Richard de Clare, earl of Hertford

Earl of Hertford, also known as the Earl of Clare.

Events

Date of Birth: about 1153.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Altschul.

Date of Death: between 30 October 1217 and 28 November 1217.

The dates are given by the Complete Peerage (6:503).

Relationships

Father: Roger de Clare, 2nd earl of Hertford, (died 1173).

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:501), by Keats-Rohan (p. 229), and by Altschul.

Mother: Maud, daughter of James de St Hilaire.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:501) and by Altschul.

Spouse: Amicia (died 1225), daughter of William, earl of Gloucester.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:502) and by Altschul.

Children:

(Complete source information for the children on this page is currently outside the scope of this project.)

Gilbert de Clare (about 1180 - 23 October 1230), earl of Hertford and earl of Gloucester, married Isabel, daughter of William (I) Marshal, earl of Pembroke in 1214.

Richard de Clare (died London 4 May 1228).

Matilda de Clare married William de Briouze.

James.

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).

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