266 CLARE. with Maurice Crosbie Moonu had been dissolved in Tarl. in 1S25), 1st da. of Charles Brydges Woodcock, of Brentford Butts, Midx. He d. s.p.ni.s. at No. 9, Id-ur-iii^tim Palace Gardens, Midx., 10 Jany. 1S64, when all his honours became extinct. His Widow d. 29 Sej). 1S65, at No. 31, Bryanston Sq,, Midx. [John Charles IIesry Fitk Gibbon, styled Viscount Fitz Gibbon, onlv s. and h. ap., !>. 2 May 1829 ; Lieut. Sth Hussars. Ho d. num. and v.]>., being slain at the battle of Balaklava, 25 Oct, 1854.] See "CAKLETOJST OF CLAEE " Viscounty [I.], (Carletvu), a: 1797 ; ex. 1826. See "FITZGERALD AND VESCI OF CLARE AND LNClli- CRONAN,co. Clare" Barony [I.], {Vescy-Fit: t?eratd), cr. 1826 ; ex. 1860. CLARE [England]. Barony by 1. RicnAitn de Clare was sum. to Pari. 26 Oct 0 309) wnt. 3 Ed. II, but never afterwards, as a Baron (LOUD HE CLARK) by I 1309. writ directed " .ffi'c'o rfc Ware." He appears to have been the Richard de Clare who was br. and b. of Gilbert de Clare, and aged 22 in (1307-08) 1 Ed. II, both being sons of Thomas do Clare, Gov. of the city of Loudon (1273), 1 Ed. I, (by Amy, da. of Sir Maurice Fitz Ma-juice), the said Thomas being 2nd s. of Richard (de Clahe), Eaul of Gloucester and HSBTTORD, He d. apparently soon after 1309, tho', according to some accounts, as late as 1818 in battle at Dyserfc in Ireland, leaving Thomas de Clare, his only child and h., who it. unm., and, apparently, a minor in (1320-21) 14 Ed. II, when any hereditary Barony that might have been vested in him(») became extinct. CLARE (honour of) or CLARENCE( b ). [Ohsermtions. — -In the times of the Heptarchy the 'border fortress of Clare (co. Suffolk), on the confines of the Kingdoms of East Anglia and Essex, was of the greatest importance, and continued to be so for many centuries afterwards, when it was granted by the Conqueror to the Count of Brion. His successors, the earlier Loi-ds of Clare were, " it is implied in the Lords' Reports (iii. 124) and elsewhere, styled Earls of Clare before they were Earls of Hertford, but investigation disproves this "( c ) tho' doubtless, theso Lords, after they obtained that Earldom, were, according to the usage of the period, frequently styled " Earls of Clare ;" just as the Earls of Derby were styled "Earls Ferrers," &c. It is, oi course, just possible that in the case of the first Lord, and of such of his successors as were " Counts " in Normandy the term (*) His coheirs were the sisters of the Baron's Father, vig, (1) Margaret, wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, and (2) Maud, then wife of Robert de Wells, but who had previously m. Robert (de Clifford), 1st Lord de Clifford (1299-1314). ( b ) As to the fanciful derivation of the word Clarence from a Greek title " Clarenza," conjectured to have been borne by the Hainault family there is certainly no evidence (even granting that it ever existed) for the transference of it to the family of Edward III. See an article on " Clare" by J. W. Donaldson in vol. i. of the transactions of " The Bury and West Suffolk Arch. Inst," 1853, in which vol. is also an article describing the Castle of Clare, by Sam. Tymms. See also further observations as to the title of Clarence, or Clare, post, p. 270, note " b," and p. 272, note " c." ( c ) See an able article by J. Horace Round on the family of Clare, in Stephen's " Nat. Biography," where are several notices of the earlier members thereof.
