Clermont
1. Isabel De Clare, Countess of Pembroke: Born about 1172, of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; Died 1220, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; Buried Temple Church, London, Middlesex, England; Married August 1189, London, Middlesex, England; Sir William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke: Born 1146; Died 14 May 1219, Caverham, England. (See De Braiose)
2. Richard "Strongbow" De Clare, Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Cheapstow: Born about 1125, Tunbridge, Kent, England; Died about 20 April 1176, Dublin, Leinster Ireland; Married about 26 August 1174, Waterford, Ireland; Aoife (or Eva or Eve) of Leinster, Countess of Ireland: Born about 1141, of Lancaster, Lancashire, England; Died 1177; (See Kings of Ireland) Richard became one of the most renowned of all the famous Norman soldier-adventurers of his age. In 1170 Richard conquered the greater part of Ireland, taking Waterford and Dublin and restoring to power Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster. As a result he was given the hand of Dermont's daughter Aoife in marriage and the bequest of his kingdom. On dermot's death Strongbow made good his conquest by defending Dublin against a two-month siege by a rival Irish King, and demonstrating his loyalty (and political sagacity) by arranging to do homage for his conquest to the new King of England, Henry II. Strongbow's only son dying in childhood, his daughter Isabel became heiress of the immense holdings of the Clare family in western England, Wales, and Ireland. The choice of Isabel's husband, the new lord of Cheapstow, was of obvious moment to the royal power. Henry II exercised his feudal right as lord with his habitual prudence, and Isabel was betrothed to a landless but illustrious supporter of the Crown, william Marshal, the most admired knight of his day, and a prime example of the upward mobility that characterized the twelfth century.
3. Gilbert Fitz Gilbert "Strongbow", Earl De Clare and Pembroke, Lord of Cheapstow: Born 21 September 1100, Tunbridge, Kent, England, Died 1149, England Married Isabel De Beaumont: Born about 1086/1096, of Leicester, Leicestershire, England; Died about 1147; (See Beaumont) Gilbert succeed his uncle Walter De Clare to the Lordship of Cheapstow Castle. He aggressively extended his family's Welsh land holdings and in 1138 was made Earl of Pembroke. Gilbert plotted against the King Henry I, and took arms against the royal power, but turned his allegiance around and came to terms with the King. With this reconciliation he married the King's mistress.
4. Gilbert "De Tonbridge" Fitz Richard, Earl of Hertford and Clare: Born about 1065, of Clare, Suffolk, England; Died 1114/1117, England; Married before 1076, England; Adeliza De Clermont: Born about 1058, of Northamptonshire, England; Died England. Gilbert inherited all of his father's lands and titles. Gilbert is first mentioned as fortifying his castle of Tonbridge (Tunbridge) in the spring of 1088, with his brother, against William Rufus. Resisting the king on his march into Kent, his castle was stormed, and he himself was wounded and taken prisoner. He next appears in June of 1095, as warning the king, on his northward march, of an ambushing army. It was apparently in the next year (29 August 1096) that visiting Colchester with his sister and brother-in-law (Eudes), he laid one of the foundation stones of the latter's abbey of St. John. Both he and his brother Roger were found in attendance on the king at his death in August of 1100. He is found witnessing a charter of his successor at Norwich on 3 September 1101, and from a charter that has escaped notice, it appears that, with his brother and his two cousins (the sons of Baldwin), he was at Westminster with king Henry at Christmas 1101. The date of his settlement in Wales is involved in some obscurity. It is said to have originated in a raid of Owen, Ap Cadogan, in revenge for which Gilbert was allowed to seize Cardigan, the territory of Cadogan. But the Annals of Wales assign this event to 1111, while the Brut Y Tywysogion places his conquest in 1107, and Gilbert complains to Henry against Owen in 1111. Gilbert lost his castle of Tonbridge in a rebellion and died soon after, a munificent benefactor of the church. He appears in 1113 as consenting to his mother's charter and died according to the Brut Y Tywysogion, in 1114, after a long illness; but according to the Annals of Wales, in 1117. It was he who turned Clare into a cell of Bec.
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5. Hugh, Count of Clermont, Creil and Mouchy: Born about 1030, of Clermont, Oise, France; Died 1101/1103; Married about 1065 or 1080, of Picardy, France; Margaret (Marguerite) De Montdidier, De Roucy, Countess of Clermont. Born about 1045 of Montdidier, Somme, France; Died about 1110. (See The Riparian Branch of the Merovingian House)
6. Renaud De Clermont, Great Chamberlain of France: Born 1010, of Clermont, Oise, France; Died after 1098; Married in England; Ermengardis De Clermont: Born 1010, of Clermont, Oise, France.
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7. Hugh De Creil: Born 990, in France; Died 1060.
8. Renaud De Creil: Born 970, in France; Died after 1047.