Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun 1319-1404

Before 1314 [her father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 26] and [her mother] Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 13] were married.

Around 1319 Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun was born to Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 32] and Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 19] at Burwash.

On 25th January 1330 [her father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 43] was created 1st Baron Burghesh. [her mother] Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 30] by marriage Baroness Burghesh.

On 31st August 1330 John Mohun 1st Baron Dunster [aged 61] died. His grandson [her future husband] John [aged 10] succeeded 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster. Given his young age he became a ward of the King who sold his wardship and marriage to [her uncle] Bishop Henry Burghesh [aged 38] who then married him to his niece Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 11], daugher of his brother [her father] Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 43].

Before 10th May 1335 [her brother] Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 7] and [her sister-in-law] Cecily Weyland [aged 21] were married. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King John of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King John of England.

In or before 1347 [her brother-in-law] John Grey 2nd Baron Grey [aged 30] and [her sister] Maud Burghesh Baroness Grey Rotherfield [aged 31] were married. She by marriage Baroness Grey of Rotherfield. They were half fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John of England.

On 3rd August 1355 Bartholomew "The Elder" Burghesh 1st Baron Burghesh [aged 68] died at Dover, Kent [Map]. He was buried in the St Catherine Chantry at Lincoln Cathedral [Map] with his father and brother. His son Bartholomew [aged 27] succeeded 2nd Baron Burghesh.

In or before 1357 John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster [aged 36] and Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Baroness Mohun of Dunster. They were fifth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John of England.

Around 1357 [her daughter] Maud Mohun Baroness Strange Knockin was born to [her husband] John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster [aged 37] and Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 38]. She married in or before 1381 her fourth cousin John Strange 6th Baron Strange Knockin, son of Roger Strange 5th Baron Strange Knockin and Aline Fitzalan Baroness Strange Knockin, and had issue.

On 1st May 1360 [her mother] Elizabeth Verdun Baroness Burghesh [aged 60] died. She was buried at Croxden Abbey, Staffordshire [Map].

Around 1367 [her daughter] Philippa Mohun Duchess York was born to [her husband] John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster [aged 47] and Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 48] in Dunster, Somerset. She married 1. in or before 1368 her fourth cousin Walter Fitzwalter 4th Baron Fitzwalter, son of John Fitzwalter 3rd Baron Fitzwalter and Eleanor Percy Baroness Fitzwalter, and had issue 2. 25th November 1389 John Golafre 3. before 7th October 1398 Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle, son of Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York and Isabella of Castile Duchess York.

In or before 1368 [her son-in-law] Walter Fitzwalter 4th Baron Fitzwalter [aged 22] and [her daughter] Philippa Mohun Duchess York were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 5th April 1369 [her brother] Bartholomew "The Younger" Burghesh 2nd Baron Burghesh [aged 41] died. He was buried at Lady Chapel Walsingham Priory. His daughter [her niece] Elizabeth [aged 27] succeeded 3rd Baroness Burghesh.

On 15th September 1375 [her husband] John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster [aged 55] died. Since he had no male issue the title Baron Mohun of Dunster went into abeyance between his three daughters. Elizabeth Mohun Countess of Salisbury had one child who died in 1397. Philippa Mohun Duchess York [aged 8] didn't have issue. Maud Mohun Baroness Strange Knockin [aged 18] had one son Richard Strange 3rd Baron Dunster 7th Baron Strange Knockin who succeeded as 3rd Baron Mohun of Dunster on the death of his aunt Philippa Mohun Duchess York.

In 1376 Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 57] sold Dunster Castle [Map] and its associated estates including the manors of Minehead and Kilton, and the hundred of Carhampton for £5000 to Elizabeth Courtenay. She retained a life interest.

In or before 1381 1369 [her son-in-law] John Strange 6th Baron Strange Knockin [aged 29] and [her daughter] Maud Mohun Baroness Strange Knockin [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Baroness Strange Knockin. They were fourth cousins.

After 7th August 1385 [her son-in-law] William Montagu 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 57] and [her daughter] Elizabeth Mohun Countess of Salisbury were married. She by marriage Countess Salisbury. He the son of William Montagu 1st Earl Salisbury and Catherine Grandison Countess of Salisbury. They were half fifth cousin once removed.

On 23rd January 1387 [her sister] Maud Burghesh Baroness Grey Rotherfield [aged 72] died at Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map].

On 25th November 1389 [her son-in-law] John Golafre [aged 39] and [her daughter] Philippa Mohun Duchess York [aged 22] were married.

Before 7th October 1398 [her son-in-law] Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle [aged 25] and [her daughter] Philippa Mohun Duchess York [aged 31] were married. He the son of Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York [aged 57] and Isabella of Castile Duchess York.

On 20th September 1400 [her daughter] Maud Mohun Baroness Strange Knockin [aged 43] died.

On 3rd October 1404 Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun [aged 85] died at Guest House Canterbury Cathedral. She was buried at Canterbury, Kent [Map].

Effigy of Joam Burwaschs, Lady Mohun. JOAN BURWASCHs, or de Burghersh, was the daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh, and wife of John de Mohun, Lord of Dunster, in Somersetshire, who had during his nonage been in the wardship of her father. She founded a chantry in 1395, by indenture between herself and the Prior and Monks of Christchurch, Canterbury. In consideration of the payment of 350 marks, and the gift of certain appendages necessary for her chantry, and of the manor of Selgrave being amortized to them by royal licence, they covenanted that when she died her body should be laid in the tomb which she had already, at her own cost, erected in the Lady Chapel of the undercroft of Canterbury cathedral [Map], and that her remains should never be removed from the monument, which was to be honourably kept up. Hasted says, that the Dean and Chapter possess the manor, but that the tomb was in his day sadly neglected. The effigy of Lady Mohun lies on an altar-tomb under a gothic canopy, adorned with pinnacles and arches terminating in corbelled points. The inscription on the verge of the tomb is here copied from Dart:

"Pour Dieu priez por l'ame Johane Burwaschs, qe feut Dame de Mohun [For God pray for the soul Johane Burwaschs, who was Lady of Mohun]."

[her daughter] Elizabeth Mohun Countess of Salisbury was born to John Mohun 2nd Baron Mohun of Dunster and Joan Burghesh Baroness Mohun in Dunster, Somerset. She married after 7th August 1385 her half fifth cousin once removed William Montagu 2nd Earl Salisbury, son of William Montagu 1st Earl Salisbury and Catherine Grandison Countess of Salisbury, and had issue.