Margaret de Clare († 1333)

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Margaret de Clare (born around April 1, 1287 in Bunratty Castle , County Clare , Ireland; † January 3, 1333 near London ) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman. She was the youngest child of the Anglo-Irish nobleman Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond and Juliana FitzMaurice.

Life

Her father died on August 29, 1287. Her mother was second married to Nicholas Avenel . Before 1303 Margaret married Gilbert , the eldest son of Gilbert de Umfraville, 7th Earl of Angus and Elizabeth Comyn. Her father-in-law gave the young couple the estates of Hambleton in Yorkshire and Market Overton in Rutland . When her husband died in 1303, the property remained in her possession. Probably through the mediation of her cousin Gilbert de Clare , the powerful Earl of Gloucester, she married his follower Bartholomew de Badlesmere before June 30, 1308 . Her husband was raised to Baron Badlesmere in 1309, so that she carried the title Lady Badlesmere. Her husband made a career as a military and courtier and eventually became steward of the Royal Household .

After the death of her nephew Thomas de Clare, son of her brother Richard de Clare , Margaret was co-heir to estates in Hertfordshire and extensive estates in Thomond , Limerick and Cork in Ireland in 1321 . However, she and her husband never got around to taking possession of the Irish goods, because despite his position at court, her husband surprisingly joined the nobility opposition to King Edward II in June 1321 . After the king had to give in to the demands of this opposition in August 1321, he decided in the autumn of 1321 to strike back militarily. In order to take Leeds Castle , which her husband owned, without a fight, he sent his wife Queen Isabella with her entourage to the castle. According to her husband's instructions, Margaret also kept the castle gate locked from the queen. While trying to gain access to the castle, some men from the Queen's entourage were killed. This gave the king an opportunity to take military action against the aristocratic opposition, with which the second phase of the Despenser War began. Leeds Castle was captured by royal troops on October 31, 1321. Margaret and her children were captured and detained in the Tower of London . The king succeeded in militarily defeating the aristocratic opposition completely. Margaret's husband, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, was captured after the Battle of Boroughbridge and was hanged as a traitor on April 14, 1322, and his possessions were confiscated. The Irish possessions could never be taken by the king and soon fell into Irish hands, with which Thomond was lost to the English until the reconquest under King Henry VIII in 1543. Margaret and her daughters were released in November 1322, presumably through the mediation of their son-in-law William de Ros . She retired to the Minorite Convent at Aldgate just outside London, but received after the fall of King Edward. II. Returned several of their goods as Wittum . She was buried in the church of St Leonard in Badlesmere . Her son Giles was set free after the fall of King Edward II in late 1326 and in 1328 received most of her father's possessions back.

Family and offspring

Her first marriage to Gilbert de Umfraville had been childless. From her second marriage to Bartholomew de Badlesmere, she had five children:

  1. Margery de Badlesmere (1308 / 1309–1363) ⚭ William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
  2. Maud de Badlesmere (1310–1366) ⚭ I Robert FitzPayn ⚭ II John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford
  3. Elizabeth de Badlesmere (1313-1356) ⚭ I Sir Edmund Mortimer; ⚭ II William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
  4. Giles de Badlesmere (1314-1338) ⚭ Elizabeth Montagu
  5. Margaret de Badlesmere (* 1315) ⚭ John de Tibetot, 2nd Baron Tibetot (1313-1367)

Web links

literature

  • Bernard Burke: A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire . Harrison, London 1866. p. 19

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badlesmeres Lees: Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere. Retrieved May 6, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME De Clare, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Clare, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Irish nobles
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: April 1, 1287
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunratty Castle
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1333
Place of death London