Ancestors of Scott SCHEIBE

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83625776. Richard DE CLARE *

Richard de Clare, Magna Charta Surety 1215, died between 30 October and 28 November 1217, Earl of Hertford, son of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and Maud, daughter of James de St. Hilary; Married Amice, countess of Gloucester, died 1 Jan 1224/5, daughter and heir of William Fitz Robert, Errl of Gloucester, ahd Hawise de Beaumont [Magna Charta Sureties]

EARLDOM OF HERTFORD (III) 1173

Richard (De Clare), Earl of Hertford, but, like his father and uncle, more generally known as Earl of Clare, son and heir, had a grant of moiety of the Giffard estates.  He was present at the coronation of Richard I at Westminster, 3 September 1189.  In 1191 he was one of the eleven appointed by the Chancellor to determine (with eleven chosen on the part of Prince John) the questions between them.  In 1193 he was enjoined (with others) by the Chancellor to accompany him on his return to the king, then a prisoner in Germany.  He had acquittance in 1194/5 as being with the King in the army of Normandy.  On the accession of King John in 1199 he was one of those of whom Archbishop Hubert and the  partisans of the King entertained most doubt, and he received a summons to Northampton, where an oath was taken that King John would restore to every man his right, if they would keep peace with him, and they swore accordingly.  He was present at the coronation of King John at Westminster, 27 May 1199, and at the homage of William, King of Scotland, at Lincoln.  He sided, with the Barons againt King John, and his castle of Tonbridge was taken.  He played a leading part in the negotiations for Magna Carta, and was one of the 25 Barons guardians therof.  On 9 November 1215 he was one of the commissioners on the part of the Barons to treat of peace with the King.  On 4 Mar 1215/16 his lands in Counties Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex were granted to Robert de Betun, and, soon after his lands in other counties; and he and his son were among the barons excummunicated by Pope Innocent III in 1216.
He married Amice, 2nd daughter and coheir and eventually sole heir of Williiam (FitzRobert), Earl o  Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert (de Beaumont), Earl of Leicester.  They appear to have been separated (perhaps pending a dispensation) prior to 1200. He died between 30 October and 28 November 1217.  She is stated to have died 1 January 1224/5, before which date she appears to have been recognised as Countess of Gloucester. [ Complete Peerage VI:501-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, who in the 7th Richard I gave 1,000 pounds to the king for livery of the lands of his mohter's inheritance with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Giffard, Earl of Buckingham.  His lordship married Amicia, 2nd daughter and co-heiress (with her sisters, Mabell, wife of the Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and Isabel, the divorced wife of King John) of William, Earl of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, and Joan, Married to Rhys-Grig, Prince of South Wales.  This Earl, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, died in 1218, and was s. by his son, Gilbert de Clare,  5th Earl of Hertfore. [Sir Bernard Burke, Bormant and Extincy Peerage, Burke's Peerage, London,


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41812888. Maud DE CLARE

Maude (or Mithilde)de Clare; married William de Braose, born perhaps around 1175, died Corfe or Windsor Castle, 1210, of starvation by or of King John, so of William de Braose, died 1211, Lord of Bramber, Sussex, by his wife Maud de St. Valery. [Magna Charta Sureties line 28a-2]


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