Joan Devereux

Joan Devereux, 3rd Baroness Devereux , (married Joan Fitzwalter and Joan Burnell LG ; * 1379 , † May 11, 1409 ) was an English noblewoman.

Joan Devereux was the daughter of John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux and his wife Margaret de Vere . Before 1390 she was married to Walter Fitzwalter, 5th Baron Fitzwalter , one of the most important followers of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester . In 1390 she was accepted into the Order of the Garter. Her father died in 1393, her young brother John childless in 1396. With that, Joan inherited her father's possessions and the right to the title of Baron Devereux .

Her husband died in May 1406 while traveling in Italy. Before January 29, 1408 she married Hugh Burnell, 2nd Baron Burnell , a baron of the Welsh Marches , a second marriage . She died in 1409 and was buried in Little Dunmow Priory in Essex , the traditional burial place of the Fitzwalter family , the family of her first husband.

From her first marriage she had at least two children:

Humphrey Fitzwalter, 6th Baron Fitzwalter (1398–1415)
Walter Fitzwalter, 7th Baron Fitzwalter (1400–1431)

Their second marriage was childless. Her eldest son Humphrey first became her heir, and after his early death her second son Walter. The title Baron Devereux was reflected in the title of her husband and children.

Web links

Joan Devereux on thepeerage.com , accessed August 30, 2016.

Individual evidence

^ Hugh EL Collins: The Order of the Garter, 1348-1461: chivalry and politics in late medieval England. Clarendon, Oxford 2000. ISBN 0-19-820817-0 , p. 101
^ Carole Rawcliffe: Devereux, John, Baron Devereux (d. 1393). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

personal data
SURNAME	Devereux, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Devereux, Joan, 3rd Baroness Devereux; Fitzwalter, Joan; Burnell, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH	1379
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1409

[1] Hugh EL Collins: The Order of the Garter, 1348-1461: chivalry and politics in late medieval England. Clarendon, Oxford 2000. ISBN 0-19-820817-0 , p. 101

[2] Carole Rawcliffe: Devereux, John, Baron Devereux (d. 1393). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004