Ancestral Trails 2016 » GILBERT FITZRICHARD de CLARE (1065-1114)

Personal data GILBERT FITZRICHARD de CLARE 

• He was born in the year 1065 in Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk.Source 1
• Title: Earl of Hertford, Lord of Clare, Tonbridge & Cardigan
• Title: Mareschal of England
• (Nickname) : "The Marshall".
• (Alternative Name) : Gilbert De Tonbruge De Clare, Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare.
• He died on November 17, 1114 in Tonbridge, Hildenborough, Kent, he was 49 years old.Source 1
• A child of RICHARD FITZGILBERT de CLARE and ROHESE GIFFARD

Household of GILBERT FITZRICHARD de CLARE

He is married to ADELIZA de CLERMONT.

They got married in the year 1089 at Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, he was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Margaret de CLARE  1098-1189 
2. BALDWIN FITZGILBERT de CLARE  1092-1154 
3. JOHN FITZGILBERT MARSHALL  1104-1164 
4. Walter Fitzgilbert de CLARE  1109-1149
5. ALICE de CLARE  1094-1163 
6. ROHESE de CLARE  1112-1149 
7. Isabel de CLARE  1098-1131 
8. HERVEY WALTER de CLARE  1107-1166 
9. RICHARD FITZGILBERT de CLARE  1090-1136 
10. GILBERT de CLARE  1100-???? 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about GILBERT FITZRICHARD de CLARE

First known holder of the office of Mareschal, he, with his son, John, successfully maintained their right under Henry I to the office of Master Marshal in the King's Household. Record of his parentage, nor the name of his wife, survives, if that is true where does the parental information below come from?

Gilbert Fitz Richard (c. 1066-c. 1117), was styled de Clare, de Tonbridge, and Lord of Clare. He was a powerful Anglo-Norman baron who was granted the Lordship of Cardigan, in Wales c. 1107-1111.

Gilbert, born before 1066, was the second son and an heir of Richard Fitz Gilbert of Clare and Rohese Giffard according to "The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol 111 1913, p 242".

He succeeded to his father's possessions in England in 1088 when his father retired to a monastery; his brother, Roger Fitz Richard, inherited his father's lands in Normandy. That same year he, along with his brother Roger, fortified his castle at Tonbridge against the forces of William Rufus. But his castle was stormed, Gilbert was wounded and taken prisoner. However he and his brother were in attendance on king William Rufus at his death in August 1100. He was with Henry I at his Christmas court at Westminster in 1101.

It has been hinted, by modern historians, that Gilbert, as a part of a baronial conspiracy, played some part in the suspicious death of William II. Frank Barlow points out that no proof has been found he had any part in the king's death or that a conspiracy even existed.

In 1110, King Henry I took Cardigan from Owain ap Cadwgan, son of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn as punishment for a number of crimes including that of the abduction of Nest, wife of Gerald de Windsor. In turn Henry gave the Lordship of Cardigan, including Cardigan Castle to Gilbert Fitz Richard. He founded the Clunic priory at Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk. Gilbert died in or before 1117.

About 1088, Gilbert married Adeliza/Alice de Claremont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Roucy (according to Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 653.

Gilbert and Adeliza had at least eight children:

Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1136.
Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1148, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1154, m. Adeline de Rollos.
Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 1163, m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de Vere and Beatrice. She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a corrodian at St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.
Hervey de Clare, Lord of Montmorency.
Walter de Clare, d. 1149.
Margaret de Clare, d. 1185, m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stansted Mountfitchet.
Rohese de Clare, d. 1149, m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard


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