Princess Joan of ACRE

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Information at findagrave.com
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12535626
"The daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, she was born at Acre, Israel, while her father was on crusade. She married Gilbert of Clare, 3rd Earl of Gloucester on April 30, 1290 at Westminster Abbey. They had 4 children before Gilbert's death in 1295. She then married Ralph Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, a knight in her household, in 1297 without her father's consent. Enraged at his daughter's lowly second marriage, Edward I had Monthermer thrown in prison. Joan begged for his release, and the king relented, giving Monthermer the title Earl of Gloucester. Joan died at her manor in Clare at the age of 35. Though the exact cause of her death is unknown, some historians have recently theorized she may have died giving birth to a fifth child by Monthermer. The remains of an altar recess on the ruins of the south wall of the abbey are thought to be Joan's tomb. A friar reported that in 1359, Joan's daughter Elizabeth DeBurgh inspected her mother's tomb and found the remains to be incorrupt. Since then, there have been reports of miraculous healing of toothache, fever, and back pain there." (bio by: Kristen Conrad -- spelling and punctuation correct by Lois Sorensen)

Joan — Gilbert de CLARE. Gilbert (son of Richard de CLARE and Margaret de BURGH) was born 2 Sep 1243; died 7 Dec 1295. [Group Sheet]

1. Elizabeth de CLARE died 4 Nov 1360.

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Edward is often considered to be the most successful of medieval monarchs. He is known as Edward Longshanks; also Hammer of the Scots.

He fathered sixteen children by his first wife and three by the second.

See: http://royaldescent.blogspot.com/2010/02/plantagenet-1-marriage-of-edward- i-and.html

From Wikipedia:

"Uncommon for such marriages of the period, the couple loved each other. Moreover like his father, Edward was very devoted to his queen and was faithful to her throughout their married lives -- a rarity among monarchs of the time. He was deeply affected by her death. He displayed his grief by erecting twelve so-called Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cort

Edward married Eleanor of CASTILE 1 Nov 1254, Monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of Ferdinand of CASTILE, III and Jeanne de DAMMARTIN) was born 1241; died 27 Nov 1290. [Group Sheet]

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"Eleanor received her education from the Dominican friars who were fixtures at the Castilian court in her early years, and with whose order she would have a lifelong association. Castile was a cosmopolitan royal court, with a strong literary atmosphere, and Eleanor later showed an ease with, and interest in, historical writing and classical works . . . The terms of the Anglo-Castilian treaty agreed upon in March 1254 were that Edward of England was to be knighted by Alfonso X, marry Eleanor, raise the amount of her dower, and help to impose Castilian supremacy over Navarre . . . The royal wedding took place on 1 November at the monastery of Las Huelgas near Burgos, the chief religious site for the Castilian royal family ."

http://royaldescent.blogspot.com/2010/02/plantagenet-1-marriage-of-edward- i-and.html

Castile was a territory in north central Spain. Burgos is in northern Castile.

From Wikipedia:

"Eleanor of Castile died on 28 November 1290. Uncommon for such marriages of the period, the couple loved each other. Moreover like his father, Edward was very devoted to his queen and was faithful to her throughout their married lives -- a rarity among monarchs of the time. He was deeply affected by her death. He displayed his grief by erecting twelve so-called Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cort

Henry married Eleanor of PROVENCE 4 Jan 1235/36. Eleanor (daughter of Raymond BERENGER and Beatrice of SAVOY) died 24 Jun 1291. [Group Sheet]

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Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. Castile was located in north central Spain.

Ferdinand — Jeanne de DAMMARTIN. Jeanne was born 1216; died 1279. [Group Sheet]

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He is the notorious King John, forced to sign the Magna Carta.

John — Isabella of ANGOULEME. Isabella died 1246. [Group Sheet]

Raymond — Beatrice of SAVOY. [Group Sheet]