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Richard de Clare.498. Earl Gilbert de Clare was born about 1100. He died on 6 Jan 1147/48. He was also known as Gilbert Fitzgilbert. He was named First Earl of Pembroke in 1138; became a baron by obtaining the estates of his paternal uncles Roger and Walter, both of whom died without offspring. When he was named Earl of Pembroke, King Stephen also gave him the rape and castle of Pevensy. When the Empress landed in 1139, Gilbert marched with the King to Arundel. At the battle of Lincoln, Feb. 2, 1140/41, he was one of those nobles who fled when the first division of Stephen's army was put to flight, but then reallied to the Queen after she recovered London in June. He was with Stephen at the siege of Oxford in 1142 and, in 1144, invaded South Wales and captured or built (differing versions from different sources) Carmarthen Castle. He was a benefactor to the abbey of Tintern and the priories of Lewes , Southward and St. Neots, and the Templars. (Complete Peerage, Vol X:348-350)
He was married to Isabel de Beaumont (daughter of
Robert de Beaumont and Isabel de VERMANDOIS).
Isabel de Beaumont was born about 1104.
(121) She died after 1172.(122)
Earl Gilbert de Clare and Isabel de Beaumont had the following children:
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Richard de Clare.
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