Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ralph de MONTHERMER (1262-1325)

Données personnelles Ralph de MONTHERMER 

• Il est né en l'an 1262 dans Stokenham, Devon.
• Titre: 1st Baron Monthermer
• Il est décédé le 5 avril 1325 dans Stokenham, Devon, il avait 63 ans.

Famille de Ralph de MONTHERMER

(1) Il est marié avec JOAN D'ACRE PLANTAGENET.

Ils se sont mariés janvier 1296/97 à Stokenham, Devon, il avait 34 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Edward de MONTHERMER  1304-????
2. Joan de MONTHERMER  1299-????
3. Mary de MONTHERMER  1298-> 1371 
4. Thomas de MONTHERMER  1301-1340 

(2) Il est marié avec Isabel DESPENCER.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1314 à Stokenham, Devon, il avait 52 ans.

Notes par Ralph de MONTHERMER

Knight, 1st Baron Monthermer, Earl of Hertford, Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Atholl. Keeper of Cardiff Castle, Guardian and Lieutenant in Scotland, Warden of the Royal Forests south of Trent. In right of his first wife, of Tonbridge, Kent. Unknown parentage. Ralph was employed in the household of Sir Gilbert de Clare (1243-1295) and Joan of Acre. When Gilbert died, Ralph and Joan married, which enraged her father, King Edward I, who imprisoned Ralph in Bristol Castle, and Edward seized all of Joan's lands. As per the St Albans chronicler, she told her father, "No one sees anything wrong if a great earl marries a poor and lowly woman. Why should there be anything wrong if a countess marries a young and promising man?" Anthony Bec, the Bishop of Durham helped to end the feud, and her lands were restored to her on 31 July 1297. The king then became very attached to his new son-in-law. Ralph was summoned to Parliament as the Earl of Gloucester and Hertford while his step son, Gilbert, was still a minor, to be returned to the boy upon Joan's death. He served with the King's overseas expeditions and against the Scots, fought at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, and was at the siege of Caerlaverock in 1300. He signed the Baron's letter to Pope Boniface in 1301. In 1306, Ralph warned Robert de Brus who was then at the English courts that Edward had intentions to arrest Robert the following day. His warning was a twelve pence and a pair of spurs, sent as if to repay a loan. Robert understood the hint, he and his squire left for Scotland immediately. Joan died in childbirth with their fourth, stillborn child 07 April 1307, buried with the babe in the Austin Friars at Clare, Suffolk. Ralph was again summoned to Parliament as Raulpho de Monte Hermerii. In 1309, he was granted the manors of Stokenham, Oakford, Pyworthy and Sterte, Devon, and Hunton, Hampshire. He fought at Bannockburn in 1314, but taken prisoner, and released by Robert de Brus without ransom for Ralph's assistance in 1306, but not before entertaining Ralph at his table. Sir Marmaduke Tweng was also captured, entertained and released with Ralph. In 1315 Ralph was given permission for a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain.

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