Joan (Plantagenet) de Clare (1272 - 1307)

Born Apr 1272 in Akko (Acre), Hazofan, (Crusader) Kingdom of Jerusalem

Ancestors

Wife of Gilbert (Clare) de Clare — married 23 Apr 1290 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 23 Apr 1307 at about age 35 in Clare Manor, Suffolk, England

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Joan (Plantagenet) de Clare is a member of the House of Plantagenet.

Joan of Acre, Countess of Hertford and Gloucester

b. April 1272 Acre, Palestine

p. Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.

m.1 Wikipedia: Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester

m.2 Wikipedia: Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer

Joan was born in Palestine while her parents were on crusade. The seventh child, and second surviving daughter of Edward I and his first wife, she was raised in Ponthieu by her grandmother Jeanne de Dammartin, widow of Ferdinand III of Castile.

In 1278, her father sent Stephen of Penecester and his wife to bring Joan to England. She married twice, and is remembered for alleged miracles at her grave.

Death and burial of Joan of England

(Royal Ancestry) Joan of England died 23 April 1307 and was buried in the Austin Friars at Clare, Suffolk.

Austin Friars in Clare, Suffolk was known as Clare Priory (or Friary) founded in 1248 by Richard de Clare (d.1262), who had the "Honour of Clare" being lord of the area. The priory was the first house of Augustinians in England and was the "mother house" of its 34 priories in that country. The priory was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1538 and fell into disrepair with many buildings lost completely. Some remains of the original priory still exist but the present Clare Priory is a more modern building. There are no records of ancient Clare monuments/tombs and these were probably destroyed following surrender of the priory ion 1538. But the priory does have a tomb attributed to Joan of England & Acre.

Joan died in childbirth at Clare Manor, Suffolk. She was buried "before a concourse of royal and noble personages."

Other notables buried at Clare Priory were Lionel of Antwerp Duke of Clarence & Earl of Ulster and his wife Elizabeth de Burgh. The priory does have a remnant tomb of Lionel, Duke of Clarence and Elizabeth, his wife, in the wall on the south side of the choir.

In 2006 e-mails were exchanged between Alton Rogers and the Rector of Clare Priory who advised of its memorial to Joan of England, Elizabeth de Burgh and Lionel of Antwerp.

The memorial reads: Pray for the ancestors of King Richard II and Queen Anne Neville. Buried at Clare Priory Joan of Acre Countess of Gloucester and Hereford d.1307, Elizabeth de Burgh Duchess of Clarence and Countess of Ulster 1332-1363, Lionel of Antwerp Duke of Clarence and Earl of Ulster 1338-1368

Sources

• Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I pp. 70
• Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. II p. 195-206
• Magna Carta Ancestry 2011 2nd ed. Vol. I p. 467-474
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Priory
• Mary Anne Everett Green. Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest, Vol 2, Pg 354. Published by Henry Colburn, 1850, National Library of the Netherlands. books.google.com. Accessed 21 Nov 2021.
• Wikisource contributors, "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Joan of Acre," Wikisource , https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Joan_of_Acre&oldid=10739602 (accessed November 22, 2021).

Magna Carta Ancestries, by Douglas Richardson, publ. 2005

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Acre

Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners: The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Phillipa, fourth edition (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002)