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Joan "of England" Plantagenet

(Abt Feb 1335 - 2 Sep 1348)

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== Biography ==
=== Name ===:'''Name:''' Joan of England Richardson, ''Royal Ancestry'', vol. I, pp. 86-87. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20Kings%201066-1603.htm#_ftnref912 Cawley, ''Medieval Lands'': Joan of England]
:''aka'' - Joan of the Tower
:Second daughter of [[Plantagenet-70 | Edward III]], King of England and [[Hainaut-42 | Philippa of Hainault]]. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20Kings%201066-1603.htm#EdwardIIIdied1377B Cawley, ''Medieval Lands'' : Edward III] [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HAINAUT.htm#PhilippaHainautdied1369 Cawley, ''Medieval Lands'' : Phillipa of Hainault]

=== Birth ===:'''Born:''' Born about February 1335 at the Tower of London, London, England.
:Cawley states that Joan was born at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire. This is incorrect. There is no exact record of her birth. She is known as Joan of the Tower in primary records.

=== Marriage and Children ===:Joan never married. She had been contracted to marry PEDRO de Castilla y León, but died in route to Paris for her marriage. No children.

=== Death ===:'''Died:''' 2 Sep 1348 in Lormont, France of the Black Death.
:'''Burial:''' Bayonne Cathedral in Bayonne, France.

=== Notes ===:From the time she that she was a one year old infant, the marriage of Princess Joan was an asset used by her father to help secure alliances.
:In 1344, negotiations began for Joan to marry the son of Alphonso, King of Castile. She was to marry Pedro, who would later become known as Pedro the Cruel. The process took years and terms were not agreed upon until August of 1347. In March of 1348, Joan left England with a large retinue. At her father's orders they were to travel to Bordeaux and wait for word that all aspects of the marriage contract had been met before proceeding on to Bayonne for the marriage. They arrived in Bordeaux on March 31 and stayed until July.
:That spring, the Black Death reached Bordeaux and rapidly spread in the city. Fearing for her safety, the Princess' party fled to Lormont, a small town outside of Bordeaux. They were safe there for only short time. Princess Joan became the first victim of the Black Death in Lormont and died there on 2 September 1348. Her body was taken to the very church in which she was to have been married, and she was interred in Bayonne Cathedral.

==Sources ==
:Footnotes and citations:


:Source list:*Cawley, Charles. ''Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families'', Online at [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Website].
*Green, Mary Anne Everett. ''Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest''. (London, 1857):229-260. [http://tinyurl.com/gqchm28 Archive.org LINK]
*Richardson, Douglas. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols''. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013). See Vol I, pp. 86-7 and Vol II, pp. 121).

*Weis, F.L. (1999). Magna Charta Sureties 1215. 5th ed.

:See also:
*[[Wikipedia: Joan of England (1335–1348)]]
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    BirthAbt Feb 1335London, England
    Death2 Sep 1348Lormont, France
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