Joan Dauntsey

See Peter Bartrum, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000173426968959 Stradling 1 (May 4, 2024; Anne Brannen, curator)

Joan was married off very young to an old man Russell and gave him a son who did not live to be an old man but left a wife whose children also died young. Hence Joan inherited.

Joan Dauntsey married again, almost immediately after Russell's death, to Sir John Stradling (d.1435) the second son of the lord of St Donat's Castle in Glamorgan. The marriage was possibly arranged by Russell's son-in-law Sir Gilbert Denys (d.1422) who was from Glamorgan and was related to the Stradlings. Stradling thus obtained a life interest in Joan's dower, consisting of one third of the Russell manors. The marriage was conducted with such haste that the obtaining of the necessary royal licence for a widow of a tenant-in-chief to re-marry had been overlooked. The couple were fined heavily in 1417 for their transgression, as the following entry in the Patent Rolls dated 8 July 1418 reveals: "Pardon, for 40 marks paid in the hanaper, to John Stradlyng, chivaler, and Joan late the wife of Maurice Russell, chivaler, tenant in chief, of their trespass in intermarrying without licence."

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