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CLARE. 221
Richard FlTZ-GlLBERT de=Rohese, dau.of Walter Giffard,
Tonebruge and de Clare. Earl of Buckingham.
Gilbert de Tonebruge = Adeliza, daughter of the
and de Clare.
Earl of CLERMONT.
Eva,
dau. of Dermot
McMurrough.
William Marshall = Isabel,
Earl of Pembroke.
Elizabeth = Gilbert, Earl of
dau. of Earl Pembroke.
of Leicester.
r
= Richard de Clare.
STRONGBOW,
Earl of Pembroke.
Son
killed by his
father.
r
Gilbert,
2nd Earl.
Robert, Earl of GLOUCESTER = Maud, daughter of
natural son of Henry I. Robert FitzHamon.
Richard de Clare,
Earl of Hertford. = Sjsterof
Earl of Chester.
= Roger, Maud, daughter of
3rd Earl. Jas. de S. Hillary.
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William, Earl of Gloucester ==
Hawise,
dau. of Earl
of Leicester.
Mabile=Earl of Evreux. Isabel = King John,
Amice = Richard,
d. sp. divorced by
him on 4th Earl.
coming
to the throne.
Almaric,
=
,, Geoffrey de Mandeville.
Gilbert, 5th Earl,
d. sp.
=
,, Hubert de Burgh. and Earl of Gloucester.
Gloucester also claims to be the resting-place of Strongbow,
for there
is an inscription on the wall of the chapter-house there to this effect :
" Hie jacet Richardus Strongbow, filius Gilberti, Comitis de Pembroke."
However, wherever he was buried, his line seems to have ended with him,
and his title and property to have gone to William Marshall, who married
his only daughter, Isabel. He had one son, of whose untimely fate the
following story is recorded.
" Being a youth of seventeen, who, frighted with the numbers and
" ululations of the Irish in a great battle, he ran away, but being after-
" wards informed of his father's victory, he joyfully returned to congratulate
" him. But the severe general, having first
upbraided him with his
" cowardice, caused him to be immediately executed by cutting him in
" sunder with a sword."
This is alluded to in the epitaph said to be on the tomb of Strongbow
in Dublin :
" Nate ingrate, mihi pugnanti terga dediste
Non mihi, sed genti, regno quoque terga dedisti."
Of the elder branch, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, was
amongst the principal barons who took up arms against King John, and
was appointed one of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of
Magna Charta.
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