Margaret De CLARE ¹

   Ancestral File Number: HMZQ-87. User ID: 9871575.

   General Notes:

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p97: "467P Margaret De Clare, (D of 461, M of 473); married HughAudley, Earl of Gloucester."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Margaret De Clare, Mar =1 Piers Gaveston Earl of Cornwall, =2 Hugh De Audley Earl of Gloucester, Died 1342."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III, The Three Edwards, Thomas B Costain, 1958, Doubleday & Co
p134: "In London the new king [Edward II] piled mistake on mistake. Here his lost friend awaited him, Brother Perrot in a coat of rich material from the East and a plume in his hat, and his mind filled with all the latest quips and anecdotes. The reunion was most affectionate and the king conferred on Gaveston the earldom of Cornwall; a most injudicious act, for this title had always been reserved for members of the royal family and it carried with it, moreover, an interest in the tin mines of Cornwall, those great stannaries from which came the close packed bundles conveyed everyday down the tin trail to the markets of Europe. Then he betrothed the gay jackanapes from Gascony to a member of the royal family, his niece, Margaret of Gloucester. Margaret was the daughter of his giddy and willful sister, Joanna of Acre. At first the girl seemed willing enough, for Master Perrot was handsome and high of spirits. Later the marriage would become a source of much trouble."

The Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905,
p238: "...[1307] Conspicuous among the returned exileswas Peter of Gaveston, whom the king welcomed with the warmest affection. He at once invested his `brother Peter' with the rich earldom of Cornwall, which the old king, with the object of conferring it on one of his sons by his second marriage, had kept in his hands since Earl Edmund's death. A little later Edward married the favourite to his niece, Margaret of Clare, the eldest sister of Earl Gilbert of Gloucester..."
p279: "...[1321] Both the Despensers desired to be earls, and the younger Hugh wished that the Gloucester earldom should be revived in his favour. Assured of the good-will of the king, both had to contend against the jealousy of the baronage and the exclusiveness of the existing earls. The younger Hughhad also to reckon with his two brothers-in-law, with whom he had divided the Clare estates. These were Hugh of Audley, who had married Margaret the widow of Gaveston, and Roger of Amory, the husband of Elizabeth, the youngest of the Clare sisters. There had been difficulty enough in effecting the partition of The Gloucester inheritance among the three coheiresses. In 1317 the division was made, and Despenser had become lord of Glamorgan, which politically and strategically was mostimportant of all the Gloucester lands. Yet even then, Despenser was not satisfied with his position..."

The Later Middle Ages 1272-1485, George Holmes, 1962, The Norton History of England, p113: "...[Lancaster] was supplanted in 1318 by a group of men who had acquired the King's confidence since 1314, the Earls of Pembroke and Hereford and the knights, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Roger d'Armory, Hugh d'Audley, and Hugh Despenser the younger. These men have been called the `Middle Party', and the phrase is just in so far as it emphasizes that they aimed neither at the rule of a single, all-powerful courtier, like Gaveston, nor at destroying the King's independence from outside, like Lancaster..."

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Born 1290 Turnbridge Kent England.

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File HMZQ-87 v4.13 Born Goucester, Gloucestershire, England, Died 1342.

FAMILY SEARCH ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File v4.19 HMZQ-87: Born 1292 Tewkesbury Gloucestershire Englan, (22-1314), Died 9 Apr 1342 France.

   Marriage Information:

Margaret married Earl Piers De Gaveston CORNWALL, son of Ernaud De GAVESTON and Clarmunda De LOUVIGNY, about 1307 in Castle, Tunbridge, Kent, England. (Earl Piers De Gaveston CORNWALL was born about 1284 in Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire, England and died on 19 Jun 1312 in Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire, England.)

   Marriage Information:

Margaret also married Earl Hugh Audley GLOUCESTER. (Earl Hugh Audley GLOUCESTER died in 1347.)