Joan de Botetourt

Joan de Botetourt - b.1399 d.13??

From my research Joan (Somery) Botetourt was married to Thomas de Botetourt. This was shown on a family tree produced for a Visitation of Essex

Futher searces revealed some notes on a Wikitree page (Wikitree being one of the more useful geneological websites as it seems to be updated by real geneologists!).

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Notes form the Wikitree page:

Joan de Butetourte or de Botetourte[7]

Joan de Botetourte was the sister of:

John de Someri;[7] Margaret de Sutton;[7] Joan was married to Thomas Botetourte.[8] [9]

Joan and Thomas had children:

John, heir, born 14 September 1318, as turned 19 in 11 Edward III [1337],[9] or born 1315 as 26 on the Christmas before 10 May, 16 Edward III [1342],[7]

In 1333, Joan late the wife of Thomas Botetourte, lady of Honesworth, held tenements in Honesworth, Stafford.[8] On 12 February, 12 Edward III [1338], a writ was issued regarding Joan, late the wife of Thomas Botetourt, and Inquisitions taken in February found she held properties in the counties of Cambridge, Warwick, Worcester, Stafford, and Buckingham, to which John, her son with Thomas Botetourt, aged 19 years at the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross last [14 September], was her heir.[9]

When Joan's brother, John de Someri died, Joan and her sister Margaret were his coheirs, then John's wife Lucy died and an Inquisition taken in Salop on 10 May, 16 Edward III [1342], found that the property that Lucy had held in dower in Foxhale, co Salop, came to Joan's son, John Butetourte, aged 26, and Margaret's son, John de Sutton, aged 28.[7]

Sources

Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 267-268
Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 673-674.
Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 341-342.
Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 137
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 344
Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 455-456
7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol VIII Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1913), accessed 2 November 2014,
https:// archive.org/stream/ calendarofinquis08grea #page/274/mode/2up pp.274. Abstract No 400
Joan de Butetourte or de Botetourte.
↑ 8.0 8.1 The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Micellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol II, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1916), accessed 29 October 2014,
https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinqu02grea#page/330/mode/2up pp.331. Abstract No 1348.
9.0 9.1 9.2 The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol VIII Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1913), accessed 2 November 2014,
https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinquis08grea#page/112/mode/2up pp.113-4.
Abstract No 181 Joan, late the wife of Thomas Botetourt

Joan de Botetourt - b.1399 d.13??

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