Alice de Clare

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Richard de Clare.

This relationship is given by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 399), who makes Alice an unnamed daughter of Richard de Clare and Adeliz, daughter of Ranulf I of Chester.

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

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 399).

Spouse: Cadwaladr ap Gruffudd ap Cynan.

This relationship is given by Bartrum (Gruffudd ap Cynan 2) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 399). Pryce (p. 330) argues that the husband of Cadwaladr may have been the widow of Richard de Clare rather than his daughter.

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 Bartrum.)

Cunedda.

Randwlff.

Gruffudd.

Richard married Annes ferch Gwyn Ddistain.

References

Bartrum, Peter C., “Gruffudd ap Cynan 2” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500. [The sources that Bartrum cites for Alice are HW 491 and his own Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts.]

Bartrum, Peter C (ed.) Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968).

The source Bartrum gives for Adles is:

Achau Brenhinoedd a Thywysogion Cymru (probably based on 15th century MSS):

Plant Katwaladyr ap Gruffudd:

3c. “Kunedda a Rikerd a Rhandwlff a Gruffudd meibion Katwaladyr, ag Adles ferch iarll Klaer eu mam.

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

Pryce, Huw. The Acts of the Welsh Rulers 1120 - 1283 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)