Joan de Clare

Joan de Clare , Countess of Fife (* between 1264 and 1271, † after 1322) was an English - Scottish noblewoman.

Joan was from the Clare Anglo-Norman family . She was the second daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester , and of his first wife Alice de Lusignan . Her parents' marriage was officially separated in 1271 and annulled in 1285. In 1290 her father married Joanna of England , daughter of King Edward I , who was younger than Joan. The marriage contract that her father had to sign with the king excluded Joan and her older sister Isabel from their father's inheritance. Her father died in late 1295.

Joan married the Scottish nobleman Duncan, 8th Earl of Fife , between 1285 and January 1287 . As a dowry she received from her father Carlton in Lincolnshire and Glapthorne in Northants . Her husband was murdered in 1289. During the First Scottish War of Independence , she was kidnapped by the Scottish nobleman Herbert Morham in 1299 when she was traveling from Stirling to Edinburgh without an escort . Morham brought them to Castlerankine , an estate of his brother Thomas Morham . There he tried unsuccessfully to force her to marry him in order to come into possession of her goods. In his second marriage, Joan finally married the Scottish baron Gervase Avenel in 1302 , who became a supporter of Robert Bruce in the war against England . As a result, their English goods were confiscated by King Edward II .

progeny

From her marriage to Duncan, 8th Earl of Fife, she had at least one daughter and a posthumous son:

Duncan, 9th Earl of Fife (1289 / 90–1353) ⚭ 1307 Mary de Monthermer, daughter of Johanna von England and Ralph de Monthermer

Web links

Cracroft's Peerage: Gloucester, Earl of (E, c.1122--1314)

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Brown: Aristocratic Politics and the Crisis of Scottish Kingship, 1286–96 . In: The Scottish Historical Review , 15 (2011), p. 6.
^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 51.
^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, pp. 149-150.
^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 39.
^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 38.

personal data
SURNAME	De Clare, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	de Clare, Joan, Countess of Fife
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English-Scottish nobles
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1264 and 1271
DATE OF DEATH	after 1322

[1] Michael Brown: Aristocratic Politics and the Crisis of Scottish Kingship, 1286–96 . In: The Scottish Historical Review , 15 (2011), p. 6.

[2] Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 51.

[3] Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, pp. 149-150.

[4] Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 39.

[5] Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 38.