Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Richard de Clare

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• • 21st Great-grandfather of Henry Clay Folger — 24th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9696112 
  • Father:
  • Roger de Clare 
  • Mother:
  • Maud de St. Hilary   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1153 
  • Birth Location:
  • Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 30 Dec 1217 to 28 Nov 1217 
  • Death Location:
  • Oxfordshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Amice of Gloucester
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1180 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Gilbert de Clare (Ahnentafel No:4848056 )

  Maud de Clare

  Hawise de Clare

  • Notes: 

  • Magna Carta Surety

    3rd Earl of Hertford, Earl of Gloucester

• Sources for Richard de Clare

  • ¹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 3, pp. 57, 495.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 503.
  • ³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 71.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 185, 189.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford", _3rd_Earl_of_Hertford, (accessed 02/23/2010).
  • ⁶ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 1594.