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Joan Stonor (de la Pole)

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Birthplace: Harpsden Manor, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: 1493 (58-67)
England (United Kingdom)
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Daughter of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Malyne de Cay
Wife of Sir Thomas Stonor, II, Kt.
Mother of Sir Thomas Stonor, Kt.; Sir William Stonor, Kt.; Mary Barentyne; Edmund De La Pole, Earl; Dorothy De La Pole and 6 others
Half sister of Anne de Durfort and John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk

Occupation: illegitimate
Managed by: Anton Stonor
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About Joan Stonor

William de la Pole's only known legitimate son, John, became the 2nd Duke of Suffolk in 1463.

De la Pole also fathered an illegitimate daughter named Jane de la Pole, with a nun, Malyne de Cay. "The nighte before that he was yolden [yielded himself up in surrender to the Franco-Scottish forces of Joan of Arc on 12 June 1429] he laye in bed with a Nonne whom he toke oute of holy profession and defouled, whose name was Malyne de Cay, by whom he gate a daughter, now married to Stonard of Oxonfordshire".[5] Jane de la Pole (d. 28 February 1494) was married before 1450 to Thomas Stonor (1423–1474), of Stonor, Oxfordshire. Their son Sir William Stonor, KB, was married to Anne Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu and had two children: John Neville, married to Mary Fortesque, daughter of Sir John Fortesque of Punsburn, Hereford, but died without issue; and Anne Neville, married to Sir Adrian Fortesque, who distinguished himself at the Battle of the Spurs; he was beheaded in 1539. Thomas Stonor and Jane de la Pole's two other sons were Edward and Thomas. Thomas Stoner married Savilla Brecknock, daughter of Sir David Brecknock. His great-great-grandson Thomas Stoner (18 December 1626 – 2 September 1683) married in 1651 Elizabeth Nevill (b. 1641), daughter of Sir Henry Nevill, 9th Baron Bergavenny and his second wife Katherine Vaux, daughter of The Hon. George Vaux and sister of Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden. Thomas's son John Stoner (22 March 1654 – 19 November 1689) married on 8 July 1675 Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and wife Jane Conyers, daughter of Sir John Conyers.[6]

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