Margaret de Clare († 1312)
Margaret de Clare, Countess of Cornwall (* 1250 - † February 1312 ) was an English noblewoman.
Margaret was the second daughter of Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford and Maud de Lacy . Her father died in 1262. Through the mediation of her mother and her brother Bogo de Clare , who was a clergyman, she married Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall , a nephew of King Henry III on October 6, 1272 in Ruislip Chapel in London . As a dowry she received Carlton in Lincolnshire . The marriage was unhappy. Margaret believed to have miscarried in 1285 and was abandoned by her husband in 1289 due to childlessness. Her brother Bogo de Clare and Archbishop John Peckham of Canterbury tried in vain to reconcile the couple. The marriage was annulled in February 1293. After the death of her husband in 1300 Margaret received, among other possessions, from King Edward I Carlton in Lincolnshire as Wittum . She lived in seclusion until her death and died childless. She was buried at Chertsey Abbey , Surrey . After her death, Carlton fell back to her nephew Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford .
literature
- Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, pp. 35-36
Web links
- Margaret de Clare on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 51
- ↑ Cracroft's Peerage: Gloucester, Earl of (E, c.1122-1314). Retrieved May 17, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margaret de Clare |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margaret de Clare, Countess of Devon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1250 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1312 |