Joan of Acre

1272 - 1307  (35 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Joan of Acre  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	1272	Acre, Palestine   [5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Apr 1307	Clare, Suffolk, England   [5]
  Burial	26 Apr 1307	Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare.
  Siblings	15 Siblings
  + 1. Eleanor Plantagenet,   b. 17 Jun 1264, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England d. 12 Oct 1297, Ghent, Vlaanderen, België  (Age 33 years) ▻ Heinrich III de Bar,  m. 20 Sep 1293   2. Joan Plantagenet,   b. 1265   d. Yes, date unknown   3. John Plantagenet,   b. 10 Jul 1266   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Henry Plantagenet,   b. 13 Jul 1267   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Julian (Katherine) Plantagenet,   b. 1271   d. Yes, date unknown + 6. Joan of Acre,   b. 1272, Acre, Palestine d. 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England  (Age 35 years) ▻ Earl Gilbert II de Clare, 'the Red',  m. Nov 1289 ;   Ralph de Monthermer,  m. Jan 1296-1297   7. Alfonso Plantagenet,   b. 24 Nov 1273   d. Yes, date unknown + 8. Margaret Plantagenet,   b. 11 Sep 1275   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Jan II van Brabant, "de Vredige",  m. 9 Jul 1290   9. Berengaria Plantagenet,   b. 1276   d. Yes, date unknown   10. Mary Plantagenet,   b. 11 Mar 1278   d. Yes, date unknown   11. Isabella Plantagenet,   b. 12 Mar 1279   d. Yes, date unknown   12. Alice Plantagenet,   b. 12 Mar 1279   d. Yes, date unknown + 13. Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet,   b. 7 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle Carnev d. 5 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England  (Age 33 years) ▻ Graaf Jan van Holland,  m. 7 Jan 1297 ;   Earl Humphrey VIII de Bohun,  m. 14 Nov 1302 + 14. King Edward II Plantagenet,   b. 25 Apr 1284, Carnarvon Castle d. 21 Sep 1327, Berkley Castle  (Age 43 years) ▻ Queen Margret (Eiriksdatter) of Scotland;   Isabella de France, "the she-wolf",  m. 1308   15. Beatrice Plantagenet,   b. 1286   d. Yes, date unknown   16. Blanche Plantagenet,   b. 1290   d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I14968	Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	King Edward Plantagenet, I, "Longshanks",   b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh by Sands (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Eleanor de Castilla,   b. 1244, Castile, España d. 29 Nov 1290, Herdby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct 1254	Abbey of Las Huelgas
  Family ID	F2044	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Earl Gilbert II de Clare, 'the Red',   b. 2 Sep 1243, Christchurch, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1295, Monmouth Castle, England (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	Nov 1289  [2, 3, 4, 5, 7]
  Required an annulment & subsequent Papal dispensation for marriage to occur. Even before the annulment (of Gilbert's 1st marriage), Earl Gilbert and King Edward I had discussed the possibility of a marriage into the royal family. In May 1290, after a long delay pending the annulment and the necessity for a subsequent papal dispensation, Gilbert married Edward's fifth child and second surviving daughter Joan, who had been born at Acre in Palestine in 1272. Joan of Acre was to outlive the Red Earl by some twelve years, but between 1290 and his death in 1295 they had a son and heir, the last Earl Gilbert, and three daughters, the eventual coheiresses of the Clare inheritance. (P) The children of Earl Gilbert the Red by his two marriages comprised the last generation of the Clare family. Joan of Acre, on the other hand [as compared to Gilbert's first wife Alice de Lusignan], 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 enfeoffed 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. From same, p 148: "The marriage between Gilbert and Joan had long been planned and long delayed. Joan was Edward's second surviving daughter, born when her father was still on crusade in 1272. In 1276 Rudolf of Hapsburg, the German Emperor, had prosed a marriage between the girl and his son Hartmann. Negotiations were conducted in 1277 and 1278, but the whole project had to be abandoned when Hart,ann was accidentally killed in December, 1281. In May, 1283, the king agreed to a marrige between his daughter and Earl Gilbert. The earl had been separated from Alice de Lusignan since 1271, but a formal annulment was now required, and the marriage was finally dissolved in May, 1285. The king and the earl still had to wait for a papal dispensation for the new marriage, and it was only forthcoming in November, 1289. [10]
  Children	+ 1. Eleanor de Clare,   b. 12 Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales d. 30 Jun 1337 (Age 44 years) + 2. Elizabeth de Clare,   b. 16 Sep 1295, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 4 Nov 1360 (Age 65 years) + 3. Margaret de Clare,   b. Oct 1292, Caerphilly Castle d. 13 Apr 1342 (Age 49 years) + 4. Earl Gilbert de Clare,   b. 10 May 1291   d. 24 Jun 1314, Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, Scotland (Age 23 years) + 5. Countess Alianore de Clare,   b. Abt 1290, Prudhoe, Northumberland, England d. 31 Mar 1368, Eshott, Northumberland, England (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F5293	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Ralph de Monthermer,   b. Abt 1262   d. 5 Apr 1325 (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	Jan 1296-1297	Akko, Hazafon, Israel
  Children	1. Joan de Monthermer,   b. Jan 1299, England d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Mary de Monthermer,   b. Abt 1301, Akko, Hazafon, Israel d. Yes, date unknown   3. Edward de Monthermer,   b. Abt 11 Apr 1304, England d. Bef 3 Feb 1339-1340 (Age 35 years) + 4. Hawise de Monthermer,   b. Abt 1304, Monmouthshire, Wales d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Thomas de Monthermer,   b. Bef 23 Apr 1307, Akko, Hazafon, Israel d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F11062	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

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• Notes

  Countess of Gloucester & Hertford. Sole mistress of estates of her son Gilbert during his minority. She controlled them with marked ability. She introduced important modifications to administration of the estate. 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.

  
  

• Sources

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