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GLOUCESTER, See also:GILBERT DE See also:CLARE, See also:EARL OF (1243-1295) , was a son of See also:Richard de Clare, 7th earl of Gloucester and 8th earl of Clare, and was See also:born at See also:Christchurch, See also:Hampshire, on the 2nd of See also:September 1243. Having married Alice of See also:Angouleme, See also:half-See also:sister of See also:king See also:Henry III., he became earl of Gloucester and Clare on his See also:father's See also:death in See also:July 1262, and almost at once joined the baronial party led by See also:Simon de See also:Montfort, earl of See also:Leicester. With Simon Gloucester was at the See also:battle of See also:Lewes in May 1264, when the king himself surrendered to him, and after this victory he was one of the three persons selected to nominate a See also:council. Soon, however, he quarrelled with Leicester. Leaving See also:London for his lands on the Welsh border he met See also:Prince See also:Edward, afterwards king Edward I., at See also:Ludlow, just after his See also:escape from captivity, and by his skill contributed largely to the prince's victory at See also:Evesham in See also:August 1265. But this See also:alliance was as transitory as the one with Leicester. Gloucester took up the cudgels on behalf of the barons who had surrendered at See also:Kenilworth in See also:November and See also:December 1266, and after putting his demands before the king, secured See also:possession of London. This happened in See also:April 1267, but the earl quickly made his See also:peace with Henry III. and with Prince Edward, and, having evaded an See also:obligation to go on the Crusade, he helped to secure the peaceful See also:accession of Edward I. to the See also:throne in 1272. Gloucester then passed several years in fighting in \Vales, or on the Welsh border; in 1289 when the barons were asked for a See also:subsidy he replied on their behalf that they would See also:grant nothing until they saw the king in See also:person (nisi See also:Arius personaliler viderent in Anglia faciem regis), and in 1291 he was fined and imprisoned on See also:account of his violent See also:quarrel with See also:Humphrey de See also:Bohun, earl of See also:Hereford. Having divorced his wife Alice, he married in 1290 Edward's daughter See also:Joan, or Johanna (d. 1307). Earl Gilbert, who is sometimes called the " Red," (lied at See also:Monmouth on the 7th of December 1295, leaving in addition to three daughters a son, Gilbert, earl of Gloucester and Clare, who was killed at See also:Bannockburn.

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Bemont, Simon de Montfort, See also:comte de Leicester (1884), and G. W. Prothero, Simon de Montfort (1877).

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