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Individual Record for: Richard Fitzgilbert DE CLARE (male)

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bulkeley.txt

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Richard fitz Gilbert II, the eldest and heir, was allowed to marry Adeli z, sister of Ranulf des Gernons, earl of Chester, thus acquiring lan ds in Lincoln and Northampton as her marriage portion. He tried to consoli date the gains made by his father in Cardigan, but was killed in an ambu sh in 1136 and the lordship was soon recovered by the Welsh.

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being o ne of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himse lf and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in tho se parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in whi ch he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fe ll in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the mon ks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, a nd bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every ye ar out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Ea rl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other son s, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wale s. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2 nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Bur ke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertfo rd, Earls of Gloucester]

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