Maud de Clare

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 64:31-32, 82:32, 156:30, daughter of Thomas de Clare and Juliana Fitz Maurice. She was first married to Robert de Clifford. Her second husband was Sir Rober de Welles, Lord Welles, whom she married without royal license in 1315. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Robert de Welles, Knight, married Maud, second and youngest daughter of Thomas de Clare, the second son of Richard, Earl of Cloucester and Hertford, and his wife Julian, the daughter of Sir Fitz Marice, Lord Justice of Ireland. Maud died between Mar 1326/7 and 24 May 1327, the last date being the date of the writ for her Inquisition Post Mortem.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Clifford), Vol. III, pp. 291

Maud married Robert de Clifford, son of Roger de Clifford Justice of Forests and Isabel de Vipont, on 13 Nov 1295 in Westmorland, England ^141,821,904.^,935 (Robert de Clifford was born on 1 Apr 1274 in Clifford Castle, Hay, Herefordshire, England,⁹³⁵ died on 25 Jun 1314 in Battle of Bannocksburne, Scotland ⁹³⁵ and was buried in 1314 in Shap Abbey, Westmoreland, England ⁹³⁵.)

Maud next married Sir Robert de Welles Knight, Baron on Welles, son of Adam de Welles Baron of Welles and Joan d’Engaine.¹⁴¹ (Sir Robert de Welles Knight, Baron on Welles was born on 1 Jan 1297 in Blatherwycke, Cambridgeshire, England ¹⁴¹, baptized on 1 Jan 1297 in Holy Trinity, Blatherwycke, Cambridgeshire, England ¹⁴¹ and died Shortly before 29 Aug 1320 in England ¹⁴¹.)