Husband Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord Clare & Tonbridge 1 2 3 4 5
AKA: 01st Lord Of Clare Richard De Clare
Born: 1035 - Brionne, Normandy 5
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Buried: - Priory Of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
Father: Gilbert Fitzgodfrey Comte D'eu & Brionne (Abt 0980-1040) 1 3 4 8
Mother: Constance D' Eu (Abt 1009- ) 1
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• Alt. Death 4 5, Abt 1090
Wife Rohese Giffard 1 4 5 9
Born: Abt 1034 - Longueville-Sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
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Father: Walter Giffard, Seigneur de Longueville (Abt 1010-Abt 1085) 1 4 9
Mother: Agnes Flatel (Abt 1014- ) 1 4 10
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• Alt. Death 7, After 1133
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1 F Rohese Fitzrichard De Clare 1 7
AKA: Roaide Countess Of Bulles
Born: Abt 1055 - St.-Martin-DE-Bienfaite-La-Cressonniere, Calvados, Normandy, France
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2 M Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Clare 1 11 12 13 14
AKA: 02nd Lord Of Clare Gilbert De Clare
Born: 1066 - Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England 9 14
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Died: 1114 - Cardigan, Cardiganshire, Wales 9 14 15
Buried: - Clare Priory, Suffolk, England
Spouse: Adelaide Clermont (Abt 1072- ) 1 11 14 16 17
Marr: Abt 1076 - 1st Husband 14
3 F Avice de Clare 1 18 19
Born: Abt 1058 - St.-Martin-DE-Bienfaite-La-Cressonniere, Calvados, Normandy, France
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4 F Adeliza de Clare
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5 M Roger de Clare, Earle of Clare
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6 M Richard Fitzrichard De Clare, Abbot Of Ely 1
Born: Abt 1068 - Orbec, Calvados, Normandy, France
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7 M Robert FitzRichard, Lord Of Dunmow 1 8
Born: Abt 1075 - Tonbridge, Tunbridge, Kent, England
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Buried: - Priory Of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
Spouse: Maud de St. Liz (Abt 1094-1140)
8 F Elise de Brionne
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General Notes: Husband - Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Lord Clare & Tonbridge
Richard Fitz Gilbert; also known as "de Bienfaite" (from the quantity of his fiefs [so states BP, but CP states Richard was lord of Bienfate & Orbec in Normandy]), "de Clare" or "de Tonbridge" (from actual fiefs); went with his cousin William I the Conqueror to England and was granted 176 Lordships, 95 of them associated with the Honour (feudal unit of administration) of Clare, Suffolk, and others with Tonbridge, Kent. [Burke's Peerage]
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Observations. In the times of the Heptarchy the border fortress of Clare (Suffolk), on the confines of the Kingdoms of East Anglia and Essex, was of the greatest importance, and continued to be so or many centuries afterwards, when, it was granted by the Conqueror to Richard FitzGilbert. FitzGilbert's successors the earlier Lords of Clare were, "it is implied in the Lords' Reports [vol. iii, p. 124] and elsewhere, styled Earls of Clare before they were Earls of Hertford, but investigation disproves this," though doubtless, these Lords, after they obtained that Earldom, were according to the usage of the period, frequently styled "Earls of Clare," just as the Earls of Derby were styled "Earls Ferrers," &c. On account of the great importance of these feudal Barons, the earlier Lords of Clare, so frequently considered to have been actual Peers, a short account of them is subjoined, as under.
HOLDERS OF THE HONOUR OF CLARE (I) temp. William I
RICHARD FITZGILBERT, styled (from his possessions) " DE BIENFAITE," "DE CLARE," and "DE TONBRIDGE, was son of Gilbert, COUNT OF BRIONNE in Normandy, which Gilbert was son and heir of Godfrey, COUNT OF BRIONNE, illegitimate son of Richard, DUKE OF NORMANDY. He was born before 1035, was Lord of Bienfaite and Orbec in Normandy, accompanied his kinsman, William the Conqueror, into England, and was rewarded by him with no less than 176 Lordships, of which 95 were in Suffolk, attached to the Honour of Clare, which honour,, with the Castle of Clare, as also the Castle of Tonbridge in Kent, he obtained, becoming thus Lord of Clare and of Tonbridge. During the King's absence he was joint Chief justiciar, and, as such, suppressed the revolt of 1075.
He married Rohese, daughter of Walter GIFFARD, the elder, and aunt and heir of Walter [GIFFARD], 2nd Earl of Buckingham, through which match his descendants became co-heirs to the lands of that family. He was living 1081, but appears to have died about 1090 being buried at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon. His widow was living, as such, 1113. [Complete Peerage III:242, XIV:183, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Richard FitzGilbert, having accompanied the Conqueror into England, participated in the spoils of conquest and obtained extensive possessions in the new and old dominions of his royal leader and kinsman. In 1073 we find him joined under the designation of Ricardus de Benefacta, with William de Warren, in the great office of Justiciary of England, with whom, in three years afterwards, he was in arms against the rebellious lords Robert de Britolio, Earl of Hereford, and Ralph Waher, or Guarder, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and behaved with great gallantry. But afterwards, at the time of the General Survey, which was towards the close of William's reign, he is called Ricardus de Tonebruge, from his seat at Tonebruge (now Tunbridge) in Kent, which town and castle he obtained from the archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the castle of Brion, at which time he enjoyed thirty-eight lordships in Surrey, thirty-five in Essex, three in Cambridgeshire, with some others in Wilts and Devon, and ninety-five in Suffolk, amongst those was Clare, whence he was occasionally styled Richard de Clare, and that place in a few years afterwards becoming the chief seat of the family, his descendants are said to have assumed thereupon the title of Earls of Clare. This great feudal lord m. Rohese, dau. of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Roger, Walter, Richard, Robert, a dau. m. to Ralph de Telgers, and a dau. mo. to Eudo Dapifer. Richard de Tonebruge, or de Clare, whose is said to have fallen in a skirmish with the Welsh, was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Tonebruge. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 118, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
General Notes: Wife - Rohese Giffard
He [Richard FitzGilbert de Clare] married Rohese, daughter of Walter GIFFARD, the elder, and aunt and heir of Walter [GIFFARD], 2nd Earl of Buckingham, through which match his descendants became co-heirs to the lands of that family. He was living 1081, but appears to have died about 1090 being buried at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon. His widow was living, as such, 1113. [Complete Peerage III:242, XIV:183, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Wife Constance FitzHenry 1 21 22
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Father: Henry I "Beauclerc" England, King of England (1068-1135) 1 23 24 25 26
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1 M Sir John FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury
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Husband Sir Henry FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury, Knight Banneret
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1 M Nicholas FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury, Knight of the Shire for Derby
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General Notes: Husband - Sir Henry FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury, Knight Banneret
Lord of Norbury, Knight Banneret, who represented the co. of Derby in Parliament
in 1294 and 1307, and was Sheriff of the co. and of Nottingham, in 1263-4
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1 M John FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury
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2 M Robert FitzHerbert
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Husband Sir John FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury
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1 M William FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury
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Husband Ralph FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury
Born: 1442 - England
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Father: Nicholas FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury, Knight of the Shire for Derby ( -1473)
Mother: Alice Booth ( - )
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1 F Dorothy FitzHerbert
Born: 1468 - Norbury, Derby, England
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Marr: 1489 - Norbury, Derby, England
2 F Margaret FitzHerbert
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3 M John FitzHerbert
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4 M Henry FitzHerbert
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5 M Thomas FitzHerbert
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6 M Richard FitzHerbert
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7 M William FitzHerbert
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8 M Anthony FitzHerbert
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1 M Nicholas FitzHerbert
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Husband Walter FitzHerbert
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Father: John FitzHerbert ( - )
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1 M John FitzHerbert, Lord of Norbury
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General Notes: Husband - Walter FitzHerbert
In the year 1125 William, Prior of Tutbury, by his charter, attested by Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby - the superior Lord of Tutbury - and his two sons, Robert and William de Ferrers, Hawise, his wife, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Abbot of Burton, and divers other distinquished persons, granted to William Fitz-Herbert, the manor of Norbury, (near Ashburne) co. Derby. (the original charter, with the manor, are in the possesion of the present Mr Fitz-Herbert).