Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare (died about 1090)

Events

Date of Birth: between 1030 and 1035.

This estimated date is given by Mortimer (ODNB).

Date of Death: between 1087 and 1090.

This estimated date is given by Mortimer (ODNB).

Place of Burial: St. Neots, Huntingdon.

The place is given by Mortimer (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (3:242).

Relationships

Father: Gilbert, count of Brionne.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by van Houts (XII:221), by Altschul, and by the Complete Peerage (3:242).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Rohese, daughter of Walter Giffard.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by Altschul, by van Houts (XII:224), and by the Complete Peerage (3:242).

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 Cawley.)

Roger fitz Richard.

Rohais (died 7 January 1121) married Eudes dapifer.

Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare (died 1117) married Alice, daughter of Hugh, count of Clermont.

Robert fitz Richard (died about 1134) married Matilda de Senlis about 1112.

Walter fitz Richard (died 1138).

Avice married Raoul de Fougères.

Richard fitz Richard (died 16 June 1107).

Adelisa married Gauthier (II) Tirell.

References

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

Cawley, Charles. “Richard de Brionne” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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).

Mortimer, Richard. “Clare, Gilbert de (d. 1117)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Mortimer, Richard. “Clare, Richard de (1030x1035-1087x1090)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Robert of Torigni as Genealogist” in History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent: 1000-1200 (Ashgate, 1999).