165429454. Earl of Gloucester and Hertford Gilbert de Clare
Being under age at his father's death, he was a ward of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hertford. In April 1264 he led the massacre of the Jews at Canterbury as Simon de Montfort had done in London. His castles at Kingston and Tonbridge were taken by the King, who, however, allowed his Countess, who was in the latter to go free because she was his niece: and on 12 May he and Montfort were denounced as traitors. Tow days later, just before the Battle of Lewes on 14 May, Montfort knoghted the Earl and his brother Thomas. The Earl commanded the second line of battle and took the King prisoner, having hamstrung his horse. As Prince Edward had also been captured, Montfort and the Earl were now supreme. On 20 October following, however, the Earl and his associates were excommunicated by the Papal Legate and placed under an interdict.
In the following month, by which time they had obtained possession of Gloucester and Bristol, the Prince and the Earl were proclaimed to be rebels. They at once entered on an active campaign, the Earl, in order to prevent Montfort's escape, destroying the ships at Bristol and the Bridge over the Severn. He shared the Prince's victory at Kenilworth on 16 July, and in the battle of Evesham, 4 August, in which Montfort was slain, commanded the second division and contributed largely to the vistory. The castle of Abergavenny was committted to his charge on 25 October and on the 29th the honor of Brecknock was added. On 24 June 1268 he took the cross at Northhampton, and at Michaelmas his disputes with Llewelyn were submitted to arbitration. but without a final settlement. At the end of the yeard in 1268 he refused to obey a King's summonsj to attend parliament, alleging that, owing to the constant inroads of Lleweln, his Welsh estates needed his presence for their defense. At the death of Henry VIII, 16 November 12722, the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I, who was then in Sicily on his return from the Crusade. The next day, with the Bishop of York, he entered London and proclaimed peace to all, Christians and Jews, and for the first time, secured the acknowledgment of the right of the King's eldest son to succeed to the throne immediately. Thereafter, he was joint Guardian of England, during the King's absence, and on the arrival in England in August 1274 entertained him at Tonbridge Castle. On 3 July 1290, the Earl gave a great banquet at Clerkenwell to celebrate his marriage to the Princess Joan in the previous May.
thereafter, he and she are said to have taken the Cross and set out for the Holy Land, but in September he signed the Baron's letter to the Pope, and on 2 November surrendered to the King his claim to the advowson of the bishopricd of Llandaff. In the next year, 1291, his quarrels with the Earl of Hertford about Brecknock culminated in a private war between them. Both were imprisoned by the King, and the Earl of Gloucester, as the aggressordd, was fined 10,000 marks, and the Earl of Hertford 1,000 marks. He died at Monmouth Castle on 7 December 1295 and was buried at Tewkesbuty pn the left side of his grandfather Gilbert de Clare.Being under age at his father's death, he was a ward of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hertford. In April 1264 he led the massacre of the Jews at Canterbury as Simon de Montfort had done in London. His castles at Kingston and Tonbridge were taken by the King, who, however, allowed his Countess, who was in the latter to go free because she was his niece: and on 12 May he and Montfort were denounced as traitors. Tow days later, just before the Battle of Lewes on 14 May, Montfort knoghted the Earl and his brother Thomas. The Earl commanded the second line of battle and took the King prisoner, having hamstrung his horse. As Prince Edward had also been captured, Montfort and the Earl were now supreme. On 20 October following, however, the Earl and his associates were excommunicated by the Papal Legate and placed under an interdict.
In the following month, by which time they had obtained possession of Gloucester and Bristol, the Prince and the Earl were proclaimed to be rebels. They at once entered on an active campaign, the Earl, in order to prevent Montfort's escape, destroying the ships at Bristol and the Bridge over the Severn. He shared the Prince's victory at Kenilworth on 16 July, and in the battle of Evesham, 4 August, in which Montfort was slain, commanded the second division and contributed largely to the vistory. The castle of Abergavenny was committted to his charge on 25 October and on the 29th the honor of Brecknock was added. On 24 June 1268 he took the cross at Northhampton, and at Michaelmas his disputes with Llewelyn were submitted to arbitration. but without a final settlement. At the end of the yeard in 1268 he refused to obey a King's summonsj to attend parliament, alleging that, owing to the constant inroads of Lleweln, his Welsh estates needed his presence for their defense. At the death of Henry VIII, 16 November 12722, the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I, who was then in Sicily on his return from the Crusade. The next day, with the Bishop of York, he entered London and proclaimed peace to all, Christians and Jews, and for the first time, secured the acknowledgment of the right of the King's eldest son to succeed to the throne immediately. Thereafter, he was joint Guardian of England, during the King's absence, and on the arrival in England in August 1274 entertained him at Tonbridge Castle. On 3 July 1290, the Earl gave a great banquet at Clerkenwell to celebrate his marriage to the Princess Joan in the previous May.
thereafter, he and she are said to have taken the Cross and set out for the Holy Land, but in September he signed the Baron's letter to the Pope, and on 2 November surrendered to the King his claim to the advowson of the bishopricd of Llandaff. In the next year, 1291, his quarrels with the Earl of Hertford about Brecknock culminated in a private war between them. Both were imprisoned by the King, and the Earl of Gloucester, as the aggressordd, was fined 10,000 marks, and the Earl of Hertford 1,000 marks. He died at Monmouth Castle on 7 December 1295 and was buried at Tewkesbuty pn the left side of his grandfather Gilbert de Clare.
165429455. Princess of Acre Joan
She was first betrothed to Herman, son of the King of Germany, who died in 1282.
After Earl Gilbert's death, to her father's (King Edward I) great displeasure, she maried clandestinely in the early part of May 1297, Ralph de Monthermer a member of the late Earl's household. On 29 January 1296/97 the eschetor was ordered to take u9nto his hand all the land, good and chattels of Joan, Countess of Gloucester, from which it might be inferred that the King suspected her intentions with regard to Monthermer, sought to coerce her to abandon her marriage be degradation and loss of estates. On 16 March the King gave his assent to her marriage with Amadeus of Savoy, and therefore must have been ignorant of her marriage if it had already taken place, and on 12 May it was ordered that Joan whould have reasonable allowance for herself and children. It would seem that by 3 July the King had discovered Joan's marriage with Monthermer, for he took her lands into his own hand, but by July 31 when he certainly knew of the marriage, he appears to have been partly mollified, for her lands were restored except for Tonbridge.
165429456. Sir William de Roos
In the lifetime of his father was an active supporter of the baronial cause and was made prisoner at the battle of Lincoln by the Royalists. He was later released and delivered up to his father.
165429458. Baron William, Jr. d'Albini
Served in the Baronial army.
165429459. Albreda Biseth
Daughter of Henry, Lord Biseth.
165429468. 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.
165429469. Lady Maud de Lacie
Daughter of the Surety John de Lacie. She, who had the manor of Clare and the manor and castle of Usk and other lands for her dower, erected a splendid tomb for her late husband at Tewkesbury.
165429472. Baron Roger de Mowbray
Received several military military summonses to attend King Henry III into Scotland and Wales.
165429474. Magna Charta Surety, Earl of Glouster,Baron Gilbert de Clare
A Surety Baron, and son of Richard de Clare the preceding Surety, was born about the year 1180. In June 1202, he was entrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Mostrevilliers. He was one of the Barons still opposing the arbitrary proceeding of the crown, who championed Louis le Dauphin, fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner, and was taken prisonerd by William Marshall, whose daughter he later married. He led an army against the Welsh in 1228 and captured Morgan Gam, who was released the next year. Being engaged in an expedition to Brittany, he died on his way back at Penros in that duchy, 25 October 1230. His body was conveyed by way of Plymouth and Cranbourn to Tewkesbury. He was buried there before the high altar, 10 November 1230, a monument being erected by his widow, Isabella, sister of William Marshall, the Surety, and daughter of William Marshall, the Protector.
165429475. Isabella Marshall
Sister of William Marshall, the Surety Baron, and daughter of William Marshall the Protector.
165429476. William de Braos
In the 41st of King Henry III, when Llewellyn ap Griffith menaced the marshes of Wales with a great army, was commanded by the king to defend his own marshes about Gower.
165429480. King of England Henry III Plantagenet
When King John died in 1216, the barons accepted his nine-year old son as King Henry III. The barons assumed control of the government and confirmed the Magna Charta in 1225, as did Henry when he came of age two years later. Thus began the royal tradition of royal confirmation of the Magna Charta and the idea that it waas the fundamental statement of English law.