Joan de Valence

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Joan de Valence (married as Joan Comyn ) († after 1306) was an English noblewoman.

origin

Joan de Valence came from a branch of the Lusignan family . She was a younger daughter of the English magnate William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke and his wife Joan de Munchensi . Her father, originally from France, was a half-brother of King Henry III of England . who was allowed to marry the wealthy heiress Joan de Munchensi after 1247.

Marries John Comyn and becomes involved in the Scottish War of Independence

Joan was married to John Comyn the Younger , a member of the leading Scottish magnate family Comyn . She had several children with him, including:

Her husband was a nephew and important supporter of the Scottish King John Balliol , who increasingly came into conflict with the English King Edward I on the question of English supremacy over Scotland . When the open war between England and Scotland broke out in early 1296 , Joan was in England and received safe conduct from her cousin Edward I to London. Her husband was taken prisoner by the English in 1296, after which the English king gave her estates in Tynedale , England , from which she had an annual income of 200 marks . Her husband was released on condition that he fought on the English side in the war against France , but before 1298 he returned to Scotland and continued the fight against England. On March 26, 1298, the king ordered Joan to return to London immediately with her children. After Comyn submitted to the English king in 1304, his children were apparently allowed to return to Scotland. However, after Comyn was murdered by Robert Bruce in February 1306 , the English king ordered Joan and her son back to England. Their son John was placed in the care of Sir John Weston, educator of the king's children.

Robert Bruce, who had risen to become King of Scotland after the murder of Joan's husband, drove the Comyn family out of Scotland by 1308. Joan's son John fought on the English side in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn , in which he fell. With his death and the decisive defeat of the English in battle, all hopes of the Comyns to regain their possessions in Scotland were shattered. Joan's daughters and their descendants inherited part of their property after the childless death of their brother Aymer de Valence .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alan Young: Comyn, Sir John, lord of Badenoch (d. 1306). 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 De Valence, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comyn, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1306