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- Known as Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Clare, Surety Magna Charta.
He was also Lord of the Isle of Wight.
The following is from Magna Charta Barons and Their American
Descendants, pg. 87:
"In the time of Richard I, he gave a thousand marks to the king for
livery of the lands of his mother's inheritance, with his proportion
of those some time belonging to Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. His name
appears in the covenant made between King John and the Barons [the
Magna Charta], and as he did not die until 'the 3d of the Calends of
December in the yeare after Christ 1218,' -- December 30, 1218, -- and
there being no other prominent man of his name, it is very likely that
he was the Surety named. He was buried either at Clare, or in the
middle of the choir of the priory of Tunbridge, which he founded."
(Source: Billy Polk)
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