Richard de Clare¹ {M} [P100] = Margaret de Burgh² {F} [P126]

Married 1232
Richard de Clare:

Born Thursday 4 August 1222
Died Saturday 15 July 1262, Ashenfield Manor, Waltham, Canterbury
Buried Friday 28 July 1262, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire
8th Earl of Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester

Acceded 1230

Margaret de Burgh:

Alias Meggotta DE BURGH
Meggota's husband Richard of Gloucester inherited his estates and title when only 8 years old and Meggotta's father Hubert de Burgh was given the wardship thereby controlling the whole of the earl's lordship in the valleys of Morganwg and Gloucester. Hubert ( was the Justicar ) and his wife planned the marriage of their daughter Meggotta to Richard to maintain his influence on not only his earldom in Kent and the lands held jointly by him and Margaret of Scotland in England and Wales.

The full story of Meggotta can be read in the English Historical Review lvi (1941) pages 539-46.

1 : "The Dictionary of National Biography Volume VI"; Page 393-396; Secondary evidence
2 : "The Thirteenth Century 1216 - 1307"; Page 43; Secondary evidence