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Richard (Strongbow) de Clare

Richard, known as Strongbow, was born in 1128 in Tunbridge, Kent, England and his christening took place in Clare, Suffolk, England.

Birth Notes
- b. bet 1125-1130

He died at the age of 48 on April 9th, 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. His burial was on April 20th, 1176 in Gloucester, England.

General Notes
- FitzGilbert, 2nd Earl Pembroke
  
  aka Richard de Clare Earl of Pembroke
  
  Earldom of Pembroke: His [Gilbert's] son the 2nd Earl of Pembroke("Strongbow") was instigator of the Anglo-Norman/Cambro-Norman incursion into Ireland in 1169 or1170. Pembroke himself managed to subdue Leinster. His daughter and ultimately heiress married William (the)Marshal, who was created Earl of Pembroke in 1199 by King John, though he may already have had some kind of status as Earl of Pembroke in right of his wife. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  SOURCES:
  1. Weis, Frederick Lewis. _Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists_. 6thEdition.
  Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1988; line 66-26. Richard de Clare was the 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil, Justiciar of Ireland.
  2. Norr, Coe, Kraentzler 1097, 1103, 1112, 1126, 1134, 1137, 1427,
  1147, 1150; A.Roots 66-26, 175-7; AF.
  Roots: Richard de Clare. "Strongbow," born about 1130. Died about 20 April 1176. Second Earl of Pembroke, 1150. Earl of Striguil. Justiciar of Ireland. Married Aoife (or Eve), living 1186. Norr: Richard de Clare, Earl of Buckingham.
  K: Richard Fitz-Gilbert, Lord de Clare. Slain.

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