Ralph , Earl of Gloucester ^{3 5}

   Another name for Ralph was Ralph De Monthermer Earl of Hertford.

  General Notes:

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--- Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares, 1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 38-39: -----Ralph was styled earl of Gloucester *jure uxoris* and for the next decade administered the estates with the king's daughter. After Joan's death, his rights to the estates and title lapsed, and he was thenceforth treated as an ordinary baron. His children by Joan of Acre were likewise excluded from the inheritance, and had no future connection with the Clares, aside from a daugher, Mary, who was married in 1307 to Duncan, son and heir of Duncan, earl of Fife, and Joan, the Red Earl's daughter by his first marriage to Alice de Lusignan.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Land: After Joan's death, his rights to the estates and titles lapsed. ⁵

• Fact: Children with Joan were excluded from the inheritance. ⁵

• Title: 1st Lord Monthermer. ^{2 5}

Ralph married Joan "of Acre" , Countess Of Gloucester, daughter of King Edward I "Longshanks" , of England and Eleanora of Castile, Condessa de Ponthieu, in Jan 1297.^{1 2 3 4} (Joan "of Acre" , Countess Of Gloucester was born in May 1271 in Acre, Palestine,^{1 3 4 7} died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England ^{1 3 4 7} and was buried on 28 Apr 1307 in Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare ⁴.)