Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond

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Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond (* 1281 ; † between July 20 and November 16, 1307 ) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman.

Origin and youth

Gilbert de Clare came from the Anglo-Norman family Clare . He was the eldest son of Thomas de Clare and Juliana FitzMaurice. His father Thomas de Clare, a younger son of Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester , had conquered Thomond in Ireland from 1276 . He died in 1287.

Friend of the heir to the throne

Although Gilbert was not yet officially of legal age, he received his father's inheritance in 1299, which included Thomond in Ireland as well as some English goods. In the following year, after the death of his mother, he also received her Wittum . In that year, however, he entered the household of Edward , the heir to the throne and future Prince of Wales , in England . He became a valet and one of the prince's closest friends. He is occasionally confused with his cousin of the same name, Gilbert de Clare , the later Earl of Gloucester, who also became a friend of Edward, but was younger. Gilbert de Clare took part in English campaigns in Scotland with the prince in 1301 and from 1303 to 1304 . On May 22, 1306 King Edward I. beat him together with the Crown Prince Edward of Knight of the Bath . He was then to take part in the king's new campaign to Scotland, but like Piers Gaveston , Roger Mortimer and other young nobles, he left the English army to take part in tournaments in France . The enraged English King Edward I had Gilbert's English goods temporarily confiscated before he forgave him.

Marriage and inheritance

Gilbert probably married Isabel le Despenser in 1306 , a daughter of Hugh le Despenser the Elder and Isabella de Beauchamp . However, he died before November 16, 1307 shortly after the coronation of Edward II as King of England. Since he had no offspring, his younger brother Richard inherited his property. His widow was second married to John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings .

literature

  • Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, pp. 195-196

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 89.
  2. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME De Clare, Gilbert, Lord of Thomond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Irish knight
DATE OF BIRTH 1281
DATE OF DEATH between July 20, 1307 and November 16, 1307