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Birth:          ABT 1060 of Clare, Suffolk, England
Death:          ABT 1115 

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d 1114/7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard
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[edit]

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[edit]

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:
Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1136.[10]
Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1148, 1st Earl of Pembroke.[10]
Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1154, m. Adeline de Rollos.[11]
Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 1163, m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de 
Vere and Beatrice.[12] She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a corrodian at 
St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.
Hervey de Clare, Lord of Montmorency.[13]
Walter de Clare, d. 1149.[14]
Margaret de Clare, d. 1185, m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stansted 
Mountfitchet.[15]
Rohese de Clare, d. 1149, m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth[16]

Parents
DE CLARE Richard Fitzgilbert "de Tonbridge" (ABT 1024 - ABT 1090)
GIFFARD Rohese (1034 - BEF 1133)

Siblings
DE CLARE Rohese FitzRichard (1055 - 1121)
DE CLARE Avice (ABT 1057 - )
DE CLARE Gilbert Fitz Richard (ABT 1060 - ABT 1115)
DE CLARE Robert Fitz Richard (ABT 1064 - 1136)

Marriage To DE CLERMONT Adeliza (ABT 1061 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE CREIL (DE CLERMONT) Hugh (ABT 1030 - 1101)
DE MONTDIDIER (DE ROUCY) Margaret (Marguerite) (ABT 1045 - ABT 1110)

Children by DE CLERMONT Adeliza ABT 1061 - 
DE CLARE Adeliza (ABT 1079 - ABT 1163)
DE CLARE Richard Fitz Gilbert (ABT 1084 - 15 Apr 1136)
DE CLARE Baldwin Fitz Gilbert (ABT 1088 - 1171)
DE CLARE Hawise (ABT 1089 - )
DE CLARE Agnes (ABT 1091 - )
DE CLARE Rohese (ABT 1095 - BEF 1166)
DE CLARE Gilbert (21 Sep 1100 - 6 Jan 1148)

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