Eleanor de Clare

1292 - 1337  (44 years)

• Name	Eleanor de Clare
  Birth	Oct 1292	Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  History	birth to death
  Her name was also spelt Alianore de Clare. [1]
  Death	30 Jun 1337	England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Siblings	1 brother and 2 sisters
  1. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester ,   b. 10 May 1291   d. 24 Jun 1314, Bannockburn, Scotland  (Age 23 years) > 2. Eleanor de Clare,   b. Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales d. 30 Jun 1337, England  (Age 44 years) ▻ Sir Hugh le Despenser, Baron Despenser,  m. Before 14 Jun 1306 + 3. Margaret de Clare,   b. Oct 1292   d. 9 Apr 1342  (Age 49 years) ▻ Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall,  m. 1 Nov 1307 ;   Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester,  m. 28 Apr 1317 > 4. Elizabeth de Clare,   b. 16 Sep 1295, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 4 Nov 1360  (Age 65 years) ▻ John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster,  m. 13 Sep 1308 ;   Sir Theobald de Verdon, Baron Verdon and Lord Weberley,  m. 4 Feb 1315
  Half siblings	2 half sisters (family of Gilbert de Clare and Alice de Lusignan)
  1. Isabella de Clare,   b. 10 Mar 1263   2. Joan de Clare,   b. Abt 1368   d. After 1322
  Half siblings	1 half brother (family of Ralph de Monthermer and Joan Plantagenent)
  + 1. Thomas de Monthermer ▻ Margaret Tiptoft
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Halfdan   (15 x Great Grandfather)  Stephanie of Marseilles   d. 11 Sep 1095  (8 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I21770
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Sir Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare,   b. 2 Sep 1243, Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset), England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Joan Plantagenent, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford,   b. 1272, Acre, Holy Land d. 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F2268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Sir Hugh le Despenser, Baron Despenser   d. 29 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England   [1]
  Marriage	Before 14 Jun 1306	Westminster Abbey, London, England Westminster Abbey, London, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Issue: 1. Sir Edward le Dispenser (____-1342) 2. Isabel le Despenser (c1312-c1372) [1]
  Age at Marriage	She : 13 years and 8 months - He : ??.
  Family ID	F7882	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2020

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Eleanor de Clare(1292 – 1337) 2Sir Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare(1243 – 1295) 4Sir Richard de Clare, Earl of Clare, Hertford, and Gloucester(1222 – 1262) 8Sir Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare(Abt 1180 – 1230) 16Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford(Abt 1153 – 1217) 17Amicia of Gloucester, Countess of Gloucester( – 1 Jan 1224/25) 9Lady Isabel Marshal(1200 – 1240) 18Sir William the Marshal, Earl of Pembroke(1146 – 1219) 19Isabel de Clare, Countess Strigoil(Abt 1174 – 1220) 5Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln( – by 10 Mar 1288/89) 10John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln(1192 – 1240) 20Roger de Lacy( – 1211) 21Maud de Clare( – 1213) 11Margaret de Quincy(1208 – 1266) 22Robert de Quincy( – 1217) 23Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln(1180 – 1242/43) 3Joan Plantagenent, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford(1272 – 1307) 6Edward I, King of England (1239 – 1307) 12Henry III, King of England(1207 – 1272) 24John, King of England (1167 – 1216) 25Isabella of Angoulême, Queen of England(1188 – 1246) 13Eleanor of Provence(Abt 1223 – 1291) 26Raymond IV Berenger, Count of Provence and Forcalquier(1198 – 1245) 27Beatrix of Savoy, Countess of Provence(1198 – 1266) 7Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England(1240/41 – 1290) 14Saint Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Léon(1201 – 1253) 28Alfonso IX, King of Léon(1171 – 1230) 29Berengaria of Castile(1171 – 1244) 15Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu(1220 – 1279) 30Simon II de Dammartin, Count of Aumale(1180 – 1239) 31Marie of Ponthieu, Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil(1199 – 1250)

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Oct 1292 - Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales Marriage - Before 14 Jun 1306 - Westminster Abbey, London, England Death - 30 Jun 1337 - England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982). [S278] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (web: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html). [S63] von Redlisch, Marcellus Donald Alexander R. Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants volume 1 , (Cottonport, Louisiana: Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, 1941). [S64] Langston, Aileen Lewers and J. Orton Buck Jr. Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants volume II, (Cottonport, Louisiana:Order of the Crown of Charlemagne , 1974 ).