The de Clere of Sinnington picture is very sketchy - they were not a numerous family, they are not well documented, and they daughtered out early in the 13th century.
Maud de Clere de Lacy MUST have been born earlier than 1181, unless she was Roger de Lacy's second wife (there was certainly enough of that going on, and as often as not the first wives were unidentified).
Where this puts her vis-a-vis the Cleres of Sinnington isn't all that clear (pun intended). She is most likely to have been a sister of the Ralph de Clere who married Margaret de Chesney FitzHenry, but this is one of those situations where we know there *was* a first wife but not who she was. Early Yorkshire charters tell us that Ralph I de Clere (1130-1205) had a wife prior to Mabel daughter of Edmund, and that this first wife gave him a son Ralph who died young - he gave (at least) two donations to the local church for prayers for their souls, and the later donation mentions his current wife Mabel.
So Maud may have been First Wife's daughter and Ralph II's older half-sister, or Mabel's daughter and Ralph II's older full sister.
But it's a matter of basic female biology that she was *probably* at least fifteen by the time she started having children.
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