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Joan Besford

Also Known As: "Johanna"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Besford, Worcestershire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: December 1430 (50-60)
Quinton Parish, Quinton, Goucestershire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Alexander Besford, Kt. and Beatrix de de Thornton
Wife of Sir William Clopton
Mother of Agnes Harewell; Jane (Johanna) de Clopton and Thomas Clopton
Sister of Alexander Besford; Margaret de la Hay; Lady Agnes Besford Throckmorton; Elizabeth De Besford and John De Besford

Occupation: nun
Religion: Roman Catholic. After WIlliam died and her children were raised, Joan became a Nun.
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About Joan Besford

198. Joan, late wife of William Clopton, knt., appoints an attorney to deliver seisin to John Throckmorton, Esq., of her lands in Hull and More next Pershore. Dated at Hull 6 April 6 Henry VI [1428]. She also granted to Throckmorton Meade in Hull and More, which she had of the…”
"Selby, W. D. (1994) The Genealogist. New York: The Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. Snippet Available at: Google Books.

Two sources contain different articles by the same author. Extracted pages are in Sources.
Steele, F. M. (1903) “Later Anchoresses of England,” in Anchoresses of the West. London: Sands & Co., pp. 101–102. Available at: GoogleBooks.
Steele, F. M. (1904) “An English Anchoress,” in The Catholic World: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science, October 1903 to March 1904. New York: The Paulist Fathers, p. 331-337. Available at: GoogleBooks.

Throckmorton, C. W. (1930). Besford Excursus. In A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton Family In England and the United States, with Brief Notes on Some of the Allied Families (pp. 42–43). Old Dominion Press. Archive.org.

"Quinton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire. Quinton was transferred from Gloucestershire to Warwickshire in 1935. It is generally now referred to as Lower Quinton." Quinton Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Joan Besford's Timeline

1375
1375
Besford, Worcestershire, England (United Kingdom)
1403
1403
Clopton, Gloucestershire, England
1405
1405
Clopton, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
1405
Clopton, Gloucestershire, England
1430
December 1430
Age 55
Quinton Parish, Quinton, Goucestershire, England
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