Sir Gilbert DE CLARE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Earl Of Gloucester
• Fact: Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
• Fact: 1215, Member of the "Magna Charta"

Notes:

Gilbert, fifth Earl of Hertford, was first Earl of Gloucester and of Hertford jointly; opposed King John and was, like his father, one of the sureties to secure performance by that King of the Magna Charta; married Isabel, daughter and co-heir of William Mareshal, Earl of Pembroke.

Gilbert married Isabel MARSHALL on 09 Oct 1217. Isabel (daughter of Sir William MARSHALL and Isabel DE CLARE) was born on 09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle; died on 17 Jan 1240 in Berkhamstead, England; was buried in Beaulieu, Southampton, england. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sir Richard DE CLARE was born on 04 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 15 Jul 1262 in Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Kent, England; was buried in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
2. Isabel DE CLARE was born in 1226; died after 1264.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 6th Earl of Clare, Hertford, and Gloucester
• Name: Richard De Clare The Surety
• Fact: 1215, Magna Charta Surety

Notes:

Richard was in the Magna Charta Surety. Was one of the 25 sureties to secure performance of the Magna Charta by King John.

Richard married Amice Countess of GLOUCESTER. Amice (daughter of William FITZ ROBERT and Hawise DE BEAUMONT) was born in 1160 in Tewkesbury, England; died between 01 Jan 1224 and 1225. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Amice Meullent

Notes:

Daughter of William, Earl of Gloucester and sole heir to all that earldom.