Joan (Barre) de la Bere (abt. 1415 - bef. 1474)

Born about 1415 in Herefordshire, England

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Died before 1474 before about age 59 in Northamptonshire, England

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Biography

" JOAN BARRE, born 1415/20, married Sir Kynard de la Bere (d. by 1465), of Kinnersley Castle, Herefordshire, escheator of Herefordshire and the West Marches 1438-9, son and heir of Sir Richard de la Bere, of Kinnersley, MP Herefordshire, by his first wife Sybil Chabbonare.

"Kynard and Joan were granted the manor of "Dorsington" (Dorston in Herefordshire?), by Richard, duke of York. She died before 1474, having had one son and three daughters. Her husband predeceased her."

Issue:

• 3A) Sir RICHARD DE LA BERE, of Kinnersley, born about 1448, knighted 17 Jan. 1478, sheriff of Herefordshire 1478-9, 1482-3, 1492-3, 1510-11, MP Herefordshire 1495, adhered to Buckingham in his 1483 rebellion, and pardoned by Richard III 5 Nov. 1484; made banneret at Stoke 1487, found

co-heir to Isabel Barre, countess of Devon, in September 1489. He married 1st, Anne Audley, daughter of John, Lord Audley, by his second wife Eleanor Holland, and had one son and four daughters. He married 2ndly, Elizabeth (married 2ndly, Thomas Baskerville, esquire), daughter of William Mores, Sergeant to the Hall of Henry VII, and had a further ten sons and six daughters. Sir Richard died 15 July 1514, and was buried in Hereford Cathedral. By his second wife he was ancestor of the Delaberes of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. By his first wife, he had one surviving son and daughter: Thomas (died without issue 1518/19); Anne (married John Pye).

• 3B) ANNE DE LA BERE
• 3C) ELIZABETH DE LA BERE
• 3D) JANE DE LA BERE, all alive and unmarried in 1465/70, when they sued their brother Richard for their marriage portions.

Monument at Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire:^[1]

hic jacet Domina Johanna uxor secunda Willielmi Catesbie militis antea uxor Renardi de la Bere et filia Thome Barre militis et Alicie uxoris eius sororis Johannis Dni Talbot creati com Salop. que obiit xi Augusti MCCCCLXXI. Liberi eorum Johannes, Robertium, Johannes, Edmundus, Elizabetha, Johanna, Margareta et Elizabetha.

Sources

1. ↑ Whalley P, Rev. (1791) The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire. Compiled from the manuscript collections of the late learned antiquary John Bridges, Esq. Vol I, p 18.

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