Joan de Courtenay

Role: Richard II's half-sister · First appears: Richard II 8

Life events

• 1381 · Waleran, Earl of Saint-Pol married Joan de Courtenay in a lavish ceremony.(Richard II 8 · 📍 Windsore)
  • With: Waleran, Count of Saint-Pol
  • “In the octaues of Easter, the lord Valeran earle of saint Paule married the kings halfe sister, the ladie Ione de Courtnie: the solemnization of this marriage was holden at Windsore, with great triumphing.”
• 1381 · Richard II released Waleran from ransom and granted Biefléet to Joan as her marriage endowment.(Richard II 8 · 📍 Biefléet)
  • With: Richard II Waleran, Count of Saint-Pol
  • “the king was contented that they should match togither, and set him free of his ransome which he should haue paid, for that he had béene taken prisoner in the marches of Calis, and further, gaue with his sister by waie of endowment, the towneship and manour of Biefléet.”

Richard II 8

• married with Waleran, Count of Saint-Pol “the lord Valeran earle of saint Paule married the kings halfe sister, the ladie Ione de Courtnie”
• siblings with Richard II “the lord Valeran earle of saint Paule married the kings halfe sister, the ladie Ione de Courtnie”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.