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CLAIRE HERONDALE (neé BAKER) (1307 – 1367)
— status: deceased (illness, 1367)
— house: Baker → Herondale
Henry Baker (father)
Unnamed mother
Romeo Herondale (husband)
children:
— Celestria
— Cassian
— Finnian (deceased)
— Luke (deceased)
— Rowan
— Rhiannon (deceased)
Claire was raised as the eldest daughter of a local family, taught to read, write, cook, ride, and properly manage a household from a young age -as most girls were who were expected to marry. She inherited her father’s love of horses.
As the famine began to finally come to an end , she was introduced and soon betrothed to Romeo Herondale. The two quickly became genuinely affectionate, Romeo bringing her flowers and charming both Claire and her family. They married in spring of 1324.
Alongside her dowry, Claire requested a horse of her own. Her father gifted her a silvery white mare she named Willow, who became one of her closest companions throughout adulthood.
Nearly two years into marriage Claire gave birth to healthy twins, Celestria and Cassian. Lucrezia and Anika helped much during the children’s infancy, allowing Claire moments of freedom outside the nursery riding Willow or helping around the estate instead of being cooped up inside.
After Lucrezia’s death, Claire stepped into the role of lady of the household beside Anika. During this time she survived a dangerous bout of typhoid herself, only surviving thanks to Anika’s knowledge of apocathary- drawing the two women even closer together.
Claire endured repeated grief through the deaths of sons Finnian and Luke that died soon after birth. This did not deter her from the twins however; she taught Cassian horseback riding and carefully raised Celestria in household duties, manners, and responsibility.
Later she welcomed two healthy younger children Rowan and Rhiannon. Much of the household fell upon Claire and Anika’s shoulders during those years, from taking care of four children to the animals and crops.
The Black Death devastated the Herondale family. Claire survived thanks largely to Anika’s herbal remedies while losing her daughter Rhiannon, grandson Luc, Ophelia, Tobias, and his family: Blair, and Samuel. Anika herself perished too, working herself too hard for the sake of the others in her family.
It was Claire who insisted upon adopting young Diana after Tobias and Blair’s deaths. Raising the girl alongside the remaining family gave Claire some happiness after so much loss.
Claire passed away a few years following her husband of an illness. It took her quickly and she was reunited with her family within the Herondale crypt where her and Romeo still haunt.
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