In June 1202, he was entrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Montrevillers.
He was one of the Barons still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the crown, who championed Louis le Dauphin, fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner, and was taken prisoner by William Marshal, whose daughter he later married. He led an army against the Welsh in 1228 and captured Morgan Gam, who was released the next year. He joined in an expedition to Brittany, but died on his way back to Penros in that duchy. His body was conveyed home by way of Plymouth and Cranbourgh to Tewkesbury.
Eleanor deClare (1292 – June 30, 1337) was the eldest daughter of GilbertdeClare, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester, and Joan of Acre.
She was born at Caerphilly, Glamorgan, and married, at Westminister, in May 1306, Hugh the younger Despenser, the son of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester by Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick.
Eleanor deClare is the heroine of a recent historical novel, The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II, by Susan Higginbotham.