Richard Fitzgilbert de Clare 
Richard was born in 1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire and Clare, Suffolk, England. Richard's father was Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and his mother was Adeliza de Clermont. His paternal grandparents were Richard Filtz Gilbert ("de Tonbridge") de Clare and Rohese Giffard. He had a brother and a sister, named Strongbow and Adeliza. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 46 on April 15th, 1136 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was buried in Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
Children
Adeliza de Clare b: ABT. 1115 in Tunbridge, Kent, England
Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford b: 1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England
Rohese de Clare b: ABT. 1124 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.28 Aug 0933 in Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.0967 d.1015
- b.0942 d.13 Nov 1002
- b.0998 d.~ 1040
- b.~ 1024 in Beinfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in Essex, England
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.~ 1117 in Tonbridge, Kent, England and Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1133
- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire and Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
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