Aveline de Clare, Countess of Essex (c. 1178 – 1225) was an English noble.
She was a daughter of
Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford
Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford, 5th Lord of Clare, 5th Lord of Tonbridge, 5th Lord of Cardigan (1116–1173) was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble in 12th-century England. He succeeded to the Earldom of Hertford and Honor of Clare, Tonbridge an ...
, and his wife, Matilda de St. Hilaire. Aveline married twice. Her first husband, William de Munchensy, died in 1204. She was remarried by 29 May 1205, to
Geoffrey fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, as his second wife.
[G. E. Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', vol. 5, 124-25.] She was widowed a second time on 14 October 1213.
King John granted the royal right over her remarriage to her step-brother, William, Earl of Arundel, along with the guardianship of her children by William de Montchesney/Munchanesy, on 7 May 1204.
Soon after her second marriage she paid the crown for the wardship of John de Wahulle and custody of his land.
In her second widowhood, Countess Aveline made gifts to Holy Trinity,
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, for the soul of Geoffrey fitz Peter, part of whose body was buried there. She was buried in
Shouldham Priory
Shouldham Priory was a priory in the village of Shouldham, Norfolk, England.
Burials at this priory
*William FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
*Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex
Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex (c. 1162– ...
, founded by Geoffrey fitz Peter in 1198, alongside the rest of her husband's body.
[G.W. Watson, "Fitz Piers & De Say", ''Genealogist'', p. 182]
Children
By her first husband, William de Munchensy:
*William died without heirs before 1213
*Warin (b. 1192, d. July 1255); inherited Dec. 1213
*Alice, married (1) John de Wahulle, (2) William de Breauté
By her second husband, Geoffrey Fitz Peter:
*
John (b. 1205 • Shere, Surrey, England d. 23 November 1258) Married Isabel Bigod
*Hawise
*Cecily
References
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English countesses
13th-century English nobility
1170s births
1225 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Date of death unknown
Place of birth missing
Daughters of British earls
12th-century English nobility
13th-century English women
12th-century English women