Roger de Clare 2nd Earl of Hertford 1 2 3
- Born: 1116 4
- Marriage (1): Matilda de Saint-Hilaire 1
- Died: 1173 aged 57 1 5
General Notes:
ROGER de Clare, son of RICHARD FitzGilbert de Clare Lord of Clare & his wife Agnes [Alicia] of Chester (-1173). Robert of Torigny records that "Rogerius frater eius" succeeded on the death in 1153 of "Gislebertus filius Ricardi". He succeeded his brother in 1153 as Earl of Hertford. A charter in the Stoke-by-Clare Priory Cartulary includes the reference "Rogerus coms Clar' Aelicie de Clermunt ave sue...". Robert of Torigny records the death in 1173 of "Rogerius comes de Clara".
m as her first husband, MATILDA de Saint-Hilaire, daughter of JAMES de Saint-Hilaire of Field Dalling, Norfolk & his wife Aveline ---. She married secondly William de Albini, later Earl of Arundel. Robert of Torigny records that "Willermus de Albineio…comitem d'Arundel…[filium] Guillermum de Albineio primogenito" and "relictam Rogerii comitis de Clara filiam Jacobi de Sancto Hilario". Her name is confirmed by the undated charter which records that "Wilielmus comes Sussexić" confirmed donations to Boxgrove Priory by his predecessors "Rogerus de Albineio, et Willelmus Pincerna…et Willielmi patris mei filii reginć Aeliz, et Matildis matris meć".
Roger & his wife had four children: Richard, James, Matilda and Aveline.
[FMG/Medieval Lands]
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HOLDERS OF THE HONOUR OF CLARE (V) 1152
ROGER DE CLARE, Lord of Clare, &c., brother and heir. before 1156 he was recognized as Earl of Hertford. He died 1173.
[Complete Peerage III:244, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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EARLDOM OF HERTFORD (II) 1152 ?
ROGER (DE CLARE), EARL OF HERTFORD, but generally styled EARL OF CLARE, brother and heir, appears to have been at once allowed the Earldom by Henry lI, and was certainly an Earl in or before January 1155/6, when as Roger, Earl of Clare, he witnessed the charter of Henry II to Geoffrey de Mandeville, the younger. In 1157 and in the following years he was engaged against Rhys ap Gruffyd in Wales. In 1163 ,he disputed with the Archbishop of Canterbury the latter's claim for fealty in respect of Tonbridge Castle, which was held by the serjeanty of being High Steward. In this he was supported by the King, but the fealty was eventually recovered by Archbishop Hubert. In 1164 he took part in the Constitutions of Clarendon . In 1166 he certified his fees as 149, and in 1170 was a commissioner to enquire into the proceedings of the sheriffs in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Berks, Oxon and Beds.
He married Maud, daughter and heir of James DE ST. HILARY, by his wife Aveline. He died in 1173. His widow for the soul of her husband, Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and for the souls of her ancestors, confirmed to the monks of Eynsham the gifts of Henry and of Roger FitzGerold. She married, 2ndly, William (D'AUBIGNY), EARL OF ARUNDEL, who died 24 December 1193.
[Complete Peerage VI:499-501, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, is likewise said to have born the title of Earl of Clare. In the 3rd Henry II, this nobleman obtaining from the king all the lands in Wales which he could win, marched into Cardigan with a great army and fortified divers castles thereabouts. In the 9th of the same reign, we find him summoned by the celebrated Thomas-ŕ-Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, to Westminster, in order to do homage to the prelate for his castle of Tonebruge; which at the command of the king he refused, alleging that holding it by military service it belonged rather to the crown than to the church. His lordship m. Maude (who m. after his decease William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel), dau. of James de St. Hillary, by whom he had a son, Richard, his successor. This earl who, from his munificence to the church and his numerous acts of piety, was called the Good, d. in 1173, and was s. by his son, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
Roger married Matilda de Saint-Hilaire, daughter of James de Saint-Hilaire and Aveline.1 (Matilda de Saint-Hilaire was born about 1131 and was buried in Carbrooke Preceptory, Great Carbrooke, Thetford, Norfolk, IP25, GB.)
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