Joanna "Joan" FitzRoy, Joan FitzJohn, Lady of Wales, Joan of Powys

Born [abt.July 22] 1190/91 in London, Middlesex, England
Died February 2, 1237 at Abergwyngregyn, on the north coast of Gwynedd, Wales
Buried: Friary of Llanfaes, Gwynedd, Wales

Notes:
Natural daughter of King John of England by his mistress, Queen Clemence. (nothing more is known of her mother)
In April 1226 Joan obtained a papal decree from Pope Honorius III, declaring her legitimate on the basis that her parents had not been married to others at the time of her birth, but without giving her a claim to the English throne.
At Easter 1230, William de Braose, who was Llywelyn's prisoner at the time, was discovered with Joan in Llywelyn's bedchamber. William was hanged and Joan was banished to Llanfaes for twelve months. It is possible she could have given birth to a daughter in 1231.
In 1237, Joan died at Aber. In the words of Brut y Twysogion, Joan was buried in a consecrated enclosure on the Anglesey shoreline, where after, a monastery of the Barefooted Friars (the Franciscans) was established to the honour of the Blessed Mary, and the Prince built it all at his cost for the soul of his lady.
Upon the building of Beaumaris Castle [Edward I, 1296], the village of Llanfaes was depopulated and the people moved to the new borough of Newborough. Various raids, buildings and other disturbances destroyed most of what was left over time.
Joan's stone coffin can be seen in Beaumaris parish church, Anglesey. Above the empty coffin is a slate panel inscribed: "This plain sarcophagus, (once dignified as having contained the remains of JOAN, daughter of King JOHN, and consort of LLEWELYN ap IOWERTH, Prince of North Wales, who died in the year 1237), having been conveyed from the Friary of Llanfaes, and alas, used for many years as a horsewatering trough, was rescued from such an indignity and placed here for preseravation as well as to excite serious meditation on the transitory nature of all sublunary distinctions. By THOMAS JAMES WARREN BULKELEY, Viscount BULKELEY, Oct 1808"

Married

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth between December 1203 and October 1204 in Wales

Children of Llywelyn and Joan:

Half-siblings and/or full siblings of Joan:

Richard FitzJohn, Oliver FitzRoy, Geoffrey FitzJohn, John FitzJohn Courcy, Henry FitzJohn, Osbert Gifford, Eudes FitzJohn, Bartholomew FitzRoy, Matilda/Maud FitzJohn, Isabel FitzJohn, Philip FitzRoy

Royal half-siblings of Joan:

Henry III of England, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Joan of England, Isabella of England, Eleanor of England

      Geoffrey of Anjou
    Henry II of England Empress Matilda
      William X of Aquitaine
  John of England Eleanor of Aquitaine Aenor de Chatellerault
Joan of Powys      
  Clemence [poss. Le Boteler] [poss. Philip Le Boteler] matgreatgrandfather
      matgreatgrandmother
    mothers mother greatgrandfather
      greatgrandmother


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