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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: Clere/Clare
Date: 7 Feb 1999 23:34:56 GMT


As to the identity of Maud de Clere, wife of Roger de Lacy of Pontefract,
Yorkshire (d. 1211), mother of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, Magna Charta
Surety, all we certainly know is that she was sister of the treasurer of York
Cathedral.

Sed et iste Rogerus constabularius duxit in uxorem Matildem de Clere, sororem
thesaurarii Eboracensis Ecclesie, de qua genuit Johannem constabularium
(Coucher Book of Kirkstall [Thoresby Society 8:241]).

The question then becomes, who was this cleric? There was a Clere family in
Yorkshire in this early period.

pcr

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