Richard Strongbow de , 2nd Earl Pembroke CLARE
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 66-26
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 2217
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Earldom of Pembroke: His [Gilbert's] son the 2nd Earl of Pembroke("Strongbow") was instigator of the Anglo-Norman/Cambro-Norman incursioninto Ireland in 1169 or 1170. Pembroke himself managed to subdueLeinster. His daughter and ultimately heiress married William (the)Marshal, who was created Earl of Pembroke in 1199 by King John, though hemay already have had some kind of status as Earl of Pembroke in right ofhis wife. [Burke's Peerage]
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He married Eve (Aoife) MacMurrough Abt 26 Aug 1171 at Waterford, Ireland . Eve (Aoife) MacMurrough was born at Ireland Abt 1141 daughter of Diarmait MacMurchada King of Leinster and More O'Toole .
They were the parents of 2
children:
Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare
born Abt 1172.
Joan de Clare
born Abt 1176.
Richard Strongbow de , 2nd Earl Pembroke Clare died 20 Apr 1176 at Dublin, Leinster, Ireland .
Eve (Aoife) MacMurrough died Aft 1186 at Waterford, Ireland .