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Princess Joan PLANTAGENET, of Acre[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
1272 - 1307 (~ 35 years)-
Name Joan PLANTAGENET [13] Prefix Princess Suffix of Acre Birth Apr 1272 Acre/Akko, Hazafon, Kingdom of Jerusalem 
[13, 14, 15] Gender Female Affiliation [16] Affiliation TitleOfNobility [16] TitleOfNobility TitleOfNobility [16] TitleOfNobility _FSFTID 9MK6-P6Z _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9MK6-P6Z _UID 80F34B5FFAF4481BA8D6F454586561DF31C7 Death 23 Apr 1307 Clare Castle, Clare, Suffolk, England [13, 14, 15] Burial 26 Apr 1307 Church of Austin Friars Clare, Suffolk, England [13, 14, 15] Person ID I594766618 Carney Wehofer July 2025 Last Modified 30 Dec 2022
Father King Edward I "Longshanks" PLANTAGENET, b. 18 Jun 1239, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, Middlesex, England d. 7 Jul 1307, Near Calais, Scotland Enroute Battle With Scotts (Age 68 years) Mother Queen Eleanor DE CASTILLE, Queen Consort of England, b. 1241, Burgos, Burgos, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain d. 28 Nov 1290, Hereby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 49 years) Marriage 18 Oct 1254 Abbey Of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain [5, 17] Family ID F536728732 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Gilbert I "The Red Earl" De CLARE, Sir Knight/9Th Earl/Gloucester, b. 2 Sep 1243, Christchurch, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales (Age 52 years) Marriage 9 May 1290 Westminster, Middlesex, England [5, 16, 18] Children 1. Richard DE CLARE d. Yes, date unknown 2. Gilbert DE CLARE, 8th Earl of Gloucester, b. 10 May 1291, Clare, Suffolk, England d. 24 Jun 1314, Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 23 years)3. Eleanore (Alianore) De CLARE, b. 3 Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales d. 30 Jun 1337, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 44 years)4. Margaret DE CLARE, b. 12 Oct 1293, Tonbridge Castle, Tonbridge, Kent, England d. 9 Apr 1342, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England (Age 48 years)5. Elizabeth De CLARE, Baroness D'amory, b. 16 Sep 1295, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 4 Nov 1360, Alton Castle, Alton, Staffordshire, England (Age 65 years)Family ID F536728730 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Dec 2022
Family 2 Ralph De MONTHERMER, 1st Lord/Keeper Cardiff Castle/Earl Hertford/Glouc, b. 1262, Stokenham, Devonshire, England d. 5 Apr 1325, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 63 years) Marriage Jan 1297 Akko, Hazafon, Israel [16] Children 1. Mary DE MONTHERMER, COUNTESS OF FIFE, b. Oct 1297, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France d. 30 Mar 1371, Dunfirmline Castle, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age ~ 73 years)2. Thomas De MONTHERMER, Sir/2Nd Lord, b. 4 Oct 1301, Stokenham, Devon, England d. 24 Jun 1340, Battle Of Sluys (Slain At Sea Fighting French) (Age 38 years)3. Edward DE MONTHERMER, b. 11 Apr 1304, Clare, Suffolk, England d. 2 Feb 1340, Clare, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England (Age 35 years)4. Joan de MONTHERMER, b. Bef Apr 1307 d. 1399 (Age ~ 91 years) Family ID F536728733 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Dec 2022
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Notes - Joan was a remarkably active woman in the dozen years following the Red Earl's death. By the terms of the marriage agreement of 1290, the entire inheritance was off jointly on Gilbert and Joan. This meant that it would not be possible for her father Edward I to grant her only a third of the estates and control the rest himself during the long minority of her son Gilbert. Joan was thus sole mistress of the inheritance, and she controlled it with marked ability. In1297, much to Edward's displeasure, she secretly married another wise obscure knight in her *familia*, Ralph de Monthermer (d. 1325). Ralph was styled earl of Gloucester *jure uxoris* and for the next decade administered the estates with the king's daughter. After Joan's death, his rights to the estates and title lapsed, and he was thenceforth treated as an ordinary baron. His children by Joan of Acre were likewise excluded from the inheritance, and had no future connection with the Clares, aside from a daugher, Mary, who was married in 1307 to Duncan,son and heir of Duncan, earl of Fife, and Joan, the Red Earl's daughter by his first marriage to Alice de Lusignan. Joan of Acre died in April, 1307, but during her tenure of the inheritance important modifications were introduced in its administrative structure. After Isabella de Fortibus, dowager countess of Devon and Aumale (1262 93), Countess Joan stands as perhaps the best example in thirteenth century English historyof the ability of a widow to run the estates and otherwise manage the complex affairs of a great comital house."
Joan of Acre died in April, 1307, but during her tenure of the inheritance of Gloucester important modifications were introduced in its administrative structure. After Isabella de Fortibus, dowager countess of Devon and Aumale (1262-93), Countess Joan stands as perhaps the best example in thirteenth century English history of the ability of a widow to run the estates and otherwise manage the complex affairs of a great comital house."
--- Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,
1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 38-39.
Gilbert de Clare was not young when he married the fiery-spirited, sloe-eyed Joanna and took her to live at his country retreat in Clerkenwell not far from the Tower, where the king and queen were again in residence. She left for her new home with great fanfare, laden with royal gifts. After being a widow a year, she secretly married a completely unknown squire in her husbands retinue, Ralph de Monthermer. Through this marriage he became possessed in his own right of the earldoms of Gloucester & Hertford. The fact that a royal princess had dared to marry this obscure fellow became a cause celebr which for a time separated her from the affection of her father. It proved to be a marriage, however, leading ultimately to a firm friendship between the new son-in-law and Edward.
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- Joan was a remarkably active woman in the dozen years following the Red Earl's death. By the terms of the marriage agreement of 1290, the entire inheritance was off jointly on Gilbert and Joan. This meant that it would not be possible for her father Edward I to grant her only a third of the estates and control the rest himself during the long minority of her son Gilbert. Joan was thus sole mistress of the inheritance, and she controlled it with marked ability. In1297, much to Edward's displeasure, she secretly married another wise obscure knight in her *familia*, Ralph de Monthermer (d. 1325). Ralph was styled earl of Gloucester *jure uxoris* and for the next decade administered the estates with the king's daughter. After Joan's death, his rights to the estates and title lapsed, and he was thenceforth treated as an ordinary baron. His children by Joan of Acre were likewise excluded from the inheritance, and had no future connection with the Clares, aside from a daugher, Mary, who was married in 1307 to Duncan,son and heir of Duncan, earl of Fife, and Joan, the Red Earl's daughter by his first marriage to Alice de Lusignan. Joan of Acre died in April, 1307, but during her tenure of the inheritance important modifications were introduced in its administrative structure. After Isabella de Fortibus, dowager countess of Devon and Aumale (1262 93), Countess Joan stands as perhaps the best example in thirteenth century English historyof the ability of a widow to run the estates and otherwise manage the complex affairs of a great comital house."
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