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CLARE 243 sue. to the English possessions (*) of his father. He was i. before 1066, and was founder of the Priory at Clare, 1090. By Henry I he was granted, 1 107- 1 1 1 1, the Lordship of Cardigan. C") He tn. Adeliz, da. of Hugh, Count of Clermont in Beauvaisis, by Marguerite, da. of Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy.Q He J. 11 14 or 11 17. His widow ;«., 2ndly, (.Bouchard) de Montmorency. III. 1117.^ 3. Richard FitzGilbert, sty/ed also de Clare, Lord of Clare, fife, s. and h.('^) He is often supposed to have been cr. EARL OF HERTFORD by King Stephen, if not by Henry I. There appears, however, to be no ground for this belief In 1 130, he is styled on the Pipe Roll (not "£«;-/," either as Earl of Hertford, or Earl Richard, but simply) Ric' Jj/.' Gisl,' as is he also() when his death is recorded. He m. AdeliZjO sister of Ranulph " des Gernons,"(=) Earl of Chester. Hewasfounderof theprioryofTonbridge. He d., being surprised and slain by the Welsh, near Abergavenny, 1 5 Apr. 1 1 3 6, and was bur. at Gloucester. His widow was rescued from the Welsh by Miles of Gloucester. (*) His br. Roger FitzRichard (living 11 30) inherited the lands in Normandy. This Roger, who possibly was the eldest son, d. s.p. C") See J. H. Round's Studies in Peerage and Family History, p. 214. V.G. (*=) " Pere Anselme," but see note by J. R. Planche in 'Journal of the Brit. Arch. Assoc, vol. xxvi, p. 150. {^) His yr. br., Gilbert de Clare, was cr. by King Stephen (11 38?) Earl of Pembroke, and was father of Richard, Earl of Pembroke, who d. s.p.m., 5 Apr. 1 176. (') The fact that this Richard was not created an Earl is also confirmed by a MS. cartulary, where a tenant appears as holding "de Gilleberto, filio Ricardi, et de Ricardo, filio ejus, et postea, de Comite Gilleberto, filio Ricardi." Courthope has added to the account, given in Nicolas, of this Richard, that he " possessed the third penny of that county [Hertford] before or early in the reign of King Stephen." This would settle the matter, // true, but the facts appear as under: " Madox, it seems, states that Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex (1199-1213), had a grant of the Shrievalty of Essex and Herts, with a saving of the Earl of Claret third penny. Their Lordships make a note of this in their Report (vol. iii, p. 69), and subsequently dis- cover that *as Geoffrey de Mandeville received the Shrievalty from the Empress, and as he was son of Geoffrey FitzPiers, who may have been son of Peter, the Domesday Sheriff", the third penny of the Earl of Clare must be anterior to the grant by the Empress; his family must therefore have had the third penny either before, or early in, the reign of Stephen' (vol. iii, p. 125). This argument however, is based upon their Lordships having confused the Earl Geoffrey (of Essex) of 12 13, with the Earl Geoffrey of 1 1 41." (ex inform, J. Horace Round). As to this Adeliz, and as to the conjecture in Coll. Top. et Gen. (vol. i, p. 388) concerning her, see Planch^'s article as in note "c" above. (s) She so describes herself in the Cartulary of Gloucester Abbey.