Joan of Acre, English Royalty

Joan of Acre #23 great grandmother.

English Royalty. 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.

BIRTH	Apr 1272 Acre, HaTzafon (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

At her burial plot:

Here in 1307 was buried Joan of Acre, Countess of Glovester, daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.
In the plot neaby are buried Lionel Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III and Phiippa of Bainault (?) who died in 1368
and Eizabeth (?) his wife great granddaughter of Joan of Acre who died in 1363


Edward I was Joan's father. 

, Edward joined the Ninth Crusade to the Holy Land. The crusade accomplished little, and Edward was on his way home in 1272 when he was informed that his father had died. Making a slow return, he reached England in 1274 and was crowned at Westminster on 19 August.