Joan Martin

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Joan Martin , Countess of Lincoln († before October 27, 1322 ) was an English noblewoman.

Joan was the second daughter of William Martin, 1st Baron Martin and his wife Eleanor, the widow of John de Mohun of Dunster , Somerset and daughter of Sir Reynold FitzPiers . As a young woman, she was married on June 16, 1310 to the widowed Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln . The two sons of the over 60-year-old Earl had a fatal accident, and he and his young wife hoped to become the father of an heir. The marriage remained childless, however, and the Earl of Lincoln died in February 1311. As his widow, Joan was now entitled to extensive Wittum , including Knesall in Nottinghamshire . The right to remarry was granted by King Ralph de Monthermer . However, Joan married the young Baron Nicholas Audley in 1312 without consulting Monthermer and without the king's permission . Thereupon the king had their widow's estate occupied, and as reparation Audley had to pay 900 marks to Monthermer. Audley died as early as 1316. During the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster , the husband of their stepdaughter Alice de Lacy , their Heighley Castle was sacked by royal troops. When the royal troops captured Tutbury Castle in March 1322 , Joan was captured there. She was imprisoned in York with her stepdaughter Alice de Lacy . There, Hugh le Despenser and his father of the same name, the Earl of Winchester , forced the two leading royal favorites, the two women, to give them several of their goods. Joan may have died as a result of imprisonment.

progeny

Her first marriage to the Earl of Lincoln had been childless. From her second marriage to Nicholas Audley, she had a son and daughter, including:

After the death of her brother William Martin, 2nd Baron Martin in 1326, her son became part of the heir and after the death of her sister Eleanor in 1343 the sole heir of the property of the Martin family.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JS Hamilton: Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln (1249-1311). 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. ↑ Philip Morgan: Audley family (per. C.1130-1391). 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
  3. ↑ JR Maddicott: Alice Lacy. 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
  4. ↑ Michael Prestwich; RH Britnell; Robin Frame: Thirteenth century England. Proceedings of the Durham conference, 1995 . Boydell, Woodbridge 1997. ISBN 978-0-85115-674-3 , p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Lacy, Joan, Countess of Lincoln; Audley, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH before October 27, 1322