Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Elizabeth de Clare (1295-1360)

Personal data Elizabeth de Clare 

• Alternative names: Elizabth de Clare, Elizabeth de Clare 11th Holder of Clare
• She was born on September 14, 1295 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.Sources 5, 6, 7

  Attention: Age at marriage (September 30, 1308) below 16 years (13).

• Alternative: She was born on September 16, 1295 in Tewkesbury,Gloucestershire,England.
• Alternative: She was born on September 16, 1295 in Tewksbury, England.
• Alternative: She was born on September 14, 1295 in Tewdesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
• She died on November 4, 1360 in St Mary's Ware, Hertfordshire, England, she was 65 years old.Sources 8, 9, 10
• Alternative: She died on November 4, 1360 in Weoberley,Alton,Staffordshire,England, she was 65 years old.
• Alternative: She died on November 4, 1360, she was 65 years old.
• Alternative: She died on November 4, 1360 in St. Mary's Ware, Hertfordshire, England, she was 65 years old.
• A child of Gilbert "the Red" de Clare, and Joan 'of Acre' Plantagenet,

Household of Elizabeth de Clare

(1) She is married to of Bletchingdon Knight Roger 1st Baron Damory.

They got married before May 3, 1317.

(2) She is married to John de Burgh.

They got married on September 30, 1308 at Waltham, Essex, England, she was 13 years old.Sources 6, 11

Child(ren):

1. 3rd Earl of Ulster William de Burgh  1312-1333 

(3) She is married to MP Knight Theobald 2nd Baron de Verdun.

They got married on February 4, 1316, she was 20 years old.

(4) She is married to Roger d'Amory.

They got married on May 3, 1317 at Clare Hall, Cambridgeshire, England, she was 21 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth d'Amory  1318-1360 

(5) She is married to Theobald deVerdon.

They got married on February 4, 1316 at Bristol, Somerset, England, she was 20 years old.

(6) She is married to Roger d'Amorie.

They got married on May 3, 1317 at Clare Hall, Cambridgeshire, England, she was 21 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth d'Amorie  1318-1360

Notes about Elizabeth de Clare

Elizabeth de Clare, b. Tewkesbury 16 Sep 1295, d. 4 Nov 1360, daughter of Sir Gilbert de Clare (28-4) and Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Edward I, King of England and Eleanor of Castile. [Magna Charta Sureties]p 1308 John de Burgh, b. c 1290, dvp 18 June 1313]. She m. (2) 4 Feb 1315/6 as (2) wife, Theobald de Verdun, Knight, Lord Verdun, b. 8 Sep 1278, d. 27 July 1316; m. (3) by 3 May 1317 Roger Damory, Lord Damory, d. 13-14 Mar 1321/2. She died 4 Nov 1360, age 65, leaving a will. [Ancestral Roots]t Waltham Abbey, Essex, in the King's presence, Elizabeth, sister and coheir of Gilbert (DE CLARE), 7th EARL OF GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, 3rd and youngest daughter of Gilbert, 6th EARL OF GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, by his 2nd wife, Joan, "of Acre," daughter of EDWARD I. Elizabeth, who was born 16 September 1295 at Tewkesbury, came to Ireland, 15 October 1309. John died v.p. 18 June 1313 at Galway. His widow, who received the Honor of Clare in her purparty of her brother's estates, married, 4 February 1315/16, near Bristol, as his 2nd wife, Theobald DE VERDUN [LORD VERDUN], who died 27 July following and was buried 19 September at Croxden Abbey, Staffs. She married, 3rdly, before 3 May 1317, Roger DAMORY [LORD DAMORY], who died 13 or 14 March 1321/2. She died 4 November 1360, aged 65. M.I. to her and her 3rd husband in St. Mary's, Ware. Will, desiring burial in the Convent of the Minoresses without Aldgate, London, dated 25 September 1355, proved 3 December 1360.] [Complete Peerage XII/2:177-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]F GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, daughter of Gilbert (DE CLARE), EARL OF GLOUCESTER AND HERTFORD, by his 2nd wife, Joan OF ACRE, daughter of KING EDWAID I. She had married, 1stly, 30 September 1308, at Waltham Abbey, in the King's presence, John DE BURGH (son and heir apparent of Richard, EARL OF ULSTER), who died v.p., 18 June 1313, at Galway; and, 2ndly, as 2nd wife, 4 February 1315/6, near Bristol, against the King's will and without his licence, Sir Theo bald DE VERDUN, of Alton, co. Stafford [LORD VERDUN], who died at Alton Castle, 27 July, and was buried 19 September 1316, in Croxden Abbey. She, who had livery of her dower, 6 December 1316, had, with her 3rd husband, livery of the knights' fees and advowsons of her said dower, 26 June, of her dower [IRL], 26 September, and, the King having taken his fealty 22 May, of her inheritance, 15 November 1317. He died 13 or 14 March 1321/2, at Tutbury Castle, and was buried in St. Mary's, Ware. On 16 March his widow was imprisoned in the Abbey of Barking, and there, under duress and fear of death for herself and her son, was forced to grant her lordships in Wales to the younger Despenser and his wife. She had livery of her inheritance in England and Ireland, 2 November 1322. At Christmas following, at the instigation of the younger Despenser, she was placed under arrest at York, till she signed a bond by which she undertook not to marry nor to dispose of any of her lands without the King's licence, on pain of forfeiting all she possessed . Her lands were taken into the King's hand, 7 January 1322/3, as she had left the King without his licence. They were restored to her, 17 February 1326/7, and the King took her homage therefore, 20 December 1327. She endowed University Hall, Cambridge, 8 April 1336, becoming Founder thereof, 6 April 1338. Founder (lic. 1 February 1346/7) of a House of Friars: Minors at Walsingham, Norfolk. She, who was aged 19 or 20 at her brother's death in 1314, died 4 November 1360, and was buried, with her 3rd husband, in St. Mary's, Ware. [Complete Peerage IV:42-45, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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