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- "Joan of Acre (April 1272 – 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile. The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade.
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Born in Acre or Akko, Israel, in 1272; died on April 23, 1307, in Clare, Suffolk, England; buried at Clare Priory, Suffolk, England; daughter of Edward I Longshanks, king of England (r. 1272–1307), and Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290); married Gilbert de Clare (1243–1295), 7th earl of Hertford, 3rd of Gloucester, on May 2, 1290, in ...
Apr 26, 2022 · Acre, Kingdom of Acre. Died: 23 April 1307(1307-04-23) (aged 35) Clare Castle, Clare. Burial: 23 April 1307. Clare Priory, Suffolk ===== "Joan of Acre (April 1272 – 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile.
Jan 1, 2024 · Explore genealogy for Joan (Plantagenet) de Clare born 1272 Akko (Acre), Hazofan, (Crusader) Kingdom of Jerusalem died 1307 Clare Manor, Suffolk, England including ancestors + descendants + 2 photos + 14 genealogist comments + questions + more in the free family tree community.
Advertisement. Joan of Acre. Birth. Apr 1272. Acre, Northern District, Israel. Death. 23 Apr 1307 (aged 34–35) Clare, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England. Burial. Clare Priory. Clare, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England Show Map. Plot. St. Peter ad Vincula, The Tower of London, London, England. Memorial ID. 12535626. · View Source.
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Mother: Eleanor of Castile, Countess of Ponthieu in her own rightFather: Edward I of England(ruled 1272-1307)Siblings: sixteen full siblings (of whom five survived to adulthood), at least three half-siblingsJoan was descended on both sides from King John of England; on her mother's side, through John's daughter Eleanor of England.Joan was born the seventh of her parents' fourteen children, but only one older sister (Eleanor) was still alive at the time of Joan's birth. Four of her younger siblings and one younger half-sibling also died in infancy or childhood. Her younger brother, Edward, born 12 years after Joan, became king as Edward II. Joan of Acre was called by that na...
Joan's father Edward began to consider marriage possibilities for his daughter while she was still very young, as was common for royal families. He settled on the son of Germany's King Rudolph I, a boy named Hartman. Joan was five years old when her father called her home so that she could meet her future husband. But Hartman died before he could c...
Still a young woman, and one controlling quite a lot of valuable property, Joan's future was being planned by her father again, as he sought out a suitable husband. Edward decided on the Count of Savoy, Amadeus V. But Joan was already secretly married by then, and likely quite fearful of her father's reaction. She had fallen in love with one of her...
History does not record Joan's cause of death. It may have been related to childbirth. With Joan and then Edward I dead, Edward II took the title Earl of Gloucester from her second husband and gave it to her son by her first husband. While we don't know her cause of death, we do know that after her death, she was laid to rest at a priory in Clare, ...
- Jone Johnson Lewis
When Joan of Acre was born in April 1272, in Israel, her father, Edward I King of England, was 32 and her mother, Eleanor of Castile Ivrea, was 31. She married Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Gloucester on 30 April 1290, in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
Joan of Acre. April 1272 - 23 April 1307. House: Plantagenet. Titles: Countess of Hertford, Countess of Gloucester
