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Sir Ralph de Monthermer, styled Earl of Gloucester and Hertford duringthe life of his wife (Joan), created Lord Monthermer 1308, died 5 April1325. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Ralph de Monthermer, "a plain Esquire," having m. the Lady JoanePlantagenet (commonly called Joane of Acre), dau. of King Edward I andwidow of Gilbert, Earl of Clare, Gloucester, and Hertford, in her right,and was summoned to parliament as "Comiti Gloucester' et Hertf." from 6February, 1299 to 3 November, 1306. In the 26th Edward I [1298], hislordship was in the expedition then made into Scotland, and behaved sovaliantly that the king rendered to him and his wife, the said Joane, thecastle and honour of Tonebruge with other lands in Kent, Surrey, andSussex, as also the Isle of Portland and divers other estates belongingto the said Joane, which had been seized by the crown in consequence ofher marriage without license with the said Ralph, and the king becameeventually much attached to his son-in-law, to whom he had beenreconciled through the intercession of Anthony Bek, the celebrated bishopof Durham. In the 31st, 32nd, and 34th of his father-in-law [1203, 1304,and 1306], the earl was again in Scotland and in the contest with Bruce.King Edward conferred upon him the whole of Anandale with the title ofEarl of Atholl, the Scottish nobleman who held that dignity havingespoused the fortunes of Bruce, but it was not long after that that Joaneof Acre departed this life (viz., 1st Edward II), and he never,subsequently, obtained the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hertfordalthough he lived for several years; in a grant of considerable landedproperty made to him and his sons in two years afterwards, he is styledRalph de Monthermer only. Nor is he otherwise denominated in the 5thEdward II [1312], at which time, for recompense of his service inScotland, the king gave him 300 marks, part of the 600 marks which he wasto have paid for the wardship of John ap Adam, a great man of that age.Nor in two years afterwards, when again in the wars of Scotland, he wasmade prisoner at Bannockburn, but he then found favour from his formerfamiliarity with the King of Scotland, at the court of England, andobtained his freedom without paying ransom. He was, however, summoned toparliament as a Baron from 4 March, 1309, to 30 October, 1321. Hislordship m. 2ndly, Isabel, widow of John de Hastings, and sister andco-heir of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had no issue.By his first wife, the Princess Joane, he had two sons, viz., Thomas, hisheir; Edward, who was summoned to parliament as a Baron, 23 April, 1337,11th Edward III, but never afterwards, and nothing further is known ofhim or his descendants. Ralph, Lord Monthermer, d. 19th Edward II [1326],and was s. by his son, Thomas, Lord Monthermer. [Sir Bernard Burke,Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd,London, England, 1883, pp. 378-9, Monthermer, Baron Monthermer, Earl ofGloucester and Hertford]
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