(IMPORTANT NOTE: In this script the names of the Surety Barons are indicated by three small stars, or asterisks, as below:)

the four Magna Charta Surety Baron ancestors of Gilbert de Clare, the "Red Earl", who married Princess Joan Plantagener, were;

***RICHARD DE CLARE, Surety,
***GILBERT DE CLARE, Surety,
***JOHN DE LACIE, Surety,
***SAIRE DE QUINCEY, Surety,

the relationship as set forth below;

***Richard de Clare, Magna Charta Surety Baron, Earl of Hertford, died 1217, married Amicia Muellent. Their son,

***Gilbert de Clare, Magna Charta Surety Baron, Earl of Gloucester, (1180-1230), married Isabella Marshall, daughter of WILLIAM MARSHALL, Earl of Pembroke, the MARSHALL and PROTECTOR of England (1146-1219), Their son; Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, born 4 August 1222, (through his mother, Isabella Marshall, he inherited a fifth part of the MARSHALL estates, including, Kilkenny and other lordships in Ireland), married, second, MAUD DE LACIE, daughter of;

***JOHN de LACIE, Magna Charta Surety Baron, Earl of Loncoln, (1192-1240) and his wife Margaret Quincey, who died 1266, having been the daughter of Robert de Quincey, (died 1217), the son of;

***SAIRE de QUINCEY, Magna Charta Surety Baron, born before 1154, created Earl of Winchester, 2 March 1207. (To him is credited the re-writing of Magna Charta from the Charter of King Henry I and the Saxon code. In 1218, ***Saire de Quincey, the Surety, went with the Earls of Chester and Arundel to the Holy Land; assisted at the Siege of Damietta in 1219 and died November 3rd, in the same year, on the way to Jerusalem. His wife, Margaret, was daughter of Robert de Bellomont, (or Beaumont) and his wife Petronella Grantesmesnil, and was descended from the EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE. (Magna Charta pp. 185)

The daughter of Princess Joan of Acre and Gilbert de Clare, the "Red Earl", was;

(Gen. No. 132) LADY MARGARET DE CLARE, (1292-1342), married, first, Piers de Caveston, who was executed, married, second, Lord Hugh de Audley, Junior, Eight Earl of Gloucester in 1336, Ambassador to France in 1341, Sheriff of Rutland; died on 10 November 1347. By Lady Margaret's second husband, Hugh Audley, she had a daughter.

(Gen. No. 133) LADY MARGARET DE AUDLEY, (died 1349), who married, as her first wife, Sir Ralph de Stafford, one of the original Twenty Five Knights of the Garter and who was one of the most esteemed of Edward's commanders, distinguishing himself in the Wars in Ireland and in France, died 31 August 1372, and was buried in the Priory of Tunbridge, beside his wife Margaret and at the feet of her father and mother, Hugh Audley and Margaret Clare. (Magna Charta pp. 227, which page depicts the Arms of Sir Ralph de Stafford with the description, (("Or, a Chevron gules")),) The son of Lady Margaret de Audley and her husband, Ralph de Stafford, was;

(Gen. No. 134) SIR HUGH DE STAFFORD, K. G., second Earl of Stafford, (1344-1386), married Lady Philippa de Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, (1313-1369), who was one of the original Twenty-Five Knights of the Garter (and the son of Guy de Beauchamp and Alice Toni), Sir Thomas distinguishing himself at Poiters, was constituted Marshall of England. (His brother, John Beauchamp, was also one of the original Twenty-Five Knights of the Garter.) Thomas de Beauchamp died of the plague at Calais 13 Nov. 1369. He and his wife, Catherine Mortzmer, are both buried in a splendid tomb at Warwick, where, their effigies may still be seen. (Magna Charta pp 225, which page depicts his Arms; "Gules, a fess between six cross crosslets, or".)

Lady Philippa de Beauchamp, wife of Sir Hugh de Stafford, was the descendant of three Magna Charta Surety Barons, namely;

***(a) LORD ROGER BIGOD
***(b) LORD HUGH BIGOD
***(c) SIR HENRY DE BOHUNM, as set forth below;

(1) Lord Roger Bigod, (died 1107), who in the time of William the Conqueror, possessed six Lordships in Essex and 117 in Suffolk, married Adelize, daughter of Hugh Grentesmesnil, Hugh Steward of England. Their son;

(2) Lord Hugh Bigod, born about 1095, died 1176/77, also Steward to King Henry, died 1177, after making a trip to the Holy Land, married Juliana Vere, daughter of Alberic de Vere, their son, (a) above; ***ROGER BIGOD, Magna Charta Surety, second Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, Keeper of Hereford Castle, born about 1150, died before, August 1221, married, as his first wife, Isabella Plantagenet Warren, daughter of Hameline Plantagenet, Earl of Warren, (son of GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET) and Hamelyn's wife, Isabel de Warren,

***SURETY ROGER BIGOD'S wife Isabel de Warren, was descended from the Earls of Surrey and Warren, as follows;

(1) WILLIAM DE WARREN, who came from Normandy and who was called a mear kinsman of William the Conqueror, received large grants of land in recognition of the distinguished part he took in the Battle of Hastings, King William Rufus making him Earl of Surrey. He married Gundred (according to the chroniclers, a daughter of William the Conqueror) and had;

(2) WILLIAM DE WARREN, second Earl of Warren and Surrey, who married Isabel de Bermandois, Their son; (3) WILLIAM DE WARREN, third Earl of Surrey, who, in 1147, assumed the Cross and accompanied Louis, of France to the Holy Land against the Saracens. There he fell in battle, or died in captivity. He married Adela, daughter of William de Talvace, son of Robert of Belesme, Earl of Shrewsbury, and by her had a daughter, Isabel de Warren, who, as aforesaid, married Hamelyn Plantagent, and had a daughter, Isabel Plantagener de Warren, who married ***ROGER BIGOD, the SURETY. (Magna Charta, pp. 43, 44, 205.) Their son; (b) above,

***HUGH BIGOD, Magna Charta Surety, born before 1195, married Maud Marshall, daughter of William Marshall, the famous LORD PEMBROKE, REGENT and PROTECTOR of the Kingdom (1153-1219), Constable of Chichester Castle. (The aforesaid Maud Marshall, wife of ***SURETY HUGH BIGOD was a sister to Isabella Marshall, who married ***SURETY GILBERT DE CLARE.) (Magna Charta pp. 46, 47.) (For WILLIAM MARSHALL, Regent and Protector of England, Wurts' Magna Charta, pp. 102 and 103.)

The descent of Lady Phillippa de Beauchamp, wife of Sir Hugh de Stafford, from ***HENRY DE BOHUN, MAGNA CHARTA SURETY, (c) above, is as follows;

THE BOHUN ANCESTRY AND RELATIONSHIP TO LADY PHILIPPA DE BEAUCHAMP

(1) Humphrey de Bohun I, (a descendant of King David I, of Scotland) is said to have been a kinsman and companion in arms of William The Conqueror and is generally known as "Humphrey with the Beard". His son was; (2) Humphrey de Bohun II, The Great, by command of King William Rufus, married Maud, daughter of Edward d'Evereux, progenitor of the ancient Earls of Salisbury, through which marriage he acquired large estate in Wiltshire, was Sheriff of Wiltshire and Bearer of the Royal standard in 1120 in the Battle of Benneville in Normandy, his son; (3) Humphrey de Bohun III, was Steward to King Henry I, married Margery, daughter of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, Lord High Constable of England, whose Charter was the earliest of express creation, the patent being dated in 1140. His son; (4) Humphrey de Bohun IV, Earl of Hereford and hereditary Constable of England, married Margaret of Huntingdon, daughter of Henry, Prince of Scotland and Earl of Huntingdon, born 1080, died 1153, the son of King David I of Scotland, (called St. Davie I) and whose wife was Matilda (died 1131), daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland. The son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and his wife, Margaret of Huntingdon, was;

(5) ***HENRY DE BOHUN, Magna Charta Surety, who became the first Earl of Hereford of that family, being so created by Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199, but the office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, ***HENRY DE BOHUN, the Surety, took a prominent part with the Barons against King John and his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of MAGNA CHARTA. He had been excommunicated by the Pope, with the other Barons, and did not return to his allegiance on the death of King John, but was one of the commanders in the Army of Louis le Dauphin at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by WILLIAM MARSHALL. After this defeat, he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220.

By his first wife, Maud Fitzgeoffrey (daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpiers, Baron de Mandeville, Earl of Essex in 1199, and Justiciary of England) he had a son; (6) Humphrey de Bohun V, second Earl of Hereford and Constable of England, born before 1208 and created Earl of Essex in 1228, appointed Constable of Dover Castle, 1238 to 1241, was also Sheriff of Kent, 1238 to 1241, and in 1250 was among those who took the Cross.

He and his elder son, Humphrey, had license to hunt hare, fox, cat, and other wild beasts in the forests of Bradon and Savernake, Wiltshire. He was one of fifteen chosen to advise the King on all Points. He was also one of the twelve elected by the Barons to represent the community in three anual parliaments, was one of the keepers of the City of London in 1265. He married first, Maud, daughter of Rooul de Lusignan, Count of Eu, in right of his wife, Alice, and had a daughter; (7) Alice Bohun, married Ralph de Tone (Toeni), a lineal descendant of Ralph de Tone (Toeni), Lord of Toni in Normandy. They had a daughter; (8) Alice Toni, who married Guy de Beauchamp. Their son; (9) Thomas de Beauchamp, aforesaid, who married Catherine Mortimer in 1337 (Magna Charta pp. 51, 52, 53, 225) had a daughter, Philippa de Beauchamp, aforesaid, who married Hugh de Stafford, and they had a daughter;

(Gen. No. 135) Lady Margaret de Stafford, who married, as his first wife, Ralph de Nevill, born about 1363 , died October 21, 1425, Knight of the Garter, Fourth Baron Neville of Raby, first Earl of Westmoreland in 1397. (Note: The second wife of Ralph Neville, husband of Lady Margaret, was Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and Granddaughter of King Edward III. (Magna Charta, P. 74.) Ralph De Nevill, Fourth Baron of Raby, was the descendant of two Magna Charta SURETY BARONS;

***JOHN FIRZOROBERT,
***WILLIAM MALET, the relationship as follows:

THE SAID BARON RALPH DE NEVILLIE'S FITZROBERT ANCESTRY:

(1) JOHN de BURGO, feudal lord of Tourborough, or Tonsburgh, in Normandy; was commanding general in the Norman army of William the Conqueror; governor of the chief burghs or towns in Normandy; was also the titular Earl of Comyn, his son; (2) EUSTACHE de BURGO, lord of Tonsburgh, was the father of (3) JOHN MONOCULUS, (one eye) de BURGO, governor of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland for Henry; brother of Serle de Burgo, who erected Knaresborough Castle. He married Magdalen; their son (4) EUSTACHE FITZJOHN de BURGO, (who built the castle). He was one of the wealthiest of the feudal lords, through his marriages with two heiresses; was one of the most powerful and influential of the northern feudal barons, and a favorite of King Henry I. He married first, the heiress of the de Vesci family; married, second, Agnes daughter and heiress of William Fitznigel, feudal lord of Halton Castle, by whom he had; (5) RICHARD (ROBERT) FITZEUSTANCE, feudal lord of Halton Castle and Constable of Chester; married Albreda Lisours. Their son; (6) ROGER FITZRICHARD, third son, who was granted by King Henry II the lordship of Warkwith, in Northumberland; married Alice, or Adeliza, daughter of Alberic de Vere, great high chamberlain of England; their only son; (7) ROBERT FITZROGER, was thrice high sheriff of each of the counties of Northumberland, Norfolk and Suffolk; married Margaret, only child of William de Cheney, lord of Horsford, Norfolk. He died in 1240 and his son;

(8) ***JOHN FITZROBERT, the SURETY, succeeded him. At the time of the meeting of the barons at Saint Edmundsbury, this baron was still loyal to King John, but subsequently he joined in the insurrection, and took such a prominent part that his lands were seized by the king and confiscated. Returning to his allegiance in the next reign, his castles and vast estates were returned to him, and he was constituted by King Henry III, high sheriff of county of Northumberland and governor of New-Castle-upon-Tyne; he died in 1240, married Ada Baliol, and by her had; (9) ROGER FITZJOHN, lord of Warkworth and Clavering; married Isabel, and died in 1249. Their son; (10) ROBERT FITZROGER CLAVERING; eminent in the battle of Falkirk and other memorable conflicts; married Margaret Zouche, Their daughter; (11) ANASTASIA FITZROBERT, (known also as Euphemia Clavering) became the wife of Ralph de Neville. Their son; (12) RALPH de NEVILLE, second baron, who in the time of his father, was retained by indenture to serve the Lord Henry Percy for life, in peace and war, against all men except the king. His wife was Alice Audley. among the six sons and five daughters of Ralph de Neville and his wife, Alice Audley, were Margaret, wife of Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, and, (13) JOHN de NEVILLE, third baron, who, when scarcely five years of age, was carried by his father to witness the battle of Durham. He was constantly in active service, either in France or Scotland and was made a Knight of the Garter by King Edward. He married, first, Maud, daughter of Henry, Lord Percy, and their eldest son was; (14) RALPH de NEVILL, fourth baron, who in the 21st of King Richard II was made Constable of the Tower of London, and shortly afterwards advanced by the parliament to the dignity of Earl of Westmoreland; was afterwards governor of the town and castle of Carlisle, warden of the West Marshes towards Scotland, and Governor of Roxborough. He was also a Knight of the Garter, died in 1425, and married, as aforesaid, Margaret, daughter of HUGH, Earl Stafford, K.G.

The daughter of RALPH de NEVILL, fourth baron, and Lady Margaret de Stafford, was Lady Margaret de Nevill. (See Later)