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relates that, while pleading for her husband, Joan 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?" With the intervention of
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Monthermer evidently bore to show his position as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford.
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