Ancestral Trails 2016 » GILBERT de CLARE (1178-1230)

Personal data GILBERT de CLARE 

• He was born in the year 1178 in Hertfordshire.Source 1
• Title: 5th Earl of Gloucester
• Title: 4th Earl of Hertford
• Profession: in the year 1215 in Surety Baron for the enforcement of the abrogated Magna Carta.
• He died on October 25, 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France, he was 52 years old.Source 1
• He is buried on November 10, 1230 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.
• A child of RICHARD de CLARE and AMICE OF GLOUCESTER

Household of GILBERT de CLARE

He is married to ISABELLA MARSHALL.

They got married on October 9, 1217, he was 39 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Gilbert de CLARE  1229-????
2. William de CLARE  1228-1258 
3. Isabel de CLARE  1226-> 1264 
4. Agnes de CLARE  1218-????
5. Amice de CLARE  1220-???? 
6. RICHARD de CLARE  1222-1262 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about GILBERT de CLARE

GILBERT de CLARE, son of Surety Richard de Clare, and himself a Surety, was born about the year 1180. In June 1202 he was entrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Mostrevilliers. He was one of the Barons still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the Crown. He championed Louis the Dauphin, fighting at Lincoln under the Baronial banner, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall, whose daughter he later married.

He led an army against the Welsh in 1228 and captured Morgan Gam, who was released the next year. After an engagement in Brittany, he died on his return at Penros in that Duchy, 25 October 1230. His body was conveyed by way of Plymouth and Cranbourn to Tewkesbury. He was buried there before the High Altar 10 November 1230. He married Isabella, sister of William Marshall, the Surety, and daughter of William Marshall, the Protector, on 9 October 1217. She died 17 January 1239/40.
SOURCE: www.magnacharta.org


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