Joan (Plantagenet) of Scotland (1210 - 1238)

Born 22 Jul 1210 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander (Dunkeld) King of Scots — married about 19 Jun 1221 in York Minster, Yorkshire

Died 4 Mar 1238 at age 27 in Havering atte Bower, Essex, England

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Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (22 Jul 1210 – 4 Mar 1238)^[1]

Parents

Joan (Plantagenet) of Scotland is a member of the House of Plantagenet.

John of England and Isabella Angouleme

Marriage

m. Alexander II. No issue.

Death and burial of Queen Joan of Scotland

(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Joan was the sister of a king (Henry III) and wife of another (Alexander II of Scotland), dying at the royal manor house at Havering, Essex on 4 March 1238. Two days later Henry III commissioned to have a Purbeck tomb made for her at Salisbury, and instructed the sheriff of Wiltshire to have it transported to the nunnery church at Tarrant Crawford (Dorset) 'with all speed.' Tarrant was a Cistercian house established around 1230 on the site of a late twelfth-century foundation which was later endowed by Henry III, his wife Eleanor of Provence, and son, Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. Tarrant had no tradition of royal burial and presumably was chosen by Joan herself. In 1238 a commissioned seems to have been for her tomb-chest only. As late as December 1252 Henry III gave instructions to the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for an effigy 'of marble' , most likely Purbeck, to be placed on her tomb. The image must have been completed the following June, when Henry instructed the sheriff to feed 500 poor at Tarrant on the day of its installation.

Tarrant Nunnery was largely demolished following its surrender to the crown in 1539; traces survive to the south of Tarrant Keyneston, including the nunnery barn. The parish church of St. Mary in Tarrant Crawford contains two stone lids unearthed on the site of the nunnery in 1852, but neither were likely to have formed part of a regal monument. The fate of the tomb of Queen Joan of Scotland is unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia; alias: Joane. Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002); Ancestral File (TM) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SAINTS: June 1998

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV. page 590

• Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 69-70

Wikipedia: Joan of England, Queen of Scotland