Richard de Clare (clergyman)

Richard de Clare (* around 1286; † 1338 ) was an English clergyman.

Richard de Clare was an illegitimate son of Thomas de Clare . His father was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Lord of Thomond in Ireland , but he died in 1287. Richard had several half-siblings, including his half-brother of the same name, Richard de Clare , the later Lord of Thomond, with whom he is often confused.

Richard was referred to as a master , so he probably went to college. In 1305 he served in Hertfordshire property rights lawsuit as the lawyer for Ralph de Monthermer , who married Johanna , widow of Richard's uncle Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester . However, Monthermer lost the trial of Richard's half-brother Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond . 1306 Richard was rector of Bunratty and Youghal in Thomond and of Maltby in Yorkshire . In 1307 he entered the service of his cousin Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester . In 1313 he served as its chancellor in Cardiff , the capital of Gloucester's Welsh rule, Glamorgan . In 1314 he was serving as Gloucester's attorney when Gloucester fell without male heirs at the Battle of Bannockburn . Richard became one of his executors , as well as the executor of his aunt Margaret de Clare , who had bequeathed her Gloucester estates. His half-brother Richard de Clare, Lord of Thomond, gave Richard lands in Hertfordshire. Richard now entered the service of King Edward II. On behalf of the king, he administered Ramsey Abbey during a vacancy from 1315 to 1318 . From 1318 to 1320 he was administrator of the fallen crown fiefs south of the Trent . In 1317 Richard became Dean of Wimborne Minster in Dorset .

literature

• Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, pp. 239-240