Gilbert Fitz Richard

Gilbert Fitz Richard
2nd Lord of Clare
Hereditary
Lord of the Honor of Clare 1090-1117
Predecessor Richard fitz Gilbert
Successor Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare
Spouse Adeliza de Breteuil

Issue

Walter de Clare
Adelize de Clare
Margaret de Clare
Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Bourne
Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare
Hervey de Clare
Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare
Rohese de Clare

Titles and styles

2nd Lord of Tonbridge
Lord of Cardigan
Family de Clare
Father Richard fitz Gilbert
Mother Rohese Giffard
Born 1066
Clare, Suffolk, England
Died 1117
Buried Tonbridge Priory
Occupation Peerage of England

Gilbert Fitz Richard (c. 1066–c. 1117), was styled de Clare, de Tonbridge, and Lord of Clare. He was a powerful Anglo-Norman baron who was granted the Lordship of Cardigan, in Wales c. 1107-1111.

Life

Gilbert, born before 1066, was the second son and an heir of Richard Fitz Gilbert of Clare and Rohese Giffard.[1] He succeeded to his father's possessions in England in 1088 when his father retired to a monastery;[2] his brother, Roger Fitz Richard, inherited his father's lands in Normandy.[3] That same year he, along with his brother Roger, fortified his castle at Tonbridge against the forces of William Rufus. But his castle was stormed, Gilbert was wounded and taken prisoner.[4] However he and his brother were in attendance on king William Rufus at his death in August 1100.[4] He was with Henry I at his Christmas court at Westminster in 1101.[4]

It has been hinted, by modern historians, that Gilbert, as a part of a baronial conspiracy, played some part in the suspicious death of William II.[5] Frank Barlow points out that no proof has been found he had any part in the king's death or that a conspiracy even existed.[5]

In 1110, King Henry I took Cardigan from Owain ap Cadwgan, son of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn as punishment for a number of crimes including that of the abduction of Nest, wife of Gerald de Windsor.[6] In turn Henry gave the Lordship of Cardigan, including Cardigan Castle to Gilbert Fitz Richard.[7] He founded the Clunic priory at Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk.[7] Gilbert died in or before 1117.[7][8]

Family

About 1088,[9] Gilbert married Adeliza/Alice de Claremont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Roucy.[8] Gilbert and Adeliza had at least eight children:

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol III, Ed. Vicary Gibbs (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1913), p. 242
  2. ↑ Frank Barlow, William Rufus (Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1983), p. 73
  3. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol III, Ed. Vicary Gibbs (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1913), p. 243 & n. (a)
  4. 1 2 3  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Clare, Gilbert de (d.1115?)". Dictionary of National Biography 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. 1 2 Frank Barlow, William Rufus (Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1983), p. 425
  6. ↑ John Davies, A History of Wales (London: Penguin Group, 1993), pp. 112-13
  7. 1 2 3 George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol III, Ed. Vicary Gibbs (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1913), p. 243
  8. 1 2 Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 653
  9. ↑ Frank Barlow, William Rufus (Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1983), p. 140
  10. 1 2 John Horace Round, Studies in Peerage and Family History (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1901), p. 214
  11. ↑ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, Vol. II (UK & Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2002), pp. 668-69
  12. ↑ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Family Trees and the Root of Politics; A Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century (Woodbridge UK: The Boydell Press, 1997), p. 180
  13. ↑ James H. Ramsay, The Angevin Empire, or the Three Reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1903), p. 151
  14. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage; or, A History of the House of Lords and All its Members from the Earliest Times, Vol. X, Eds. H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, & Howard de Walden (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1945), p. 348 n. (c)
  15. ↑ J.R. Planché, The Conqueror and His Companions (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874), p. 52
  16. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol 12, Part 2, Eds. Geoffrey H. White & R.S. Lea (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1959), p. 168

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