Richard FitzGilbert de , Earl of Hertford CLARE
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Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being oneof those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himselfand became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in thoseparts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which hewas unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell inan engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks outof his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, andbestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every yearout of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl ofChester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, anda dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. Hislordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earlof Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford,Earls of Gloucester]
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 132d-27
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Alice or Adelaide de Tonbridge (died between 1148 and c1166), probablydaughter of Richard FitzGilbert de (Lord of) Clare by Alice, sister ofRanulph, Earl of Chester. [Burke's Peerage]
Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, is likewise said to have born thetitle of Earl of Clare. In the 3rd Henry II, this nobleman obtaining fromthe king all the lands in Wales which he could win, marched into Cardiganwith a great army and fortified divers castles thereabouts. In the 9th ofthe same reign, we find him summoned by the celebrated Thomas-à-Becket,archbishop of Canterbury, to Westminster, in order to do homage to theprelate for his castle of Tonebruge; which at the command of the king herefused, alleging that holding it by military service it belonged ratherto the crown than to the church. His lordship m. Maude (who m. after hisdecease William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel), dau. of James de St.Hillary, by whom he had a son, Richard, his successor. This earl who,from his munificence to the church and his numerous acts of piety, wascalled the Good, d. in 1173, and was s. by his son, Richard de Clare, 4thEarl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls ofHertford, Earls of Gloucester]
He married Adeliza Alice de Meschines Abt 1115 . Adeliza Alice de Meschines was born at Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Abt 1098 daughter of Ranulph de , 3rd Earl of Chester Meschines and Lucy of Mercia .
They were the parents of 3
children:
Adeliza de Clare
born Abt 1115.
Roger de , Earl of Hertford Clare
born 1116.
Rohese de Clare
born Abt 1124.
Richard FitzGilbert de , Earl of Hertford Clare died 15 Apr 1136 at Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales .
Adeliza Alice de Meschines died Aft 1142 .