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Thomas de Clare

Male 1248 - 1287  (~ 44 years)


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  • Name Thomas de Clare  [1, 2
    Birth Between 1243 and 1248  [3
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth Between 1245 and 1246  of Thomond in Connacht, Clare, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Alternate birth Between 1245 and 1246  [5
    Death 29 Aug 1287  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7
    Alternate death Feb 1288  [2
    Person ID I7786  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2018 

    Father Richard de Clare,   b. 4 Aug 1222, of Clare, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1262, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Mother Maud de Lacy   d. Bef 10 Mar 1289 
    Marriage Abt 25 Jan 1238  [2, 4, 5, 8
    Family ID F2421  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Juliane fitz Maurice,   b. of Offaly, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 24 Sep 1300 
    Marriage Bef 18 Feb 1275  [4, 7, 9, 10, 11
    Children 
    +1. Maud de Clare   d. 1 Feb 1325
    +2. Margaret de Clare,   b. Between 1286 and 1287   d. 1333 (Age ~ 47 years)
    Family ID F3790  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Constable of Colchester Castle; Steward of the Forest of Essex; King's Lieutenant in Gascony; Governor of London; Warden of the Forest of Dean; Constable of St. Briavel's Castle.

      Studied at Oxford 1257-9.

      "He joined his brother, Gilbert, against King Henry III and was knighted by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, before the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He subsequently deserted the baronial cause with his brother, Earl Gilbert. In May 1265 Thomas arranged the gift of a speedy horse to Prince Edward, by means of which Prince Edward escaped from Simon de Montfort at Hereford. Thomas fought for the king at the Battle of Evesham 4 August 1265. In 1267 he took the cross at St. Paul's, London, being moved by the preaching of the papal legate, Ottobuono. [...] He went on crusade to the Holy Land with Prince Edward in 1271, and returned in 1272." [Royal Ancestry]

      This Thomas de Clare was identified in early volumes of the Complete Peerage as a son of Sir Richard de Clare d. 1262, and then removed in volume 14 in the articles on Badlesmere and Clare. Despite this, it appears to be correct; Chris Phillips lays out the details here.

  • Sources 
    1. [S826] John P. Ravilious, 21 June 2002, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    2. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    3. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.

    4. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    5. [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001.

    6. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013., date only.

    7. [S72] Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage.

    8. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    9. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only.

    10. [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001., year only.

    11. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013., year only.