Richard DE CLARE
- Born: 1035
- Marriage: Rohese GIFFARD
- Died: 1090 at age 55
Another name for Richard was DE TONBRIDGE.
General Notes:
Lord of Bienfaite, Orbec, Clare, and Tonbridge
Founder of the House of Clare. After a skirmish with the Welch, he held the Castles of Clare and Tonbridge. After their father's assassination, Richard and his brother Baldwin fled to the court of Baldwin V De Lelle, Count of Flanders, but William the Conqueror restored them to Normandy. He accompanied William The Conqueror into England and participated in the spoils of the conquest, obtaining extensive possessions in the old and new dominion of his royal leader and kinsman (William the conqueror was the grandson of Richard, Fourth Duke of Normandy, brother of Godfrey).
At the time of the domesday survey, he was called Richard de Tonebruge, now Tunbridge, in Kent, which town he had obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the Castle of Brione.
Richard served with William De Warenne as regent of England in 1075.
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Lord of Bienfaite, Orbec, Clare, and Tonbridge
Founder of the House of Clare. After a skirmish with the Welch, he held the Castles of Clare and Tonbridge. After their father's assassination, Richard and his brother Baldwin fled to the court of Baldwin V De Lelle, Count of Flanders, but William the Conqueror restored them to Normandy. He accompanied William The Conqueror into England and participated in the spoils of the conquest, obtaining extensive possessions in the old and new dominion of his royal leader and kinsman (William the conqueror was the grandson of Richard, Fourth Duke of Normandy, brother of Godfrey).
At the time of the domesday survey, he was called Richard de Tonebruge, now Tunbridge, in Kent, which town he had obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the Castle of Brione.
Richard served with William De Warenne as regent of England in 1075.
Richard married Rohese GIFFARD, daughter of 1st Earl Of Buckingham Walter GIFFARD and Agnes FLAITEL. (Rohese GIFFARD was born about 1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France and died about 1117 in England.)
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