LINE A1
Sir Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare [c], Lord of Clare, b abt 1096, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, d 15 Apr 1136, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (slain). He md Adelize/Alice de Gernon abt 1116, daughter of Sir Ranulph III le Meschin, Earl of Chester, Lord of Cumberland, Vicomte d'Avranches, Vicomte of Bayeux, and Lucy.
Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare and Adelize/Alice de Gernon were:

• Adelize/Alice de Tonbridge b abt 1118, Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England. She md Sir William de Percy, Lord of Topcliffe, abt 1133, son of Alan de Percy and Emma de Gant.
• Sir Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford, b abt 1122.
• Rohese de Clare b abt 1130. She md [1] Sir Gilbert de Gant, and [2] Robert "the sewer" [d] aft 1156. Their daughter, Rohese md Simon de Kyme abt 1182.

• Sir Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, b abt 1153.
• Mabel de Clare b abt 1158, d 1204; md Nigel de Mowbray abt 1175.
• Aveline de Clare b abt 1166, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, d abt 4 Jun 1225. She md:
  
  [1] Sir William de Munchensy, Knight, 1184, son of Warin de Munchensy and Agnes Fitz John, and
  [2] Sir Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex, abt 1204, son of Piers de Lutegareshale and Maud.
  Sir Richard de Clare [f], Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, Lord of Clare, Magna Carta Surety, b abt 1153, Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England, d 30 Dec 1218. He md Amice Fitz Robert abt 1172, daughter of Sir William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont.
  Children of Richard de Clare and Amice Fitz Robert were:
  
  • Maud de Clare b abt 1176, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, d 1213; She md:
    
    [1] Sir Roger de Lacy abt 1190, son of John Fitz Eustace and Alice de Vere de Mandeville; and
    [2] Sir William de Braose abt 1206, son of William de Braose and Maud de St. Valery.
    • Sir Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, Magna Charta Surety, b abt 1182.
    Sir Gilbert de Clare [g], Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Magna Carta Surety, b 1182, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, d 25 Oct 1230, Penrose, Brittany. He md Isabel Marshal
    [h] 9 Oct 1217, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucester, England, daughter of Sir William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Mareschal of England, and Isabel de Clare.
    Children of Sir Gilbert de Clare and Isabel Marshal were:
    
    • Amicia de Clare b 27 May 1220, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales, d 30 Nov 1287.
    • Sir Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Clare, b 4 Aug 1222.
    • Isabel de Clare b 8 Nov 1226, Gloucestershire, England, d aft 10 Jul 1264; md Sir Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, 12 May 1240.
    • Adeliza de Clare b abt 1227, Gloucestershire, England.
    • Sir William de Clare, Knight, b 18 May 1228, Gloucestershire, England, d Retherford.
    • Gilbert de Clare (Priest) b 12 Sep 1229, Gloucestershire, England.
    • Agnes de Clare b abt 1230.
    Sir Richard de Clare [i], Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Lord of Clare, Knight, b 4 Aug 1222, Gloucestershire, England, d 15 Jul 1262, Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Kent, England (poisoned). He md Maud de Lacy abt 25 Jan 1237/38, Lincolnshire, England, daughter of Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, Magna Charta Surety, and Margaret de Quincy.
    Children of Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy were:
    
    • Isabel de Clare b May 1240, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d 1271; md William de Braose Jun 1258.
    • Sir Gilbert de Clare, Knight, Earl of Gloucester, b 2 Sep 1243. See LINE A1a
    • Robert de Clare b abt 1245, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d bef 12 Jul 1262.
    • Bogo de Clare b 21 Jul 1248, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d Oct 1294.
    • Margaret de Clare b 1249, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d Feb 1312/13; md Edmund of Cornwall 7 Oct 1272, Middlesex, England.
    • Rohese de Clare b 4 Aug 1252, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d aft 1316. She md Sir Roger de Mowbray, Lord Mowbray, 1270, son of Roger de Mowbray and Maud de Beauchamp.
    • Sir Thomas de Clare b abt 1255. See LINE A1b
    • Eglentine de Clare b 1257, prob Tonbridge, Kent, England, d 1257.

    LINE A1a
    Sir Gilbert de Clare [j], Knight, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Lord of Clare, "The Red Earl", b 2 Sep 1243, prob Tonbridge, Kent, England, d 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales. He md [1] Alice de Lusignan 1253, and [2] Joan of Acre [k] 30 Apr 1290, Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, England, daughter of Edward I, King of England, and Eleanor of Castile.
    Children of Gilbert de Clare and Joan Plantagenet were:
    

    • Gilbert de Clare b 10 May 1291, d 24 Jun 1314, Bannockburn; md Maud/Matilda de Burgh 29 Sep 1308, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England.
    • Alianore de Clare b Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales, d 30 Jun 1337, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; md (1) Sir Hugh le Despenser, Knight, Earl of Winchester, aft 14 Jun 1306, Westminster, Middlesex, England, son of Hugh le Despenser and Isabel de Beauchamp, and (2) William la Zouche aft 1326.
    • Margaret de Clare b Oct 1292, Tunbridge Castle, Warwickshire, England, d 9 Apr 1342, France. She md [1] Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1 Nov 1307, Tonbridge Castle, Warwickshire, England, and [2] Sir Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester, 28 Apr 1317, Windsor, Berkshire, England, son of Sir Hugh de Audley and Isolde de Mortimer.
    • Elizabeth de Clare b 16 Sep 1295, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, d 4 Nov 1360. She md [1] Sir John de Burgh 30 Sep 1308, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England, son of Sir Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and Margaret of Guines; and [2] Theobald de Verdun, Baron Verdun, 4 Feb 1314/15, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    LINE A1b
    Sir Thomas de Clare [l], Governor of London, Lord of Inchequin and Youghae, b abt 1255, prob Tonbridge, Kent, England, d Feb 1287/88, battle of Thomond, Connaught, Ireland. He md Juliane Fitz Maurice 1275, Essex, England, daughter of Sir Maurice Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald, Justiciar of Ireland, Lord of Offaly, and Maud de Prendergast.
    Children of Thomas de Clare and Juliane Fitz Maurice were:
    
    • Margaret de Clare b abt 1284, d 1333. She md Sir Bartholomew de Badlesmere bef 1308, son of Guncelin de Badlesmere, Justiciar of Kent.
    • Maud de Clare b abt 1286, d 1326/27. She md [1] Sir Robert de Clifford 13 Nov 1295, son of Roger de Clifford and Isabel de Vipont, and [2] Sir Robert de Welles.
    LINE A2
    Sir Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare [m], Earl of Pembroke, b 21 Sep 1100, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d 1148/49. He md Isabel de Beaumont bef 1130, Tonbridge, Kent, England, daughter of Sir Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan, and Isabel de Vermandois.
    Child of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare and Isabel de Beaumont was:

    Sir Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare [n] "Strongbow", Earl of Pembroke, b abt 1130, Tonbridge, Kent, England, d abt 20 Apr 1176, Dublin, Ireland. He md Eva MacMurrough 26 Aug 1171, Waterford, Ireland, daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, and More o'Toole. She was b abt 1145, Leinster, Ireland, d 1177. He also had a child by an Unknown Mistress.
    Child of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare and Eva MacMurrough was:

    Isabel de Clare b 1172, Pembroke, Wales, d 17 Jan 1239/40. She md Sir William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Mareschal of England, Aug 1189, London, England, son of John Fitz Gilbert, Mareschal of England, and Sibylla of Salisbury.

    Child of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare and Unknown Mistress was:
    

    Basile de Clare [o] b abt 1156, prob Ireland, d abt 1203. She md [1] Robert de Quincy 1172, [2] Raymond Fitz William/Carew, Constable of Leinster, abt 1173, and [3] Geoffrey Fitz Robert, Baron of Kells, aft 1188. The daughter of Basile de Clare and Robert de Quincy was Maud de Quincy, b 1172/73. She md Philip de Prendergast.
    

    LINE A3
    Baldwin Fitz Gilbert b abt 1102, of Bourne, Deeping, and Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, d 1154. He md Adeline de Rollos abt 1123, daughter of Richard de Rollos and Godiva d'Envermeu. She was b abt 1108, of Deeping and Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
    Child of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert and Adeline de Rollos was:

    Emma Fitz Baldwin b abt 1134, of Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, d 1168. She md Hugh Wake abt 1149, son of Geoffrey Wac, Seigneur of Negreville.

  LINE B
  Robert Fitz Richard b abt 1082, d 1134-36. He md Maud de St. Liz abt 1114, daughter of Sir Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and Maud de Huntingdon.
  Children of Robert de Clare and Maud de St. Liz were:
  
  • Sir Walter Fitz Robert b abt 1124.
  • Maud Fitz Robert b bef 1132, of Essex, England. She md William d'Aubigny abt 1146, son of Sir William d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir, and Cecily Bigod.
  Sir Walter Fitz Robert, Lord of Little Dunmow, b abt 1124, of Little Dunmow, Essex, England, d 1198. He md [1] Maud de Bohun, and [2] Maud de Lucy abt 1158, daughter of Sir Richard de Lucy, Knight, Justiciar of England, and Rohese de Boulogne.
  Children of Walter Fitz Robert and Maud de Lucy were:
  
  • Maud Fitz Walter b abt 1161, Essex, England, d aft 1196. She md William de Luvetot abt 1175, son of Richard de Luvetot and Cecily de Brito.
  • Sir Robert Fitz Walter, Magna Charta Surety, b abt 1175, of Dunmow, Essex, England, d 9 Dec 1235; md Rohese.
  Sir Robert Fitz Walter, Magna Charta Surety, b abt 1175, of Dunmow, Essex, England, d 9 Dec 1235. He md Rohese abt 1200. She was b abt 1184.
  Child of Robert Fitz Walter and Rohese was:
  

  Sir Walter Fitz Robert, Lord of Little Dunmow, b abt 1218, of Dunmow, Essex, England, d bef 10 Apr 1258. He md Ida/Idonea Longespee abt 1242, daughter of Sir William II Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, and Idonea de Canville.
  Child of Walter Fitz Robert and Idonea de Camville was:

  Ela Fitz Walter b abt 1245, of Maxstoke and Solihull, Warwickshire, England. She md Sir William de Odingsells, Justiciar of Ireland, abt 1258, son of William de Odingsells and Joan.

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  SOURCES:
  CP Vol III[242-244], Vol VI[498-503], Vol X[348-357]; AR: Line 8[29-30], Line 9[29-30], Line 11[29-30], Line 54[30-33], Line 63[27-30], Line 63A[27-28], Line 64[31-32], Line 66[25-27], Line 74[32], Line 143[28], Line 148[25-28], Line 175[7], Line 177A[7], Line 184[2-4], Line 184A[3-5], Line 246[24-25], Line 246B[24-27], Line 246D[24-25], Line 252[28]; SGM: Douglas Richardson.
  

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