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DE CLARE, Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall Margaret

DE CLARE, Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall Margaret

Female 1293 - 1342  (48 years)

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  • Name DE CLARE, Margaret  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Title Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall 
    Birth 12 Oct 1293 
    Gender Female 
    Royalty & Nobility Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall 
    Name de Clare, Gaveston 
    Death 9 Apr 1342  Tunbrige Castle, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I10285  My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father CLARE, Gilbert,   b. 2 Sep 1242, Christchurch, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother ENGLAND, Joan of,   b. Apr 1272, Yerushalayim, Israel Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1307, Clare Manor, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 23 Apr 1290  Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7324  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 AUDLEY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley Hugh,   b. 1289, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Nov 1347, Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 28 Apr 1317  King's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. DE AUDLEY, Margaret,   b. 1318   d. 7 Sep 1349 (Age 31 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. AUDLEY, Margaret,   b. 1324   d. 7 Sep 1349 (Age 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F7319  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Family 2 GAVESTON, Piers,   b. 1284   d. 19 Jun 1312 (Age 28 years) 
    Marriage 1 Nov 1307 
    • Berkhamsted, England
    Family ID F7321  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2021 

    Family 3 GAVESTON, 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers,   b. 1284   d. 19 Jun 1312 (Age 28 years) 
    Marriage 1 Nov 1307 
    • Berkhamsted, England
    Family ID F12723  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 Apr 1317 - King's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 9 Apr 1342 - Tunbrige Castle, Kent, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Margaret de Clare, countess of Gloucester, was the second daughter of Gilbert de Clare and his wife, Joan of Acre. [1] She was reportedly 22 years old at the time of death of her brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314.

      She was married first to Piers Gaveston, Knight, Earl of Cornwall, on 1 November 1307 [2] at Berkhamsted. They had one daughter, Joan, [3] who was born on 12 January 1312 in York (she died on 13 January 1325). Piers was executed (beheaded) 19 June 1312, [4] and in September the king endowed the widowed Margaret de Clare with lands valued at 2000 marks per annum.

      In 1314, Margaret was co-heiress to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knight, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the Castle, borough, and lordship of Newport, and manors of Wentlloog and Machen, Monmouthshire, the Castle and manor of Tonbridge, Kent, and manors in many other counties, including Chipping Ongar, Essex, Campden and Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Naseby, Rothwell, and Whiston, Northamptonshire, Rotherhithe, Surrey, etc. [5]

      King Edward II was Margaret's uncle. [6]On 28 April 1317, at King's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England, she married her second husband, Hugh Audley the younger. [7] Margaret predeceased her husband, dying on 9 April 1342. [8] At the time of her death she still held several manors in Devon and Newport in Essex as dower lands from her marriage to Gaveston. Her heir was her daughter Margaret, wife of Ralph Stafford, first earl of Stafford, said at the time of her mother's death to be aged, variously, eighteen or twenty years and more.

      Margaret was buried at Queenhithe, London.[9] Wealth at death: 2000 marks p.a. in jointure with Hugh Audley; share of Clare lands; £1500 p.a. The burial location referred to by Richardson in both Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry is actually St. Michael Queenhithe, a church in the City of London in what is now Upper Thomas Street. First recorded in the 12th century, the church was destroyed during the Great London Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by famed 17th century architect Sir Christopher Wren, the church was demolished in 1876.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1801] Wikipedia, Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford entry.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Stafford,_1st_Earl_of_Stafford

    2. [S1801] Wikipedia, Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley entry.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_de_Audley,_2nd_Baroness_Audley

    3. [S1802] WikiTree, Record of Joan (Stafford) Talbot (abt. 1339 - abt. 1397).
      https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stafford-229

    4. [S1802] WikiTree, Record of Margaret (Clare) d'Audley (abt. 1292 - 1342).
      https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clare-613

    5. [S1802] WikiTree, Record of Hugh (Audley) de Audley Knt (abt. 1289 - 1347).
      https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Audley-6

    6. [S1801] Wikipedia, Record of Margaret de Clare.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_de_Clare


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