Joan Mortimer

Joan Mortimer (married Joan Audley ) (* 1311 or 1312; † between 1337 and 1351) was an English noblewoman.

Joan Mortimer came from the Anglo-Norman Mortimer family . She was believed to be the third eldest daughter of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore and his wife Joan de Geneville . Her father granted King Edward II after his successful service as Justiciar of Ireland in December 1316 the guardianship and the right to marry the young heir James Audley . Mortimer became engaged to Audley to his young daughter, Joan. After Roger Mortimer had to surrender after a failed rebellion against the king in early 1322, but was able to flee in August 1323, Joan was arrested in 1324 and taken to Sempringham Priory . The government granted only twelve pennies a week for a living , which was less than the prisoners in the Tower of London . She was released again after her father was able to overthrow the king in September 1326 and became the real ruler for the underage new King Edward III. has been.

Joan could now marry her fiancé James Audley. The celebration took place as a double wedding with the wedding of her sister Katherine in the summer of 1329 in Hereford . Medieval chroniclers may have confused the wedding with the double wedding of their two sisters Beatrice and Agnes , which had also taken place in Hereford a year earlier. Beatrice and Agnes both married high-ranking heirs, which is why their marriages may not take place until after their father was raised to Earl of March in October 1328 . Accordingly, the weddings of Katherine and Joan could have taken place on May 31, 1328.

With her husband, Joan had several children including:

Nicholas Audley, 4th Baron Audley of Heleigh (1329-1391)
Roger Audley
Joan Audley ∞ John Tuchet († 1371)

After her death, her husband married Isabel le Strange († after 1366) for the second time before December 1351 .

Web links

Joan Mortimer on thepeerage.com , accessed July 6, 2018.

Individual evidence

^ Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 322
^ RR Davies: Mortimer, Roger, first earl of March (1287-1330). 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
↑ Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 63
^ Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 136
^ Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 206

personal data
SURNAME	Mortimer, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Audley, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH	1311 or 1312
DATE OF DEATH	between 1337 and 1351

[1] Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 322

[2] RR Davies: Mortimer, Roger, first earl of March (1287-1330). 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] Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 63

[4] Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 136

[5] Ian Mortimer: The greatest traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England, 1327-1330. Pimlico, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-9715-2 , p. 206