Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare
Events
(probable) Date of Birth: about 1100.
The estimated date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:348).
Date of Death: 6 January, probably in 1147/8, or possibly in 1148/9.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:351).
Place of Burial: Tintern Abbey, Wales.
The place is given by the Complete Peerage (10:352).
Relationships
Father: Gilbert fitz Richard, lord of Clare, Tonbridge, and Cardigan.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:348) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 235).
Mother: Alice, daughter of Hugh, count of Clermont.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:348) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 235).
Spouse: Isabella, daughter of Robert de Beaumont.
This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 235), and the Complete Peerage (10:351).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare (about 1130 - 1176) married Aífe, daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster about 26 August 1171 at Waterford.
Basilia married (1) Raymond fitz Gerald; married (2) Geoffrey fitz Robert.
References
Cawley, Charles. “Gilbert de Clare” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Crouch, David. “Beaumont, Robert de, count of Meulan and first earl of Leicester (d. 1118) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Flanagan, M.T. “Clare, Richard fitz Gilbert de, second earl of Pembroke (c. 1130-1176)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. Sept. 2010).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).