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Personal data Sir Richard FitzGilbert de Clare & Tonbridge 

• Alternative name: Richard de Clare 03rd Lord of Clare
• He was born about 1090 in Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England.Source 3
• He died on April 15, 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.Sources 1, 2
• He is buried in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.
• A child of Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare, and Adeliza (Adelaide) de Clermont

Household of Sir Richard FitzGilbert de Clare & Tonbridge

He is married to Adeliz (Alice) le Meschin.

They got married before 1115 at 1st husband.Source 4

Child(ren):

1. Roger FitzGilbert deClare  1116-1173 

Notes about Sir Richard FitzGilbert de Clare & Tonbridge

Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), son & heir, Lord of Clare, Suffolk, slain by Welsh near Abergavenny 15 Apr 1136, buried Gloucester; m. Adeliz (or Alice), daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by Lucy, widow (1) of Ivo Taillebois and (2) Roger Fitz Gerold. She m. (2) Robert de Condet (or Cundy), d. c 1141, lord of Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, etc., son of Osbert de Condet. [Ancestral Roots, Line 246b-25]sed to have been created EARL OF HERTFORD by King Stephen, if not by Henry I. There appears, however, to be no ground for this belief. In 1130, he is styled on the Pipe Roll (not "Earl," either as Earl of Hertford or Earl Richard, but simply) Ric.' fil.' Gisl as is he also when his death is recorded.ry of Tonbridge. He died, being surprised and slain by the Welsh, near Abergavenny 15 April 1136, and was buried at Gloucester. His widow was rescued from the Welsh by Miles of Gloucester. [Complete Peerage III:243, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]tered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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