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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