Joan of Lancaster

Joan of Lancaster
Baroness de Mowbray
Born	c. 1312 Norfolk, England
Died	(1349-07-07)7 July 1349 (aged c. 36-37) Yorkshire, England
Spouse	John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (m. 1326/27; her death 1349)
Issue	John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray
House	Lancaster
Father	Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
Mother	Maud Chaworth

Joan of Lancaster (c. 1312 – 7 July 1349) sometimes called Joan Plantagenet after her dynasty's name, was the third daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.

Royal family ties

Joan of Lancaster was born c. 1312 at Grosmont Castle in Monmouthshire. Her father was the son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Blanche of Artois, Queen Dowager of Navarre, a granddaughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. Her paternal great-grandparents were Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. Joan was thus doubly descended from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Joan's mother was a half-sister of Edward II's favorite, Hugh le Despenser the Younger, through the remarriage of Maud's mother, Isabella de Beauchamp, to Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester. Joan had one brother, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and five sisters, Blanche, Baroness Wake of Liddell, Isabel, Abbess of Amesbury, Maud, Countess of Ulster, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel and Warenne, and Mary, Baroness Percy.

Joan's niece, Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Ulster, married Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the second surviving son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, a marriage that would create a line of descent to strengthen the Yorkist claim to the throne in the Wars of the Roses. Another niece, Blanche of Lancaster, married the third surviving son of Edward III, John of Gaunt, and became the mother of the first Lancastrian king of England, Henry IV.

Marriage and children

Joan married John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray on 28th of February 1327. They had three children:

• Blanche de Mowbray (died 1409), who was married five times - first, to John de Segrave; second, to Robert Bertram; third, to Thomas Poynings; fourth, to Sir John Worth; and fifth, to Sir John Wiltshire.
• Eleanor de Mowbray (d. 29 June 1387), who was married twice - first, to Roger la Warr, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1326-1370) as his third wife, before 23 July 1358; and second, to Sir Lewis de Clifford.
• John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (25 June 1340 – 1368), married Elizabeth de Segrave

Joan died in Yorkshire, England of the plague. She was interred at Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Joan of Lancaster

16. John of England 8. Henry III of England 17. Isabella of Angoulême 4. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster 18. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence 9. Eleanor of Provence 19. Beatrice of Savoy 2. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster 20. Louis VIII of France 10. Robert I of Artois 21. Blanche of Castile 5. Blanche of Artois 22. Henry II, Duke of Brabant 11. Matilda of Brabant 23. Marie of Hohenstaufen 1. Joan of Lancaster 12. Patrick de Chaworth 6. Sir Patrick de Chaworth of Kidwelly 13. Hawise de London 3. Maud Chaworth 28. William Beauchamp 14. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick 29. Isabella Mauduit 7. Isabella de Beauchamp 30. John FitzGeoffrey 15. Maud FitzJohn 31. Isabel Bigod

References

Works cited

• Archer, Rowena E. (2004). "Mowbray, John (II), third Lord Mowbray (1310–1361)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19451. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Weir, Alison (2008). Britain's Royal Families, The Complete Genealogy. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-09-953973-5.