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Joan FITZALAN, Baroness Of Abergavenny

Joan FITZALAN, Baroness Of Abergavenny[1]

Female 1375 - 1435  (60 years)

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  • Name Joan FITZALAN  [2, 3
    Suffix Baroness Of Abergavenny 
    Born 1375  Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouth, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • Birth calculated (age 40 in 1415)
    Gender Female 
    AFN V9SC-FQ 
    Alt. Burial Assumption of Blessed Mary and St Nicholas, Etchingham, Rother District, East Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Baroness of Abergavenny Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouth, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    FamilySearch ID LY3Z-GHL 
    Reference Number HWS20362 
    _UID 3B55CBF8D5004E06BED6FE80B85C12D084C1 
    Died 14 Nov 1435  [2, 3
    Buried Black Friars, Hereford, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I8484  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2022 

    Father Richard FITZALAN, 4th Earl of Arundel,   b. 25 Mar 1346, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Sep 1397, Tower Hill, Tower of London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth DE BOHUN,   b. 1350, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1385, Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years) 
    Family ID F536728275  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sir. William BEAUCHAMP, Baron,   b. Abt 1358, Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 May 1411  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Alt. Marriage 23 Jul 1392  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Alt. Marriage 1395  Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Married Abt 1396  Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouth, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Children 
     1. Sir Richard "Father Courtesy" de BEAUCHAMP, 1st Earl of Worcester, 13th Earl of Warwick, KB,   b. 18 Feb 1394, Salwrup, , Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1439, Ro?en, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years)
     2. Richard De BEAUCHAMP, 1st Earl of Worcester,   b. Abt 1395, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Mar 1422, The Siege of Meaux, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 27 years)
     3. Joan BEAUCHAMP, Countess Of Ormond,   b. Abt 1396, Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouth, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Aug 1430, , Shere, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years)
     4. Elizabeth De BEAUCHAMP,   b. Abt 1400, Abergavenny, Gwent Uwch Coed, Monmouth, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Reybourne BEAUCHAMP,   b. 1403, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Aug 1430, Somme, Picardie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years)
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2022 
    Family ID F3856  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny (n?e FitzAlan; 1375 ? 14 November 1435) was an English noblewoman, and the wife of William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny of the Welsh Marches.

      Lady Joan FitzAlan was born in 1375, at Arundel Castle, Sussex, England, one of the seven children of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, and his first wife Elizabeth de Bohun. Her only surviving brother was Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, of whom Joan was his co-heiress. She had an older sister Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan who married as her second husband Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk. Her paternal grandparents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster, and her maternal grandparents were William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere.

      On 3 April 1385, her mother died. Joan was about ten years old. Her father married secondly, Philippa Mortimer on 15 August 1390, by whom he had a son, John Fitzalan, who was born in 1394. John died sometime after 1397.

      On 21 September 1397, Joan's father, the Earl of Arundel, who was also one of the Lords Appellant, was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, on charges of high treason against King Richard II of England. The Earl had always enjoyed much popularity with the citizens of London. His titles and estates were forfeited to the Crown.

      On 23 July 1392, Joan was married to William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny (c.1344 - 8 May 1411) the son of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick and Katherine Mortimer. He was more than thirty years Joan's senior.[citation needed]

      The marriage produced a son and a daughter:

      1. Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Bergavenny (born before 1397 ? died 1422), married Isabel le Despenser, daughter of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Constance of York, by whom he had one daughter Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny.
      2. Joan de Beauchamp (1396 ? 3 August 1430), married 28 August 1413 James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, son of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond and Anne Welles, by whom she had five children, including Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond.
      Death

      Joan, Baroness Bergavenny, died on 14 November 1435, at the age of 60. She was buried in Black Friars, Hereford. Before she died she paid for 10.000 masses to be celebrated in her name, to make her time in Purgatory shorter. [1]

      [1] Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny, "Wikipedia"



  • Sources 
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    2. [S112] Ancestral File? v4.19 (FamilySearch?), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((Created by FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, April 1, 1999)).

    3. [S90] Larson: Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson, Larson, Kirk, (Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe Descendants, 1981-2001, Kirk Larson, Private Library).

    4. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 9 Dec 2022), entry for Joan FITZALAN, person ID LY3Z-GHL. (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S747] European Heraldry #2 Crests by Arnaud Bunel, Arnaud Bunel , (Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility (http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org, Arnaud Bunel, 1998) , Internet).

    6. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 9 Dec 2022), entry for William BEAUCHAMP, person ID LR3R-VL3. (Reliability: 3).