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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Earl of Hertford, High Marshal and Chief Butler to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Privy Councillor, 1255, 1258, Warden of the Isle of Portland, Weymouth, and Wyke, 1257, son and heir, born 4 August 1222. His wardship was granted to Hubert de Burgh. He married (1st) at St. Edmund's Bury before Michaelmas 1236 MARGARET DE BURGH, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Kent, by his 3rd wife, Margaret, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland [see BARDOLF 8 and SCOTLAND 4.iii for her ancestry]. They had no issue. When the marriage was discovered, the couple was at once parted, he being interned in his own castle at Bletchingley, Surrey. Margaret died in November 1237. He married (2nd) about 25 Jan. 1237/8 MAUD DE LACY, daughter of John de Lacy, Knt. Earl of Lincoln, Magna Carta Baron, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy [see LACY 3 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Naseby, Northamptonshire. They had three sons, Gilbert, Thomas, Knt., and Boges (or Beges) (clerk) [Treasurer of York], and four daughters, Isabel, Margaret, Rose, and Eglantine. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Guy (or Gaudin), Knt. He served as a captain in the king's army in Guienne in 1241. In 1243-51 he reached agreement with Walter de Cantelowe, Bishop of Worcester, regarding the charging of tolls for the bishop's men coming to the market at Fairford and the presence of the earl's pigs in the bishop's glade in the forest of Malvern. He engaged in an expedition against the Welsh in 1244-5, and was knighted by the king in London 4 June 1245. He was co-heir in 1245 to his uncle, Anselm Marshal, 9th Earl of Pembroke, by which he inherited a fifth part of the Marshal estates, including Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland. Sometime after June 1247 he confirmed the grants of Hamo de Blean, John son of Terric, and William Box to the Priory of St. Gregory, Clerkenwell. He went on pilgrimages to St. Edmund at Pontigny in Champagne in 1248 and to Santiago in 1250. In 1248 Isabel, wife of William de Forz, Count of Aumale, sued Earl Richard and his wife, Maud, on a plea of warranty of charter. In 1250 he settled a dispute with the Abbot of Tewkesbury about the right of infangthef or punishment of thieves taken on the Abbey's lands, allowing the jurisdiction and gallows-right of the abbey. The same year, he was appointed joint Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV. In 1254 he was appointed joint Ambassador to Castile. He was sent to Edinburgh in 1255 for the purpose of freeing the young king and queen of Scotland from the hands of Robert de Roos. In 1256 he and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, were employed by the king in settling differences between Archbishop Boniface and the Bishop of Rochester. In March 1258 he was appointed joint Ambassador to France. In July 1258 he fell ill, being poisoned with his brother, as it was supposed, by his steward, Walter de Scotenay. He recovered, with the loss of his hair and nails, but his brother died. In 1259 he was appointed chief Ambassador to treat with the Duke of Brittany. At the commencement of hostilities between the king and the nobles, occasioned by Henry's predilection for his Poitevin relatives, he favored the Baronial cause. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, died testate at Ashenfield (in Waltham), Kent 15, 16, or 22 July 1262 (rumored that he had been poisoned at the the Cathedral Church of Christ at Canterbury, where his entrails were buried before the altar of St. Edward the Confessor; the body was forthwith taken to the Collegiate Church of Tonbridge, Kent, where the heart was buried; and thence the body was finally borne to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and buried there in the choir at Tewkesbury Abbey at his father's right hand 28 July 1262. In 1276-7 John de Aulton, chaplain, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Countess Maud, and others touching common of pasture in Dauntsey, Wiltshire. In 1284 she founded an Augustinian nunnery for forty nuns at the church of St. John the Evangelist and St. Etheldreda at Legh, Devon. Maud, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, died 29 December, sometime before 10 March 1288/9.
Mastin Hist. & Antiqs. of Naseby (1792): 63-65. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65, 603 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated 1254); 5 (1825): 89, 266 (Obit. of Tintern Abbey: "Matilda de Clare comitissa Gloucestriæ et Herefordiæ [sic] obiit die xix. Decembris."). Coll Top. et Gen. 8 (1843): 72 (sub Kent). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 169 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1262: "Obiit vir nobilis et omni laude dignus, Ricardus de Clara comes Gloverniæ et Hertforcliæ, idus Julii [15 July]. Et sepultus est apud Theokesberiarn quinto kal. augusti [28 July], ad cujus sepulturam interfuerunt episcopus Wygorniæ Walterus de Cantilupo, et Willelmus episcopus Landavensis, et viii. abbates"); 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 353 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1262: "Obiit Ricardus comes Glocestriæ."); 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 131 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1262: "Die Sabbati proxima ante festum dicti Sancti Kenelmi [16 July] obiit vir nobilis Ricardus comes Gloverniæ in partibus Cantuarim, et cum magno honore sepultus est ad patres suos apud Teokesbury."). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1866): 377-378 (Appendix I). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 3 (1872): lxxiv-lxxv (grant of lease dated 1275 by Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester & Hertford, to Aline Despenser, Countess of Norfolk). Fifth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 4) (1876): 448 (composition dated 1258 between Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 49 (charter of Maud de Clare, Countess of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.1280). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 143. Doyle Oficial Baronage of England 2 (1886): 14 (sub Gloucester), 177 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford dated c.1250 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, [flat helmet], sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: three chevrons [CLARE]. Legend wanting. Reverse. A shield of arms of CLARE, as in obverse, suspended by a strap, and supported by two lions rampant addorsed. Legend wanting.). Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 282 (Elmer [recte Oliver] de Traci, clerk, of the diocese of Exeter, styled "earl's kinsman"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "22 Jul. Obiit Ricardus, comes de Clare."). Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98. Rigg et al. Cal. Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews 1(1905): 60-61. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 133-134, 146, 470-471. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 256. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 12. D.N.B. 4 (1908): 393-396 (biog. of Richard de Clare: "[He] was the most powerful English noble of his time ... Avarice ... was the leading characteristic of his mind ... [he] appeared as one pre-eminently skilled in the laws of his country ... He was a great lover of tournaments."). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 85-93. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 266. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 115-116 (sub Lacy). C.P. 3 (1913): 244; 5 (1926): 696-702 (sub Gloucester); 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford). Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 30. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 6 (1915): 5-6, 276. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines AD. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 280-294. Lambert Bletchingley 1 (1921): 64-66, 69-87. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 70-71, 104; 4 (1927): 300, 510. Cam Hundred &Hundred Rolls (1930): 266. Richardson & Sayles Rotuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 192-193. C.C.R. 1261-1264 (1936): 83. Powicke Henry III & Lord Edward (1947). Woodcock Cartulary of the Priory of St. Gregory, Canterbury (Camden 3rd Ser. 88) (1956): 160-161 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 130: 7-8. Clay York Minster Fasti 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 54. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey 2 (1964): 41-44, 400-402, 436-437, 563-564; 3 (1977): 1117. London Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 8) (1965): 1-2, 77 (charter of Maud), 77-80, 92-93, 95-97, 97 (acknowledgement of Maud), 98, 99 (charter of Maud), 99-102, 104. Clanchy Civil Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre 1249 (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 26) (1971): 120. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eye of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 199,288. Adams Select Cases from Eccl. Courts of Canterbury 1200-1301 (Selden Soc. 95) (1981): 138-144 (suit dated c.1271-2, in which Earl Richard's widow, Maud, claimed one third of his moveables valued at £12,000). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 33 (acquittance of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, dated 1247). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Powicke Henry III & Lord Edward (1947). Merrick Morganiae Archaiographia (South Wales Rec. Soc. 1) (1983): 41-52. Sutton Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 125. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 230 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford dated c.1247), 230 (Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford styled "son" [i.e., son-in-law] in charter of Margaret de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln & Pembroke, dated 1247). Harper-Bill Cartulary of the Augustinian Friars of Clare (1991). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 93, 100-102, 107-109, 148, 151, 163. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003). Legg Lost Cartulary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 160) (2009): 50 (memorandum names Richard de Brus as son of Isabel, sister of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford). Online resource: hap://www.brlanthnms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB1.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. Or three chevrons gules).
Children of Richard de Clare, Knt., by Maud de Lacy:
i. GILBERT DE CLARE, Knt., Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see next].
ii. THOMAS DE CLARE, Knt., of Thomond in Connacht, Ireland, married JULIANE FITZ MAURICE [see BADLESMERE 8].
iii. BOGES (or BOEGHES, BEGES) DE CLARE, clerk, papal chaplain, king's clerk, born 21 July 1248. In 1258 his father, Earl Richard, presented him to the church of Rotherfield, Sussex, but the appointment was disallowed Boges occurs as Canon of York from 5 Nov. 1265, Canon of Exeter, 1267, parson of St. Peter in the East, Oxford, Papal chaplain by 1282, Canon of Wells, 1284, King's Clerk by 1285, Treasurer of York, 1285-93, Chancellor of Llandaff, 1287-90, Canon of Chichester, 28 Sept. 1294, Dean of Stafford. In the period, 1275-85 he surrended to Queen Eleanor of Castile his tenement in Sideyard Street, Oxford called "la Oriole." In 1277-8 John de Kent and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Boges de Clare, parson of the church of Dorking, and others regarding a tenement in Dorking, Surrey. In 1280, acting as parson of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, he disputed the right of William le Brune to the assize of bread and ale in Fordingbridge, Hampshire; the case was tried before the justices in eyre, and was decided in favor of William le Brune. In 1290 Boges was fined £1,000 for summoning the Earl of Cornwall to appear before the Archbishop of Canterbury during Parliament. In 1291 he and his successors were granted a market and affair at his manor of Tollerton, Yorkshire. His extensive pluralism is shown in part in a letter from the Archbishop of York to the Archbishop of Canterbury dated 16 Feb. 1290/1 which gives a list of his benefices in the diocese and province York. In 1293 Boges de Clare, Dean of Stafford, and the Chapter, were sued by William Wyger in a writ of darrein presentement; Boges answered that he had the church to his own use by gift from the king. In 1294 he held the churches of Dunmow, Essex, Polstead and Soham, Suffolk, Levetington, Cambridgeshire, and a moiety of the church of Walpole, Norfolk. BOGES DE CLARE died at London 26 October 1294. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Year Books of Edward I: Years XX & XXI 1 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1866): 408-409. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 22 (1866): 214; 26 (1870): 149-160. Simpson Docs. Ill. the Hist. of St. Paul's Cathedral (Camden Soc. n.s. 26) (1880): 42 (sub 1294: "Obiit Dominus Bogo de Clare multarum Rector Ecclesiarum vel potius incubator."). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 47 (1886): 207; 50 (1889): 39 Burton Hist. & Antiqs. of the Parish of Hemingsbrough (1888): 48-50 (biog. of Bogo de Clare: "One consequence of this mass of preferment was that De Clare was always in litigation. He was never out of the king's and the bishop's courts, and he seems to have defied them all alike. He had a little army of bailiffs and receivers, whom often did not pay. The bishops were continually attacking him for non-residence and plurality, but he had his papal dispensations to flourish in their face ... In 1290 a poor wretched officer of the law went into De Clare's house in London to serve a writ. The servants, after making the poor wretch eat the document, seals and all, and imprisoned him. In this case De Clare was obliged to answer in person, but he threw the blame upon his servants, who took care to be out of the way when searched for. ... Here we have a man, receiving an income his ecclesiastical preferments of not less than 50,000/. a year in our money, neglecting every duty, and yet strong enough in his influence with the Court and at Rome to defy everyone who strove to call him to account ... De Clare died in London on 1st November, 1294, leaving an evil name behind."). Rogers Oxford City Docs., Financial & Judicial 1258-1665 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 18) (1890): 96-97. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 466, 486, 509-510, 519, 570. C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 63-65 (Boeghes de Clare styled "brother" [frere] by Margaret [de Clare], Countess of Cornwall), 118. Sussex Arch. Coll. 41 (1898): 52-53. VCH Hampshire 4(1911): 567-577. Assoc. Architectural Socs.’ Rpts. & Papers 33 (1915-16): 35-73. Archæologia 70 (1920): 1-56. Dew Hist. of the Parish & Church of Kilhampton (1928): 26, 30, 33. Jenkinson & Fermoy Select Cases in the Exchequer of Pleas (Selden Soc. 48) (1932): 113-116. Jour. Hist. Soc. of the Church in Wales 1 (1947): 15-25. Emden Biog. Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford 1 (1957): 423-424. Clay York Minster Fasti 1 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 123) (1957): 26-27; 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 54. Labarge Mistress, Maids & Men: Baronial Life in the 13th Cent. (1965). Prestwich Three Edwards: War & State in England (1980): 109. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Rolls & Reg. of: Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-12998 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 173. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 19-20 (biog. of Bogo Clare: "... the most notorious pluralist in medieval England."). Neve Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicans 1066-13005 (1996): 14, 38; 9 (2003): 21. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 41-43. Parsons Eleanor of Castile (1997): 186, 202. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003). Schofield Peasant & Community in Medieval England 1200-1500 (2003): 194 ("Bogo de Clare ... at his death in 1291 held, amongst other offices, 24 parishes and the income they generated (more than £2000), was atypical in his assiduity.").
iv. ISABEL DE CLARE, married at Lyons 28 March 1257 (as his 1st wife) GUGLIELMO (or WILLIAM) VII, Marquis [Marchese] of Monferrato, son and heir of Bonifacio II, Marquis of Monferrato, by Margherita, daughter of Amadeo IV, Count of Savoy. He was near kinsman of King Edward I of England. They had one daughter, Margarita (or Margherita). He married (2nd) in 1271 BEATRICE (or BEATRIZ) OF CASTILE, daughter of Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Galicia, Seville, Cordoba, Murcia, Jaen & the Algarve, by Violante (or Yolanda), daughter of Jaime I el Conquistador, King of Aragon, Majorca & Valencia, Count of Barcelona and Urgel, seigneur of Montpellier. They had one son, Giovanni (I) [Marquis of Monferrato] and two daughters, Yolanda (wife of Andronikas II Palxologus) and Alasina (wife of Poncello Orsini, signore of Montenascone, senator of Rome). His wife, Beatrice, was living in 1280. GUGLIELMO VII, Marquis of Monferrato, died in captivity at Alexandria 6 Feb. 1292. Dugdale Monasticon Angkcanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 93-166. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 662. Lambert Bletching4 1 (1921): 82. Hiklalguia Nos. 172-173 (1982): 324 (chart). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 63 (sub Castile), 200 (sub Montferrat); 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare). Sayer Original Papal Docs. in England & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 426 (William, marquis of Monferrato, styled "cousin" of King Edward I of England).
Child of Isabel de Clare, by Guglielmo VII of Monferrato:
a. MARGARITA (or MARGHERITA) OF MONFERRATO, married at Burgos in 1281 (as his 1st wife) JUAN OF CASTILE, senor of Valencia de Campos, Oropesa, Baena, Ponferrada, etc., younger son of Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Galicia, Seville, Cordoba, Murcia, Jaen & the Algarve, by Violante (or Yolanda), daughter of Jaime I el Conquistador, King of Aragon, Majorca & Valencia, Count of Barcelona and Urgel, seigneur of Montpellier. They had one son, Alfonso [senor of Valencia de Campos and Mansilla]. His wife, Margherita, was living in 1286. He married (2nd) before 11 May 1287 MARIA DIAZ DE HARO, senora of Vizcaya, daughter of Lope Diaz de Haro, senor of Vizcaya. They had two sons, Lope and Juan (senor of Vizcaya) and one daughter, Maria Diaz (wife of Juan Nuno de Lara, senor of Lara). JUAN OF CASTILE died at Vega de Granada 25 June 1319. Vilena El Limao Don Juan de Valencia el del Infante (1952). Hildalguia Nos. 172-173 (1982): 324 (chart). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 63 (sub Castile), 200 (sub Montferrat); 3(1) (1984): 124A (Valencia de Campos). Martinez Alfonso X, el Sabio (2003).
v. MARGARET DE CLARE, married EDMUND OF CORNWALL (usually styled EDMUND OF ALMAIN), Knt., Earl of Cornwall [see CORNWALL 6.11].
vi. ROSE DE CLARE, married ROGER DE MOWBRAY, Knt., 1st Lord Mowbray [see MOWBRAY 3].
vii. EGLANTINE DE CLARE. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Clark Land of Moigan (1883): 93-166. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1984): 156 (sub Clare).
Illegitimate child of Richard de Clare, Knt., by an unknown mistress,
i. GUY (or GAUDIN) DE CLARE, Knt. In 1280-1 Thomas del Park arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in East Brightwell, Oxfordshire. In 1301 he witnessed a grant of land by Sir Robert Wandak (or Wandard), of Shotteswell, Oxfordshire, to his brothers, Robert, Rector of Shotteswell, and Thomas. Sometime prior to 1307, his brother Earl Gilbert de Clare's widow, Joan, granted him the manor of Easington (in Chilton), Buckinghamshire for life, of which he died seised. Royce Hist. Notices of the Parish of Cropredy, Oxon (Trans. North Oxfordshire Arch. Soc.) (1880): 6. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 50 (1889): 36. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 25. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 105 (arms of Gaudin de Clare: Argent, three chevrons gules, in chief two lions rampant sable). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lordjnarals/Lord_Marshal05/Lord%20Marshal5.htm.”
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