Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare, suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan( 3 October 1292- 30 June 1337) was a powerful English noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England.
With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare, she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, 7th Earl of Hereford at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly Castle in Glamorgan, Wales and was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Lord of Glamorgan and Princess Joan of Acre.
Maria Thins
Maria Thins( c. 1593 – 27 December 1680) was the mother- in- law of Johannes Vermeer and a member of the Gouda Thins family.
Bogo de Clare
Bogo de Clare (21 July 1248 – October 1294) was a member of the Anglo-Norman de Clare family, as third son of Richard de Clare (1222–1262), 5th Earl of Hertford and 6th Earl of Gloucester.
Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere
Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere (ca. 1 April 1287 – 22 October 1333/
January 1334, disputed) was a Norman-Irish noblewoman, "suo jure" heiress, and the wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere.
She was arrested and subsequently imprisoned in the Tower of London for the duration of a year from November 1321 to November 1322, making her the first recorded female prisoner in the Tower's history.
She was jailed on account of having ordered an armed assault on Isabella of France, Queen consort of King Edward II of England.
Before Margaret had instructed her archers to fire upon Isabella and her escort, she had refused the Queen admittance to Leeds Castle where her husband, Baron Badlesmere held the post of governor, but which was legally the property of Queen Isabella as part of the latter's dowry.
Margaret surrendered the castle on 31 October 1321 after it was besieged by the King's forces using ballistas.
Edward's capture of Leeds Castle was the catalyst which led to the Despenser War in the Welsh Marches and the north of England.
Upon her release from the Tower, Margaret entered a religious life at the convent house of the Minorite Sisters outside Aldgate.
King Edward granted her a stipend to pay for her maintenance.
Elizabeth de Badlesmere, Countess of Northampton
Elizabeth de Badlesmere, Countess of Northampton( 1313 – 8 June 1356) was the wife of two English noblemen, Sir Edmund Mortimer and William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton.
She was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere.
At the age of eight she was sent to the Tower of London along with her mother, Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere and her four siblings after the former maltreated Queen consort Isabella by ordering an assault upon her and refusing her admittance to Leeds Castle.
Maud de Clare
Maud de Clare, Baroness de Welles was the eldest daughter of Thomas de Clare, Lord of Inchiquin and Youghal, Lord of Thomond, Lord of Bunratty Castle( 1245 – 1287) and Juliana FitzGerald( 1236–1290).
She married two times.
Her first marriage was to Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, 1st Lord of Skipton( 1274 – 1314) on 3 November 1295 by which she had four children.
Her second marriage was to Sir Robert de Welles, 2nd Baron Welles, Constable of Pendragon Castle( 1297 – 1326) on 16 Nov 1315.
They had no children.
She was born in 1276 in Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury Hundred, Gloucestershire, England and moved to Badlesmere to be near her sister, Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere.
She died in Badlesmere in 1327 twice a widow.
Priscilla Pointer
Priscilla Marie Pointer( born May 18, 1924) is an American stage, film and television character actress.
She began her career in the theater, including productions on Broadway.
Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television.
She is the mother of Amy Irving, therefore making her the former mother- in- law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto and the mother- in- law of documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Jr.
Isabella of Gloucester and Hertford
Isabella de Clare( 2 November 1226 – 10 July 1264) was the daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester and Isabel Marshal.
She is also known as" Isabel de Clare", but this is however, the name of many women in her family.
Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (18 August 127514 April 1322) was an English soldier, diplomat, Member of Parliament, landowner and nobleman.
He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselin de Badlesmere (died ca. 1301) and Joan FitzBernard.
He fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the later years of the reign of Edward I of England and the earlier part of the reign of Edward II of England.
He was executed after participating in an unsuccessful rebellion led by the Earl of Lancaster.
Maud de Badlesmere, Countess of Oxford
Maud de Badlesmere, Countess of Oxford( 1310 – May 1366) was an English noblewoman, and the wife of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford.
She, along with her three sisters, was a co-heiress of her only brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere, who had no male issue.
At the age of 11 she was imprisoned in the Tower of London along with her mother, Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere and her four siblings, after the former refused Queen consort Isabella admittance to Leeds Castle and ordered an assault upon her when she attempted entry.

Question: Who is the mother-in-law of Margaret De Clare, Baroness Badlesmere?
Answer: Joan FitzBernard