Amice FitzWilliam

• Preferred Name: Amice FitzWilliam^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 4th Countess of Gloucester
  
• LdsSealingToParents: 18 FEB 1992 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Sealed+to+child+(LDS): 18 FEB 1992 in PROVO with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Countess of Clare
  
• LdsEndowment: 3 MAR 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: FEB 1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
  
• Death: 1 JAN 1225 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.9857 LONG: E2.1625 with note: fs data base
  
• Burial: AFT 1 JAN 1225 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.9903 LONG: E2.1604
  
• LdsBaptism: 25 FEB 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Countess of Hertford
  
• FSID: KH8X-ZDW
  
• Notes:

  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#WilliamFitzRobertdied1183 as of 5/29/2016
  
  AMICE (-1 Jan 1225). An anonymous continuation of the Chronicle of Robert of Mo
  
  === Fourth Countess of Glouchester ===
  
  === Wikipedia Biography ===
  [Richard] married (c. 1172) Amice Fitzwilliam, 4th Countess of Gloucester (c. 1160-1220), second daughter, and co-heiress, of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont. Sometime before 1198, Earl Richard and his wife Amice were ordered to separate by the Pope on grounds of consanguinity. They separated for a time because of this order but apparently reconciled their marriage with the Pope later on.
  [Wikipedia.]
  
  === !Chart #332 and 439 ROYAL ANCESTORS by M ===
  !Chart #332 and 439 ROYAL ANCESTORS by Michael Call
  
  === notes and sources to life sketch ===
  Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 36. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(2) (1830): 806-807 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford), 913 (charter of Richard [de Clare], Earl of Hertford); 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Thomson Hist. Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (1829): 270-272 (biog. of Richard de Clare). Palgrave Rotuli Curiæ Regis 2 (1835): 180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 127. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("Earl Richard's seal is extant, and bears the three chevrons.”). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 176 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268-269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford - To the right. In hauberk, surcoat, conical helmet, sword, kite-shaped shield. Legend wanting.). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 298-299 (charter dated 1172-99 by Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford); charter names his father, Earl Roger; and his mother, Countess Maud; charter witnessed by his "brothers" [fratribus], Richard de Clare and James de Clare. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 34 ( Less
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt, 3rd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), of Clare, Suffolk, son and heir. He married AMICE OF GLOUCESTER, daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., by Hawise, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the town of Sudbury, Suffolk and 6- 1/2 knights fees in Kent. They had four sons, Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], Richard, Roger, and Henry, and three daughters, Maud, Hawise, and [?Joan] (wife of Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor or Ystradtywi, Prince of South Wales). Sometime in or before 1172 he gave assent to the grant of his father, Earl Roger de Clare to the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem of the advowson of Tonbridge, Kent. He and his father-in-law, William, Earl of Gloucester, were both suspected of complicity, if not direct involvement, in the rebellion of Earl Hugh le Bigod in 1173-4. Clare subsequently supported the king, when the king's son, Henry, rebelled against his father. In the period, 1185-4214, he gave the advowson of the church of Yalding with the chapel of Brenchley, Kent to the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Tonbridge, Kent. In 1188 he and Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, disputed for the honor of carrying the banner of St. Edmund in battle. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I at Westminster in 1189. In 1191 he was one of the eleven appointed by the Chancellor to determined the questions between himself and Prince John. In 1193 he was enjoined by the Chancellor to accompany him on his return to King Richard, then a prisoner in Germany. In 1194/5 he had acquittance as being with the King in the army in Normandy. At the start of the reign of King Richard I the barony of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire (which had escheated to the crown in 1164) was divided between him and William Marshal, Knt., later Earl of Pembroke. He had a grant from King John of a moiety of the Giffard estates in Normandy and England. In 1198 he excused himself from personal attendance on the king at Hertford. Sometime before Michaelmas 1198, Earl Richard and his wife, Amice, were separated by order of the Pope on grounds of consanguinity, at which date she claimed the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, which had been her marriage portion. They were evidently divorced by 1200, when Amice was styled "formerly the Countess of Clare." In 1202-3 she repeated her claim to the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, and, in 1205-7, she claimed the advowson of St. Gregories, Sudbury, Suffolk, which the Prioress of Eton said had been granted to Eton by Earl William, Amice's father. The issue of the validity of their marriage was presumably resolved, as Amice styled herself in later charters the "Countess of Clare." Regardless, they appeared to have been estranged at the time of Earl Richard's death, as her charters make no mention of her husband, but only their son and heir, Gilbert. In 1201 he paid £100 in order to obtain possession of the manor of Saham, Norfolk by writ of mort d'ancestor against Roger de Tony, but Tony subsequently recovered the manor. Sometime prior to 1206, he granted the church of Yalding, Kent with the chapelry of Brenchley to Tonbridge Priory. In 1211 Amice, Countess of Clare, offered 40 marks for the recovery of certain fees of which she had been disseised by Guy de Chanceaux. In 1214 the canons of Nutley Abbey secured the church of Bottesham, Cambridgeshire against Richard de Clare. He joined the confederacy of the barons against the king in 1215. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, which King John signed 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. On 9 Nov. 1215 he was one of the commissioners on the part of the Barons to treat of peace with the king. On returning to fealty 5 October 1217, he had restitution of his lands. On the death of her sister, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester (former wife of King John) in 1217, Amice became sole heir to their father, William, Earl of Gloucester. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, Earl of Hertford, died between 30 October and 28 Nov. 1217. Following his death, Tonbridge Priory petitioned the bishop to grant indulgence "to all who pray for the soul of Sir Richard de Clare, formerly Earl of Hertford, whose body lies in the church of St. Mary Magdalen of Tonbridge, and the souls of all faithful departed deceased and those who have assisted in the building or upkeep of the lights, etc." of the church of St. Mary Magdalen in Tonbridge. His widow, Amice, caused the earl's body to be carried to Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, where it was buried in the choir of the Abbey. In the period, 1217-23, in her widowhood ["viduitate mea”], she gave to Stoke by Clare Priory a messuage and possessions of the hospital of St. Sepulchre in Sudbury, Suffolk. In the period, 1217-36, Amice, Countess of Clare, in her widowhood ["viduitate mea”] confirmed grants made to Margam Abbey by her grandfather, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and William, Earl of Gloucester. At an unknown date, Countess Amice founded the hospital of St. Sepulchre in Sudbury, Suffolk, as well as one dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. At an unknown date, Amice granted Abraham Fitz Ralph of Thaxted three acres at Holgate in her fee at Sudbury, Suffolk at a yearly rent of 12d. Amice, Countess of Clare, allegedly died 1 January 1224/5.*
  (* Note: C.P. 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford) says Amice de Clare, Countess of Hertford "is stated to have died 1 January 1224/5, before which date she appears to have been recognized as Countess of Gloucester." This statement regarding her being acknowledged Countess of Gloucester appears to be without foundation. In Amice's own charters which have survived and in contemporary records, she is styled solely as Countess of Clare (i.e., Hertford), and never as Countess of Gloucester [see, for instance, Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester); Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26; Clark Carke et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 2 (1910): 358 (charter of Arnice, Countess of Clare, widow); Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 41-48 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare); Mortimer Charters of St. Bartholomerv's Priory (Suffolk Charters 15) (1996): 25-26 (charter of Amice, Countess of Clare)]. Rather, Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 33 states that Amice's son and heir, Gilbert de Clare, took up the twin earldoms of Gloucester and Hertford in 1217, which occurred during his mother's lifetime. In Nov. 1217, shortly after the death of his aunt, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, Gilbert confirmed several benefactions as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see Stevenson Durford Cartulary (Sussex Rec. Soc. 90) (2006): 811. In the same month there was a plea between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Cauntelo and his wife, Milicent, widow of Amaury, Count of Evreux. Livery of various lands was also ordered [see CP. 5 (1926): 694 (sub Gloucester)]. Gilbert certainly had possession of the Gloucester inheritance before 1220/1, when the Pipe Rolls sub Norfolk and Suffolk state that "Isti habunt quietancias per brevia ... Comes de Clara de 131 f etc." [see Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1221, cited in C.P. 6 (1926): 503, footnote c]. Presumably Amice was excluded from the Gloucester inheritance by the terms of her father's agreement with King Henry II in 1176, by which King Henry's son, John (later King John) was acknowledged as heir to William Earl of Gloucester (as future husband of his youngest daughter, Isabel); in return for this grant, the king agreed to give £100 yearly rental to Earl William's older daughters, Mabel and Amice [see Lambert Bletchingley A Parish Hist. 1 (1921): 53-54, 59, footnote 2].)
  Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 36. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(2) (1830): 806-807 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford), 913 (charter of Richard [de Clare], Earl of Hertford); 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Thomson Hist. Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (1829): 270-272 (biog. of Richard de Clare). Palgrave Rotuli Curiæ Regis 2 (1835): 180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 127. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("Earl Richard's seal is extant, and bears the three chevrons.”). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 176 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268-269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford - To the right. In hauberk, surcoat, conical helmet, sword, kite-shaped shield. Legend wanting.). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 298-299 (charter dated 1172-99 by Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford); charter names his father, Earl Roger; and his mother, Countess Maud; charter witnessed by his "brothers" [fratribus], Richard de Clare and James de Clare. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 34 (
  
  === Amice, Countess of Gloucester, d. 1 Jan ===
  Amice, Countess of Gloucester, d. 1 Jan 1224/5, daughter & heir of William fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
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  But then she [Isabel, younger sister, but Countess of Gloucester] died only a few days later and her sister Amice, by now the only one of William FitzRobert's daughters still living, seems to have been recognised as Countess of Gloucester till her own death some seven and a half years later. On the other hadn Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usmaclly called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition to his other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  === Amice Fitz William Meulant , Ctss Of Glo ===
  Amice Fitz William Meulant , Ctss Of Glouchester Countess of GlousterSurname: Meulant Given Name: *Amice Fitz William NSFX: , Ctss OfGlouchester Countess of Glouster Sex: F Birth: 1160 in Tewkesbury,Gloucester, England Death: 1 Jan 1224/1225 Reference Number: 6334 _UID:0ACEF0E23C78D511AD2400036D1D4CBFAD04 Change Date: 14 Jul 2001 at 10:59:24 Father: *William "Mafonache" Fitzrobert , Earl Glochester b: 1110 inGloucestershire, England Mother: *Hawise De Guerres , Of Leicester DeBeaumont b: ABT. 1129 in Leicestershire, England Marriage 1 *Richard De Clare , Earl Of Clare [EARL OF HERTFOR b: 1162 inTunbridge Castle, Kent, England Married: BEF. 1182 Sealing Spouse: 22 Oct1963 in SLAKE Note: 1 _MEND Divorce Children Isabel De Clare b: ABT.1178 in Of, , Hereford, England *Gilbert De Clare , Earl Of Gloucesterb: 1182 in Pembroke, Pembroke, Wales Joane De Clare b: ABT. 1184 in Of,Herts, Hertford, England Richard De Clare b: 1186 in , London,Middlesex, England *Maud Matilda De Clare b: ABT. 1175 in Lincoln,Lincolnshire, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adeliza DE CLAREMONT DEMONCHI NPFX: Lady 1 Sex: F Birth: ABT 1074 in Northampton, England Death:in England Change Date: 11 JAN 2002 Father: Hugh DE CLERMONT (DE MONCHI) b: ABT 1020 in Northampton, EnglandMother: Marguerite (Margaret) D' ROUCY d'Montdider b: ABT 1035 inMontdidier, Somme, France Marriage 1 Roger DE CLARE FITZ RICHARD b: ABT 1058 in Tunbridge, Kent,England Children Richard DE CLARE b: 1084 in Hertford, England Marriage 2 Gilbert DE CLARE of Lincoln b: ABT 1051 in Clare, Suffolk,England Married: ABT 1090 in England Children Adeliza (Alice) DE CLAREb: ABT 1072 in Essex, England Richard DE CLARE b: 1084 in Hertford,England Gilbert DE CLARE b: 21 SEP 1086 in Tunbridge, Kent, EnglandBaldwin FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE b: 1088-1092 in Hertfordshire, or Lincoln,England Rose (Rohesia) DE CLARE b: ABT 1090 in Clare, Suffolk, England
  
  === !Ancestry of General George Washington F ===
  !Ancestry of General George Washington FHL General Ped File #87. !NAME VARIENT: Amicia Meullent !NAME-PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILD:Gary Boyd Roberts, THE ROYAL DESCENTS OF 500 IMMIGRANTS;884-1952; publ 1993,Baltimore, Md. p 406
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#WilliamFitzRobertdied1183 as of 5/29/2016
  
  AMICE (-1 Jan 1225). An anonymous continuation of the Chronicle of Robert of Mo
  
  === Fourth Countess of Glouchester ===
  
  === notes and sources to life sketch ===
  Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 36. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(2) (1830): 806-807 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford), 913 (charter of Richard [de Clare], Earl of Hertford); 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Thomson Hist. Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (1829): 270-272 (biog. of Richard de Clare). Palgrave Rotuli Curiæ Regis 2 (1835): 180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 127. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("Earl Richard's seal is extant, and bears the three chevrons.”). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 176 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268-269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford - To the right. In hauberk, surcoat, conical helmet, sword, kite-shaped shield. Legend wanting.). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 298-299 (charter dated 1172-99 by Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford); charter names his father, Earl Roger; and his mother, Countess Maud; charter witnessed by his "brothers" [fratribus], Richard de Clare and James de Clare. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 34 ( Less
  
  === !Chart #332 and 439 ROYAL ANCESTORS by M ===
  !Chart #332 and 439 ROYAL ANCESTORS by Michael Call
  
  === Wikipedia Biography ===
  [Richard] married (c. 1172) Amice Fitzwilliam, 4th Countess of Gloucester (c. 1160–1220), second daughter, and co-heiress, of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont. Sometime before 1198, Earl Richard and his wife Amice were ordered to separate by the Pope on grounds of consanguinity. They separated for a time because of this order but apparently reconciled their marriage with the Pope later on.
  [Wikipedia.]
  
  === Amice, Countess of Gloucester, d. 1 Jan ===
  Amice, Countess of Gloucester, d. 1 Jan 1224/5, daughter & heir of William fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Hawise de Beaumont. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
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  But then she [Isabel, younger sister, but Countess of Gloucester] died only a few days later and her sister Amice, by now the only one of William FitzRobert's daughters still living, seems to have been recognised as Countess of Gloucester till her own death some seven and a half years later. On the other hadn Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usmaclly called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition to his other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  === !Ancestry of General George Washington F ===
  !Ancestry of General George Washington FHL General Ped File #87. !NAME VARIENT: Amicia Meullent !NAME-PARENTS-SPOUSE-CHILD:Gary Boyd Roberts, THE ROYAL DESCENTS OF 500 IMMIGRANTS;884-1952; publ 1993,Baltimore, Md. p 406
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt, 3rd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), of Clare, Suffolk, son and heir. He married AMICE OF GLOUCESTER, daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., by Hawise, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the town of Sudbury, Suffolk and 6- 1/2 knights fees in Kent. They had four sons, Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester and Hertford], Richard, Roger, and Henry, and three daughters, Maud, Hawise, and [?Joan] (wife of Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor or Ystradtywi, Prince of South Wales). Sometime in or before 1172 he gave assent to the grant of his father, Earl Roger de Clare to the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem of the advowson of Tonbridge, Kent. He and his father-in-law, William, Earl of Gloucester, were both suspected of complicity, if not direct involvement, in the rebellion of Earl Hugh le Bigod in 1173-4. Clare subsequently supported the king, when the king's son, Henry, rebelled against his father. In the period, 1185-4214, he gave the advowson of the church of Yalding with the chapel of Brenchley, Kent to the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Tonbridge, Kent. In 1188 he and Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, disputed for the honor of carrying the banner of St. Edmund in battle. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I at Westminster in 1189. In 1191 he was one of the eleven appointed by the Chancellor to determined the questions between himself and Prince John. In 1193 he was enjoined by the Chancellor to accompany him on his return to King Richard, then a prisoner in Germany. In 1194/5 he had acquittance as being with the King in the army in Normandy. At the start of the reign of King Richard I the barony of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire (which had escheated to the crown in 1164) was divided between him and William Marshal, Knt., later Earl of Pembroke. He had a grant from King John of a moiety of the Giffard estates in Normandy and England. In 1198 he excused himself from personal attendance on the king at Hertford. Sometime before Michaelmas 1198, Earl Richard and his wife, Amice, were separated by order of the Pope on grounds of consanguinity, at which date she claimed the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, which had been her marriage portion. They were evidently divorced by 1200, when Amice was styled "formerly the Countess of Clare." In 1202-3 she repeated her claim to the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, and, in 1205-7, she claimed the advowson of St. Gregories, Sudbury, Suffolk, which the Prioress of Eton said had been granted to Eton by Earl William, Amice's father. The issue of the validity of their marriage was presumably resolved, as Amice styled herself in later charters the "Countess of Clare." Regardless, they appeared to have been estranged at the time of Earl Richard's death, as her charters make no mention of her husband, but only their son and heir, Gilbert. In 1201 he paid £100 in order to obtain possession of the manor of Saham, Norfolk by writ of mort d'ancestor against Roger de Tony, but Tony subsequently recovered the manor. Sometime prior to 1206, he granted the church of Yalding, Kent with the chapelry of Brenchley to Tonbridge Priory. In 1211 Amice, Countess of Clare, offered 40 marks for the recovery of certain fees of which she had been disseised by Guy de Chanceaux. In 1214 the canons of Nutley Abbey secured the church of Bottesham, Cambridgeshire against Richard de Clare. He joined the confederacy of the barons against the king in 1215. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, which King John signed 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. On 9 Nov. 1215 he was one of the commissioners on the part of the Barons to treat of peace with the king. On returning to fealty 5 October 1217, he had restitution of his lands. On the death of her sister, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester (former wife of King John) in 1217, Amice became sole heir to their father, William, Earl of Gloucester. SIR RICHARD DE CLARE, Earl of Hertford, died between 30 October and 28 Nov. 1217. Following his death, Tonbridge Priory petitioned the bishop to grant indulgence "to all who pray for the soul of Sir Richard de Clare, formerly Earl of Hertford, whose body lies in the church of St. Mary Magdalen of Tonbridge, and the souls of all faithful departed deceased and those who have assisted in the building or upkeep of the lights, etc." of the church of St. Mary Magdalen in Tonbridge. His widow, Amice, caused the earl's body to be carried to Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, where it was buried in the choir of the Abbey. In the period, 1217-23, in her widowhood ["viduitate mea”], she gave to Stoke by Clare Priory a messuage and possessions of the hospital of St. Sepulchre in Sudbury, Suffolk. In the period, 1217-36, Amice, Countess of Clare, in her widowhood ["viduitate mea”] confirmed grants made to Margam Abbey by her grandfather, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and William, Earl of Gloucester. At an unknown date, Countess Amice founded the hospital of St. Sepulchre in Sudbury, Suffolk, as well as one dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. At an unknown date, Amice granted Abraham Fitz Ralph of Thaxted three acres at Holgate in her fee at Sudbury, Suffolk at a yearly rent of 12d. Amice, Countess of Clare, allegedly died 1 January 1224/5.*
  (* Note: C.P. 6 (1926): 503 (sub Hertford) says Amice de Clare, Countess of Hertford "is stated to have died 1 January 1224/5, before which date she appears to have been recognized as Countess of Gloucester." This statement regarding her being acknowledged Countess of Gloucester appears to be without foundation. In Amice's own charters which have survived and in contemporary records, she is styled solely as Countess of Clare (i.e., Hertford), and never as Countess of Gloucester [see, for instance, Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester); Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26; Clark Carke et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 2 (1910): 358 (charter of Arnice, Countess of Clare, widow); Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 41-48 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare); Mortimer Charters of St. Bartholomerv's Priory (Suffolk Charters 15) (1996): 25-26 (charter of Amice, Countess of Clare)]. Rather, Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 1 (1817): 33 states that Amice's son and heir, Gilbert de Clare, took up the twin earldoms of Gloucester and Hertford in 1217, which occurred during his mother's lifetime. In Nov. 1217, shortly after the death of his aunt, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, Gilbert confirmed several benefactions as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford [see Stevenson Durford Cartulary (Sussex Rec. Soc. 90) (2006): 811. In the same month there was a plea between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Cauntelo and his wife, Milicent, widow of Amaury, Count of Evreux. Livery of various lands was also ordered [see CP. 5 (1926): 694 (sub Gloucester)]. Gilbert certainly had possession of the Gloucester inheritance before 1220/1, when the Pipe Rolls sub Norfolk and Suffolk state that "Isti habunt quietancias per brevia ... Comes de Clara de 131 f etc." [see Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1221, cited in C.P. 6 (1926): 503, footnote c]. Presumably Amice was excluded from the Gloucester inheritance by the terms of her father's agreement with King Henry II in 1176, by which King Henry's son, John (later King John) was acknowledged as heir to William Earl of Gloucester (as future husband of his youngest daughter, Isabel); in return for this grant, the king agreed to give £100 yearly rental to Earl William's older daughters, Mabel and Amice [see Lambert Bletchingley A Parish Hist. 1 (1921): 53-54, 59, footnote 2].)
  Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 36. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 59-65; 6(2) (1830): 806-807 (charter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford), 913 (charter of Richard [de Clare], Earl of Hertford); 6(3) (1830): 1658-1659 (charters of Amice, Countess of Clare, daughter of William Earl of Gloucester). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Thomson Hist. Essay on the Magna Charta of King John (1829): 270-272 (biog. of Richard de Clare). Palgrave Rotuli Curiæ Regis 2 (1835): 180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 127. Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92 ("Earl Richard's seal is extant, and bears the three chevrons.”). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 176 (sub Hertford). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 268-269 (seal of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford - To the right. In hauberk, surcoat, conical helmet, sword, kite-shaped shield. Legend wanting.). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de St Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 298-299 (charter dated 1172-99 by Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford); charter names his father, Earl Roger; and his mother, Countess Maud; charter witnessed by his "brothers" [fratribus], Richard de Clare and James de Clare. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 26. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98; n.s. 34 (
  
  === Amice Fitz William Meulant , Ctss Of Glo ===
  Amice Fitz William Meulant , Ctss Of Glouchester Countess of GlousterSurname: Meulant Given Name: *Amice Fitz William NSFX: , Ctss OfGlouchester Countess of Glouster Sex: F Birth: 1160 in Tewkesbury,Gloucester, England Death: 1 Jan 1224/1225 Reference Number: 6334 _UID:0ACEF0E23C78D511AD2400036D1D4CBFAD04 Change Date: 14 Jul 2001 at 10:59:24 Father: *William "Mafonache" Fitzrobert , Earl Glochester b: 1110 inGloucestershire, England Mother: *Hawise De Guerres , Of Leicester DeBeaumont b: ABT. 1129 in Leicestershire, England Marriage 1 *Richard De Clare , Earl Of Clare [EARL OF HERTFOR b: 1162 inTunbridge Castle, Kent, England Married: BEF. 1182 Sealing Spouse: 22 Oct1963 in SLAKE Note: 1 _MEND Divorce Children Isabel De Clare b: ABT.1178 in Of, , Hereford, England *Gilbert De Clare , Earl Of Gloucesterb: 1182 in Pembroke, Pembroke, Wales Joane De Clare b: ABT. 1184 in Of,Herts, Hertford, England Richard De Clare b: 1186 in , London,Middlesex, England *Maud Matilda De Clare b: ABT. 1175 in Lincoln,Lincolnshire, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adeliza DE CLAREMONT DEMONCHI NPFX: Lady 1 Sex: F Birth: ABT 1074 in Northampton, England Death:in England Change Date: 11 JAN 2002 Father: Hugh DE CLERMONT (DE MONCHI) b: ABT 1020 in Northampton, EnglandMother: Marguerite (Margaret) D' ROUCY d'Montdider b: ABT 1035 inMontdidier, Somme, France Marriage 1 Roger DE CLARE FITZ RICHARD b: ABT 1058 in Tunbridge, Kent,England Children Richard DE CLARE b: 1084 in Hertford, England Marriage 2 Gilbert DE CLARE of Lincoln b: ABT 1051 in Clare, Suffolk,England Married: ABT 1090 in England Children Adeliza (Alice) DE CLAREb: ABT 1072 in Essex, England Richard DE CLARE b: 1084 in Hertford,England Gilbert DE CLARE b: 21 SEP 1086 in Tunbridge, Kent, EnglandBaldwin FITZ GILBERT DE CLARE b: 1088-1092 in Hertfordshire, or Lincoln,England Rose (Rohesia) DE CLARE b: ABT 1090 in Clare, Suffolk, England

• m. 1177 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

1. Matilda de Clare, b. 1175 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England     d. AFT 10 JUL 1220 in England
2. Hawise de Clare, b. ABT 1189 in Clare, Suffolk, England     d. ABT 1235 in England
3. Joan de Clare, b. 1185 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom    
4. Maud de Clare, b. ABT 1184     d. 1213
5. Gilbert de Clare 5th Earl of Gloucester, b. 1180 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England     d. 25 OCT 1230 in Penros, Brittany, France

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