Countess Joan Arundel Bohun HEREFORD

   Other names for Joan were HEREFORD Countess and BOHUN Countess.

   General Notes:

Countess of BOHUN, Countess of HEREFORD.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Joan, Daughter of Richard Earl of Arundel and Eleanor Lancaster, Mar Humphrey De Bohun Earl of Hereford & Essex, Died 1419."

The Oxford History of EnglandThe Fifteenth Century 1399-1485, E F Jacob, Oxford Univ Press p25:
"...Huntingdon, captured near Shoeburyness in Essex was taken to the countess of Hereford's castle of Pleshy and by her order delivered over [15 January 1400] to the revengeful men of Essex. The countess was sister to the late earl of Arundel; her daughter had been the wife of the late duke of Gloucester, and it was hardly to be expected that she would feel merciful towards Richard's supporters..."
p63: "...The queen's [Joan of Britanny] grant was very considerable, in- cluding all the Bardolf and Mowbray possessions which had not been granted away to the king's [Henry IV of Derby] sons and his half brothers, Henry and Thomas Beaufort, to the countess of Hereford (his mother-in-law)..."

   Marriage Information:

Joan married Earl Humphrey De Bohun HEREFORD, IX, son of Earl Humphrey De Bohun HEREFORD, VIII and Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet ENGLAND. (Earl Humphrey De Bohun HEREFORD, IX was born about 1309 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England and died on 15 Oct 1361-1373.)