Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Tonbridge, Kent, England; 1st Earl of Tonbridge
• Appointments / Titles: France; Lord of Bienfaite
• FSID: M9L6-6YN
• Occupation: Joint Chief Justiciar of England
• Military: 1066; Norman conquest of England
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1066 and 1091, Clare, Suffolk, England; 1st Lord
• Appointments / Titles: 1075; Regent of England

Notes:

Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035–c. 1090) was a Norman lord who participated in the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and was styled "de Bienfaite", "de Clare", and of "Tonbridge"[n 1][1] from his holdings.[2][3]

Biography
He was the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne in Normandy[2] (fitz was a variant spelling of filz > French fils, that means "son"). Gilbert was a guardian of the young duke William and when Gilbert was killed by Ralph de Wacy in 1040, his two older sons Richard and Gilbert fled to Flanders.[4] On his later return to Normandy Richard was rewarded with the lordship of Bienfaite and Orbec in Normandy.[4] In 1066, Richard came into England with his kinsman William the Conqueror, and received from him great advancement in honour and possessions.[2]

The Dictionary of National Biography and other sources are vague and sometimes contradictory about when the name de Clare came into common usage, but what we do know is that Richard fitz Gilbert (of Tonbridge), the earliest identifiable progenitor of the family, is once referred to as Richard of Clare in the Suffolk return of the Domesday Book.[5]

Rewards
He was rewarded with 176 lordships and large grants of land in England, including the right to build the castles of Clare and of Tonbridge. Richard fitz Gilbert received the lordship of Clare, in Suffolk, where parts of the wall of Clare Castle still stand.[6] He was thus Lord of Clare. Some contemporaneous and later sources called him Earl of Clare, though many modern sources view the title as a "styled title".

He served as Joint Chief Justiciar in William's absence, and played a major part in suppressing the revolt of 1075.

Rebel baron
On the Conqueror's death, Richard and other great Norman barons, including Odo of Bayeux, Robert, Count of Mortain, and Geoffrey of Coutances, led a rebellion against the rule of William Rufus in order to place Robert Curthose on the throne. However, most Normans in England remained loyal. William Rufus and his army successfully attacked the rebel strongholds at Tonbridge, Pevensey and Rochester.[7]

Death and succession
He was buried in St. Neot's Priory in 1091. His widow was still living in 1113. His lands were inherited by his son, Gilbert fitz Richard.

Marriage
Richard married Rohese Giffard, daughter of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville and Agnes Flaitel,[3] and they had at least the following children:

Roger fitz Richard de Clare, received Norman lands and d. 1131.[3] Wife unknown, daughter Joanna married Gilbert de Neville.[8]
Gilbert fitz Richard, d. 1115, succeeded his father as Earl of Clare.[3]
Walter de Clare, Lord of Nether Gwent, d. 1138.[3]
Richard fitz Richard de Clare, Abbot of Ely.[3]
Robert fitz Richard,[3] Lord of Little Dunmow, Baron of Baynard, d. 1136.[9]
Godfrey
Alice (or Adeliza) de Clare, d. 1138. m. Walter Tirel.[3][10]
Rohese de Clare, d. 1121, m. (ca. 1088), Eudo Dapifer.[3]
Isabel de Clare, d. 1088, m. Humphrey d'Isle.[3]
Avice de Clare, m. Robert de Stafford / Tosny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_fitz_Gilbert

Family/Spouse: Giffard, Rohese. Rohese (daughter of Giffard, Walter and Flaitel, Agnès Ermengarde) was born on 13 Apr 1034 in Longueville, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 7 Jan 1113 in Clare Castle, Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried on 14 Jan 1113 in Colchester, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Tonbridge, Kent, England; 2nd Lord
• Appointments / Titles: Clare, Suffolk, England; 2nd Lord
• Appointments / Titles: Cardigan, Cardiganshire, Wales; Lord of
• Nickname: The Marshal
• FSID: KHGK-FT4
• Occupation: Marshall to the Royal Household
• Occupation: Royal Serjeant and Marshall to Henry I

Notes:

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 Clermont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Ramerupt.[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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard

Family/Spouse: de Clermont, Adeliza. Adeliza (daughter of de Clermont, Hugh and de Montdidier, Margaret Marguerite) was born in 1058 in Clermont, Oise, Picardie, France; died in 1117 in Clare Castle, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Lord of Bienfaite
• FSID: GD4Z-LRX
• Occupation: Steward to King Henry I

Notes:

Robert Fitz Richard (1064–1136) was an Anglo-Norman feudal baron of Little Dunmow, Essex and constable of Baynard's Castle in the City of London. His feudal barony, the caput of which was at Little Dunmow in Essex, was granted to him by the king after it had been forfeited in 1110 by William Baynard, whose grandfather Ralph Baynard was the first holder and the builder of Baynard's Castle in the City of London.[1][2]

Robert was steward under King Henry I (1100–1135)[3] and under King Stephen (1135–1154).[4]

Family
Robert was the son of Sir Richard Fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare and Tonbridge (c. 1030–1091) and Rohese Giffard, (b. c. 1034), daughter of Sir Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, and Agnes Flatel.[a]

Robert married (c. 1114), Matilda de St. Liz (Maud), daughter of Sir Simon de St Liz, Earl of Northampton, and Maud de Huntingdon.

Children were:

- Sir Walter Fitz Robert, (b. c. 1124), married Maud de Lucy. The Magna Carta surety, Robert Fitzwalter, was their son.
- Maud Fitz Robert, (b. c. 1132), Essex, who married (c. 1146), William d'Aubigny, son of Sir William d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir, and Cecily Bigod. Another Magna Carta surety, William d'Aubigny, was their son.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitz_Richard

Robert married de Senlis, Matilda in 1112. Matilda (daughter of de Senlis, Earl Simon and of Huntingdon, Matilda) was born in 1091 in Northamptonshire, England; died in 1158 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9CZ7-PW4
• Religion: Between 1141 and 1163; a Nun at St. Osyth's Priory

Notes:

Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors

Adeliza (Alice) de Clare1,2,3
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
F, #5094, b. circa 1092, d. circa 1163
Father Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Clare, Lord of Cardigan & Tonbridge b. b 1066, d. 1117
Mother Adeliza de Clermont b. c 1074, d. a 1138
Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne
Adeliza (Alice) de Clare married Aubrey II de Vere, Sheriff of London & Middlesex, Lord Hedington, son of Aubrey de Vere and Beatrice de Gand.2,3 Adeliza (Alice) de Clare was born circa 1092 at of Essex, England. She died circa 1163.
Family
Aubrey II de Vere, Sheriff of London & Middlesex, Lord Hedington b. c 1062, d. 15 May 1141
Children
Felice de Vere+
Robert de Vere, Lord of Drayton & Aldington Manors+
Rohese de Vere+3 b. c 1109, d. a Oct 1166
Juliana de Vere+ b. c 1116
Sir Alberic III de Vere, 1st Earl Oxford, Earl of Essex+ b. 1120, d. 26 Dec 1194
Alice de Vere+2 b. c 1125, d. a 1185

Adeliza, daughter of Gilbert fitz Richard of Clare, survived her husband for twenty-two years. For most of that time she was a corrodian at St. Osyth's Priory, Chich, Essex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Vere_II

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Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard

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Aubrey de Vere was born in 1090.
He was the son of Aubrey de Vere and Beatrice (?).
He married Alice fitz Gilbert, daughter of Gilbert fitz Richard and Adeliza de Clermont.

http://thepeerage.com/p27438.htm#i274379

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“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE PERCY, of Topcliffe, Leconfield, and Nafferton, Yorkshire, son and heir. He married (1st) before 1136 ALICE (or ALIZA, ADELIDA, ADELIDIS) DE TONBRIDGE, daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard (also styled de Clare and de Tonbridge), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, etc., by Alice, daughter of Hugues, seigneur of Clermont, Breuil-le-Vert, Creil, Luzarches, and Mouchy-Saint-Elou [see CLARE 2 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Alan, and two daughters, Maud (wife of William, 3rd Earl of Warwick) and Agnes. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had three illegitimate sons, William, Walter, and Henry, and two illegitimate daughter, Alice (mistress of Henry du Puiset and later wife of Richard de Moreville) and Emma (wife of William Malebisse). He was present at the Court of King Stephen at Easter 1136. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. He founded Sallay (or Sawley) Abbey in 1148. His wife, Alice, was living in 1148. He witnessed charters of King Henry II to Nostell Priory before July 1157. He married (2nd) in 1164-66 SIBYL DE VALOINES, widow of Robert de Roos, of Helmsley, Yorkshire (died 1162 or 1163), and daughter of Thebaud de Valoines, of Perham. He was probably the founder of Stainfield Priory, Lincolnshire. He was a benefactor of Byland and Fountains Abbeys and Markby and Shde Priories. He gave the church of Topcliffe, Yorkshire to St. Peter's York for the work of repair and building. WILLIAM DE PERCY was living in the year ending at Michaelmas 1170, and almost certainly in that ending at Michaelmas 1175, when Helte de Boisdele owed 100s. in Lincolnshire for the light of 2 knights' fees which he claimed against him. At his death, he was buried at Fountains Abbey. His widow, Sibyl, married (3rd) about 1182 RALPH D'AUBENEY, of Aubourn and Binbrook, Lincolnshire. RALPH D'AUBENEY died before Michaelmas 1192. His widow, Sibyl, was living in 1212. At her death, she was buried at Nun Appleton Priory, Yorkshire.

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ADELISA de Clare ([1090/95]-1163). The Liber Vitæ of Thorney abbey lists "…Gilebt fili[us] Ricardi, Ricard fili[us] eius…Aaliz uxor Gilbti filii Ricardi, Comes Gilbt, Galteri…filii sui…Rohais, Auiza, Margareta, Aaliz nate sue…"[2565]. Leland quotes a Vere manuscript which names "Albericus de Ver pater meus…Adeliza filia Gilberti de Clare" and "Adeliza de Estsexa, filia Alberici Ver et Adelizæ" who married "Rogerus filius Richardi, nepos comitis Hugonis Bigot"[2566]. Her birth date range is estimated from the birth of her first known son in [1110]. She became a nun at the Priory of St Osyth. m AUBREY de Vere, son of AUBREY de Vere & his wife Beatrix --- ([before 1090]-London 15 May 1141, bur Colne Priory, Essex).
[Medieval Lands; see Sources.]

Family/Spouse: de St. Leger, Sir Geoffrey. Geoffrey was born in 1087 in Fairlight, Sussex, England; died in 1144 in Fairlight, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Ches
• FSID: G467-S4S

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitz_Richard

Family/Spouse: d'Aubigny, Earl William. William (son of d'Aubigny, William and Bigod, Cecily) was born in 1120 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; died in 1169 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: 2nd Lord of Little Dunmow

Family/Spouse: de Lucy, Maud. Maud (daughter of de Lucy, Sir Richard and de Boulogne, Rohese) was born in 1118 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; died in DECEASED in Diss, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G3L1-RGF

Notes:

https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Reginald-de-St-Leger/6000000002233722614?through=347111001190004793

Reginald married d'Eu, Helisende in 1125 in Wartling, Sussex, England. Helisende (daughter of d'Eu, Henry I and de Sully, Marguerite) was born in 1115 in Ulcombe, Kent, England; died in 1150 in Wartling, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GDDS-GWT

Notes:

Matilda (Maud) d' Aubigny married Gilbert, 3rd Earl of Strathearn. The couple had several children; Robert (4th Earl of) STRATHEARN, Cecilia of STRATHEARN, and Ethna of STRATHEARN. Matilda was His Majesty George I's 14-Great Grandmother, Lady Diana's 22-G

Matilda married Strathearn, Gilbert in 1174 in Perthshire, Scotland. Gilbert was born in 1150 in Scotland; died in 1223 in Strathearn, Pethshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married de Pecche, Gilbert in 1186 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Gilbert (son of de Pecche, Sir Hamon and de Peverel, Alice) was born in 1145 in Great Bealings, Suffolk, England; died in 1212 in Great Bealings, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]