Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny

Joan FitzAlan, 1st Baroness Bergavenny (1375- 14 November 1435), was the wife of William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny of the Welsh Marches.

Family and lineage

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

Marriage and children

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.

The marriage produced a son and a daughter:

1. Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Bergavenny (born before 1397- 1422), married Isabel le Despenser, by whom he had one daughter Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny.
2. Joan de Beauchamp (1396- 3 August 1430), married on 28 August 1413 James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, by whom she had five children, including Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn were notable descendants.

References

1. Charles Cawley Medieval Lands
2. www. Tudorplace.com.ar/Fitzalan