Margaret de Clare
Margaret was well-known for having refused to admit the Queen to the Royal Castle of Leeds in the summer of 1321. She was subsequently imprisoned.
Events
Date of Birth: about 1286.
The Complete Peerage (1:372) states that she was aged 40 in March 1326/7.
Date of Death: late 1333.
This date is given by the Complete Peerage (1:149, 1:372).
Relationships
Father: Thomas de Clare (about 1245 - 1287), steward of the Forest of Essex.
This relationship is by the Complete Peerage (1:372) and by Altschul.
Mother: Juliana (died 1300), daughter of Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland.
This relationship is by the Complete Peerage (1:372) and by Altschul.
Spouse: Gilbert de Umfreville (died before 23 May 1303).
This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB), by Altschul, and by the Complete Peerage (1:149, 1:372).
Spouse: Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere (about 1275 - 1322). Married before 30 June 1308.
This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB), by Altschul, and by the Complete Peerage (1:372).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Margery (born about 1306) married William de Ros.
Matilda (about 1310 - 1336) married (1) Robert fitz Payn; married (2) John de Vere, earl of Oxford.
Elizabeth (born about 1313) married (1) Edmund Mortimer; married (2) William de Bohun.
Giles (18 October 1314 - 1338) married Elizabeth, daughter of William Montagu, 1st earl of Salisbury.
Margaret (born about 1315) married John Tiptoft.
References
Altschul, Michael. A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares 1217-1314 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965).
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).
Maddicott, “Badlesmere, Sir Bartholomew (c. 1275-1322)”, rev. in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).