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Joan of Lancaster was born c. 1312 at Grosmont Castle in Monmouthshire. [1] Her father was the son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Blanche of Artois, Queen Dowager of Navarre, a granddaughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. Her paternal great-grandparents were Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.
John de Mowbray, born 25 June 1340 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, was the son of John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, of Axholme, Lincolnshire, by his second wife, Joan of Lancaster, third daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, [1] [2] [3] a grandson of King Henry III.
Arms of the Beaufort family, legitimised descendants of John of Gaunt: Royal arms of King Edward III within a bordure compony argent and azure Joan Beaufort (c. 1377 – 13 November 1440) was the youngest of the four legitimised children and only daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (third surviving son of King Edward III), by his mistress, later wife, Katherine de Roet. [1]
The phrase "long castel" is a reference to Lancaster (also called "Loncastel" and "Longcastell"), "walles white" is thought to likely be an oblique reference to Blanche, "Seynt Johan" was John of Gaunt's name-saint, and "ryche hil" is a reference to Richmond; these thinly veiled references reveal the identity of the grieving black knight of the ...
The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. ... Joan of Lancaster, Baroness Mowbray Isabel of Lancaster, Prioress of Amesbury
John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (20 June 1389 – 14 September 1435) was a medieval English prince, general, and statesman who commanded England's armies in France during a critical phase of the Hundred Years' War. Bedford was the third son of King Henry IV of England, brother to Henry V, and acted as regent of France for his nephew Henry VI ...
Duke of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Leicester: Joan of Lancaster c. 1312 –1349: John (II) de Mowbray 1310–1361 3rd Baron Mowbray: Eleanor of Lancaster 1318–1372: Mary of Lancaster c. 1320 –1362: Earl of Worcester (2nd creation), 1397: John of Gaunt 1340–1399 Duke of Lancaster, 5th Earl of Lancaster, (6th) Earl of ...
Joan’s presence motivated the beleaguered French soldiers, and within nine days of her arrival the city was liberated. Actor Ingrid Bergman starred as Joan in the 1948 film directed by Victor ...