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Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, 5th Earl of Gloucester, 1st Lord of Glamorgan, 7th Lord of Clare (1180 – 25 October 1230) was the son of

Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (–1217), feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, and lord of Tonbridge in Kent and of Cardigan in Wales, was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman with vast landholdings in England and Wales. Career Richard was the ...

(c. 1153–1217), from whom he inherited the Clare estates. He also inherited from his mother, Amice Fitz William, the estates of

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and the honour of St. Hilary, and from Rohese, an ancestor, the moiety of the Giffard estates. In June 1202, he was entrusted with the lands of

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and Montrevillers.

Life

In 1215 Gilbert and his father were two of the barons made

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sureties and championed Louis "le Dauphin" of France in the

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, fighting at

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under the baronial banner. He was taken prisoner in 1217 by

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, whose daughter

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he later married on 9 October, her 17th birthday. In 1223 he accompanied his brother-in-law,

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, in an expedition into Wales. In 1225 he was present at the confirmation of Magna Carta by Henry III. In 1228 he led an army against the Welsh, capturing

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, who was released the next year. He then joined in an expedition to

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, but died on his way back to Penrose in that duchy. His body was conveyed home by way of

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and

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. His own arms were: Or, three chevronels gules.

Issue

Gilbert de Clare had six children by his wife

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, great-grandmother of King

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: *Agnes de Clare (b. 1218) *

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(1220–1287), who married

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Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester, 2nd Lord of Glamorgan, 8th Lord of Clare (4 August 1222 – 14 July 1262) was the son of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Isabel Marshal.History of Tewkesbury by James Be ...

(1222–1262) * Isabel de Clare (1226–1264), who married

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*William de Clare (1228–1258) *Gilbert de Clare (b. 1229) His widow Isabel later married the King of the Romans & Earl of Cornwall, Richard Plantagenet, of the

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Arms

File:Gilbert de Clare.jpg, Gilbert's de Clare's coat of arms File:Coat of arms of Gilbert de Clare, heir to the earldom of Hertford.png, Arms used by Gilbert de Clare, as heir to the earldom of Hertford, and at the sealing of ''Magna Carta''

Footnotes

References

*''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700'' by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 54–30, 63–28, 63–29 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of 1180 births 1230 deaths Gloucester, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of De Clare family 12th-century English nobility 13th-century English nobility Earls of Gloucester Earls of Hertford Burials at Tewkesbury Abbey Lords of Glamorgan