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From: "William A. Reitwiesner" <>
Subject: Re: Joan, illigit dau of King John
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:09:40 EDT


(Martha Wallenhorst) posted to soc.genealogy.medieval:

>Joanna Fitz Roy, daughter of King John of England and wife of Llywellen
>fawr was the daughter of Christiana D'Arcy. After having found his
>daughter pregnant by someone he loathed D'Arcy rented a cottage on
>William de Farriers' land for her up keep. Chrisitana died when Joanna
>was 5. The D'Arcy didn't want the "spawn of the devil" (D'Arcy family
>diary 1250ad), so de Farriers sent the child to John in France. At the
>age of 15 she was married to Llywellen ap Iorweth. The de Broase family
>was very well know to Joanna as both of her children married de Broase
>and her brother Richard fitz Roy was the son of a deBroase.
>
>Any other questions just e-mail me, I don't get to this site often.

I thought I'd seen all the stories about the mother of Joan, but this is a
new one on me. Do you have a more precise citation for this than "D'Arcy
family diary 1250ad"?

William Addams Reitwiesner

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