Joan Brent

Hugh Malet & Joan Roynon had two daughters:

• 3. Margaret, married John Crewkerne.
• 4. Joan, married Robert Brent of Cossington.

Their names have become confused in later records.

• 'Ancestral records and portraits: a compilation from the archives ..., Volume 2 By Colonial Dames of America. Chapter I, Baltimore, Grafton Press
• http://books.google.com/books?id=Pox2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq...
• Pg. 524
• Their son, Sir John Brent of Cossington, married, first Ida, the daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, of Lilisdon, Knt., by whom he had Sir Robert, who succeeded him in the estates of Cossington; and, second Joan, the daughter of Sir Robert Latimer, Knt.
• A son of the second marriage, Sir John, succeeded to the estate of Cossington (upon the death and exinction of the line of his half-brother, Sir Robert Brent).10
• ' His son, Sir Robert, married Margaret, the daughter of Hugh Malet, of Currypool.'
• Their younger son, Robert married Margery, the daughter of George Colchester, Lord of Stoke and Admington, and died 1531. This Robert Brent founded the Brent family of Stoke and Admington, whose place of burial was in the church at Ilmington, in Warwickshire, where a memorial tablet in brass gives an account of their marriages and deaths.
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• The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Volume 13 By William Glover Stanard, Virginia Historical Society
• http://books.google.com/books?id=tgU1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq...
• Pg. 105
• John Brent, of Cossington, son of John, I Henry V (1413), was twice married; his first wife was Ida, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, of Lillisdon, knt., by whom he had issue Sir Robert Brent, his successor in the estate of Cossington, and Joan, first married to Thomas Horsey, of Horsey, Esq., and afterwards to Thomas Tretheke, of Tretheke, in the county of Cornwall, Esq. To his second wife he married Joan, the daughter of Sir Robert Latimer, knt., by whom he had a son called John.
• Sir Robert Brent, his son by his former wife, and heir to this estate, married Jane, daughter of John Harewell, of Wotton, in the county of Warwick, who survived him and had this manor for her
• Pg. 106
• dower, which was, after her death, together with the rest of the estate, entered upon by Joan, his sister and heir by the whole blood, to the exclusion of John, son of John Brent by the second marriage. But this Joan being in a state of insanity, the fines that were levied in her name were not sufficient to bar the heir male, who after several suits at law, and at length an arbitration by John Hody (afterward chief justice of the King's Bench) 10 Henry VI (1440), was adjudged the right heir, by virtue of two entails made in the time of Edw. II, and Ric. II (1307; 1377), and soon after this manor was again entailed to this John Brent and the heirs of their body forever.
• The eldest son of this John Brent was called 'Robert, and married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Malet, of Currypool, by whom he had another' John, who added to his estate the manors of Goodwin's Bower and West Bagborough, which he purchased of Thomas Godwyn, as also (from his wife Maud, the daughter and co-heir of Sir Walter Pouncefoot) the manor of Compton-Pouncefoot, and Pouncefoot Hill, all which descended to William Brent, their eldest son, under age.
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