Joan Blennerhassett

JOAN BLENERHAYSETT (nee de Lowdham) b.c1409/10 d.20-Jun-1501

(b.c1409/10 is derived from her being aged 14 years at her father's i.p.m. 1423/4) she died 20-Jun-1501 aged c91/92 years - [BLOMEFIELD 2nd ed. v.1 p.141] in error has her aged 97 years

Joan de Lowdham descended from John de Lowdham (b. est. c1225), Lord of the Manor of Frenze and Patron of Frenze Church, who held the Manor in 1280. This John de Lowdham probably died in 1297 when his son William de Lowdham gained Frenze.

In 1423 Joan de Lowdham married Ralph Blenerhaysett of Carlisle and Great Orton, Cumberland, who had moved to London She then a 14 year old heiress, already a widow, having married 1stly est. c1422 (aged est. c13 years) to Thomas de Heveningham (d.c1422/3).

The following inscription was formerly on the tomb of Joan Blenerhaysett, nee de Lowdham (d.20-Jun-1501) in the church of St Andrew, Frenze.

[BLOMEFIELD 2nd ed. v.1 1805, p.142] found this brass already missing from the church when making his survey for his 1st ed. in c1745 but he reports the inscription as previously recorded by Anstis [ANSTIS Ms. G.6. f.39]:

Here lyeth Mrs. Joane Bleverhasset, the Wife of Ralph Bleverhasset, Esq. the Daughter and Heir of John Lowdham, who died the 20th Day of June 1501.

Source: blennerhassettfamilytree.com