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	King Lear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Earl of Gloucester² is Edgar's father, and the father of the illegitimate son, Edmund.
		Another subplot involves the Earl of Gloucester, whose two sons, the good Edgar and the evil Edmund, are at loggerheads, the bastard Edmund having concocted false stories about his legitimate half-brother.
		Besides the subplot involving the Earl of Gloucester and his two sons, the principal innovation Shakespeare made to this story was the death of Cordelia and Lear at the end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Lear (2957 words)

	Gilbert de Clare
		Richard descendants acquired the earldom of Gloucester by marriage, and became the leading barons of the south-eastern March by early in the 13th century.
		The young earl was just 25 at the time, yet the scheme for the stronghold at Caerphilly was one of the most ambitious ever to have been conceived in the kingdom.
		Earl Gilbert died at the age of 52 in December 1295, and his estates were administered by his widow until her death in 1307.
	www.castlewales.com /clare.html (806 words)

	EARLS AND DUKES OF GLOUCESTER - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND DUKES OF GLOUCESTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The English earldom of Gloucester was held by several members of the royal family, including Robert, a natural son of Henry I., and John, afterwards king, and others, until 1218, when Gilbert de Clare was recognized as earl of Gloucester.
		It remained in the family of Clare (q.v.) until 1314, when another Earl Gilbert was killed at Bannockburn; and after this date it was claimed by various relatives of the Clares, among them by the younger Hugh le Despenser (d.
		Gloucester died on the 25th of August 1805, leaving an only son, William Frederick (1776-1834),who now became duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GL/GLOUCESTER_EARLS_AND_DUKES_OF.htm (539 words)

	ROBERT, EARL OF GLOUCESTER - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT, EARL OF GLOUCESTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He received from his father the hand of a wealthy heiress, Mabel of Gloucester, daughter of Robert Fitz Hamon, and with her the lordships of Gloucester and Glamorgan.
		With Matilda the earl besieged the legate at Winchester, but was forced by the royalists to beat a hasty retreat, and in covering Matildas flight fell into the hands of the pursuers.
		The earl renewed the struggle for the crown and continued it until his death (Oct. 31, 1147); but the personal unpopularity of Matilda, and the estrangement of the Church from her cause, made his efforts unavailing.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GL/GLOUCESTER_ROBERT_EARL_OF.htm (507 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gloucester, Robert, earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Gloucester, Robert, earl of, British And Irish History, Biographies
		After his father's death (1135), Robert appeared to accept the seizure of the throne by Henry's nephew, Stephen, to whom he did conditional homage in 1136.
		The earl captured Stephen at Lincoln in 1141, but later in the year he himself was captured, while covering Matilda's retreat from Winchester, and exchanged for the king.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GloucsR.html (266 words)

	Church History: Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Gloucester was an important city, and the building itself is architecturally significant, its salvation was likely the result of its connection to the Monarchy, or the Monarchy's connection to it.
		Roman habitation in Gloucester was encouraged by several important factors that continued to have influence for several hundred years after the Romans left the area.
		The shrine of Edward II at Gloucester was a significant source of revenue.
	www.britannia.com /church/studies/gloscath.html (1733 words)

	Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (~1090 - October 31, 1147) was an illegitimate son of Henry I of England, and one of the dominant figures of the English Anarchy period.
		His mother is not known for certain, though recent scholarship suggests she was a member of the Gay family, minor nobility in Oxfordshire.
		He married Mabel of Gloucester, daughter of Robert Fitzhamon, thereby receiving lordship of Gloucester and Glamorgan.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Robert_of_Gloucester (250 words)

	Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1232 Richard was secretly married to Margaret (Megotta) de Burgh, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.
		The Earl is said to have succeeded in recovering all, and to have returned home with great credit, and in September he was present at the Round Table tournament at Walden.
		The Earl and his companion, pretending to be the two of Roos's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defense.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Richard_de_Clare,_6th_Earl_of_Hertford (761 words)

	Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Gloucester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gilbert de Clare (born 1066, died 1115) was the first Earl of Gloucester.
		Welcome to Gloucester, MA History of the fishing industry and the nautical origins of Gloucester.
		Gibson Guitars: Earl Scruggs The Earl Scruggs model was introduced in 1984, a recreation of Earl's banjo at that time.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Gilbert_de_Clare,_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester.html (325 words)

	Ancetors of Winslow Farr Sr. and Olive Hovey Freeman
		He married AMICE who died as Countess of Gloucester, about 1 Jan. 1224/5, daughter (and in her issue heiress) of William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester.
		Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, born 4 August, 1222.
		The Earl and his companion, pretending to be two of Roos's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defence.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Bluffs/2806/b11.htm (3894 words)

	King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family
		Edgar is the elder and the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester.
		Gloucester's weakness and credulity stem from an imbalance in him between his carnal longings and his dispositions to be loyal and devoted to his king.
		To witness the long pilgrimage of Gloucester and Edgar is, as we have seen, to fathom the importance of law and justice as an aspect of paternal and filial devotion, even as we grow to feel the sad inadequacy of justice as the sole basis for paternal and filial love.
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	Earl of Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title of Earl of Gloucester was created several times in the Peerage of England.
		Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1180-1230)
		Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester (1243-1295)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Gloucester (152 words)

	Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1223 he accompanied his brother-in-law, Earl Marshal in an expedition into Wales.
		His widow Isabel later married Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans.
		1160, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, daughter of Sir William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Mareschal of England, and Isabel de Clare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilbert_de_Clare,_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester (288 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Earl Gilbert De Clare GLOUCESTER ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Earl of Gloucester was in the Forest of Dean and had collected about him a considerable force of armed men...It was rumored, moreover, that the pair had opened communications with Mortimer and Leyburn, the ringleadersof the Seven Knights.
		Earl Gilbert had been an unhappy man since the battle of Evesham, conscious of the hatred in which he was held by the old comrades he had abandoned, aware also that the King was seeking ways of escaping from the pledges to which he was committed.
		He forced the reluctant Gloucester to admit that the pretensions of the lord of Glamorgan to be the overlord of the bishop of Llandaff and the guardian of the temporalities of the see during a vacancy were usurpations.
	www.geneal.net /1182.htm (4140 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gilbert-de-Clare,-1st-Earl-of-Gloucester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford and 1st Earl of Gloucester) (1180 - October 25, 1230) was an English nobleman of the Norman period.
		He was the son of Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Amice Fitzrobert.
		He was buried there, before the high altar of Tewkesbury Abbey, on November 10, a monument being erected by his widow, Isabel Marshall, sister of William Marshall, the Surety, and daughter of William Marshall, the Protector.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gilbert_de_Clare%2C_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester (258 words)

	Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 5: Gloucester
		In 1284 Thomas de Clare, described as the brother of the Earl of Gloucester, made a recognizance to several merchants of Lucca for a loan of £409, and they were to hold his manor called Agni in the county of Limerick until it was repaid [Cal.
		Richard was identified as the son of Thomas de Clare, son of the Earl of Gloucester, and the dispensation was granted at the request of Richard's aunt, Margaret de Clara, Countess of Cornwall [Cal.
		The coheirs of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, were his three surviving daughters: (1) Anne, then wife of her 2nd husband, Edmund, Earl of Stafford...
	www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk /cp/gloucester.shtml (1118 words)

	Janet's Genealogy
		Amice FITZWILLIAM Countess of Gloucester was born in 1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England.
		Gilbert de CLARE assumed the title of earl of Gloucester and Hertford and was charged £350 relief for the honors of Clare, Glocester, St. Hilary and his half of the old Giffard barony.
		Earl Richard de Clare was married twice; first, secretly in 1232 to Meggotta, daughter of the justices Hubert de Burgh, Richard's custodian during his minority; secondly, in 1237 to Maud, daughter of John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~janet/deClare.html (3483 words)

	William "Mafonache" FitzRobert [Earl of Gloucester]/[Earl of Gloucester] & Hawise "de Beaumont" ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William "Mafonache" FitzRobert [Earl of Gloucester]/[Earl of Gloucester] and Hawise "de Beaumont" of Leicester [Countess of Gloucester]/[Countess of Gloucester]
		Maud (Mabel) (Sibyl) FitzHammon [Countess of Gloucester]/[Countess of Gloucester]
		William "Mafonache" FitzRobert [Earl of Gloucester]/[Earl of Gloucester]
	www.uscousins.com /reports/wc07/wc07_328.html (79 words)

	HRH THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
		An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic such, at any rate after the Conquest, is Robert FitzHamon's son-in-law, another Robert, who was an illegitimate son of HENRY I and was so created in 1122.
		The latter seems not to have been recognised as Earl of Gloucester as well as of Kent, despite his wife's undoubted possession of the former Earldom by the time of their marriage.
		On the other hand Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usually called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition to his other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /Sites/Peerage/SitePages/page62-6h.asp (1335 words)

	CliffsNotes::King Lear:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Gloucester is depicted as a foolish old man, whose inability to see through Edmund’s lies parallels Lear’s own difficulties.
		Gloucester blames events on the stars, and thus, he absolves himself of any responsibility for his actions.
		This compassion for his fellow man indicates that Gloucester regrets the behavior of his past, as he seeks to make amends by sharing with those he never noticed before the recent events.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-54,pageNum-93.html (232 words)

	King Lear Plot Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Earl of Gloucester and the Earl of Kent discuss how Gloucester loves his two sons equally: Edmund (the elder), gotten illegitimately; and Edgar (of questionable parentage), gotten before Gloucester married Edgar's mother.
		Gloucester confides the rift between Cornwall and Albany to Edmund, informs him of the impending French force, and advises him that they must side with Lear.
		Gloucester is led onto the heath by an old man, where they are met by Edgar (still disguised as Poor Tom).
	www.greenville.edu /faculty/bshaw/eng201/learsumm.htm (1862 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Duchess Joan Acre GLOUCESTER ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gloucester desisted unwillingly from his attacks on Brecon, and was constrained to divorce his wife and marry the king's daughter, Joan of Acre.
		She married in 1290, (1) Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who died in 1295, and later, a clandestine marriage, to (2) Ralph de Monthermer, who died in 1307.
		(Earl Gilbert De Clare GLOUCESTER was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Church, Christ, Hampshire, England, died on 7 Dec 1295 in Castle, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, England and was buried on 22 Dec 1295 in Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.)
	www.geneal.net /1171.htm (1805 words)

	Mark Pilling Family History - pilg919 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Isabel married Gilbert de Clare :[Earl of Gloucester] on 9 Oct 1217 in,,, England.
		Margaret married John de Lacy [Earl of Lincoln] on 1223 in of,, Lincolnshire, England.
		Gilbert married Joan "of Acre" Princess of England [Countess Gloucester And Hertford] on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminister Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
	www.eoni.com /~paf/pilling/pilg919.htm (553 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Gilbert 'the Red' De Clare, Earl of Gloucester (1243-1295)
		Gilbert was nicknamed the 'Red Earl' after the colour of his hair.
		He was the eldest son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford and Margaret de Lacy, the Countess of Lincoln.
		Earl Gilbert died in December 1295, at the age of fifty-two, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey (Gloucestershire); although his widow may have buried his heart in the church at their favoured Berkshire manor of Long Wittenham, where the two often stayed when attended the King at Oxford and Woodstock.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/gdeclare.html (631 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: King Lear - Character List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Earl of Kent: Outraged by Lear's disinheritance of Cordelia, he steps in to support her decision.
		Earl of Gloucester: The parallel character to Lear in the subplot, Gloucester is tricked by his bastard son Edmund into thinking that Edgar wishes to kill him.
		Edgar, son to Gloucester: Hunted by Gloucester's men due to Edmund's trickery, Edgar disguises himself as poor Tom of Bedlam, a demonic madman, who believes the foul fiend is torturing him.
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	The Father of the English Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although accused by many of concentrating and keeping power in his own hands, he decreed that the two charters (Oxford and its supplement, Westminster) and all the "ancient and laudable customs of the realm" should be inviolably observed.
		The earl was now in possession of more extensive authority then Henry had ever wielded, but he soon discovered that obtaining power and then maintaining it were two different things.
		His wielding of sovereign power, his unwillingness to compromise on the Provisions of Oxford, and his inclusion of the commons in Parliament had alienated his most powerful ally, Gilbert de Clare, 8th earl of Gloucester.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/plantagenet_kings/57159 (851 words)

	NovelGuide: King Lear: Character Profiles
		Earl of Gloucester: Like King Lear, the Earl is an older man who is a terrible judge of character.
		Edmund : The Earl of Gloucester’s bastard son who is the greediest of all of the characters.
		Edgar: The legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, Edgar is tricked by his brother and hunted by his father for crimes he didn’t commit.
	www.novelguide.com /kinglear/characterprofiles.html (837 words)

	De Clare Genealogy
		"Richard Earl of Gloucester married the Earl of Lincoln's daughter Maud, and this marriage resulted in two sons - Thomas and Gilbert "The Red", who was entitled Earl of Gloucester upon his father's death.
		Indeed, the Earl of Gloucester played a crucial role in the defeat of de Montfort's army at the battle of Evesham the following year, and used the opportunity to strengthen the family's position in the Welsh borderlands." --Daniel Mersey.
		Hugh has been called Earl of Gloucester by some writers but The Complete Peerage vol.V,p715 makes it clear he was not.
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