Gilbert de Clare, ob. 1229 = Isabella, daughter of William Mareschall, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, | Earl of Pembroke in right of his wife descended from Richard, founder | Isabella de Clare, and granddaughter of of the House of Clare (whose | Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, 4th son was abbot of Ely) and | surnamed “Strongbow” (who married great-grandson of Richard the | a dau. of the Irish prince Dermot). Fearless, Duke of Normandy. | The family settled in Wales | in the xii c. Gilbert (ob. 1148) | being created Earl of Pembroke | by Stephen in 1138. Attests, | with Hubert de Burgh, John’s | charters to the town of | Cambridge. | +--------+ | Richard, ob. 1262 = Matilda de Lacy, dau. of the Earl of Gloucester and Lord of | Earl of Lincoln. the Honour of Clare. He | and his father were | the acknowledged heads of the | baronage and guardians of | Magna Charta. | | Gilbert, 1243-1295 = in 1290 Joan, Earl of Gloucester, Clare and | dau. of Edw. I. Hertford, called ‘the red.’ The | = 2ndly Ralph de greatest of the barons in the | Monthermer. reign of Edw. I. Supported de | Montfort till after the battle of | Lewes. Endowed Merton scholars. | | | +-----------+--------------------+-------------+----+ | | | | | Eleanor = Hugh le Margaret = 1st Piers Elizabeth Lady of the | Despenser. Gaveston Honour of Clare, b. at | = 2nd Hugh Acre during the crusade | | Audley. _c._ 1291-2. | FOUNDER OF CLARE COLLEGE Gilbert killed at | Bannockburn June 24 | married = 1st John de Burgh 1314, one of the | 3rd Earl of Ulster “ordainers.” | and 4th Earl of | Connaught. +-------------------------+ = 2nd Lord Verdon. | = 3rd Roger d’Amory. | | Margaret = Ralph Earl of Stafford, | ob. 1372. |