Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, earl of Pembroke

2nd earl of Pembroke

Also known as "Strongbow".

Events

Date of Birth: about 1130.

This date is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and the Complete Peerage (10:352).

Date of Death: 1176, probably 20 April.

This date is given by Flanagan (ODNB). He notes that various sources give 5 April, 20 April, and 1 June as the date. The Complete Peerage (10:356) prefers the 20 April date.

Place of Death: Dublin.

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (10:356).

Place of Burial: Holy Trinity (Christ Church Cathedral), Dublin.

The place is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and the Complete Peerage (10:356).

Relationships

Father: Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare (died about 1148).

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 235), and the Complete Peerage (10:352).

Mother: Isabella, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan and earl of Leicester.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 235), and the Complete Peerage (10:352).

Spouse: Aífe, daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster. Married about 26 August 1171 at Waterford.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 235), and the Complete Peerage (10:356).

Children (by Aífe) :

Gilbert (1173 - soon after 1185), earl of Pembroke.

Isabel de Clare (died 1220), countess of Pembroke, married William (I) Marshal.

Children (illegitimate) :

A daughter married Robert de Quency in 1171. This may be the same person as Aline below. (Robert died in 1172).

Aline married William FitzMaurice in 1174.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Richard de Clare” 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).

Crouch, David. “Marshal, William (I), fourth earl of Pembroke (c. 1146-1219)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Flanagan, M.T. “Clare, Isabel de, suo jure countess of Pembroke (1171x6-1220)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. Sept. 2010).

Flanagan, M.T. “Clare, Richard fitz Gilbert de, second earl of Pembroke (c. 1130-1176)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. Sept. 2010).

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