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 CO oo 244 CLARE IV. 1 136. 4. Gilbert DE Clare, Z,or^ 0/ C/arif, tffc, s. and h., b. before 1 1 1 5, was at some date before 1142 (not improbably in 1138, when his uncle and namesake is supposed to have been cr. Earl of Pem- broke),0 cr. EARL OF HERTFORD.^) He d. unm. 1 152, and was bur. at Clare Priory. V. 1 1 52. 5. Roger de Clare, Lord of Clare., ^c, br. and h. Before 1156 he was recognised as Earl OF Hertford. He ^. 1173. VI. 1173. 6. Richard (de Clare), Earl of Hert- ford, also Lord of Clare., ijfc., s. and h. He m. Amice, da., and in her issue h., of William (FitzRobert), Earl of Gloucester. He d. Nov. 12 17. VII. 1217. 7. Gilbert (de Clare), Earl OF Hertford, also Lord of Clare., &'c., s. and h., who, about 12 1 8, was in right of his maternal descent recognised as Earl of Gloucester. He d. 2^ Oct. 1230, and was bur. at Tewkesbury. VIII. 1230. 8. Richard (de Clare), Earl of Glouces- ter and Hertford, also Lord of Clare, ^c, s. and h., b. 4 Aug. 1222, d. 15 July 1262, and was bur. at Tewkesbury. IX. 1262. 9. Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Glouces- ter and Hertford, also Lord of Clare, isJ'c, s. and h., b. 2 Sep. 1243. He m., as his 2nd wife, 30 Apr. 1290, Joan (of Acre), 3rd da. of Edward I. He d. 7 Dec. 1295, and was bur. at Tewkesbury. His widow was bur. 1307, in the Friary Church at Clare. X. 1295. 10. Gilbert (de Clare), Lord of Clare, fc?c., s. and h. by 2nd wife, b. 1291, who, in 1307, on the death of his mother (whose 2nd husband had been sum. as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 1299 to 1306), became Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. He d. s.p.s., being slain at Bannockburn, 24 June I3i4.('') O C 13 "I o ^ 3 o n ° i a- ON n o m 1/3 m 50 W o 3 (*) See note " d " on previous page. C") In Courthope, under " Pembroke," is the following note: " King Stephen, 1 1 38, says William of Malmesbury, ' Multos Comites qui ante non fuerant, instituit, applicatis possessionibuset redditibus quae proprio jure Regi competebant.' They were afterwards called imaginary and false Earls, and Henry II, at the beginning of his reign, ' deposuit quosdam imaginarios et Pseudo Comites (says the author of a Chronicle of Normandy) quibus Rex Stephanus omnia pene ad fiscum pertinentia minus caute distribuerat.' " See some account of the Earldoms conferred by King Stephen in vol. iv, Appendix D. {^) For some account of this battle see vol. xi, Appendix B.