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Melvil Dewey

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Joan of Acre

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• • 17th Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 20th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 671343 
  • Father:
  • Edward I, King of England 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor of Castile   
  • Birth Date:
  • Apr 1272 
  • Birth Location:
  • Acre, Israel 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Apr 1307 
  • Death Location:
  • Clare Manor, Suffolk, England 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Gilbert de Clare
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Apr 1290 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westminster Abbey, London, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Eleanor de Clare

  Margaret de Clare (Ahnentafel No:335671 )

  Elizabeth de Clare

  • Notes: 

  • aka Joan Plantagenet

• Additional marriages for Joan of Acre

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  • Spouse:
  • Ralph de Monthermer
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1297

• Sources for Joan of Acre

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1994, Vol. 148, Pages 255-258.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1932, Vol. 9, p. 213.
  • ³ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 7th Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2000), 246.
  • ⁴ Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, Vol. II, London: J. Billing, Printer and Stereotyper (1851), Pedigree xv: Frevile Lambton Burne, Esq..
  • ⁵ Foster, Joseph, comp., The Royal Lineage of our Noble and Gentle Families. Together with their Paternal Ancestry, Aylesbury: Privately Printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Limited (1884), 84.
  • ⁶ Fraser, ed. Antonia, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 70.
  • ⁷ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 81.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 113.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 270, 276, 289, 291, 296, 312, 316, 330, 340, 351.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 71.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Joan of Acre", (accessed 02/23/2010).