Sir Thomas Reyney, knight, of Rowd and Shryston, in the County of Somerset.
King of England Edmund Plantagenet
Styled "Crouchback" Because he habitually wore a cross on his back.
Became 3rd Baron and was in great favor with King Edward III, being his constant companion in arms through the years, the king having given him lands before he was of full age in recognition of the splendid services rendered by his predecessors. Mobray assisted at the siege of Nantes and the raising of the siege of Aguillon. In the 20th of King Edward III he was at the Battle of Durham, and he was for a long time governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
While yet a minor was activley engaged in the wars of Scotland and in consideration of these services he was given all his lands before he became of age. Being sheriff of Yorkshire and governor of the city of York in the 6th of King Edward II, he was then commanded to seize upon Henry dePercy, a great Baron of the north becuase Percy had allowed Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, to escape from Scarborough Castle when he had undertaken to keep him in safety. When he took part in the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, he was with him amd others imprisoned at the Battle of Boroughbridge, and immediately hanged at York, in the Year 1321, when his lands were siezed by the crown, and Aliva, his widow, with her son, were imprisoned in the Tower of London. She was the daughter of William de Braos and his wife Aliva Multon and had property in her own right, some of which she conferred upon Hugh le Deespencer, Earl of Winchester, in order to relieve her desperate situation.
Also a descendant of the Surety Richard de Clare (notes elsewhere).
This line also decends from Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor.
In the 5th of King Edward II, he was one of the commissioners appointed to negotiate peace with King Robert Bruce of Scotland. He was a Knight of the Garter under King Henry IV
Descendant of the Surety Barons Richard and Gilbert de Clare
Earl of Gloucester and Hertford Richard de Clare
A year after he became of age, he was in an expedition against the Welsh. Through his mother, he inherited a fifth part of the Marshall estates, including Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland. He joined in the Barons letter to the Pope in 1246 against the exactions of the Curia in England. He was among those in opposition to the King's half-brothers, who in 1247 visited England, where they were very unpopular, but afterwards he was reconciled to them. On 20 April 1248, he had letters of protection for going overseas on a pilgrimmage.
At Christmas 1248, he kept his Court with great splendor on the Welsh border. In the next year, he went on a pilgrimmage to St. Edmund at Pontigny, returning in June. In 1252 he observed Easter at Tewkesbury, and then went across the seas to restore the honour of his brother William, who had been badly worsted in a tournament and had lost all his arms and horses. The Earl is said to have succeeded in recovering all, and was to have returned home with great credit, and in September he was present at the "Round Rable' tournament at Walden. In August 1252/3, the King crossed over to Gascony woth his army, and to his great indignation the Earl refused to accompany him and went to Ireland instead.
In August 1255,de Clare and John Maunsel were sent to Scotland to find out the truth regarding reports which had reached the King that his son-in-law, Alexander, King of Scotland, was being coerced by Robert de Roos and John Baliol. If possible, they were to bring the young King and Queen to him. De Clare and his companion, pretending to be two of Roo's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defence. They gained access to the Scottish Queen, who made her complaints to them that she and her husband had been kept apart. They threatened Roos with dire punishments, so that he promised to go to the King. Meanwhile, the Scottish magistrates, indignant that their castle of Edinburgh's being in English hands, proposes to besiege it, but they desisted when they found out they would be besieging their King and Queen. The King of Scotland apparently travelled South with de Clare, for on 24 September they were with King Henry III at Newminster, Northumberland. In July 1258, de Clare he fell ill, being poisoned with his brother William, as it was supposed, by his steward, Walter de Scotenay. Earl recovered, but his brother died.
Richard de Clare died at John Griol's manor at Asbenfield in Waltham, near Canterbury, 15 July 1262, it being rumored that he had been poisoned at the table of Piers de Savoy. On the following Monday, he was carried to Canterbury where a mass for the dead was sung, after which his body was taken to the canon's church at Tonbridge and interred in the choir. Thence it was taken to Tewkesbury and buried 28 July 1262, with great solemnity in the presence of two bishops and eight abbots in the presbytery, at his father's right hand.