Alice (Adelisa) de Tonbridge

✓ as wife and mother, ~ as a Clare: Alice (Adelisa) de Tonbridge, first wife of William de Percy (d. 1174/5, I99981), named in his Whitby confirmation ('pro Aliza uxore mea'), in his Sawley gift ('Adelidae uxoris meae et Alani heredis mei'), and by her daughters: 'Mathildis de Percy comitissa de Warwic' gave to Sawley for the souls of 'patris mei Willielmi de Percy et Adalidis de Tunbrige matris meae et Alani de Percy fratris mei et Agnetis sororis meae', and Agnes de Percy (I99979) likewise for 'Willielmi de Percy patris mei et Adelidis de Tunebrigge matris meae'. She d. before 1166, when William m. 2ndly Sibyl de Valognes. Medieval Lands: 'ALICE de Tonbridge, daughter of ---' and 'The reference to Tonbridge suggests that she may have been Adelisa de Clare, daughter of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare & his wife Agnes [Adelisa] of Chester.' Entered on that basis as a daughter of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare (I99579, d. 1136) and Adeliz of Chester (F99545) at ~ - the usual identification, hedged by Medieval Lands; Aynsley's CP X 'Percy' page may settle it. RING 27 Oct 2026 (at ~) to the Clares of Tonbridge and the Earls of Chester. Source: Medieval Lands (Charles Cawley, fmg.ac), read in the browser 27 Oct 2026, 'English Lords P-S' - PERCY, citing the Whitby and Sawley charters and the Pipe Rolls 1165/66 and 1169/70. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 27 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||27 Oct 2026 - CP X READ: filiation stays ~|| CP X 'Percy' p.441: William de Percy 'm., 1stly, before 1136, Alice de Tonbridge, who was living in 1148; and 2ndly, circa 1166, Sibyl de Valognes, widow of Robert de Ros (of Helmsley)'; n.(j): 'So named in charters of her daughters Maud and Agnes to Sallay Abbey ... She was probably da. of Richard FitzGilbert (de Clare), by Alice, sister of Ranulph, Earl of Chester (see ante, vol. iii, p. 243); on chronological grounds this is more likely than the suggestion made by Round in Feudal England, ped. at p. 472, that her father was Richard's father Gilbert, who, moreover, had a da. Alice who m. Aubrey de Vere.' CP and Medieval Lands therefore agree, and both say 'probably' - the Clare parentage remains ~ by this tree's rules. Living 1148. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd ed. vol. X (1945), 'Percy' pp.435-447 and notes (page images supplied by Aynsley, read 27 Oct 2026).