Family
About 1088, Gilbert married Adeliza/Alice de Claremont, daughter of Hugh, Count of Clermont, and Margaret de Roucy. Gilbert and Adeliza had at least eight children:
- Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1136.
- Gilbert Fitz Gilbert de Clare, d. 1148, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
- Baldwin Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Bourne, d. 1154, m. Adeline de Rollos.
- Adelize/Alice de Clare, d. 1163, m. (ca. 1105), Aubrey II de Vere, son of Aubrey I de Vere and Beatrice. She had 9 children and in her widowhood was a corrodian at St. Osyth's, Chich, Essex.
- Hervey de Clare, Lord of Montmorency.
- Walter de Clare, d. 1149.
- Margaret de Clare, d. 1185, m. (ca. 1108), Sir William de Montfitchet, Lord of Stansted Mountfitchet.
- Rohese de Clare, d. 1149, m. (ca. 1130), Baderon of Monmouth
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