Gilbert FITZ RICHARD

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: 2nd Earl of Clare, Suffolk, Tunbridge, Kent, and Cardigan, Wales

Family/Spouse: Adeliza DE CLERMONT. Adeliza (daughter of Count of Mouchy and Creil Hugh DE CLERMONT-EN-BEAUVAISIS and Margaret DE RAMERU) was born before 1072 in Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Adeliza DE CLARE died about 1163 in England.
2. Richard FITZ GILBERT was born between 1084 and 1092 in Hertford, England; died on 15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh Near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, england.
3. Walter DE CLARE was born about 1086 in Clare, Suffok, England; died after 1149 in England.
4. Baldwin Fitz Gilbert DE CLARE died in 1154 in England.
5. Rohesia DE CLARE was born about 1090 in Clare, Suffok, England; died in 1149 in England.
6. Margaret DE CLARE
7. Gilbert DE CLARE was born about 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England; died on 6 Jan 1147/8; was buried in Tinern, Abbey, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: "De Tonbridge" "De Clare"
• Death: Bef Apr 1088

Notes:

Richard was the founder of the House of Clare. He acompanied his kinsman, William the Conqueror, into England and participated in the spoils of conquest. He became possessed of 38 lordships in Surrey, 35 in Essex, 3 in Cambridgeshire, 95 in Sufolk, and some in Wiltshire and Devonshire. One was the manor of Westley in Suffolk and another was that of Clare, on the borders and in the count of Suffolk, which subsequently became his chief seat and his descendants were known as the Earls of Clare although never so created. The manor of Westley descended to Gilbert de Clare, his grandson, who was created by King Stephen, in 1138, Earl of Pembroke, and who married Elizabeth, sister of Waleran, Earl of Muellent, and on his death in 1149 this manor passed to his son, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, the celebrated "Strongbow", famous in the conquest of Ireland, who married Eva, daugahter of Dermod McMorrough, of Leinster, one of the kings of that country. This Richard de Clare, "Strongbow", was appointed Justice of Ireland by King Henry II of England and died in 1126, leaving an only daughter and heiress, Isbel de Clare. "His only son, about 17, frightened by the numbers and cries of the Irish in battle, ran away, and when afterwards informed of his father's victory returned to congratulate him. But "Strongbow" unbraided him for his cowardice and caused him to be executed by cutting him through the middle with a sword. Such in former times was the detestation of cowardice and dastardliness."

Richard married Rohese GIFFARD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]