Joan de Beauchamp, Countess of Ormond

Joan de Beauchamp
Countess of Ormond
Spouse(s)	James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond
Issue James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Shrewsbury Anne Butler
Noble family	Beauchamp
Father	William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny
Mother	Lady Joan FitzAlan
Born	1396
Died	3 or 5 August 1430 (aged 33–34)
Buried	Mercers' Chapel, St Thomas of Acre, London

Joan Beauchamp, Countess of Ormond (1396 – 3 or 5 August 1430) was the first wife of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, and the mother of his five children. Their principal residence was Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.

Life

Kilkenny Castle, the principal residence of Joan de Beauchamp and James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond

Joan de Beauchamp was the daughter of William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny and his first wife, Lady Joan FitzAlan. She had a brother and sister:^[1]

• Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c.1397 - 18 March 1422), who married Lady Isabel le Despenser (27 July 1400 - 26 or 27 December 1439), by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny.^[2]
• Elizabeth de Beauchamp.^[1]

Joan's paternal grandparents were Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick and Lady Katherine Mortimer, and her maternal grandparents were Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Elizabeth de Bohun.

Joan de Beauchamp died 3 or 5 August 1430, and was buried in the Mercers' Chapel, St Thomas of Acre, London.^[3]

Marriage and issue

She married, before 28 August 1413, James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, by whom she had three sons and two daughters:^[3]

• James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, who died without legitimate issue.
• John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, who died without legitimate issue.
• Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, whose daughter Margaret was a grandmother of Anne Boleyn.
• Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and had issue.
• Anne Butler, who died unmarried.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Joan de Beauchamp, Countess of Ormond

16. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick               8. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick                       17. Maud FitzJohn               4. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick                             18. Ralph VII de Toeni, Lord Toeni of Flamsted               9. Alice de Toeni                       19. Mary ??               2. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny                                   20. Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer               10. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March                       21. Margaret de Fiennes               5. Lady Katherine Mortimer                             22. Sir Piers de Genevelle               11. Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville                       23. Jeanne of Lusignan               1. Joan de Beauchamp, Countess of Ormond                                         24. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel               12. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel                       25. Alice de Warenne               6. Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel                             26. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster               13. Eleanor of Lancaster                       27. Maud Chaworth               3. Lady Joan FitzAlan                                   28. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford               14. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton                       29. Elizabeth of Rhuddlan               7. Lady Elizabeth de Bohun                             30. Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere               15. Elizabeth de Badlesmere                       31. Margaret de Clare

Notes

1. Richardson I 2011, p. 164.
2. Richardson I 2011, pp. 164-7.
3. Richardson I 2011, p. 380.

References

• Ellis, Steven G. (2004). "Butler, John, sixth earl of Ormond (d. 1476/7)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4195. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373.