Joan (FitzAlan) Beauchamp (abt. 1371 - 1435)

Born about 1371 in England

Ancestors

Wife of William (Beauchamp) de Beauchamp KG — married before 1390 in England

Descendants

Died 14 Nov 1435 at about age 64 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

Joan de Arundel, daughter of Richard de Arundel and Elizabeth de Bohun,^[1] was born about 1371 (aged 44 in 1415).^[2] She was suo jure Baroness Burghersh and, but for the attainder, she would have been suo jure Baroness le Despenser.^[3]

She married William Beauchamp, K.G., 1st Lord Bergavenny,^[1] son of Sir Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and Katherine de Mortimer, before 1390.^[2] They had one son and two daughters:

• Richard, K.B., Earl of Worcester^[2]
• Joan,^[2] married James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond,^[4] on or before 28 August 1413 and had five children. Joan died in August 1430.^[5]
• Elizabeth^[2]

Following the death of her brother Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, without heirs of his body, the title and estates of Arundel went to his cousin John FitzAlan, Lord Mautravers, while the estates of Surrey were divided among his three surviving sisters: Elizabeth duchess of Norfolk, wife of Gerard Usflete, ' chivaler,' Joan de Beauchamp, lady de Bergevenny, and Margaret wife of Rowland Leynthale, 4 chivaler, ... ^{[6] [7]}

Joan Beauchamp, Lady of Bergavenny, left a will dated 10 January 1434. In it she Bequethed a bed of Velvet, white and black paled, with Quyshions, Tapettes, and formers that long to the same bed. The white and black refers to heraldry, "paly sable and argent".^[8] She died on 14 November 1435. She was buried by her husband at Black Friars, Hereford.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), vol. II, pages 190-193, FITZALAN 7.iv.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), vol. I, pages 164-165, BERGAVENNY 7.
3. ↑ G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, volume1, pages 26-27 (accessed 16 January 2020).
4. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992). Access online (search only) at GoogleBooks, Line 120, p.107.
5. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed., vol. I, page 380 BUTLER 9.
6. ↑ Calendar of the Fine Rolls - 4 Henry V, Membrane 19, pp. 162-7. July 25 1416. p. 162
7. ↑ Cokayne, GE. The Complete Peerage, Vol. 1, pp. 244-246. London : The St. Catherine Press, ltd., 1910. p. 244
8. ↑ Furnival, Frederick. Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London. page 1.[1]

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Joan FitzAlan, Baroness Bergavenny.
• Furnival, Frederick. Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London. page 1.[2]

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This profile was re-reviewed/approved 16 January 2020 by Thiessen-117.

Joan FitzAlan appears in badged trails from Gateway Ancestor John Fisher to Magna Carta Surety Barons Robert de Vere and Henry Bohun that were badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in April 2020. The profiles on these trails can be viewed here: Fisher Trails.

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