Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester

6th earl of Gloucester

5th earl of Hertford

Events

Date of Birth: 4 August 1222.

This date is given by the Complete Peerage (5:696).

Date of Death: 15 July 1262.

Place of Death: Eschemerfield, near Canterbury.

The date and place are given by Altschul (ODNB). The Complete Peerage (5:700) specifies Richard’s place of death as John de Criol’s manor of Ashenfield in Waltham, near Canterbury.

Date of Burial: 28 July 1262.

Place of Burial: Tewkesbury Abbey.

The date and place are given by the Complete Peerage (5:700).

Relationships

Father: Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and of Hertford.

This relationship is given by Altschul (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (5:696).

Mother: Isabel, daughter of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke.

This relationship is given by Altschul (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (5:696).

Spouse: Margaret (died 1237), daughter of Hubert de Burgh.

This relationship is given by Altschul (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (5:700).

Spouse: Maud (died about 1288), daughter of John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln. Married in 1238.

This relationship is given by Altschul (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (5:700).

Children (by Maud):

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

Isabel de Clare (1240 - about 1271) married Guglielmo VII, margrave of Montferrat.

Gilbert de Clare (2 September 1243 - 7 December 1295), earl of Gloucester and of Hertford, married (1) Alice, daughter of Hugues (XII) de Lusignan, count of La Marche and of Angoulême; married (2) Joan, daughter of Edward I, king of England.

Thomas de Clare (about 1245 - 29 August 1287) married Julian, daughter of Maurice fitz Maurice.

Bogo de Clare (21 July 1248 - October 1294).

Margaret de Clare (1249 - 1312) married Edmund, earl of Cornwall.

Rohese de Clare (1252 - after 1299) married Roger (III) de Mowbray, lord of Thirsk.

Eglentina de Clare (1257-1257).

References

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

Altschul, Michael. “Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford (1222-1262)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).

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).

Frame, Robin. “Clare, Thomas de (1244x7-1287)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005).

Knowles, Clive H. “Clare, Gilbert de, (1248-1294)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).

Summerson, Henry. “Clare, Bogo de, seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford (1243-1295)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).