Joan FitzAlan

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Joan FitzAlan (married Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford and Essex ) (* 1347 in Arundel Castle , † April 7, 1419 ) was an English noblewoman. She was the mother of the wife of King Henry IV and thus a grandmother of Henry V.

Joan FitzAlan was a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster . She was married in 1359 to Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford , who was a ward of her father. With him she had two daughters:

Her husband died in 1373. Although she was only about 26 years old at the time, she did not remarry. As a Wittum , she received extensive estates in Essex from her husband's possession , while her two daughters became heirs to the remaining possessions of the Bohun family . Since they were still minors, King Edward III. Guardian of the two rich heiresses. In 1376, Thomas of Woodstock , a son of the king, married the elder daughter Eleanor, while John of Gaunt , another son of the king, married his eldest son, Henry Bolingbroke, to younger daughter, Mary , in 1380 .

Henry Bolingbroke became King of England in 1399 as Henry IV . At the beginning of 1400 a group of former favorites of the overthrown King Richard II tried to overthrow the new king in the so-called Epiphany Rising . One of the conspirators was John Holland, 1st Earl of Huntingdon , who as early as 1397 had played a major role in the execution of Joan's brother Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel . The conspiracy failed and Joan had the fugitive John Holland arrested in Prittlewell , Essex. She had him taken to Pleshey Castle , where she also called her dead brother's children. Holland was executed there without any major trial. In 1401 the king gave his mother-in-law the profitable guardianship of the minor Richard de Vere , heir to the title of Earl of Oxford, until he came of age in 1406. She was buried in Walden Abbey , Essex.

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  1. ↑ MMN Stansfield: Holland, John, first earl of Huntingdon and duke of Exeter (c.1352-1400). 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
  2. ↑ James Ross: Vere, Richard de, eleventh earl of Oxford (1385-1417). 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 FitzAlan, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohun, Joan de, Countess of Hereford and Essex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1347
PLACE OF BIRTH Arundel Castle
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1419