Joan

Notes:

Joan got her name from her birthplace, Akko (Acre), Hazofan, Palestine. It differentiates her from an earlier Joan born to her parents, who died in infancy. Joan of Acre was born while her parents were traveling to the Middle East on the Seventh Crusade. At least part of her childhood she spent in France with her maternal grandmother, Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu. She was betrothed as a child to Hartman, son of King Rudolph I of Germany, but he died in 1282 after drowning in the Rhine.
In 1290, at Westminster Abbey, Joan married Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford. He was nearly 30 years her senior.
Following her husband`s death in 1295, Joan clandestinely married Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, 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, `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?` 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.
Joan died in childbirth in 1307 at the manor of Clare in Suffolk, England, a family possession, and was buried at the Augustinian priory there. Her child was stillborn. Miracles were said to occur at her grave, especially the healing of toothache, back pain and fever.

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Birth:
Acre
Akko, Palestine

Joan married Gilbert (the Red) de Clare in 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, England. Gilbert was born on 02 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 07 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hugh le Despencer. Hugh (son of Hugh (the Younger) Le Despencer and Isabella de Beauchamp) was born on 01 Mar 1290; died on 29 Nov 1326 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maurice (the Valiant) de Berkeley. Maurice (son of Thomas (The Rich) de Berkeley and Margaret De Mortimer) was born in 1330 in Berkeley , Gloucestershire, England; died on 08 Jun 1368 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Bluet. Elizabeth was born in 1355 in Rhaglan, Usk, Monmouthshire, England; died in 1405. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]