Richard de Clare (died 1136)

Also known as Richard of Ceredigion and Richard fitz Gilbert.

Baron

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 15 April 1136.

The date is given by Crouch (ODNB). Richard was killed in an ambush.

Place of Death: “Coed Grono”.

Place of Burial: Gloucester Abbey.

The place is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Gilbert de Clare (died 1117).

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by Altschul.

Mother: Alice, daughter of Hugues, count of Clermont.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB) and by Altschul.

Spouse: Alice, daughter of Ranulf (I), third earl of Chester.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Keats-Rohan (p. 399) names the three daughters of Richard and Alice as Rohese, Agnes, and the unnamed wife of Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd. On page 397, however, she names Adelicia, wife of William de Percy, as a daughter of Richard and Alice. Some online sources identify the wife of William de Percy with the wife of Cadwaladr, making Cadwaladr Alice’s second husband. A problem with this is that Keats-Rohan states that William de Percy remarried after the death of his (first) wife Alice.)

Gilbert de Clare (died 1153), earl of Hertford.

Roger de Clare (died 1173), earl of Hertford, married Maud de St Hilaire.

Richard de Clare (died 1190).

Rohese married Gilbert (II) de Gand.

Agnes married Richard Scrop.

Alice married Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd.

Alice (died by 1166) married William de Percy.

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).

Crouch, David. “Clare, Richard de (d. 1136)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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

Mortimer, Richard. “Clare, Roger de, second earl of Hertford (d. 1173)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).