Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord of Clare

Abt 1084 - 1136  (52 years)

• Name	Richard FitzGilbert de Clare
  	According to Burke (1866) "Richard de Clare, being one of those, who by power of the sword entered 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." [2]
  Birth	Abt 1084	Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Most of the internal buildings of the structure have been demolished. The main  surviving section is the Tudor gatehouse   [5, 6, 7]
  Title(s)	Abt 1117 (33 years)  [5]
  He succeeded as the 3rd Lord of Clare around 1117.
  Religion	1124 (40 years)  [2]
  He removed the monks out of Castle Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed on them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho in 1124.
  Religion	say 1130 (46 years)	Tonbridge Priory, Tonbridge, Kent, England Tonbridge Priory was disestablished in 1523. The building stood in 1735, but was a ruin by 1780. The remains of the priory were demolished in 1842.   [4, 5]
  He was the founder of the Priory of Tonbridge in Kent.
  Death	15 Apr 1136  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  He being surprised and slain by the Welsh, near Abergavenny. [4, 5]
  Burial	Aft 15 Apr 1136	Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester,  Gloucestershire, England   [4, 5]
  Siblings	4 brothers and 2 sisters
  + 1. Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord of Bourne   d. 1154 ▻ Aeline de Rullos + 2. Gilbert FitzGilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke,   b. Abt 1100   d. 6 Jan 1147  (Age 47 years) ▻ Isabel de Beaumont + 3. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord of Clare,   b. Abt 1084, Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Most of the internal buildings of the structure have been demolished. The main  surviving section is the Tudor gatehouse d. 15 Apr 1136  (Age 52 years) ▻ Alice de Keveliock,  m. say 1098   4. Harvey de Clare   5. Walter de Clare + 6. Alice de Clare   d. 1163 ▻ Aubrey II de Vere, Justiciar of England + 7. Rohese de Clare   d. 1149, England ▻ Baderon de Monmouth;   Hugh de Lacy
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Halfdan   (9 x Great Grandfather)  Adelheid  (7 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I2305	Roy Line, Boudreau Line
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Title: According to Cokayne (1913) "He is often supposed to have been created the EARL OF HERTFORD by King Stephen, if not by Henry I. There appears, however, to be no ground for this belief" [4, 5]

  
  

Father	Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, Lord of Clare,   b. Abt 1066   d. Between 1114 and 1117 (Age 48 years)
Mother	Adeliza de Claremont
Family ID	F1800	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart




Spouse / Partner	Alice de Keveliock,   b. Abt 1086  Other Partners: Ranulf le Meschin, Earl of Chester & Viscomte of Bayeux
Marriage	say 1098  [1, 6]
Age at Marriage	He : ~ 14 years - She : ~ 12 years.
Children	3 sons and 2 daughters
1. Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, Earl of Hertford,   b. 1115   d. 1153 (Age 38 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] +   2. Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Clare,   b. After 1115   d. 1173 (Age 57 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] ▻ Maude de St. Hilaire +   3. Alice de Tonbridge de Clare   d. After 1148  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] ▻ William de Percy, Baron Percy     4. Rohese de Clare  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     5. Robert FitzRichard   d. 1134  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
Family ID	F1797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	25 Jun 2021




• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord of Clare(Abt 1084 – 1136) 2Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, Lord of Clare(Abt 1066 – 1117) 4Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare(1035 – 1090) 8Gilbert Crispin, Count of Brionne( – 1040) 16Godfrey of Brionne & Eu( – Abt 1015) 17 9 18 19 5Rohese Giffard 10Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville( – 1084) 20Osbern de Bolbec, Lord of Longueville(Abt 1049 – 1096) 21Wevie de Crepon(Abt 944 – ) 11 22 23 3Adeliza de Claremont 6Hugh I, Count of Claremont( – 1103) 12 24 25 13 26 27 7Margaret of Montdidier 14Hildouin III, Count of Montdidier and Roucy(1010 – 1062) 28Hildouin II, Count of Montdidier, Seigneur de Rameru and Montdidier( – Abt 1063) 29Adelaise 15Alice of Roucy(1014 – 1062/63) 30Ebles I, Count of Rheims and Roucy(Abt 988 – 1033) 31Beatrix of Hainaut

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1084 - Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Religion - say 1130 - Tonbridge Priory, Tonbridge, Kent, England Burial - Aft 15 Apr 1136 - Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1380] Beran, Evelyn. Email: 1998-11-05 "Ancestors of Thomas Trowbridge" , (Email message from eberan (at)ITIS.COM, 5 November 1998). [S11] Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire , (London: Harrision, 1866). [S278] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (web: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html). [S1683] Cokayne, George Edward & Vicary Gibbs. The Complete Peerage, Second Edition, Volume 03 (Canonteign - Cutts), (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1913). [S1569] Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage web site, (Wellington, New Zealand: http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm, 2019). [S1460] Norr, Vernon M. Some Early English Pedigrees , (Washington DC: by author, 1968). [S65] Sewell, Robert James. Sewell: A History of the Sewell Family from the Earliest Times, (unknown: manuscript, March 2008).