Joan "of Acre" Plantagenêt
- Born: 1272, Acre, Palestine
- Marriage: Sir Gilbert de Clare Knight, Earl of Gloucester in May 1290 in London, Middlesex, England 141
- Died: 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England at age 35
- Buried: 26 Apr 1307, Austin Friar's C, Clare, Suffolk, England
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• Background Information. 141
Joan (of Acre), Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, born at Acre in Palestine probably in 1272, was the 2nd daughter of Edward I, by Eleanor of Castile. She was first betrothed to Herman, son of the King of Germany, who died in 1282, before the marriage could take place. She married, 1st, at the beginning of May 1290, in Westminster Abbey, by dispensation granted 16 Nov 1289, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. She married 2nd, clandestinely, to her father's great displeasure, presumably early in 1297, Ralph de Mothermer, a member of the late Earl's household. On 29 Jan 1296/7 the escheator was ordered to take into this hand all the lands, goods, and chattels of Joan, Countess of Gloucester, from which it might be inferred that the King, suspecting her intentions with regard to Monthermer, sought to coerce her to abandon the marriage by degradation and loss of estates. On 16 Mar, the King gave his assent to her marriage with Amadeus of Savoy, and therefore must have been ignorant of her marriage, if it had already taken place, and on 12 May it was ordered that Joan should have reasonable allowance for herself and children. It would seem that by 3 July the King had discovered Joan's marriage with Monthermer, for he took her lands into his own had, but by 31 July, when he certainly knew of her marriage, he appears to have been partly mollified, for her lands were restored (except Tonbridge). In ordering her to provide 100 men to serve in France, however, the special proviso was made that they might be commanded by anyone except Ralph de Monthermer, her husband. She was pardoned two days later, 2 Aug 1297. She died 23 Apr 1307, and was buried 26 Apr 1307, int he Austin Friar's church at Clare in Suffolk, at age 35.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Gloucester), Vol. V. pp. 708-710
Joan married Sir Gilbert de Clare Knight, Earl of Gloucester, son of Richard de Clare 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Maud de Lacy, in May 1290 in London, Middlesex, England.141 (Sir Gilbert de Clare Knight, Earl of Gloucester was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christ Church, Hampshire, England,141,529 died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Englnad 141,529 and was buried on 22 Dec 1295 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucester 141.)
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