de Clare Family - Ourfolk
Sir Gilbert de Clare 2 SEP 1243 - 7 DEC 1295
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Sir Gilbert was born on 2 SEP 1243 in Hampshire, England and died on 7 DEC 1295 (age: 52) in Monmouthshire, England . He was the son of Earl Richard de Clare (1222 - 15 JUL 1262) and Maud de Lacy (de Clare) (4 AUG 1222 - BEF 10 MAR 1288). Sir Gilbert was married to Joan of Acre (de Clare) on 30 APR 1290. Joan was born on 1272 in Acre, Palestine and died on 23 APR 1307 in Suffolk, England and was buried in Abbey, Tewksbury, Gloustershire, England . She was the daughter of King Edward I Plantagenet (17 JUN 1239 - 8 JUL 1307) and Princess Leonor of Castile and Leon (Plantagenet) (1244 - 29 NOV 1290). View Family Chart Sir Gilbert was married to Alice de Lusignan (de Clare) on 1257. Alice was born on ABT 1240 and died on 9 FEB 1291 in Warren, Sussex, England . She was the daughter of Hugh de Lusignan, XI (1220 - 1250) and Yolande de Dreux (de Lusignan) (1218 - 10 OCT 1272). View Family Chart - - -
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- Marlais Castle - (north view) near Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, south Wales.
Earl of Clare, Herford and Gloucester.
When Gilbert married Joan of Acre, he gave up the inheritance of all his castles and manors in England and Wales to her father, Edward I,
for him to dispose of them as he saw fit. Edward settled them on the issue of the marriage.
Gilbert built Caerphilly Castle, in Glamorgan, which can still be seen and visited.
Gilbert 'the Red' as he
was known after the fiery color of his hair - was to become involved
in the turbulent English politics of the 1260s. At the time of his
father's death Gilbert was a minor, though he was given possession
of the Gloucester estates in 1263. To begin with, Gilbert continued
in good terms with his powerful neighbor, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.
However, over the next few years a series of military and political
events was to completely change this situation; the building of de
Clare's masterpiece Caerphilly Castle,
See http://www.castlewales.com/caerphil.html Caerphilly Castle
By 1287 Gilbert de Clare had cleared the road to Brecon and had
begun another castle on his new frontier at Morlais near Merthyr
Tydfil. Here he came into conflict with Humphrey de Bohun (d.1298),
the earl of Hereford, who disputed possession both of the land and the
castle at Morlais. Earl Gilbert was to experience further difficulties
just a few years later. In the autumn of 1294, the Welsh broke in revolt
under Madog ap Llywelyn, mainly against the actions of new royal
administrators in north and west Wales. The uprising quickly spread to
Glamorgan, where it was led by Morgan ap Maredudd, a local Welsh
ruler dispossessed by Earl Gilbert in 1270, and attacks were directed
against the de Clare estates. Morlais Castle was captured, and half the
town of Caerphilly was burnt - although the castle itself held out.
Eventually the rebels surrendered, not to de Clare but to the king
himself.
Earl Gilbert died at the age of 52 in December 1295, and his estates were
administered by his widow until her death in 1307. The young heir, another
Gilbert, was killed at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. His untimely death
meant the extinction of the de Clare male line, and the Gloucester
inheritance was divided among three sisters.
When Gilbert married Joan of Acre, he gave up the inheritance of all his castles and manors in England and Wales to her father, Edward I,
for him to dispose of them as he saw fit. Edward settled them on the issue of the marriage.
Gilbert built Caerphilly Castle, in Glamorgan, which can still be seen and visited.
Gilbert 'the Red' as he
was known after the fiery color of his hair - was to become involved
in the turbulent English politics of the 1260s. At the time of his
father's death Gilbert was a minor, though he was given possession
of the Gloucester estates in 1263. To begin with, Gilbert continued
in good terms with his powerful neighbor, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.
However, over the next few years a series of military and political
events was to completely change this situation; the building of de
Clare's masterpiece Caerphilly Castle,
See http://www.castlewales.com/caerphil.html Caerphilly Castle
By 1287 Gilbert de Clare had cleared the road to Brecon and had
begun another castle on his new frontier at Morlais near Merthyr
Tydfil. Here he came into conflict with Humphrey de Bohun (d.1298),
the earl of Hereford, who disputed possession both of the land and the
castle at Morlais. Earl Gilbert was to experience further difficulties
just a few years later. In the autumn of 1294, the Welsh broke in revolt
under Madog ap Llywelyn, mainly against the actions of new royal
administrators in north and west Wales. The uprising quickly spread to
Glamorgan, where it was led by Morgan ap Maredudd, a local Welsh
ruler dispossessed by Earl Gilbert in 1270, and attacks were directed
against the de Clare estates. Morlais Castle was captured, and half the
town of Caerphilly was burnt - although the castle itself held out.
Eventually the rebels surrendered, not to de Clare but to the king
himself.
Earl Gilbert died at the age of 52 in December 1295, and his estates were
administered by his widow until her death in 1307. The young heir, another
Gilbert, was killed at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. His untimely death
meant the extinction of the de Clare male line, and the Gloucester
inheritance was divided among three sisters.
After Gilbert de Clare died in 1295, she married, to her father's great displeasuree, second, Ralph de Monttemer, Earl of Gloucester and Earl of Atholl.
She was a remarkable active woman in the dozen years following the Red Earl's death. By the terms of the marriage agreement in 1290 the entire inheritance was enfeoffed jointly on Sir Gilbert and Joan. This meant that it would not be possible for her father, Edward I, to grant her only a third of the estate and control the rest himself
during the long minority of their son Gilbert.
Joan was thus the sole mistress of the inheritance and she controlled it with remarkable ability. In 1297, much to Edward's displeasure, she secretly married an otherwise obscure knight in her 'familia', Ralph Monthermer.
She was a remarkable active woman in the dozen years following the Red Earl's death. By the terms of the marriage agreement in 1290 the entire inheritance was enfeoffed jointly on Sir Gilbert and Joan. This meant that it would not be possible for her father, Edward I, to grant her only a third of the estate and control the rest himself
during the long minority of their son Gilbert.
Joan was thus the sole mistress of the inheritance and she controlled it with remarkable ability. In 1297, much to Edward's displeasure, she secretly married an otherwise obscure knight in her 'familia', Ralph Monthermer.
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