CLARE, Earl Gilbert de

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• Name	CLARE, Gilbert de
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	2 Sep 1243	Christ Church, Hampshire, England
  Gender	Male
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  Death	7 Dec 1295	Monmouth, Gloucestershire, England
  Burial	22 Dec 1295	Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
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  Person ID	I25236	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	CLARE, Earl Richard de ,   b. 4 Aug 1222, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 15 Jul 1262, Waltham, Essex, England (Age 39 years)
  Mother	LACY, Countess Maud ,   b. 25 Jan 1223, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Englandd. 10 Mar 1289, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	2 Feb 1238	Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 26 Jan 1238 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 9 Aug 1901
  Family ID	F12771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	LUSIGNAN, Countess Alice ,   b. 1238, Warren, Sussex, England Warren, Sussex, Englandd. 9 Feb 1290, Warren, Sussex, England (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	1253	Elmley, Kent, England   [2, 3]
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 27 Apr 1995, SLAKE.
  Family ID	F13817	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	PLANTAGENET, Princess Joan ,   b. 1272, Galilee, Israel Galilee, Israeld. 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	30 Apr 1290	Westminster, Middlesex, England
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Westminster, London, England. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 28 Nov 1995, LANGE. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married May 1290
  Children	1 son and 4 daughters
  + 1. CLARE, Elizabeth de ,   b. 16 Sep 1275, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 4 Nov 1360 (Age 85 years)   2. CLARE, Gilbert de ,   b. 10 May 1291, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 24 Jun 1314, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 23 years) + 3. CLARE, Alianore de ,   b. Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Walesd. 30 Jun 1337, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 44 years)   4. CLARE ,   b. Abt 1294, England England   5. CLARE, Countess Margaret de ,   b. 22 Dec 1314, Tunbridge, Kent, England Tunbridge, Kent, Englandd. 9 Apr 1342, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F13818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  --Other Fields Ref Number: 715 Descent from King Edward I, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Knights of the Garter and from Fourteen Sureties for the Magna Charta of AD 1215. Gilbert de Clare, the Red Earl, b. 1243 d. 1295 md Joan of Acre, born in the Holy Land 1272, died 1307, d. of King Edward I, and his wife Eleanor of Castile. MARR PLACE Westminister Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England MARR DATE 2 FEB 1252/1253 DIV This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: Richard /DE CLARE/ (AFN:8HRH-V7) and Maud /LACY/ (AFN:8503-F8) Richard De/CLARE/ (AFN:8503-D3) and Maud /DE LACY/ (AFN:9BLB-07) Ref: http://www.antonymaitland.com/pakham02.htm Earl of Gloucester died 1295 married Jean of Acres, died 1307. Parents: King Edward 1st and Queen Eleanor. DNB: 9th Earl of Clare, 7th of Hertford, and 8th of Gloucester (1243-1295), called the Red; son of Richard de Clare, 8th earl; married Alice, niece of Henry III, 1253; succeeded to the earldom, July 1262; refused the oath of allegiance to Prince Edward, 1263; acted with Simon de Montfort, 1263; was reconciled to Henry III Oct 1263; massacred the Jews of Canterbury, 1264; commanded the Centre of Lewes, 1264; quarrelled with Montfort, Nov 1264; protected the banished marcher lords, 1265; fled to the Welsh Marches, 1265; joined Prince Edaward, and prevented Montfort from crossing the Severn, commanded the division of Evesham, Aug 1265; joined Prince Edward in reducing the Cinque Ports, 1266; pleaded for the disherited barons, 1266; refused to attend parliament, Jan 1267, took London, 1267, but was reconciled to Henry III two months afterwards; took the cross 1268; obtained restoration of their lands to the disinherited barons, 1271; proclaimed Edward 1st, Nov 1272; divorced his first wife, 1271 (or 1285); fought against the Welsh 1276-83; married Joan, daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile; after 5 years in Spain was betrothed to Martmann, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, 1279; married at Westminster Abbey, 1290, Gilbert de Clare; after his death privately married Ralph de Monthermer, 1297. BIRTH: Also shown as Born Christ Church, Hampshire, England. DEATH: Also shown as Died Monmouth, England. BURIAL: Also shown as Buried , Tewksbury, Gloucester, England. ~BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 25 Feb 1933, SLAKE. ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 5 Sep 1933, SLAKE. ~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 20 Aug 1991, OGDEN. GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Benedict de AFN: Merged with a record that used the AFN 8503-M9 ID: Merged with a record that used the ID 1346192^21>2 ~BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 7 Sep 1940 ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 26 Feb 1941 Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 3rd Lord of Glamorgan, 9th Lord of Clare *Gilbert "the Red Earl" de Clare born 2 September 1243 Christchurch, Hampshire, England died 7 December 1295 Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, England buried 22 December 1295 Abbey, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England married 30 April 1290 Westminister Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England wife: Joan "of Acre" Princess of England born 1272 (Acre), Akko, Hazafon, Holy Land died 23 April 1307 Clare, Suffolk, England buried 26 April 1307 Austin Friars' Church, Clare, Suffolk, England children: *Eleanore de Clare born October 1292 Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales died 30 June 1337 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England buried Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England *Margaret de Clare born 1292 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England died 9 April 1342 France *Elizabeth de Clare born 16 September 1295 Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England died 4 November 1360 buried St. Mary, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England Gilbert de Clare born 10/11 May 1291 Winchcombe Near, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England died 24 June 1314 Battle of Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland buried before 20 November 1314 Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England Born: 2nd September 1243 at Christchurch, Hampshire Earl of Gloucester Earl of Hertford Died: 7th December 1295 at Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire Gilbert was nicknamed the 'Red Earl' after the colour of his hair. He was the eldest son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester & Hertford and Margaret de Lacy, the Countess of Lincoln. After his father's death in 1262, Gilbert, still a minor, inherited vast estates in the West Country, the Welsh Marches and Ireland. He took possession the following year. During Simon de Montfort's Rebellion of 1263-4, Gilbert was, initially, a keen supporter and he and his brother were knighted by the Earl shortly before the Battle of Lewes. However, being the two most powerful men in the country, a clash was inevitable. Gilbert was greedy for the spoils of victory, including additional authority in the government and a degree of independence for his vast estates. He therefore stood up as a defender of the 'Provisions of Oxford' - his father's initiative to establish a proto-parliament - and inferred that De Montfort's despotism was betraying its principles. In May 1265, Gilbert split from the De Montfort party and allied himself with the newly escaped Prince Edward, for whom he won the Battle of Evesham. However, while the surviving followers of De Montfort thought him a traitor, Gilbert's relationship with the Royalist party was hardly less strained. He became a champion for disinherited rebel sympathizers and protested at the lack of implementation of the 'Provisions of Oxford', even though the Royal victory rendered these redundant. With constitutional restraint and decency as his watch words, Gilbert seems to have hoped to exercise a detached role in English political life. When he found this impossible, he raised an army in 1267 and took over the city of London. His grievances were then placed before the arbitration of Richard, Earl of Cornwall. To all the World, Gilbert thence appeared reconciled with the establishment, but discontent was still festering. Gilbert took up the cause of the Cross in 1268 and promised to go on Crusade with Prince Edward two years later, although this never came to fruition. The following year, he succeeded in securing the restoration of lands to those who had been disinherited. Thereafter, however, his political autonomy was rendered impotent by firm Royal control and he remained loyal to King Edward I. Having been divorced from Henry II's hypochondriac half-niece, Alice De Lusignan, in 1271, Gilbert remarried, in 1290, to Edward I's daughter, Joan of Acre. The marriage contract stipulated his vast estates could only be inherited by their descendents, thus greatly increasing the chances of them reverting to the Crown (which, indeed, occurred in 1314). Gilbert was thus bound still more closely to the Royal Court; although, as late as 1292, he was being tried over disputed rights in the Welsh Marches. He only gained his freedom and the restoration of his lands, after paying a fine of 10,000 marks (£6,666.13s.4d). Gilbert De Clare spent his life attempting to establish himself in an independent political role from which he might negotiate his loyalty to the Crown. Whatever his actual view of the 'Provisions of Oxford', he played off one faction against another in the Civil War, exploiting the situation as an easy means of pursuing his own personal agenda. In this, he ultimately failed and was subsequently humiliated, largely because of his own political incompetence, but also due to the increase of Royal power after the Baronial Wars. In the end, although he remained at Court, he had become a relic of a bygone age. Earl Gilbert died in December 1295, at the age of fifty-two, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey (Gloucestershire); although his widow may have buried his heart in the church at their favoured Berkshire manor of Long Wittenham, where the two often stayed when attended the King at Oxford and Woodstock. His father in law was Edward the 1 of england, He lead the massacre of Jews. He was excommunicated by the pope. He fought with the english against the welsh. He also fought in The Second Baron's war. Gilbert was born September 2, 1243. In April 1264 he lead the massacre of Jews at Canterberry He fought in many wars and was excommunicated by pope clement. He was pronouced a traitor and rebel but rejoined the brits in the welsh war.

  
  

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  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Mend de Lacy; Female; Birth: About 1223 Lincoln, Lincoln, England; Death: 1288; Father: John de Lacy; Mother: Margaret de Quincy; Spouse: Richard de Clare; Marriage: 02 FEB 1238; Film Number: 458815 Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Sep 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Gilbert THE RED EARL Earl of Hertford De Clare; Male; Death: 07 DEC 1295; Spouse: Alice Lusignan; Marriage: 1253 Of Elmley, , Worcester, England; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Sep 2004 [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Alice LUSIGNAN; Female; Birth: About 1245; Spouse: Gilbert De Clare; Marriage: 1253 ; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 26 Nov 2004