Margaret Clare

• Preferred Name: Margaret Clare^[1]
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: LZL9-TXH
  
• Death: ABT 1189
  
• Birth: ABT 1115 in Clare, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.0784 LONG: E0.5832
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  About 1088, Gilbert married Adeliza/Alice de Clermont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Ramerupt.
  
  Gilbert and Adeliza had at least eight children:
  
  1. Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1136.
  2. Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1148, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
  3. Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1154, m. Adeline de Rollos.
  4. Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 1163, m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de Vere and Beatrice.[12] She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a corrodian at St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.
  5. Hervey de Clare, Lord of Montmorency.
  6. Walter de Clare, d. 1149.
  
  7. Margaret de Clare, d. 1185, m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stansted Mountfitchet.
  
  8. Rohese de Clare, d. 1149, m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Fitz_Richard
  
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  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “MARGARET FITZ GILBERT, born about 1125 (aged 60 in 1185). She married WILLIAM DE MONTFITCHET (or MUNFITCHET), of Stanstead Mountfitchet, Coptford (in Margaretting), Little Birch (in Birch), Wivenhoe, and Wormingford Hall (in Wormingfield), Essex, Barrington, Fowlmere, and Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, etc., son and heir of William de Montfitchet (or de Letchworth), of Letchworth, Hertfordshire, etc., by his wife, Rohese. They had four children, including two sons, Gilbert and Richard. He and his parents, William and Rohese, gave land at Letchworth and Wallington, Hertfordshire to St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire in the time of King Henry I. About 1120 he was granted the lands of Robert Gernon in Essex and elsewhere by King Henry I. In 1134-35 he founded Stratford Langthorne Abbey, Essex. WILLIAM DE MONTFITCHET died after 1137. In the period, c.1175-90, his widow, Margaret, gave a rent of 5s. [at Barrington?, Cambridgeshire] to the monks of St. Mary de Sartis. Margaret was living in 1185. She died c.1189.
  Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 587 (charter of William de Montefichet; charter names his wife, Margaret). Chauncy Hist. Antiqs. of Hertfordshire 2 (1826): 153-155. Waters Gen. Gleanings in England 1 (1885): 187-188. Round Feudal England (1895): 357-359, 432, 468-479. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter mentions his deceased brother-in-law, William de Montfitcher). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 233-235. Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 13 (1930): 236-237 (charter of Margarert de Montfitcher). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 83-85. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 147-160; 6 (1978): 49-59; 8 (1982): 155-164. Chiball Anglo-Norman Studies XVI (1994): 173-175. Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 388, 475. VCH Essex 10 (2001): 41 46, 281-282, 299-301. Walmsley Widows, Heirs, & Heiresses in the Late 12th Cent. (2006): 127.”
  
  === BIRTH-MARRIAGE:The Victoria History of t ===
  BIRTH-MARRIAGE:The Victoria History of the Counties of England, edited by William Page, F.S.A. "A HISTORY OF WORCESTER," Volume I. LDS FHC microfilm #0559151.
  
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  === Sources: A. Roots 184B; Norr. Roots: Mar ===
  Sources: A. Roots 184B; Norr. Roots: Margaret de Clare, living 1185. SOURCES: 1. Weis, Frederick Lewis. _Ancestral Roots of Certain AmericanColonists_. Seventh Edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company,Inc., 1992; line 184B-4: Margaret de Clare, dau of Gilbert FitzRichardand Adeliza (or Alice) de Clermont; living 1185; md William deMontfichet, d. 1135/36, whose lands formed the barony of Stanstead Mountfichet, Essex; founder of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, Essex. (J.H. Round, _Feudal England, 357-359, 432) 2. Round, J.H. _Feudal England_. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd,1964; p. 359: Yet another daughter (of Gilbert 'de Tunbridge') wasMargaret, wife of William de Montfichet, who brought into that family thenames of Gilbert and Richard.

1. Gilbert de Montifichet III, b. ABT 1120 in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1187 in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, United Kingdom

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