Van der Feen/Mendels/Rowe/Hesketh Family Tree » Joan de Geneville 2nd Baroness Geneville, Countess of March, Baroness Mortimer (1286-1356)

Personal data Joan de Geneville 2nd Baroness Geneville, Countess of March, Baroness Mortimer 

• She was born on February 2, 1286 in Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England.
• She died on October 19, 1356 in Kings Stanley, Lasboro, Gloucestershire, England, she was 70 years old.

Household of Joan de Geneville 2nd Baroness Geneville, Countess of March, Baroness Mortimer

She has/had a relationship with Roger Mortimer.

Child(ren):

1. Sir Edmund II Mortimer  ± 1306-1331 
2. Maud de Mortimer  1307-1345 
3. Margaret de Mortimer  1308-1337 
4. Joane 'Johanna' de Mortimer  1313-????
5. Katherine Mortimer  1314-1369 

Notes about Joan de Geneville 2nd Baroness Geneville, Countess of March, Baroness Mortimer

Ludlow Castle is a large,[1] now partly ruined, non-inhabited castle which dominates the town of Ludlow in Shropshire, England. It stands on a high point overlooking the River Teme.[2] The castle is owned by The Trustees of the Powis Castle Estate on behalf of the family of the Earl of Powis, and is open to the public. ************** Construction***** Construction of Ludlow Castle began in the late 11th century as the border stronghold of one of the Marcher Lords, Roger de Lacy. It is first referred to by chroniclers in 1138 but was at this time a more basic castle type. It was held by the de Lacy's into the 13th century and with their focus on their holdings in Ireland their enemies took it during the civil wars of the reign of King Stephen when the King himself besieged the castle and rescued his ally Prince Henry of Scotland. *****In 1224 King Henry III of England met with Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, the Welsh prince and leader, at Ludlow to sign a treaty with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton as mediator. *****Early in the 14th century it was enlarged into a magnificent palace for Roger Mortimer, then the most powerful man in England. *****In 1402 Edmund Mortimer, himself born at Ludlow Castle, set out from the castle with a large army to seek battle with the forces of Owain Glyndwr - he met them in the valley of the River Lugg at the Battle of Bryn Glas where he was defeated, captured and eventually allied himself to the Welsh rebel's cause, to the extent of marrying one of Glyndwr's daughters with whom he had four children, before starvation and death at the siege of Harlech Castle in 1409. *****Royal connections Later, in the 15th century under the ownership of Richard, Duke of York, the Castle was a major base in the Wars of the Roses and was taken by the Lancastrians in 1459 but back in York hands in 1461. Ludlow afterwards became a royal palace. *****In 1472 Edward IV sent his son the Prince of Wales and his brother (later the ‘Princes in the Tower’ of Shakespeare fame), to live at the castle, which was also the seat of Government for Wales and the Border Counties. Ludlow was now in effect the capital of Wales. *****In 1501 Prince Arthur, (son of Henry VII and brother to Henry VIII) with his bride Catherine of Aragon, lived here for a short time before his early death. Mary Tudor, daughter of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, and then heir to the throne of England as the couple's only issue, spent three winters at Ludlow between 1525 and 1528 along with her entourage of servants, advisors, and guardians.

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