Richard de CLARE, EARL HERTFORD & GLOUCESTE

                   Maude (or Mathilde) de Clare; m. William de Braose, b. perhaps c 1175, died Corfe or Windsor Castle, 1210, of starvation by order of King John, son of Williamde Braose, d. 1211, Lord of Bramber, Sussex, by his wife Maud de St. Valery.  [Magna Charta Sureties line 28a-2]

Note: MCS line 54-1 refers to Maud de Clare m. Roger de Lacy, without giving Maud's parents.  The above (which indicatesher parents in the prior generation 28a-1) references her m. William de Braose.  I assume that the two Maud(e)s are the same person; but MCS doesn't say.


Sed et iste Rogerus constabularius duxit in uxorem Matildem de Clere, sororemthesaurarii Eboracensis Ecclesie, de qua genuit Johannem constabularium" (Thoresby Society VIII, p 241). She is not Maud de Clare, duaghter of Richard de Clare and Amicia de Mellent. It would appear from this that Matilda was not a member of the famous Clare family but of a known Yorshire family of Clere. This is suggested by the fact that her brother was treasurer of the church at York (presumably of the Minster). [See Loyd *Origins of some Anglo-Norman Families, p.29
                  

                   Name Suffix: Earl Gloucester & Hertford
Ancestral File Number: 8WKL-2P
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who, after the decease of Geoffreyde Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd wife of Isabel, the divorced wife of King John, and in her right Earl of Gloucester, and her own decease, s. p., as also the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of the Earl of Evereux by Mabell, the other co-heiress, who likewise succeeded to the Earldom of Gloucester, became Earl of Gloucester, in right of his mother, Amicia, the other co-heiress. This nobleman was amongst the principal barons who took up arms against King John, and was appointed one of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. In the ensuing reign, still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the crown, he fought on the side of the barons at Lincoln, and was taken prisoner there by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; but he soon afterwards made his peace. His lordship m. Isabel (who m. after his decease, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III), one of the daus., and eventually co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; William; Amicia, m. to Baldwin de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon; Agnes; Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus. The earl d. in 1229 and was s. by his eldest son, Richardde Clare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
                  

                   Ancestral File Number: 8WKL-LG
Seal to Parents:  22 OCT 1963 SLAKE - SaltLake City, UT
Ancestral File Number: 8WKL-LG