Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford
Noble person
1347 – 1419
Who was Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford?
Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford, Countess of Essex and Countess of Northampton, was the wife of the 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton. She was the mother of Mary de Bohun, the first wife of Henry of Bolingbroke who later reigned as King Henry IV, and Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester. She was the maternal grandmother of King Henry V.
In 1400, she gave the order for the beheading of the Earl of Huntingdon in revenge for the part he had played in the execution of her brother, the 11th Earl of Arundel.
The estates which comprised Joan's large dowry made her one of the principal landowners in Essex, where she exercised lordship, acting as arbitrator and feoffee in property transactions.
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- Born
- 1347
Arundel Castle - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
(1359/09/09 - )
- Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
- Children
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Died
- Apr 7, 1419
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on July 23, 2013
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