Roger de Clare, earl of Hertford

2nd earl of Hertford

Events

Date of Birth: after 1115.

The date is given by Altschul.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1173.

The date is given by Mortimer (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (6:500).

Place of Burial: Stoke by Clare, Suffolk.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Clare (died 1136), lord of Clare.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 229), and by Altschul.

Mother: Alice, daughter of Ranulf (I), third earl of Chester.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB).

Spouse: Maud, daughter of James de St Hilaire.

This relationship is given by Mortimer (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 229), and by Altschul.

Children:

Richard de Clare (died 1217), earl of Hertford, married Amice de Gloucester.

John de Clare.

Richard de Clare.

James de Clare.

Aveline married (1) William de Munchensi; married (2) Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex.

Mabel married William Helion.

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).

Mortimer, Richard. “Clare, Roger de, second earl of Hertford (d. 1173)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

West, F.J. “Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex (d. 1213)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. January 2008).