Paternal Ancestors of Betty Atkins

General Notes: Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (9:30), (186:5), id entifies Hugh & ISOLDE as parents of HUGH. (207:31) shows Hugh de Audley (d. 1 325, ambassador to France , son of JAMES DE AUDLEY & ELA LONGESPEE) and ISEUDE as the parents of Alice de Audley who m. Ralph de Neville of Raby. Cockayne' s "Complete Peerage" (AUDLEY. p.338), in note a., says Hugh was the 5th son an d that his mother, ELA gave him her manor in Stratton immediately after JAMES' death.

Hugh married Isolde De Mortimer in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England ⁴³.^,44 Isolde was born about 1270 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England ^{⁴³^,44} and died in 1328 ^{⁴³^,44} about age 58.

11831302 i. Hugh D'audley (born in 1289 in Stretton, Audley, Oxfordshire, England - died on 10 Nov 1347 in France)

General Notes: Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (9:30), (186:5) , (207:31), she was EDMUND's dau., but not by MARGARET DE FIENNES. Cockayne's "Complete Peerage" in the Article on "Gloucester", p.715, states that she (ca lled her Isolt) was the daughter of EDMUND MORTIMER of Wigmore. This article a lso has her husband as HUGH, LORD AUDLEY - rather than James as in the LDS Anc estral File. However, the Cockayne article on Mortimer lists three daughters f or EDMUND MORTIMER and his wife MAUD. Isuede (or Isolt) is not one of them (MA UD, Joan, and Elizabeth are listed - p. 283). Complete Peerage (new ed) I ("A udley of Stratton Audley'), 347, is patently wrong in calling Isolt / Isuede t he da. of EDMUND and MARGARET, though right in not doing so elsewhere. Isolt de Mortimer married Sir Walter Balim/Balun in 1286/87 (there is a longstanding legend that he collapsed and died on their wedding night.), and HUGH DE AUDLE Y before 7 Jan 1293, probably in 1288.

23662606. Earl Gilbert De Clare "The Red" " son of Richard, Earl De Clare and Maud De Lacy, was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England ^{⁴³^,44} and died on 7 Dec 1295 in Mammouth Castle, England ^{⁴³^,44} at age 52.

General Notes: Gilbert, the Red Earl, was a Knight and Crusader ; 9th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester. At his death he was "the most powerful subject in the kingdom" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, '56, 5:755). He was knighted 05-14-1264. "Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) states he d. a t Monmouth Castle on Dec. 7, 1299. Source: Al Myers ------- The following was taken from Jim Stevens' Genealogy website http://www.gendex.com/users/jas t/ Per Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (8:29), (11:29), (63:30), (94A:32), (110: 31), (117:30), (257:33), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Berkeley, p.129), identifies him as the father of Isabel. (Berkeley, p.130), identifies him as the father of Eleanor. From Michael Altschul, *A B aronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965.: "The eldest son and heir, Gilbert, was born on Septembe r 2, 1243, and was called Gilbert Goch ("the Red") after the fiery color of hi s hair. The Red Earl had seisin of his estates in 1263-64 and was undoubtedly the single most powerful magnate of the realm, in the later years of HENRY II I's reign and under KING EDWARD I, until his death on December 7, 1295. (pp. 3 4-36). "Like his father RICHARD, Earl Gilbert the Red was married twice. In 1 253 RICHARD arranged for the marriage of his son, then about ten years old, to HENRY III's niece Alice, daughter of HUGH DE LUSIGNAN, count of La Marche and Angouleme. Although she had two daughters, the match proved to be both a pers onal and a political failure; Gilbert and Alice were formally separated in 127 1 and the marriage was finally annulled in 1285. Even before the annulment, Ea rl Gilbert and KING EDWARD I had discussed the possibility of a marriage into the royal family. In May 1290, after a long delay pending the annulment and th e necessity for a subsequent papal dispensation, Gilbert married EDWARD's fift h child and second surviving daughter JOAN, who had been born at Acre in Pales tine in 1272. JOAN OF ACRE was to outlive the 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 inheritanc e. (P) The children of Earl Gilbert the Red by his two marriages comprised the last generation of the Clare family. ( p 37). "Earl Gilbert the Red left a so n and five daughters. Of his daughters by Alice de Lusignan, the elder, Isabel la, was born in 1263. In 1297 she was betrothed to Guy, son and heir of Willia m de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick. Guy de Beachamp succeeded his father as earl in 1298, but the projected marriage, although still pending, never took place. Not until 1216 was Isabella married, at the advanced age of fifty-three, to the Gloucestershire baron Maurice de Berkeley, and she died without issue in 1 338. The other daughter, Joan, probably born sometime between 1264 and 1271, w as married in 1284 to Duncan, earl of Fife, who died in 1288. The marriage of their son Duncan (d. 1353) to Mary, daughter of JOAN OF ACRE and Ralph de Mont hermer, has already been mentioned [see note under JOAN OF ACRE]. In 1302 or s hortly thereafter, Joan married another Scots baron, Gervase Avenel. They ente red the fealty of her kinsman Robert Bruce and were declared rebels by King E dward II. Her estates in England, which her father had given as a marriage por tion at the time of her betrothal to the earl of Fife, were forfeited, and lat er granted to Hugh Despenser, husband of Joan's half sister Eleanor, the eldes t daughter of Earl Gilbert the Red and JOAN OF ACRE." (p 39-40). "Gilbert de Clare, the "Red Earl" of Gloucester and Hertford, was after Simon de Montfort [RIN 2884*] the single most important figure in the later stages of the baroni al opposition to HENRY III. From his father EARL RICHARD he inherited not only the great Clare estates and lordships in Englan

11831303 i. Margaret Declare (born in 1292 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England - died on 9 Apr 1342 in France)

General Notes: EXCERPT FROM "The Three Edwards" by Thomas Costain page 38-39

"In April 1290 the fiery spirited, sloe eyed Joanna of Acre marriedEngland's most powerful peer, second to the king in importance, GilbertDe Clare, Earl of Gloucester. Gilbert was not young when he marriedJoanna and took her to live at his country retreat in Clerkenwell, notfar from the Tower, where the kning and queen were again in residence.She left for her new home with great fanfare, laden with Royal gifts.

Joanna was but 23 when the old Earl died. After being a widow a year,she secretly married a completely unknown squire in her late husband'sretinue, Ralph de Monthermer. Through this marriage he became possessedin his own right of the earldoms of Gloucester and Hertford. The factthat a royal princess had dared to marry this obscure fellow became acause celebre which for a time separated her from the affection of herfather. It proved to be a happy marriage, however, leading ultimately toa firm friendship between the new son-in-law and King Edward."

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"Joan of Acre". Her parents were in Acre because of the crusades. she may have died on May 10, 1305. Countess of Gloucester.

Second wife of Gilbert de Clare - his first wife and mother of his known children is not known. Joan m. (2) in 1297 Ralph de M onthermer, summoned to parliament in right of her Clare earldoms from 1299 to 1306. After her death Earl Gilbert's son and namesake was Earl of Gloucester a nd Hertford at age 16. Joan and Ralph had Sir Thomas de Monthermer, b. 1301, d . 1340 at the Battle of Sluys - Sir Thomas' dau. Margaret, b. 1329, d. 1395, i s paternal grandmother of Sir Thomas de Montagu, K.C., b. ca. 1388, d. 1428, Earl of Salisbury, Lt. Gen. of Normandy, m. (1) Eleanor de Holland (dau. of Thomas, Earl of Kent) and m. (2) by 11-1424 Alice, d. 1475, widow of Sir John Philip and dau. and heir of Thomas Chaucer, Chief Butler to Richard II and H enry IV, speaker of the House of Commons, prob. son of Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet, brother-in-law of John of Gaunt. Source: Al Myers ------- The following was taken from Jim Stevens' Genealogy website http://www.gendex.com/users /jast/ From Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965: "Joan of Acre, on the other hand [as compared to GILBERT's first wife Alice de Lusignan], was a rem arkably active woman in the dozen years following the Red 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 would 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 Gilbert. Joan was thus sole mistress of the inheritance, and she controlled it with marked ability. In 1297, m uch to EDWARD's displeasure, she secretly married an otherwise obscure knight in her 'familia', Ralph de Monthermer (d. 1325). Joan of Acre died in April, 1 307, but during her tenure of the inheritance important modifications were int roduced in its administrative structure. After Isabella de Fortibus, dowager c ountess of Devon and Aumale (1262-93), Countess Joan stands as perhaps the be st example in thirteenth century English history of the ability of a widow to run the estates and otherwise manage the complex affairs of a great comital ho use." ( pp. 38-39). "The marriage between GILBERT and Joan had long been plann ed 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. Negotia tions were conducted in 1277 and 1278, but the whole project had to be abandon ed when Hartmann was accidentally killed in December, 1281. In May, 1283, THE KING agreed to a marrige between his daughter and EARL GILBERT. THE EARL had b een separated from Alice de Lusignan since 1271, but a formal annulment was no w required, and the marriage was finally dissolved in May, 1285. The king and the earl still had to wait for a papal dispensation for the new marriage, and it was only forthcoming in November, 1289. ---------------------------------- --- Source: Ancestors of American Presidents - (1989) p. 160 Source: The Abel l Family In America, pg. 38

Joan married Earl Gilbert De Clare "The Red" on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster, Abbey, London, England ⁴³.^,44 Gilbert was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England ^{⁴³^,44} and died on 7 Dec 1295 in Mammouth Castle, England ^{⁴³^,44} at age 52.

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