Gilbert Fitz Richard

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'Gilbert FitzRichard Earl of Clare, Tonbridge, and Cardigan'
Norman Crest
Born	1065 Clare, Suffolk, England
Died	1115 England

Gilbert Fitz Richard (1065-1115) was son and heir of Richard Fitz Gilbert, earl of Clare, and heiress Rohese Giffard. He succeeded to his father's possessions in England in 1090; his brother, Roger Fitz Richard, inherited his father's lands in Normandy. Earl Gilbert's inheritance made him one of the wealthiest magnates in early twelfth-century England.

Gilbert may have been present at the suspicious death of William II in the New Forest in 1100. He was granted lands and the Lordship of Cardigan by Henry I, including Cardigan Castle. He and his wife Adeliza had nine children, two of whom became peers of the realm. He founded the Cluniac priory at Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk.

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
By Adelize/Alice de Claremont, married 1086, (b. ca. 1058), daughter of Hugh de Creil, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Roucy.
Walter de Clare	1086	1149
Margaret de Clare	1090	1185	m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stanstead Mountfitchet.
Adelize/Alice de Clare	1092	1163	m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de Vere and Beatrice. She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a corrodian at St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.
Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Bourne	1092	1154	m. Adeline de Rollos.
Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare	1094	1136	1st Earl of Hertford.
Hervey de Clare	(ca.1096)	Unknown
Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare	(ca.1100)	1148	1st Earl of Pembroke.
Rohese de Clare	(ca.1105)	1149	m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth.
Margaret de Clare	1101	Unknown

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