+679 i.
Alina de Clare.
+680 ii.
Countess Isabel de Clare.
681 iii.
Gilbert de Striguil was born in 1173. He died between 1185 and 1189.
(146) Third Earl of Pembroke, 1176-1185.591. Richard de Clare
was born about 1130. He died on 20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.
He was also known as Richard FitzGilbert. From Encyclopedia Britannica Online,
article titled "Pembroke, Richard FitzGilbert, 2nd Earl of:"
"byname RICHARD STRONGBOW, also called RICHARD DE CLARE, Anglo-Norman lord
whose invasion of Ireland in 1170 initiated the opening phase of the English
conquest.
"The son of Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke, he succeeded to his
father's estates in southern Wales in 1148/49. Pembroke had evidently lost these
lands by 1168; it was probably in that year that he agreed to aid Dermot MacMurrough,
king of Leinster, who had been expelled from his kingdom by Roderic (Rory O'Connor),
high king of Ireland. King Henry II of England (reigned 1154-89) granted Pembroke
permission to invade Ireland, and on Aug. 23, 1170, the earl landed near Waterford.
Waterford and Dublin quickly fell to the Normans. After the death of MacMurrough
in May 1171, Pembroke was besieged in Dublin by Roderic, but in September his
forces broke out and routed Roderic's army. In order to prevent Pembroke from
setting himself up as an independent ruler, Henry II had him acknowledge royal
authority over his conquests in Leinster. Pembroke helped the king suppress a
rebellion in Normandy in 1173-74, and in return Henry granted him custody of
Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin. By the time Pembroke died, all Ireland had been
committed to his care, but within Ireland his supremacy was recognized only in
Leinster.
"His son Gilbert de Striguil (or Strigoil) died unmarried, certainly before
1189, and as a minor was never styled earl. The earldom passed with Richard's
daughter Isabel (d. 1220) to her husband William Marshal, the 1st Earl of Pembroke
in the Marshal line."
He was married to Aoife (Eva) Macmurchada (daughter
of King Diarmait Macmurchada and Mor
ingen Muirchertaig O'TOOLE) on 26 Aug 1171 in Waterford, Ireland.
Aoife (Eva) Macmurchada died after 1186. She was the Countess of
Ireland. At her father's death, and through her, Richard de Clare became the
ruler of Leinster. Richard de Clare and Aoife (Eva) Macmurchada had the following
children:
+679 i.
Alina de Clare.
+680 ii.
Countess Isabel de Clare.
681 iii.
Gilbert de Striguil was born in 1173. He died between 1185 and 1189.
(146) Third Earl of Pembroke, 1176-1185.
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