DE CLARE, Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall Margaret

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• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall
• Name: de Clare, Gaveston

Notes:

Margaret de Clare, countess of Gloucester, was the second daughter of Gilbert de Clare and his wife, Joan of Acre. [1] She was reportedly 22 years old at the time of death of her brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314.

She was married first to Piers Gaveston, Knight, Earl of Cornwall, on 1 November 1307 [2] at Berkhamsted. They had one daughter, Joan, [3] who was born on 12 January 1312 in York (she died on 13 January 1325). Piers was executed (beheaded) 19 June 1312, [4] and in September the king endowed the widowed Margaret de Clare with lands valued at 2000 marks per annum.

In 1314, Margaret was co-heiress to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knight, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the Castle, borough, and lordship of Newport, and manors of Wentlloog and Machen, Monmouthshire, the Castle and manor of Tonbridge, Kent, and manors in many other counties, including Chipping Ongar, Essex, Campden and Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Naseby, Rothwell, and Whiston, Northamptonshire, Rotherhithe, Surrey, etc. [5]

King Edward II was Margaret's uncle. [6]On 28 April 1317, at King's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England, she married her second husband, Hugh Audley the younger. [7] Margaret predeceased her husband, dying on 9 April 1342. [8] At the time of her death she still held several manors in Devon and Newport in Essex as dower lands from her marriage to Gaveston. Her heir was her daughter Margaret, wife of Ralph Stafford, first earl of Stafford, said at the time of her mother's death to be aged, variously, eighteen or twenty years and more.

Margaret was buried at Queenhithe, London.[9] Wealth at death: 2000 marks p.a. in jointure with Hugh Audley; share of Clare lands; £1500 p.a. The burial location referred to by Richardson in both Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry is actually St. Michael Queenhithe, a church in the City of London in what is now Upper Thomas Street. First recorded in the 12th century, the church was destroyed during the Great London Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by famed 17th century architect Sir Christopher Wren, the church was demolished in 1876.

Margaret married AUDLEY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley Hugh on 28 Apr 1317 in King's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Hugh (son of DE AUDLEY, Hugh and LE ROUS, Isolde) was born in 1289 in Oxfordshire, England; died on 10 Nov 1347 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married GAVESTON, 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers on 1 Nov 1307. Piers was born in 1284; died on 19 Jun 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: Granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
• Differentiator: Margaret was a great-granddaughter of King Edward I by his first consort, Eleanor of Castile
• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Baroness Audley and Countess of Stafford

Notes:

Ralph abducted Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Margaret de Clare, who was worth at least £2,314 a year, more than ten times his own estates. Her parents filed a complaint with King Edward III of England, but the King supported Stafford's actions. In compensation, the King appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh the 1st Earl of Gloucester. Margaret de Audley and Stafford married before 6 July 1336 and they subsequently had two sons and four daughters:
Sir Ralph Stafford sensationally abducted Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Margaret de Clare, who was worth at least £2,314 a year, more than ten times his own estates. Her parents filed a complaint with King Edward III of England, but the King supported Stafford's actions. In compensation, the King appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh the 1st Earl of Gloucester. Margaret de Audley and Stafford married before 6 July 1336 and they subsequently had two sons and four daughters

Died:
Margaret (de Audley) de Stafford and her husband Ralph de Stafford were both buried at Tonbridge Priory (Priory of St. Mary Magdalene), Kent at the feet of parents.

Family/Spouse: DE STAFFORD, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford Ralph. Ralph (son of Living and Living, son of DE STAFFORD, Edmund and Living) was born on 24 Sep 1301; died on 31 Aug 1372 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: DE SUTTON, John III. John (son of DE SUTTON, John II and Living, son of DE SUTTON, John II) was born in 1339; died in 1370. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CHERLETON, John. John was born in 1334 in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales; died on 13 Jul 1374 in Pontesbury, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: JOAN. died in Apr 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: Test
• Royalty & Nobility: 5th Lord Cherleton

Notes:

EDWARD CHERLETON (or CHARLETON), K.G., 5th Lord Cherleton, feudal lord of Powis, younger son, born about 1371. He married (1st) shortly after 19 June 1309 ELEANOR HOLAND, widow of Roger Mortimer, Knt., Earl of March and Ulster, Lord Mortimer (died 1398), and daughter of Thomas de Holand, K.G., 2nd Earl of Kent, by Alice, daughter of Richard de Arundel, Knt., Earl of Arundel and Surrey. She was born 13 October 1370. They had two daughters, Joan and Joyce. He married (2nd) before 1408 ELIZABETH BERKELEY, daughter of John Berkeley, Knt., of Beverstone, Glouchestershire, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Betteshorne (or Bistorne), Knt. They had no issue. SIR EDWARD CHERLETON (or CHARLETON), 5th Lord Cherleton, died testate 14 March 1420/1. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 28 June 1421 JOHN SUTTON (or DUDLEY), K.G., 1st Lord Dudley (died 30 Sept. 1487. She died shortly before 8 Dec. 1478.

Birth:
Cherleton, Wrock, Shrop, England

Died:
Powys, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Edward married HOLLAND, Alianore after 20 Jul 1398. Alianore (daughter of HOLLAND, Thomas and FITZALAN, Countess of Kent; Lady of the Garter Alice) was born in 1373 in Upholland, Lancashire, England; died on 23 Oct 1405 in Bisham Manor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]