn and Dinefwr to him that year. Maredudd sided with the Welsh in 1261. In 1265-6 he was again taken into the English king's pay. MAREDUDD AP RHYS died at his castle at Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire 22 July 1271, and was buried at Whitland Abbey. Bridgeman Hist. of the Minces of South Wales (1876): 111-150, 174-179, 185-202. Davies Age of Conquest (2000): 226, 319.
Child of Maredudd ap Rhys Gryg, by ___, niece of Gilbert Marshal:
1) RHYS AP MAREDUDD, Knt., of Dryslwyn and Ystlwyf, Carmarthenshire, son and heir. He married by papal dispensation dated 10 Dec. 1283 (they being related in the 3rd and 4th degrees of kindred) ADA DE HASTINGS, daughter of Henry de Hastings, Knt., of Lidgate, Cavendish, Gazeley, Little Udeley, Rede, etc., Suffolk, Nailstone and Wistow, Leicestershire, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, Aston (in Munslow), Shropshire, Fillongley, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of the liberty of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, by Joan, daughter of William de Cantelowe, Knt. [see HASTINGS 9 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included Emlyn Is Cuch (in the hundred of Cilgerran), Pembrokshire, and St. Clear's, Carmarthenshire. They had no issue. In the crisis of 1276-7, he confirmed his loyalty to King Edward I of England. The king granted him Dinefwr Castle, together with the commotes of Maenordeilo, Mallaen, Caeo, and Mabelfyw, all in Cantref Mawr; he was also granted the commotes of Gwynionydd and Mabwynion, Cardiganshire on a limited basis. In 1277, with the defeat of Prince Llywelyn, King Edward I retook possession of Dinefwr Castle and later reclaimed Maenordeilo. In 1282 Rhys was granted a yearly fair to be held at the manor of Dryslwyn. In 1282 Rhys was required to required to give up any formal claims to Dinefwr Castle; however, he was granted the lands of Rhys Wyndod in Caeo and Mallaen and given formal seisin of the commotes of Gwynionydd and Mabwynion, Cardiganshire. In 1285 he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair to be held at the manor of Lampeter, Cardiganshire. In June 1287 he rebelled against King Edward I of England and captured Dinefwr, Carreg Cennen, and Llandovery Castles. The king mustered a force of 22,000 men to meet the danger; by Sept. 1287 his castle of Dryslwyn had been captured. In Nov. 1287, however, Rhys renewed the struggle, moving to Carmarthenshire where he captured Newcastle Emlyn. He held out there against royalist forces until Jan. 1288, when the castle was taken. In 1290 his forfeited lands in Wales were granted to Robert de Tibetot, to hold until Easter next, and for the four years after. In 1290, having raised a new insurrection, Rhys was opposed by Robert de Tibetot, the king's justiciar. Four thousand Welshmen were slain and Rhys was taken prisoner. SIR RHYS AP MAREDUDD was tried at York soon after Michaelmas [29 Sept.] 1291 and there cruelly executed. On 14 June 1293 his widow, Ada, was allowed to retain all the lands which she held in her own right. Ada married (2nd) before 1306 (date of settlement) (as his 2nd wife) ROBERT DE CHAMPAINE (or CHAMPAYNE, CHAMPAGNE, CHAUMPAYNE), of Thurlaston and Wigston, Leicestershire, and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire, son and heir of Nicholas de Champaigne, of Great Doddington, Northamptonshire, by Joan, daughter and heir of Adam son of Philip, of Northampton. He was a minor in 1274, he already being married. By his previous marriage, he was the father of one son, Robert. In 1279-80 Robert de Skeftinton and Joan his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Great Doddington, Northamptonshire. In the same period, Isabel widow of Robert le Freman arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against hint and others touching a tenement in Great Doddington, Northamptonshire. In 1280-1 Michael Fitz Durand and Mabel his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Robert de Charnpaigne and Stephen de Ouensby regarding a tenement in Doddington, Northamptonshire. In 1280-1 Robert de Skefinton and Joan his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him regarding a tenement in Thurleston and Castre, Leicestershire. In 1281-2 he quitclaimed a croft of land in Collingtree, Northamptonshire to John de Wotton. In 1282 he remitted and quitclaimed to Devorguille of Gallloway, wife of John de Balliol, his right in the manor of Borgue in Galloway. He presented to the church of Thurlaston, Leicestershire in 1288. In 1296 an assize came to recognize whether Robert de Champaine, John de Champaine, and others disseised Robert Skeffington [step-father of Robert de Champaine] of his free tenements in Wigston, Leicestershire; the jury found in favor of Robert de Champaine. In 1301 he sued Thomas Skeffington regarding 11 messuages, 5 virgates of land, and 2s. of rent in Collingtree, Northamptonshire. His wife, Ada, died sometime before 1308-9. In 1313 Robert settled the manors of Thurleston, Leicestershire and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire on himself for life, with reversion to his son and heir, Robert de Champaine the younger, and his wife, Margaret. He married (3rd) MAUD ROBERT DE CHAMPAINE died shortly before 27 May 1315, when his widow, Maud, acknowledged that she owed a debt of £20 to Richer de Refham, to be levied, in default of payment, of her lands and chattels in Essex. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) before Hilary term 1320 (date of lawsuit) RICHARD TABOURER, of Albrighton. In 1320 Robert son of Robert de Champaine sued Richard and his wife, Maud, and Margaret daughter of the said Maud in a plea of a messuage, five acres of land, one acre of meadow, and 57s. rent in Wigston, Leicestershire, which he claimed as his right. In Hilary term 1322 Richard and his wife, Maud, sued Robert de Champaine and his wife, Margaret, in a plea of a third part of the manor of Thurleston, together with the advowson of the church of the said manor, and £10 rent in Wigston, Leicestershire, which they demanded as dower of the said Maud. Dugdale Baronage of England 1 (1675): 574-579 (sub Hastings). Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 140. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(2) (1804): 607-608 (Hastings ped.). Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 6 (1812): 643-645 (sub Lord Hastings). Williams ab Ithel Annales Cambria (Rolls Ser.) (1860): 109-110. Cambrian Jour. 6 (1863): 185. Arch. Jour. 26 (1869): 236-256. Bridgeman Hist. of the Princes of South Wales (1876): 185-202. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 154-156 (Hastings ped.: "Alda [de Hastings] wyff fyrst to John ap Meredyth & after to Robert de Champayne, Knight."). Bain Cal. of Docs. Rel. to Scotland 2 (1884): 67. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 49 (1888): 56; 50 (1889): 71, 227. Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 470. Morris Welsh Wars of Edward I (1901): 205, 214. C.C.R. 1279-1288 (1902): 189. Hulme Hist. of Thurlaston (1904): 25-26, 103 (Champayne ped.). C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 253, 303. Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): foll. 126 (Champaine ped.), 127-128. VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 113-116 (Champayne arms: Argent three bars wavy gules). Powicke 13th Cent., 1216-1307 (1953): 410, 438-440. Welch Hist. Rev. 3 (1966): 121-143. Rees Cal. Ancient Petitions Rel. Wales (Board of Celtic Studies, Hist. & Law 28) (1975): 71-72, 512, 524. Hill Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1 299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 40. Walker Medieval Wales (1990): 152-154 (Rhys ap Maredudd: "He was, beyond question, the leading figure in the dynasty of Deheubarth; his gains were small and local, but he was building up a compact lordship."). National Archives, E 42/207 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
b. HOWEL AP RHYS GRYG, of Landarak, Carmarthenshire, younger son by his father's 2nd marriage. In 1277 he was one of those who remained faithful to Prince Llywelyn ap Griffith. He made peace with the English king at the commencement of the following year. He took part in the wars of 1282-3, and was taken after the capture of Prince David in 1283 and imprisoned in London. His land was forfeited in 1283. His subsequent history is unknown. Bridgeman Hist. of the Princes of South Wales (1876): 202-203. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 11 (arms of Howel ap Rhys: Gules, a chevron between three mullets argent).â€
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