Ancestral Trails 2016 » Johanna Joan STAFFORD (1278-1342)

Persoonlijke gegevens Johanna Joan STAFFORD 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1278 in Anslow, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1342 in Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, zij was toen 64 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Robert STAFFORD en Gundreda STAFFORD

Gezin van Johanna Joan STAFFORD

(1) Zij is getrouwd met Walter MONTGOMERY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1315 te Cubley, Uttoxeter, Derbyshire, zij was toen 37 jaar oud.

(2) Zij is getrouwd met Peter GRESLEY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1297 te Drakelow, Burton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, zij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Geoffrey GRESLEY  1298-1332 
2. Robert GRESLEY  1306-1361 

Notities over Johanna Joan STAFFORD

She was implicated in the murder of her stepson, William de Montgomery.
"[Peter de Gresley] married Johanna, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert de Stafford and a lineal descendant of the Toenis. Very shortly after her husband's death, she was forcibly abducted from her manor of Drakelowe, which had been assigned to her by her eldest son, and carried off to
Swinnerton by Sir John de Swinnerton and others. There she was detained for a long time, and it is certainly noticeable that we hear nothing of her for some years after this event. Justice was slow, and not till 1321-4 was Sir John brought to trial, when he produced a pardon from the King dated May 25, 1310! However, before 1320 Johanna must have escaped, for she was then the wife of Sir Walter de Montgomery (a connexion of the Swinnertons), who died in 1322 or 1323 [RB - this date of death is
incorrect].

The violence of the times can be as well gathered from the following single incident as from a catalogue of crimes.
On Sept 23, 1323, Johanna is found abetting her sons Peter and Robert de Gresley in the murder
of Sir William de Montgomery, son of her late [sic] husband Sir Walter 'on the high road under the park of Seal!' Philippa the widow of the murdered man procured the arrest of all three, but they were acquitted!

Again in 1333 she was accused of murder and again acquitted. After these records - and they are only samples - one is not surprised to hear of her own strong-box being broken into at Drakelowe
in 1323-4. At last in or before 1342 her turbulent life is ended. "
[The Gresleys of Drakelow" Wm Salt NS 1:43]

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