4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, III

1180 - 1230  (50 years)

• Name	Gilbert de Clare  [1, 2]
  Title	4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester
  Suffix	III
  Birth	1180	Hertford, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1215
  	Magna Carta Baron
  		(Historic) Magna Carta The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin, using standard abbreviations of the period, authenticated with the Great Seal of King John. The original wax seal was lost over the centuries. -- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
  		Magna Carta Signing
  _MILT	Between 1215 and 1217	England
  	First Barons' War, fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner
  		War-First Barons
  Death	25 Oct 1230	St Laurent, Gironde, Aquitaine, France   [1]
  Burial	Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
  	Tewksberry Abbey
  		Gilbert de Clare
  Person ID	I20179	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Earl of Clare Richard de Clare,   b. 1153, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 1217, Oxfordshire, England (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Countess of Hertford and Gloucesterde Mellent Caen Amice FitzWilliam,   b. 1160, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 1 Jan 1224, Devon, England (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1179	Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
  	Sometime before 1198, Earl Richard and his wife Amice were ordered to separate by the Pope on grounds of consanguinity. They separated for a time because of this order but apparently reconciled their marriage with the Pope later on
  Family ID	F2735	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Countess of Cornwall Isabel Marshall,   b. 9 Oct 1200, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 17 Jan 1240, Hertfordshire, England (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	9 Oct 1217  [1]
  	de Clare was taken prisoner in 1217 by William Marshal, whose daughter Isabel he later married on her 17th birthday atTewkesbury Abbey
  		Abbey Tewkesbury
  Children	1. Eighth Earl of Clare, Sixth Earl of Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester Richard de Clare, IV,   b. 4 Aug 1222, England d. 14 Jul 1262, Waltham, Kent, England (Age 39 years)  [natural]   2. Isabel de Clare,   b. 8 Nov 1226, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 10 Jul 1264, Cleveland Port, Yorkshire, England (Age 37 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F7486	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1180 - Hertford, Hertfordshire, England _MILT - First Barons' War, fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner - Between 1215 and 1217 - England Death - 25 Oct 1230 - St Laurent, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Burial - - Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  War-First Barons

  
  

• Sources

  [S874] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;). Birth date: 1180 Birth place: Hertford, Herts, England Death date: 25 Oct 1230 Death place: Penros, Brittany, France Marriage date: 9 Oct 1217 Marriage place: [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees.