Gilbert fitz Richard (died 1117)

Also known as Gilbert de Clare and Gilbert de Tonbridge.

Lord of Clare

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1117.

This date is given by Mortimer (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Richard fitz Gilbert (died about 1090).

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by Altschul, by Keats-Rohan (p. 398), and by the Complete Peerage (3:242).

Mother: Rohese, daughter of Walter Giffard.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (3:242) and by Altschul.

Spouse: Alice, daughter of Hugh, count of Clermont.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by Altschul, by Keats-Rohan (p. 398), and by the Complete Peerage (3:243).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Richard de Clare (died 15 April 1136) married Alice of Chester.

Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare (about 1100 - about 1148), earl of Pembroke, married Isabella, daughter of Robert de Beaumont.

Walter de Clare.

Baldwin fitz Gilbert de Clare (died about 1154) married Adelina de Rollos.

Rohese de Clare married Baderon of Monmouth.

Margaret de Clare (died 1189) married William de Montfichet.

Aviche de Clare.

Alice de Clare (died 1163) married Aubrey (II) de Vere.

References

Altschul, Michael. A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares 1217-1314 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965).

Cawley, Charles. “Gilbert FitzRichard 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).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Mortimer, Richard. “Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1117)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).