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).