 1272 - 1307 (35 years)
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| Name |
Joan of Acre Plantagenet |
| Prefix |
Princess |
| Birth |
1272 |
Acre, Palestine  |
| Gender |
Female |
| _FSFTID |
9C77-SVM |
| _FSLINK |
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=9C77-SVM |
| Death |
23 Apr 1307 |
Clare, Suffolk, England |
| Notes |
- Countess of Gloucester and Hertford. Her father had arranged for her to be
married to Amadeus of Savoy, but she had already secretly married to Ralph,
a member of the Kings household.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01268
«b»Joan of Acre«/b» («u»May «/u» «u»1271 «/u» - «u»April 7«/u», «u»1307«/u») was a daughter of King «u»Edward I of England «/u»and his first wife, «u»Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290) «/u»
Joan got her name from her birthplace, «u»Akko <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akko>«/u» (Acre), Hazofan, «u»Palestine «/u». It differentiates her from an earlier Joan born to the couple, who died in infancy. Joan of Acre was born while her parents were traveling to the Middle East on the «u»Ninth Crusade «/u». At least part of her childhood she spent in France with her maternal grandmother, «u»Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu «/u». She was betrothed as a child to Hartman, son of King «u»Rudolph I of Germany «/u», but he died in 1282 after drowning in the Rhine.
In «u»1290 «/u», at «u»Westminster Abbey«/u», Joan married «u»Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford«/u». He was nearly thirty years her senior. Their four children were:
«u»Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Hertford «/u»
«u»Eleanor de Clare«/u»
«u»Margaret de Clare «/u»
«u»Elizabeth de Clare«/u»
Following her husband's death in «u»1295 «/u», Joan clandestinely married «u»Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer «/u», a knight in her household, in 1297. Her father, King Edward I, was enraged by this lowly second marriage, especially since he was arranging a marriage for her to an Italian nobleman. He had Monthermer thrown in prison, and Joan had to plead for the release of her husband. According to the St. Albans chronicler, she told her father, "«i»No one sees anything wrong if a great earl marries a poor and lowly woman. Why should there be anything wrong if a countess marries a young and promising man?«/i»" At last her father relented, released Monthermer from prison in August 1297, and allowed him to hold the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hereford during Joan's lifetime. Monthermer and Joan had four children:
Mary de Monthermer, born October 1297. In 1306 her grandfather King Edward I arranged for her to wed «u»Duncan Macduff, 8th Earl of Fife «/u»
Joan de Monthermer, born 1299, became a nun at «u»Amesbury «/u».
«u»Thomas de Monthermer, 2nd Baron Monthermer «/u», born 1301.
Edward de Monthermer, born 1304 and died 1339. He fought in the Scottish campaign in 1335, but spent much of his life in service to his half-sister «u»Elizabeth «/u», who provided for him during his last illness and buried him next to their mother.
Joan died in childbirth in 1307 at the manor of Clare in «u»Suffolk «/u», «u»England «/u», a family possession, and was buried at the «u»Augustinian «/u» priory there. Her child was stillborn. Miracles were said to occur at her grave, especially the healing of toothache, back pain, and fever.
«b»Sources
«tab»«/b»Costain, Thomas. «u»A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_History_of_the_Plantagenets%2C_Vol_III&action=edit>«/u»
«tab»Underhill, Frances A. «i»For Her Good Estate«/i», 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Acre
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| Person ID |
I4211 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
5 Oct 2015 |
| Father |
Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet, King of England, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, London, England d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-On-The-Sands, Near Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Eleanor (Leonor) of Castile, Countess de Ponthieu, b. 1244, Castile, Spain d. 29 Nov 1290, Herdeby, Near Grantham, Lincolnshire (Age 46 years) |
| Marriage |
18 Oct 1254 |
Abbey of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile |
| Family ID |
F439 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Herman d. 1282 |
| Marriage |
Type: Associated with |
| _STAT |
Associated with |
| Family ID |
F5197 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Nov 2006 |
| Family 2 |
Gilbert the Red de Clare, 3rd Earl of Gloucester, b. 2 Sep 1243, Christchurch, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle (Age 52 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Apr 1290 |
Westminster Abbey, London, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Margaret de Clare, b. Oct 1292 d. 9 Apr 1342 (Age ~ 49 years) |
| | 2. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, b. 10 May 1291 d. 24 Jun 1314, Bannockburn (Age 23 years) |
| | 3. Elizabeth de Clare, b. 16 Sep 1295, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, England d. 4 Nov 1360 (Age 65 years) |
| | 4. Eleanor de Clare, b. Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan d. 30 Jun 1337 (Age ~ 44 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3712 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2013 |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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