ELEVENTH GENERATION

411. Lord Gilbert de Clare was born before 1066. He died between 1114 and 1117. He was also known as Gilbert Fitzrichard. Lord of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, and Cardigan, Wales. He founded the Priory at Clare in 1090 and was granted the Lordship of Cardigan by Henry I from 1107-1111. Joined the rebellion against King William Rufus and lost his castle of Tonebruge, dying shortly theeafter. He was a benefactor of the church.

He was married to Adelaide de CLERMONT (daughter of HUGH de CREIL and Margaret de ROUCY). Adelaide de CLERMONT was born after 1080. Lord Gilbert de Clare and Adelaide de CLERMONT had the following children:

496 i. Rohese FitzGilbert.
+497 ii. Richard FITZGILBERT de Clare.
+498 iii. Earl Gilbert de Clare.
499 iv. Baldwin FITZGILBERT was born after 1100 in Lincolnshire, England. He died in 1154. Lord of Bourne, Deeping and Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire and founder of Bourne Abbey. Birth year after 1095 based on the fact that his mother was born after 1080.
500 v. Walter FitzGilbert was born after 1095.
501 vi. Alice de CLARE died in 1163 in St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England. Alice survived her husband 22 years. She became a nun at St. Osyth's Priory after his death.
502 vii. Margaret de Clare.
503 viii. Hervey de Clare.

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