Amice FITZWILLIAM

Abt 1160 - 1225  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Amice FITZWILLIAM
  Born	Abt 1160	Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
  Gender	Female
  Died	1 Jan 1225	England
  Person ID	I43290	Main
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2017

  
  

  Family	Sir Richard DE CLARE,   b. Abt 1153, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England ,   d. Bef 28 Nov 1217, Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Children	+ 1. Sir Gilbert DE CLARE,   b. Abt 1180, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 25 Oct 1230, Perres Guirrec Penrose, Bretagne, France  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F30512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1160 - Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Died - 1 Jan 1225 - England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Sometime before Michaelmas 1198, Earl Richard and his wife Amice were separated by order of the Pope on grounds of consanguinity, by which date she took personal possession of the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, her marriage portion. The kinship was presumably due their common descent from Harleve of Falaise, mother of William the Conqueror, King of England, they being related in the 5th and 6th degrees of kindred though Harleve. They were apparently considered divorced by Trinity term 1200, when Amice was called “former wife of the Earl of Clare.” The issue of the validity of their marriage was presumably resolved, as Amice styled herself in later charters “Countess of Clare.” Regardless, they appeared to have been estranged at the time of Earl Richard’s death, as her charters make no mention of her husband, but only their son and heir, Gilbert.