Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet

Joan married 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Gilbert (son of 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy) was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried on 22 Dec 1295 in Tewksbury Abbey, Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Ralph de Monthermer in 1297. Ralph was born in 1262; died on 5 Apr 1325; was buried in Grey Friar's Chruch, Salisbury, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, (c. 1294-1360), foundress of Clare College, Cambridge, was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1295) by his second marriage to Edward I's daughter Joan of Acre (1271-1307). She was married first to John Burgh (d. 1313), heir to the earldom of Ulster, to whom she bore her only son William. Following the childless death of her only brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, she became a great heiress and was abducted in 1316, probably with her consent, by Theobald Verdon, who died later the same year and to whom she bore a posthumous daughter Isabel. A daughter Elizabeth was born by her third marriage to Roger Damory, who died in 1321. Still only in her mid-twenties, with dowers from all three husbands and with an inheritance worth at least 2,000 a year, she was an obvious target both for marriage and for molestation by the Despensers, who defrauded her of her lordship of Usk. This was recovered after their overthrow and she did not marry again, taking a vow of chastity by 1344. At her death her inheritance descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward III's son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and thence passed to the Mortimers and house of York.

Elizabeth's widowhood is illuminated by the finest set of household accounts still surviving. These reveal that she lived in stately splendour at Clare in Suffolk, where she received a stream of visitors, including her kinsfolk Edward III and Queen Philippa. 250 people received her livery in 1343, many of them members of her household, and at least 3,000 a year and sometimes more was spent by her wardrobe and household. This was not because Elizabeth was extravagant; she ran her household and estates efficiently, obtained value for her money, and took a strong line with poachers. That 93 esquires took her livery indicates her role as a great local aristocrat, particularly in East Anglia, which also emerges from her religious patronage.

As an heiress, Elizabeth held estates in her own right, not for life, and could thus give generously to the Church without first saving up wealth, as her friend Mary of St Pol had to do. Already before her husbands' deaths, she had vowed to go on pilgrimage to Santiago and the Holy Land, a promise she was unable to fulfill, and from the early 1330s was giving property to Ely cathedral priory, Tremenhall and Anglesey priories, and West Dereham Abbey. Her attention was attracted by 1336 to the notoriously under-financed University Hall at Cambridge, which she was persuaded to take over as Clare Hall, to endow (1346), and for which she devised statutes in 1359. All this involved dealing tactfully but firmly with the university and unsatisfactory fellows. Clare College was the first college deliberately planned to include undergraduates. While Elizabeth's example may have prompted Mary of St Pol to found Pembroke College, certainly it was Mary who interested Elizabeth in the Franciscans. In 1343 Elizabeth gave a church to Mary's abbey of Franciscan nuns (Minoresses) at Denney, in 1347 she founded a Franciscan friary at the pilgrimage centre of Walsingham priory, from 1355 (like Mary) she was authorised to stay overnight in Minoress houses, and in 1360 her will asked for burial at the Aldgate house of Minoresses. Her influence helps explain the foundation of the final English house of Minoresses at Bruisyard by her granddaughter and her husband Clarence with nuns from Denney. [Michael Hicks, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, London, 1991]

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Elizabeth m. 1st, John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue, William, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left a dau. and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who m. Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K.G., and had an only dau. and heiress, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edward Mortimer, Earl of March. Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, m. 2ndly, Theobald de Verdon, and 3rdly, Roger d'Amory; by the last she had two daus., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Elizabeth de Clare, the youngest sister of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, m. John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, and through this alliance the honour of Clare came into the possession of the de Burghs. The heiress of Clare left a son, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

Elizabeth married Lord d'Amory Roger d'Amorie before 3 May 1317. Roger was born about 1284 in of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, England; died on 13 Mar 1322 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married 2nd Lord Verdon Theobold de Verdon on 4 Feb 1315/16 in England. Theobold was born on 8 Sep 1278 in of Alton, Staffordshire, England; died on 27 Jul 1316 in Alton, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John de Burgh on 30 Sep 1308 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. John was born about 1297 in Ulster, Ireland; died on 18 Jun 1313 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 3rd Lord le Despenser1 Hugh "the younger" le Despenser on 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. Hugh (son of 1st Earl of Winchester Hugh le Despenser and Isabel Beauchamp) was born in 1290 in Barton, Gloucester, England; died on 24 Nov 1326 in Herford, Herfordshire, England; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married William de la Zouche in Jan 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married 8th Earl of Gloucester Hugh d'Audley on 28 Apr 1317 in Winsor, England. Hugh (son of Lord Audley Hugh (Alditheley) d'Audley and Isolda de Mortimer) was born about 1289; died on 10 Nov 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers Gaveston. Piers was born about 1284; died on 19 Jun 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married 3rd Lord Bardolf John Bardolf before 25 Dec 1327. John (son of 2nd Lord Bardolf Thomas II Bardolf and Agnes de Grandison) was born on 13 Jan 1313/14 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 29 Jul 1363 in Assisi, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isabel, who had the Castle of Ludlow, as 4th co-heiress, m. to Henry Ferrers, Lord Ferrers, of Groby, which Henry d. 17th Edward III [1344], leaving by the said Isabel, William, Lord Ferrers, Philippa, m. to Guy de Beauchamp, and Elizabeth, m. to --- de Assells. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 548, Verdon, Barons Verdon]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby. Henry (son of William de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby and Ellen de Menteith, son of William de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby) was born in 1303; died in 1343. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, b. 1312, s. his grandfather in 1326, was knighted at London, 1328, and sat in the parliament held in Dublin the following year. He was murdered 6 June, 1333, by Robert FitzRichard Mandeville and others. He m. Maud, 3rd dau. of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, and by her (who m. 2ndly, Sir Ralph de Ufford, lord justice of Ireland), had an only child, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 162, de Burgh, Earl of Ulster]

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William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left an only child and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who married Lionel Plantagenet, 3rd son of King Edward III. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

William married Maud Plantagenet on 1 May 1327 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland. Maud (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1298 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England; died on 5 May 1377 in Campsey Abbey, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Anne de Ferrers on 20 Apr 1334 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 10th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan on 9 Feb 1321. Richard (son of Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne) was born about 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Bardolf, 4th Baron Bardolf, summoned to parliament from 20 January, 1376, to 3 September, 1385, as "William Bardolf of Wormegay." His lordship m. Agnes, dau. of Sir Michael Poynings, Knt. He served in the French and Irish wars, latterly under John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and dying in 1385 (8 Richard II), was s. by his son, Thomas Bardolf de Wormegay, 5th Baron Bardolf. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 22, Bardolf, Barons Bardolf]

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Poynings. Agnes (daughter of 2nd Lord Poynings Michael de Poynings and Joan de Rokesley) was born about 1349 in England; died on 12 Jun 1403 in Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Ufford. Margaret was born in 1335 in Thurston, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 12th Earl of Atholl David Strathbogie. David was born about 1332; died on 10 Oct 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Lionel "of Antwerp" Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence on 15 Aug 1342 in Tower of London, London, England. Lionel (son of Edward Plantagenet, King of England III and of Hainault Philippa d'Avesnes) was born on 29 Nov 1338 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium; died on 17 Oct 1368 in Alba, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married 3rd Baroness Burghersh Elizabeth de Burghersh before 2 Aug 1354 in Essendine, Rutlandshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of 2nd Baron Burghersh Bartholomew de Burghersh, II and Cecily de Weyland) was born in 1342 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England; died on 26 Jul 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]