Maud de Lacy
Maud de Lacy , Countess of Hertford and Countess of Gloucester (also Matilda de Lacy ; * 1223 , † March 10, 1289 ) was an English noblewoman.
Origin and marriage
Maud came from the Anglo-Norman de Lacy family . She was the daughter of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Margaret de Quincy . In 1237 her father offered the English King Henry III. 5000 marks to be able to marry her to the underage Richard de Clare , the heir of the Clare family . However, the king tried to marry the young Clare to one of his French relatives. On the mediation of Richard of Cornwall , the king's brother and stepfather of young Clare, John de Lacy was given the right to marry off his daughter for only 3,000 marks in the event that Richard de Clare married a daughter of Count Hugo X of Lusignan did not materialize. Hugo of Lusignan actually refused the English king's offer, and on January 25, 1238, Maud de Lacy married Richard de Clare.
Life
Her husband came of age in 1243 and, as Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, was one of the richest English magnates . He died in 1262, at the beginning of the Second Barons ' War , at the age of 39. Her eldest son was not yet of legal age, and on August 4, Maud received from King Henry III. initially a provisional Wittum . After registering the possessions of her deceased husband, she received a third of his possessions at the beginning of 1263 under the applicable law. But since the king, contrary to the usual feudal right with Clare Castle, gave her the family seat and important estates in Gloucestershire and Usk in the Welsh Marches as Wittum, her son was driven to the side of the rebels. Only towards the end of the Second Barons' War, in which her son played an important role, was the distribution of goods between her and her son changed in 1267.
As a rich widow, Maud did not remarry. She outlived her husband by more than 25 years, during which she took care of the marriage of her two daughters Margaret and Rohese . To do this, she tried to find profitable benefices for her younger son Bogo , who had embarked on a spiritual career . She herself was a generous sponsor of monasteries and spiritual foundations. Above all, they gave founded by her husband priory of Clare , the first branch of the Augustinians in England, with other foundations. In addition, in 1284 she converted the Augustinian Abbey of Canonsleigh in Burlescombe in Devon into an Augustinian nunnery. After her death, her property fell to her son Gilbert.
progeny
From her marriage she had three sons and four daughters:
- Isabel de Clare (* 1240; † before 1271), ⚭ 1258 with Margrave Wilhelm VII of Montferrat
- Gilbert "the Red" de Clare (* 1243; † 1295), 6th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester
- Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond († 1287)
- Bogo de Clare (* 1248; † 1294)
- Margaret de Clare (* 1250; † 1312), ⚭ 1272 (divorced 1293) with Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall
- Rohese de Clare (* 1252; † 1317), ⚭ 1270 with Roger Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray
- Eglantina de Clare (* / † 1257)
Web links
- Matilda de Lacy on thepeerage.com , accessed July 28, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 62
- ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 96
- ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 100
- ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 37
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maud de Lacy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Matilda de Lady; Matilda de Clare, Countess of Hertford; Matilda de Clare, Countess of Gloucester |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1223 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1289 |