Isabel de Clare

Suo jure countess of Pembroke

Events

Date of Birth: between 1171 and 1176.

The estimated date is given by Flanagan (ODNB).

Date of Death: 1220.

The date is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:358).

Place of Burial: Tintern Abbey, Wales.

The place is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:358).

Relationships

Father: Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare , lord of Striguil and of Leinster.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 236/5), and by the Complete Peerage (10:358).

Mother: Aífe, daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 235/6), and by the Complete Peerage (10:358).

Spouse: William (I) Marshal (about 1146-1219).

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 235/6), and by the Complete Peerage (10:358).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

William (II) Marshal (died 6 April 1231), 5th earl of Pembroke, married (1) Alix de Béthune in 1214; married (2) Eleanor, daughter of king John on 23 April 1224.

Matilda (died April 1248) married (1) Hugh Bigod, earl of Norfolk; married (2) William (IV) de Warenne, earl of Surrey.

Richard Marshal (died 16 April 1234), 6th earl of Pembroke, married Gervaise de Vitré.

Gilbert Marshal (died 27 June 1241), 7th earl of Pembroke, married Marjory, daughter of William “the Lion”, king of Scotland.

Walter Marshal (died 24 November 1245), 8th earl of Pembroke, married Margaret de Quincy on 6 January 1242.

Anselm Marshal (died December 1245) married Matilda de Bohun.

Joan married Warin de Munchensi.

Isabel (9 October 1200 - January 1240) married (1) Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hereford; married (2) Richard, earl of Cornwall.

Sibyl married William de Ferrers, earl of Derby.

Eva married William de Briouze, lord of Abergavenny.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Isabel” 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. “Marshal, William (I), fourth earl of Pembroke (c. 1146-1219)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Flanagan, M.T. “Clare, Isabel de, suo jure countess of Pembroke (1171x6-1220)” 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).