Family Notes

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Custom Field:<_FA#> Nov 1289Required an annulment & subsequent Papal dispensati on for marriage to occur.@@S005967@@
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--- Mi chael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,
1217-1314* , Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 37.
Even before the annulment (of Gilbert's 1st marriage), Earl Gilbert and
King Edward I had discussed the po ssibility of a marriage into the royal
family.  In May 1290, after a long del ay pending the annulment and the
necessity for a subsequent papal dispensatio n, Gilbert married Edward's
fifth child and second surviving daughter Joan, w ho had been born at Acre
in Palestine in 1272.  Joan of Acre was to outlive t he Red Earl by some
twelve years, but between 1290 and his death in 1295 they had a son and
heir, the last Earl Gilbert, and three daughters, the eventual
coheiresses of the Clare inheritance. (P) The children of Earl Gilbert
the Red by his two marriages comprised the last
generation of the Clare family.
Joan of Acre, on the other hand [as compared to Gilbert's first wife
Alice de
Lusignan], was a remarkably active woman in the dozen years following the
R ed Earl's death.  By the terms of the marriage agreement of 1290, the
entire
inheritance was enfeoffed jointly on Gilbert and Joan.  This meant that
it w ould
not be possible for her father Edward I to grant her only a third of the
estates and control the rest himself during the long minority of her son
Gi lbert.  Joan was thus sole mistress of the inheritance, and she
controlled it with marked ability.
From same, p 148:  "The marriage between Gilbert and Joa n had long been
planned and long delayed.  Joan was Edward's second surviving daughter,
born when her father was still on crusade in 1272.  In 1276 Rudolf of
Hapsburg, the German Emperor, had prosed a marriage between the girl and
his son Hartmann.  Negotiations were conducted in 1277 and 1278, but the
who le project had to be abandoned when Hart,ann was accidentally killed
in Decem ber, 1281.  In May, 1283, the king agreed to a marrige between
his daughter a nd Earl Gilbert.  The earl had been separated from Alice de
Lusignan since 12 71, but a formal annulment was now required, and the
marriage was finally dis solved in May, 1285. The king and the earl still
had to wait for a papal disp ensation for the new marriage, and it was
only forthcoming in November, 1289.