 1100 - 1148 (47 years)
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| Name |
Gilbert De Clare [2, 3] |
| Suffix |
Earl Of Pembroke |
| Birth |
21 Sep 1100 |
Tunbridge, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Jan 1148 |
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales [4] |
| Burial |
Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England |
| Person ID |
I52965 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
1 Jan 2010 |
| Father |
Earl Gilbert Fitz Richard De Clare, Earl Of Clare, b. Bef 1066, Clare, Suffolk, England d. Bef 1117, Of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales (Age 51 years) |
| Mother |
Adeliza De Clermont, b. Abt 1065, Of Northamptonshire, England d. Aft 1117, England (Age 53 years) |
| Marriage |
1113 |
| Family ID |
F21635 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Isabel Elizabeth De Beaumont, b. Abt 1098, Leicester, Leicestershire, England d. 6 Jan 1148, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales (Age 50 years) |
| Marriage |
1130 |
Tunbridge, Kent, England |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F21856 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2009 |
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| Notes |
- - There has been debate about the name "Strongbow" ascribed to both Richard and his father Gilbert. In a charter in The Chronicle of Melrose issued by Richard's grandson, Richard Marshal, both Richard and Gilbert de Clare are named as "Strongbow". The men of Netherwent (Gwent) were known for their skill and use of an unusually long and strong bow; both Gilbert and Richard held the lordship of Netherwent. Since Gilbert de Clare's seal shows him holding a long arrow in his right hand, historians assume that the ability and skill to use this type of bow earned both Richard and his father Gilbert their nicknames.
Strongbow's father, grandfather, uncles and great-uncles were men favored by both King Henry I and King Stephen On the death of Roger de Clare without legal heirs in 1130, King Henry I granted Gilbert de Clare his lands of Orbec and Bienfaite in Normandy. With the death of King Henry I in 1135, Strongbow's father, Gilbert, supported Stephen as king, and was an active military commander for Stephen during the "anarchy". When Gilbert's uncle Walter de Clare died in 1138, King Stephen granted Gilbert the lordship of Netherwent, including the castles of Chepstow Castle and Usk Castle. Stephen also granted Gilbert the comital title and lands of the earldom of Pembroke the same year.
Earldom of Pembroke: Those who were created Earls of Pembroke before the rise of the Herberts from the 15th century on were predominantly close relatives of the reigning mocharch. This was not so in the first and historically most important case, however, Gilbert Fitz Gilbert or de Clare was made Earl of Pembroke in 1138 by King Stephen, his elder brother Richard Fitz Gilbert or de Clare being father of the Alice/Adelaide who married William de Percy. In the period of unrest and indecisive civil war known as the Anarchy, when followers of Stephen, Henry I's nephew, struggled with the Empress Maud, Henry I's daughter, Gilbert Earl of Pembroke sided with each one. He already held Chepstow, on the Welsh-English borders. In 1144 he pushed far into South Wales and established himself at Carmarthen. [Burke's Peerage]
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Date of Import: 22 okt 1999
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Date of Import: 22 okt 1999
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