Joan (Plantagenet) Queen of Scots (1321 - bef. 1362)

Born 5 Jul 1321 in Tower of London, London, England

Ancestors

Wife of David (Bruce) King of Scots — married 17 Jul 1328 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Scotland

Died before 7 Sep 1362 before age 41 in Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England

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Biography

Joanna (or Joan) Plantagenet was born on 5 July 1321 at Tower of London, earning her the appellation of "Joan of the Tower". She was the daughter of King Edward II and Isabelle de France. In accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Northampton, at seven years of age she was married on 17 July 1328 to the then 4 year old David Bruce of Scotland at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. As a result of her marriage, Joanna was styled as "Queen Consort Joanna of Scotland" on 24 November 1331. Following the English victory at the Battle of Halidon Hill in July of 1333 she and King David fled to France, returning in 1341. David II was taken prisoner at the Battle of Neville's Cross on 17 October 1346, and remained imprisoned in England for eleven years. Joan was allowed to visit him in the Tower of London a few times by her brother, Edward III but his imprisonment meant that, for Joan and David, no children were born during this time. After he was released in 1357, she decided to remain in England. She died on 7 September 1362 at age 41 at Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. She was buried at Grey Friars Church, Greenwich, London, England.

Sources

• Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I pp. 78-80

• Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999)

• Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904)

• Joan Plantagenet on Wikipedia