| 15. | CLARE, Countess Isabell de was born in Feb 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (daughter of CLARE, Earl Richard Fitzgilbert and KAVANAGH, Countess Eva Macmurogh); died on 14 May 1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was buried in May 1220 in Tintern Abbey, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales. Other Events and Attributes:
- _TAG: Reviewed on FS
- WAC: 21 Feb 1929, SLAKE
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--Other Fields Ref Number: 384 GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Isabel Fitzgilbert De DEATH: Also shown as Died , Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 12 Mar 1931, ARIZO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Clare,_4th_Countess_of_Pembroke
Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke, was the daughter of Richard de Clare (Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and his wife Aoife of Leinster. After the death of her brother Gilbert, Isabel became one of the wealthiest heiresses in Britain. Isabel de Clare had 5 sons and 5 Daughters: William; Richard; Maud; Gilbert; Walter; Anselm; Isabel; Sibyl; Joan; and Eva. All five of the sons would attain the rank of Earl of Pembroke. Isabel de Clare would die in 1220, a year after the death of her husband William Marshall, and she was buried in Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales. William Marshall was buried at the Temple Church in London. His tomb and effigy are extant today in the Temple Church. Isabel's mother Aoife of Leinster, daughter Maude, and her sons Anselm and Walter were buried at Tintern Abbey.
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#IsabelClarePembrokedied1220
ISABEL (-1220, bur Tintern Abbey). Her parentage and marriage are confirmed by the charter dated 22 Mar 1222 under which “Willielmus mareschallus Angliæ, comes Penbrochiæ” founded Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, for the souls of ”bonæ memoriæ Walteri filii Ricardi filii Gilberti Strongbowe avi mei, et Willelmi Marescalli patris mei, et Ysabellæ matris meæ”[951], although the identify of “Walteri” in this document is unclear. m (London Aug 1189) WILLIAM Marshal, son of JOHN FitzGilbert "the Marshal" & his second wife Sibyl de Salisbury ([1146]-Caversham 14 May 1219, bur London, Temple Church). He was invested as Earl of Pembroke 27 May 1199 by King John.
** from Wikipedia listing for Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke
Isabel de Clare, suo jure Countess of Pembroke and Striguil (1172–1220), was a Cambro-Norman-Irish noblewoman and one of the greatest heiresses in Wales and Ireland.[1] She was the wife of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, who served four successive kings as Lord Marshal of England. Her marriage had been arranged by King Richard I.
Daniel Maclise's painting of the marriage of Isabel's parents, Strongbow and Aoife of Leinster in August 1170, the day after the capture of Waterford.
Family inheritance
Isabel was born in 1172 in Ireland, the eldest child of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1130 – 20 April 1176), known to history as "Strongbow", and Aoife of Leinster, who was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, the deposed King of Leinster and Mor Ui Thuathail. The latter was a daughter of Muitchertach O'Toole and Cacht Inion Loigsig O'Morda. The marriage of Strongbow and Aoife took place in August 1170, the day after the capture of Waterford by the Cambro-Norman forces led by Strongbow.
Isabel's paternal grandparents were Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabella de Meulan. She had a younger brother Gilbert de Striguil who, being a minor, was not formally invested with either the earldom of Pembroke or of Striguil. It is unlikely that his father could have passed on the title to Pembroke as he himself did not possess it. When Gilbert died in 1185, Isabel became Countess of Pembroke in her own right (suo jure) until her death in 1220. In this way, she could be said to be the first successor to the earldom of Pembroke since her grandfather Gilbert, the first earl. By this reckoning, Isabel ought to be called the second countess, not the fourth countess of Pembroke. In any event, the title Earl was re-created for her husband as her consort. She also had an illegitimate half-sister Basile de Clare, who married three times. Basile's husbands were: Robert de Quincy; Raymond Fitzgerald, Constable of Leinster: Geoffrey FitzRobert, Baron of Kells.
Isabel was described as having been "the good, the fair, the wise, the courteous lady of high degree".[2] She allegedly spoke French, Irish and Latin.[3] After her brother Gilbert's death, Isabel became one of the wealthiest heiresses in the kingdom, owning besides the titles of Pembroke and Striguil, much land in Wales and Ireland.[4] She inherited the numerous castles on the inlet of Milford Haven, guarding the South Channel, including Pembroke Castle.[5] She was a legal ward of King Henry II, who carefully watched over her inheritance.[6]
Marriage
The new King Richard I arranged her marriage in August 1189 to William Marshal, regarded by many as the greatest knight and soldier in the realm. Henry II had promised Marshal he would be given Isabel as his bride, and his son and successor Richard upheld the promise one month after his accession to the throne. At the time of her marriage, Isabel was residing in the Tower of London in the protective custody of the Justiciar of England, Ranulf de Glanville.[7] Following the wedding, which was celebrated in London "with due pomp and ceremony",[8] they spent their honeymoon at Stoke d'Abernon in Surrey which belonged to Enguerrand d'Abernon.[9]
Marriage to Isabel elevated William Marshal from the status as a landless knight into one of the richest men in the kingdom. He would serve as Lord Marshal of England, four kings in all: Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III. Although Marshal did not become the jure uxoris 1st Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil until 1199, he nevertheless assumed overlordship of Leinster in Ireland, Pembroke Castle, Chepstow Castle, as well as Isabel's other castles in Wales such as the keep of Haverford, Tenby, Lewhaden, Narberth, Stackpole.[10]
Shortly after their marriage, Marshal and Isabella arrived in Ireland, at Old Ros, a settlement located in the territory which belonged to her grandfather, Dermot MacMurrough. A motte was hastily constructed, a medieval borough quickly grew around it, and afterwards the Marshals founded the port town by the river which subsequently became known as New Ross. The Chronicles of Ros, which are housed in the British Museum, described Isabella and Marshal's arrival in Ireland and records that Isabella set about building a lovely city on the banks of the Barrow.
In 1192, Isabel and her husband assumed the task of managing their vast lands; starting with the rebuilding of Kilkenny Castle and the town, both of which had been damaged by the O'Brien clan in 1173. Later they commissioned the construction of several abbeys in the vicinity.[11]
The marriage was happy, despite the vast difference in age between them. William Marshal and Isabel produced a total of five sons and five daughters.[12]
Issue
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1190 – 6 April 1231). Chief Justiciar of Ireland. He married firstly, Alice de Bethune, and secondly, Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of King John. He died childless.
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1191 – 1 April 1234) Kilkenny Castle, Ireland), married Gervase le Dinant. He died childless.
Maud Marshal (1192 – 27 March 1248). She married firstly, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, by whom she had issue; she married secondly, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, by whom she had issue, including John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey who married Alice le Brun de Lusignan; she married thirdly, Walter de Dunstanville. Queen consorts Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Parr are descendants.
Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1194 – 27 June 1241). He married firstly, Margaret of Scotland; and secondly, Maud de Lanvaley. He died childless.
Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1196 – 24 November 1245). He married Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, widow of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln, as her second husband. The marriage was childless.
Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke (1198 – 22 December 1245). He married Maud de Bohun. He died childless.
Isabel Marshal (9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240). She married firstly, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford; and secondly, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall. She had issue by both marriages. Queen consorts Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr were descendants.
Sibyl Marshal (1201 – before 1238), married William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by whom she had issue. Queen consort Catherine Parr was a descendant.
Joan Marshal (1202–1234), married Warin de Munchensi, Lord of Swanscombe, by whom she had issue. Both queen consorts Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr were descendants.
Eva Marshal (1203–1246), married William de Braose (died 1230). She had issue, from whom descended, queens consorts Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
Legacy
Isabel died in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1220 at the age of forty-eight. Her husband had died the year before. She was buried at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire; however a cenotaph was discovered inside St. Mary's Church in New Ross, Ireland whose slab bears the partial inscription "ISABEL: LAEGN" and her engraved likeness.[13]
It was suggested in 1892 by Paul Meyer that Isabel might have encouraged the composition of the Song of Dermot which narrates the exploits of her father and maternal grandfather. However, the Song of Dermot as now known was composed a few years after her death (though based on earlier writings).[14]
Although her daughters had many children, Isabel's five sons, curiously, died childless. This is supposedly attributed to a curse placed upon William Marshal by the Irish Bishop of Ferns.[15] The title of marshal subsequently passed to Hugh de Bigod, husband of Isabel's eldest daughter Maud, while the title of Earl of Pembroke went to William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, the husband of Joan de Munchensi, daughter of Joan Marshal. He was the first of the de Valence line of the earls of Pembroke.
** from William Marshal, The Flower of Chivalry (Georges Duby) p 125--
...In those days when custom decreed a daughter must be twelve before she could be put in a husband's bed, Isabel was certainly of age, but she was at most seventeen, about thirty years younger than her husband, a man on the wane. Chances were considerable that this woman would soon be a widow, and a very desirable one, returning to the hands of the appointed matchmaker, the king, to serve a second time as a sumptuous reward for valorous services. Who could forsee, on her wedding day, that she would live some thirty years more in the shadow of William Marshal's astonishing longevity? That he would enjoy her body so long and so arduously that she would give him at least ten children? That he would exploit for so many years the rights his marriage had entitled him to administer? These rights were enormous: only one other heiress in all England was richer than Isabel at the time.
...Through her father, Isabel also claimed the inheritance of a great Norman line that had died out in 1164: her great-great-grandfather, at the end of the eleventh century, had married a Giffard. She could not obtain the whole inheritance, obliged to share it with a cousin, the earl of Hertford, but the castle of Orbec, near Lisieux, had come to her, and half the barony of Longueville: two manors and the service of forty-three knights. A splendid seigneury, as we can reckon from the inheritance tax, two thousand silver marcs, which the king demanded of William before authorizing him to "collect," as the expression went, this fief and to hold it in his wife's name. And finally through her mother, Isabel possessed nearly a fourth of Ireland.
AFN: Merged with a record that used the AFN 18GJ-HHW
ID: Merged with a record that used the ID 21538852+1
BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1173
DEATH: Also shown as Died 1220
BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire, England.
~SEALING_PARENTS: Also shown as SealPar 9 Jun 1993, BOISE.
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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Pembroke, Pembroke, Wales. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Jul 1189 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 23 Nov 1993, OAKLA. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married London, Middlesex, England.
~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 10 Nov 1941, SLAKE.
Children:
- MARSHALL, Margaret was born about 1189 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
- MARSHALL, Countess Maud Mathilda was born in Sep 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was christened in Sep 1201; died on 27 Mar 1248 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England; was buried in Apr 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales.
- 7. MARSHALL, Baroness Eve was born about 1193 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died in 1246 in Llanthony Priory, Black Mountains, Ewyas, Wales.
- MARSHALL, Earl Gilbert was born about 1195 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was christened in 1202 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 20 Jun 1241 in Holme Lacey, Hertsfordshire, England; was buried on 26 Nov 1245 in Temple Church, London, England.
- MARSHALL, Earl William was born in Apr 1198 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 6 Apr 1231 in Fawley, Buckinghamshire, England; was buried on 15 Apr 1231 in Temple Church, London, Middlesex, England.
- MARSHALL, Earl Richard was born about 1199 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 16 Apr 1234 in Kilkenny, Donegal, Ireland; was buried on 17 Apr 1234 in Kilkenny, Donegal, Ireland.
- MARSHALL, Countess Isabell was born on 9 Oct 1200 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was christened in Mar 1206 in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 17 Jan 1240 in Berkhampsted, Hertsfordshire, England; was buried in Jan 1240 in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England.
- MARSHALL, Joane was born about 1201 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died about 1233.
- MARSHALL, Anselm was born about 1203 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 15 Dec 1245 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, England; was buried in Dec 1245 in Tinton Abbey, Wales.
- MARSHALL, Earl Walter was born about 1205 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 17 Nov 1245 in Goodrich, Hertsfordshire, England; was buried on 24 Nov 1245 in Tintern Abbey, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales.
- WALTERS, Earl Marshall was born about 1206 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 24 Nov 1245 in Goodrich, Hertsfordshire, England; was buried in Nov 1245 in Tintern, England.
- MARSHALL, Sibyl was born on 1 Aug 1201 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was christened in 1208 in St Croix Falls, Pembroke, Wales; died on 27 Apr 1245 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was buried in May 1245 in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales.
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