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Earl Richard "De Tonbridge" FitzGilbert - also known as: De Clare - was born about 1024, lived in Bienfaite, Normandy, France and died about 1090 in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England .
He was the son of Count Gilbert "Crispin" de Brionne and Constance de Eu.
Earl Richard married Rochese Giffard about 1054 in England.
Rochese was born about 1034 in Longueville, Normandy, France.
She was the daughter of Walter Giffard de Bolebec and Agnes Ermentrude Fleitel.
She died after 1133 .
Earl Richard -
- Chief Justice of England. Earl of Buckingham.
accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. He took his new title from the fief of Clare in Suffolk. Richard acquired the earldom of Gloucester by marriage, and became the leading barons of the south-eastern March by early in the 13th century.
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Rochese Fitzrichard de Clare was born in 1067 in Tunbridge, Kent, England and died in 1121 in England .
Rochese married Eudo de Rie about 1088.
Eudo was born about 1063, lived in Normandy, France.
He was the son of Hubert de Rie.
He died after 12 Jul 1080 .
See de Rie family for children.
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Earl Gilbert de Clare was born before 1066, lived in Tonebridge and died in 1114/1117 in England .
Earl Gilbert -
- 2nd Earl of Claire.
Present at the murder of William II in 1100. Received lands in Wales from Henry I, including Cardigan Castle in Wales.
Built a Castle at Caerdigan, Pembrokeshire, Wales. A marriage brought it into the hands of William Marshall, who soon controlled the strongest castles on the peninsula. The keep has been transformed into a modern house. Of all the castles that finally came into William Marshall's possession, this was the most important to the area. Scholars believe there is evidence that it was originally built of wood.
See De Claire
family for continuation of family line.
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Gilbert de Clare
from a stained glass window at Tewkesbury Abbey
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de Clare family Arms
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Cardigan Castle
in the town of Cardigan, Ceredigion, west Wales
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Tewkesbury Abbey
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