Joan Corbet

“In terms of family strategy, it may even have been a deliberate policy to have kin in both camps. Even for staunchly Montfortian kin groups, the picture is not entirely black and white. Bishop Walter de Cantilupe, himself a significant figure in the rebel camp, was head of his family at the time due to a series of unfortunate deaths and minorities. Yet the Cantilupes seemed to have been somewhat divided during the war, with Sir Nicholas de Cantilupe of Greasley, brother of Bishop Thomas and nephew of Bishop Walter, being rather difficult to place on one side or another depending on the jury being asked about his rebellious actions. Similarly, while Peter Corbet was pardoned at his father’s insistence in 1266, there is little evidence to place him directly on the rebels’ side. After all, he had married Joan Mortimer, between whose family and Earl Simon de Montfort there was a bitter enmity, which culminated with Earl Simon allegedly falling in battle at the hand of Roger Mortimer, and chroniclers concurring that body parts were then ‘barbarously’ hacked from the earl’s corpse and sent to Lady Mortimer as gruesome trophies.[21] Nicholas, of course, seemed to have little choice in the matter of his own political leanings, given that the head of the Cantilupe family was the staunch Montfortian Bishop Walter of Worcester, a childhood friend of the rebel earl.[22].”

[21] John Sadler, The Second Barons’ War: Simon de Montfort and the Battles of Lewes and Evesham (Barnsley, 2008), 123.
[22] C. H. Lawrence, ‘Cantilupe, Walter de (c.1195-1266)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford Universtiy Press, 2004), online resource, http://www.oxfordnb.com/view/article/4571 .

Source
Melissa Julian-Jones, “Family Strategy or Personal Principles? The Corbets in the Reign of Henry III,” in Thirteenth Century England Authority and Resistance in the Age of Magna Carta: Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2013, ed. Janet Burton, Phillipp Schofield, and Björn Weiler, vol. XV (Boydell Press, 2015), p. 73.

Family

From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg737...

Joan married

1. Peter I CORBET Baron of Caus on 1260 in Caus, Shropshire, England. He was the son of Thomas Corbet and Isabel Valletourt; his first wife. He married Alice (de Orreby?) after 1295.

They had the following children:

• M i Thomas CORBET 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 1262 in Caus, Shropshire, England. He died 1285 in Caus, Shropshire, England.
• M ii Peter II CORBET Baron of Caus was born 1264 and died May 1322.
• M iii Reginald CORBET 1, 2 was born 1266 in Caus, Shropshire, England.
• M iv Edmund CORBET 1, 2 was born 1269 in Caus, Shropshire, England.

A daughter Sibyl (Sibella) who married William de Baskerville is also seen.

FMG (below) only has the children Thomas and Peter.

Supporting Data

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL2.htm#...

Ralph [II] Mortimer & his wife had five children

d JOAN The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified m (1253 or before) as his first wife, PIERS [I] Corbet, son of THOMAS Corbet of Caus, Shropshire & his wife Isabel de Dunstanville de Vautort (-1300 before 10 Aug) He was summoned to Parliament in 1295 whereby he is held to have become Lord Corbet

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#PiersC...

Piers Corbet & his 1st wife had two children

i) THOMAS [II] Corbet (-before 11 Nov 1295 Iquisitions following a writ dated "10 Aug 28 Edw I", after the death of "Peter Corbet of Caus", name ÂœPeter his son, aged 30 and more (is his next heir) name Peter his son and heir and Beatrice his wife and also record that the deceased Had a firstborn son named Thomas, who by his father will espoused Joan daughter of Alan Plukenet and died without heir himself and gave dower to her at the feast of St. Martin 23 Edw I after her husband died[2823 m JOAN Plugenet, daughter of ALAN Plugenet & his wife - Inquisitions following a writ dated "10 Aug 28 Edw I", after the death of "Peter Corbet of Caus", name peter his son, aged 30 and more (is his next heir) name Peter his son and heir and Beatrice his wife and also record that the deceased had a firstborn son named Thomas, who by his fathers will espoused Joan daughter of Alan Plukenet and died without heir himself and gave dower to her at the feast of St. Martin 23 Edw I after her husband died[2824]

ii PIERS [II] Corbet ([1269/70]-before 29 Jan 1323 A writ after the death of "Beatrice late the wife of Peter Corbet of Caus", dated "30 Aug 21 Edw III", names "Thomas Corbet from whom issued Peter, Alice the elder daughter and Emma the younger", that "Peter" inherited, and after his death "Peter his son" who married "the aforesaid Beatrice" who devised the manor of Bynweston to "one John Corbet"[2825] Inquisitions following a writ dated "10 Aug 28 Edw I", after the death of "Peter Corbet of Caus", name Peter his son, aged 30 and more (is his next heir) 2826 m (3 May 1298) as her first husband, BEATRICE de Beauchamp, daughter of JOHN de Beauchamp of Hatch, Somerset & his wife Cecily de Vivonne (-before Oct 1347) She married secondly John de Leyburn Lord Leyburn writ after the death of "Beatrice late the wife of Peter Corbet of Caus", dated "30 Aug 21 Edw III", names "Thomas Corbet from whom issued Peter, Alice the elder daughter and Emma the younger", that "Peter" inherited, and after his death "Peter his son" who married "the aforesaid Beatrice" who devised the manor of Bynweston to "one John Corbet"[2827 Inquisitions following a writ dated "10 Aug 28 Edw I", after the death of "Peter Corbet of Caus", name Peter his son, aged 30 and more (is his next heir and name Peter his son and heir and Beatrice his wife 2828]

1. Joan de Mortimer (desc. of King John), married as his first wife, about 1253, Peter Corbet, I Baron Corbet of Caus, who died before 13 Aug. 1300. He married, secondly, about 1295, Alice de Orreby.
2. Sibylla Corbet, married 1298 Sir William de Baskerville, Lord of Coombe, who died 1318.

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Plantagenet Ancentry

Mortimers in: Richardson, D. and Everingham, K. ed., 2011. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families.

     2nd ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Douglas Richardson, pp.149-150, 562.

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