Alianor DE CLARE

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• Also Known As: Eleanor

Alianor married Sir Hugh LE DESPENSER, Knt. after 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster. Hugh (son of Sir Hugh The Younger LE DESPENSER and Isabel DE BEAUCHAMP) died on 24 Nov 1326 in hanged and quartered. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sir Edward LE DESPENSER died on 30 Sep 1342 in Siege of Vannes.
2. Isabel LE DESPENSER was born about 1312.
3. Gilbert LE DESPENCER
4. Hugh LE DESPENSER was born about 1308; died between 08 Feb 1348 and 1349; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.
5. Elizabeth LE DESPENSER was born in 1322 in Stoke, Gloucestershire, England; died on 13 Jul 1389.

Alianor married Sir William LA ZOUCHE about Jan 1328/9. William (son of Robert DE MORTIMER and Joyce LA ZOUCHE) was born in 1273 in King's Newton, Devonshire, England; died on 28 Feb 1336/7; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: 6th Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Earl of Clare

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Gilbert was also known as the 7th Earl of Hertford, and the 3rd Earl of Gloucester, commonly called the Red, married Alice, daughter of Guy, Earl of Angoulesme, the King's half-brother, from whom he was divorced. In the battle of Lewes was one of the commanders against King Henry III, the King being taken prisoner; afterwards returned to the Royal party and was one of the chief generals on that side at the battle of Evesham where the barons were vanquished and their leader, Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was slain.

Name:
Gilbert De Clare 'the red', Knt., Baron of Clare, Suffolk, 9th Earl of Clare, 3rd Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, son and heir of Richard de Clare and Maude de Lacy. He was born at Christ Church, co Hants on 2 Sep 1243.

He was married first to Alice De Lusignan, daughter of Hughes XI de Lusignam and Yolande de Bretagne. They had two daughters, and were divorced, his wife Alice said to have become hypochondriacal in 1271. At the death of King Henry III on 16 Noc 1272, the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I, who was then in Sicily returning from the Crusade. He was Joint Guardian of England during the King's absence. Proposals for his marriage to the King's daughter were made as early as may 1283. Their daughter Margaret is probably the daughter born at Caerphilly Castle in October 1292, her mother having been purified there on 23 November following the birth of a daughter.

Gilbert married Joan (of Acre) Of ENGLAND about 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey. Joan (daughter of Edward I "Longshanks"Of ENGLAND and Countess of Ponthieu Eleanor of CASTILE) was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Sufolk, England; was buried in Clare Priory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan, also known as Princess Joan Plantaganet, who was the 8th in direct descent from William The Conqueror.
Was betrothed to Hartmann (drowned 1281/December 1282) son of Emperor Rudolf.