Maud (Lacy) de Clare (abt. 1225 - bef. 1289)

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Biography

Maud de Lacy^[1][2]

Maud, born after 1220,^[3] was the daughter of Sir John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, Magna Carta Baron, and Margaret (or Margery) de Quincy. Her mother Margaret was the daughter and heiress of Robert de Quincy,^[1] and granddaughter of Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester and Magna Carta Baron.^[4]

Maud de Lacy married (as his 2nd wife) Richard de Clare, Knt., 6th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Earl of Hertford, about 25 Jan 1237/8.^[1][5] Her maritagium included the manor Naseby in Northamptonshire.^[1]

They had three known sons (Gilbert, Thomas, and Boges) and four known daughters (Isabel, Margaret, Rose, and Eglantine).^[4] Richard also had an illegitimate son, Guy, by an unknown mistress.^[1]

Children:

by Richard de Clare, married 1237/8 in England^[6]

• Isabel de Clare, married 28 March 1257 to "Guglielmo (or William) VII, Marquis [Marchese] of Montferronto^[1]
• Gilbert 'the Red Earl' de Clare,^[5] Knt., 7th Earl of Gloucestershire, 6th Earl of Herford, married (1) Alix de Lusignan, (2) Joan of England^[1]
• Thomas de Clare (Treasurer of York),^[7] Knt., married Juliane Fitz Maurice^[1]
• Boges de Clare, clerk, - Boeghes, Beges,^[1] Bevis, Bogo, Benet
• Margaret de Clare, married Edmund of Cornwall "(usually styled Edmund of Almain), Knt., Earl of Cornwall"^[1]
• Rose de Clare, married Robert de Mowbray, Knt., 1st Lord Mowbray^[1] (sometimes Roese, Rohesia)
• Eglentine de Clare^[1]

Maud was living in 1284, when she founded an Augustinian nunnery at St John the Evangelist and St. Etheldreda, Legh, Devon.^[4] She died before 10 March 1288/9.^[4]

Research Notes

Birth date: about 1225, based on husband's 1222 birth

If Margaret de Quincy is her mother, Maud was born after 1220.^[3] If she was the daughter of John de Lacy's first wife, Alice de l'Aigle, as charted in The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (see page 6), then she would have been born after 1211 (when they married) and before 1221.^[8]

Birth years/dates found:

• 4 August 1222 (in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England)^[9][10]
  • Actually - It seems this was a misreading of Cawley. Her husband was born 4 August 1222.^[5]
• 25 January 1223, apparently from text in Maud's Wikipedia article: "On 25 January 1238 which was her fifteenth birthday, Maud married Richard de Clare,..." (other statements of fact have a source citation; this one did not).^[11]
• In Maud's entry, Cawley shows birth as "[1221/25]" (the brackets indicating uncertainty). Her father's birth is shown as "[1192]".^[5]
• A birth year is not shown in Richardson.^[1][2]

Marriage date:

Richardson: about 25 January 1237/8^[1]

Cawley: 25 January 1238 or before^[5]

Death date: before 10 March 1289^[1]

possibly 29 December 1287?

• Cawley: "[1287/10 Mar 1289]" (brackets indicating uncertainty)^[5]
• Richardson: "Maud, Countess of Gloucester and Herford, died 29 December, sometime before 10 March 1288/9."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15} Richardson's Royal Ancestry, Vol II, pp 191-196 CLARE #6., #7. Richard de Clare, Knt., #8.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Richardson's Royal Ancestry, Vol III, pp 466-470 LACY #3. John de Lacy, Knt.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} based on John and Margaret's marriage "in 1221, before 21 June", according to Richardson's Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p 467
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Richardson (2013)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} John de Lacy, Maud (Matilda) de Lacy, Richard de Clare, entries in the database Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley © Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2000-2018. (accessed 6 May 2018)
6. ↑ Weis (1979): Page: 28
7. ↑ Richardson (2011): Vol. I, page 460
8. ↑ The Visitation chart does not include dates. 1211 marriage and "before 1221" death dates are from the profile for Alice de l'Aigle.
9. ↑ Maud de Lacy, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed 6 May 2018) no citation for birth date, location
10. ↑ 4 August 1222 in the datafield prior to 6 May 2018.
11. ↑ Wikipedia articles on Maud and her mother (accessed 6 May 2018; no source found for birth date in either article). Passages in Maud's article that refer to Margaret as her mother cite Mitchell (but neither Maud's birth on 25 January 1223 nor her mother's 1206 birth year has a citation - to Mitchell or otherwise):
    • Linda Elizabeth Mitchell, Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and Politics in England 1225-1350 (2002, Saint Martin's Press Inc.) ISBN 978-0-312-29297-3.

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013)
  • Vol II, pp 192-195, 514, 515; Vol III, pp 465-467
• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol II, p 514, LACY #1 John de Lacy, Knt.
  • Vol I, pp 460-466 CLARE #3 Richard de Clare, Knt.
• Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 3rd edition (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1979)
• Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650, 6th ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1988)
• Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 6: "The Barons of Dalton, Constables of Chester. [Harl. 1424, fo. 3b. Harl. 1505, fo. 2b.]" "Matilda vx. Rich. de Clare Comitis quo Cestriae"
• Vol. XXVI, Issue No. 2, August 2006, John Schuerman, author
• Mary Hillard Hinton, Genealogist, Raleigh, NC: •Extinct and Dormant Peerages, 1831 •Magna Carta Barons and their Descendants, pgs. 159, 241, 269, 270, 292 •Virginia Heraldica, pgs. 66, 69, 87, 88 •Ancestral Papers #119, of the National Society of Runnymeade •Wurt's Magna Carta •The Carter Family

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This profile was reviewed and approved by the Magna Carta Project in January 2015 and re-reviewed on 7 May 2018. ~ Noland-165 7 May 2018

Maud de Lacy is the daughter of Magna Carta surety baron John de Lacy and great-granddaughter of Magna Carta surety baron Saher de Quincy. She is in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Charles Barnes: badged Jan 2023. See the trail HERE
• Marmaduke Beckwith: badged 2015, see trails HERE. Also see Jennings, below.
• Bernard Gateways (Richard and William): badged in 2015. The trail is outlined HERE.
• Mary Bourchier: badged 2019. See it HERE.
• Nathaniel Burrough: badged in 2015. See the trail HERE.
• Kenelm Cheseldine: badged 14 Jan 2021. See Marbury trail below. Trails are set out HERE.
• William Clopton: badged in 2020. See the trail HERE.
• Saint Leger Codd: connected to existing trail badged in 2015. See the trails HERE.
• Henry Corbin (MCA I:533-535 CORBIN): badged trail was connected to this Gateway before 2018. The trails are set out HERE.
• Coytemore Gateways (Elizabeth and Thomas): badged in 2015. See the trail HERE.
• Anne Derehaugh: trail was badged in June 2016. See it HERE.
• Edward Digges: badged after Jun 2015. See the trail HERE.
• William Farrar: badged in 2015, the trail is set out HERE.
• John Fisher: badged in/about 2015, re-reviewed in April 2020. See the trail HERE.
• Elizabeth Haynes: badged July 2022. See it HERE.
• Warham Horsmanden: badged May 2020. See the trail HERE.
• Anne Humphrey: badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in June 2020. See the trails HERE (see also West trail).
• Henry Isham: badged in 2015/16. The trail is set out HERE.
• Edmund Jennings: badged in May 2015. See the trail HERE
• Kempe Gateways (Richard, Edward, Edmund and Matthew): trail not yet developed and can be viewed HERE.
• Levis Gateways (Samuel, Hannah, and Sarah): badged in February 2020. The trail can be seen HERE (see also: Need).
• Nathaniel Littleton: badged in Dec 2017. See the trail HERE.
• Manwaring Gateways (Oliver and Mary): badged, re-reviewed in February 2024. See the trail HERE.
• Marbury Gateways (Anne and Katherine): badged 2014/re-reviewed 2020. See trail HERE.
• Richard More: connected to badged trail in 2020. See the trail HERE.
• Nelson Gateways (John and Margaret): badged in 2015 and 2016 and needs re-review. See the trail HERE.
• Richard Palgrave: trails badged 19 March 2021. See them HERE.
• Herbert Pelham: badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in June 2020. See the trails HERE (see also West trail).
• Robert Peyton, trails through both his mother and father: badged in 2015 and can be seen HERE.
• George Reade: badged 2015 and needs re-review. See the trail HERE.
• William Skepper: badged 2016, needs re-review. See the trail HERE.
• Jemima Waldegrave: badged March 2016. See the trail HERE.
• West Gateways (Thomas, Francis, John, Nathaniel, and Elizabeth): badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in June 2020. See the trail HERE.

Maud is also in an unbadged trail that needs further development:

• Blakiston Gateways (Nehemiah and George): needs development. See the trail HERE.
• Kempe Gateways (Richard, Edward, Edmund and Matthew): unbadged trail can be viewed HERE.
• Need Gateways (Mary and Joseph) (MCA II:221-223 NEED): Levis trail badged in February 2020. The trails can be seen HERE (see Levis). 3 profiles need development.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".