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Individual Record for: Richard Fitzgilbert DE CLARE (male)

    Gilbert Fitzrichard DE CLARE+
  Gilbert Fitzgilbert DE CLARE      Family Record
Richard Fitzgilbert DE CLARE      Family Record Adelise DE CLERMONT+
Robert I DE BEAUMONT+
  Isabel DE BEAUMONT      Family Record
    Isabel DE VERMANDOIS+

Spouse Children
Eve MACMURROUGH
  (Family Record)		 Isabel DE CLARE

Event Date Details
Birth 1130 Place: Tunbridge, Kent, England
Birth 1125 Place: Tunbridge, Kent, England
Death 20 APR 1176 Place: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Death 20 APR 1176  

Attribute Details
Title Earl
Source:
bulkeley.txt
Notes:
[MyTree.GED]

Richard fitz Gilbert, aka "Strongbow" led the Norman invasion of Ireland a nd obtained
the great lordship of Leinster in 1171.

Strongbow was Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Netherwent,and Lord of Leinster be ing the most powerful of the marcher and Anglo-Irish magnates under King H enry II.

b. c. 1130
d. April 20, 1176, Dublin, Ire.
byname RICHARD STRONGBOW, also called RICHARD DE CLARE, Anglo-Norman lo rd whose invasion of Ireland in 1170 initiated the opening phase of the En glish conquest.
The son of Gilbert FitzGilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, he succeeded to h is father's estates in southern Wales in 1148/49. Pembroke had evidently l ost these lands by 1168; it was probably in that year that he agreed to a id Dermot MacMurrough, king of Leinster, who had been expelled from his ki ngdom by Roderic (Rory O'Connor), high king of Ireland. King Henry II of E ngland (reigned 1154-89) granted Pembroke permission to invade Ireland, a nd on Aug. 23, 1170, the earl landed near Waterford. Waterford and Dubl in quickly fell to the Normans. After the death of MacMurrough in May 117 1, Pembroke was besieged in Dublin by Roderic, but in September his forc es broke out and routed Roderic's army. In order to prevent Pembroke fr om setting himself up as an independent ruler, Henry II had him acknowled ge royal authority over his conquests in Leinster. Pembroke helped the ki ng suppress a rebellion in Normandy in 1173-74, and in return Henry grant ed him custody of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin. By the time Pembroke die d, all Ireland had been committed to his care, but within Ireland his supr emacy was recognized only in Leinster.

His son Gilbert de Striguil (or Strigoil) died unmarried, certainly befo re 1189, and as a minor was never styled earl. The earldom passed with Ric hard's daughter Isabel (d. 1220) to her husband William Marshal, the 1st E arl of Pembroke in the Marshal line.


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Notes Source: bulkeley.txt

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