Margaret de Clare

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 54:32, Margaret de Clare married 1^st, Gilbert d'Umfraville, son of Gilbert d'Umfraville, and married a 2^nd time to Bartholomew de Badlesmere. Margaret de Clare was heiress to her nephew Thomas de Clare, son of Richard de Clare. She was the sister of Richard, 2^nd son and Thomas, 1^st son. ¹⁶⁰

Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 132, Margaret de Clare, daughter of Thomas de Clare and Julianne Fitz Maurice, married as her second husband, Lord Bartholomew de Badlesmere, who was hung in 1332. ⁵³⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸²¹
Margaret de Clare, born about 1286 since she was aged forty in March 1326/7. She married, as her first husband, Gilbert de umfreville, son and heir apparent of Gilbert de Umfreville. Her second husband from Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Knight, of Badlesmere and Snodhurst, Kent, Lacheley, Lindsell, Little Stanbridge and Thaxted, Essex, etc.

~ Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 35

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Bartholomew de Badlesmere married, sometime before 30 Jun 1308, Margaret, widow of Gilbert de Umfreville, aunt and coheir of Thomas de Clare, Steward of the Forest of Essex, daughter of Thomas de Clare (a younger son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford), by Julian (not Amy), daughter of Sir Maurice Fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland. As mentioned above, Bartholomew died in 1322. His widow Margaret was notorious for having refused the Queen admission to the Royal Castle of Leeds in the summer of 1321, was besieged therein by Edward II, and being captured with the Castle on 11 Nov following, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. She was released 3 Nov 1322, and after staying some time at the Minorites without Aldgate, at the King's charge (2s. a day), had leave to go to her friends, 1 Jul 1324. Margaret, aged 40 in Mar. 1326/7, had dower on lands at Castlecombe, Wiltshire, &c., and died in late 1333.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, (Badlesmere), pp. 371-372

Margaret married Bartholomew de Badlesmere 1st Lord of Badlesmere, son of Sir Guncelin de Badlesmere Knight and Joan Fitz Bernard, before 30 Jun 1308 in Kent, England ^141,160.^,530 (Bartholomew de Badlesmere 1st Lord of Badlesmere was born in 1275 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England ¹⁶⁰ and died on 14 Apr 1322 in Canterbury, England ^141,160.)