Joan of Kent: The First Princess of Wales

by Penny Lawne

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  List of Illustrations

  1. Joan’s grandfather, Edward I. A formidable king, he took great care to plan a generous financial provision for his youngest son, Joan’s father Edmund of Woodstock, but died before he could complete the endowment. (Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve, JRb18p2)

  2. Edward II was Joan’s half-uncle. He was deposed by his wife, Queen Isabella, and her lover, Roger Mortimer, in 1327. Three years later Joan’s father, Edmund, was tricked into believing Edward II was still alive, and executed for planning to rescue him from imprisonment in Corfe Castle. (David Satwell via Elizabeth Norton)

  3. Joan lived here with her parents for the first eighteen months of her life and she was probably born here. The stone castle was originally built by one of William the Conqueror’s relatives, Roger de Montgomery, in the eleventh century. It became the principal seat of the earls of Arundel. The second earl, Edmund Fitzalan, was executed by Roger Mortimer in 1326, and the castle was granted to Joan’s father, Edmund, in 1327. (Arundel Castle Trustees Ltd, www.arundelcastle.org)

  4. This entrance was built in 1295 by Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel. Edmund, Earl of Kent (Joan’s father), would have left the castle through this entrance on his last fateful journey to the parliament at Winchester in March 1330. (Peter Lawne, by kind permission of Arundel Trustees Ltd, www.arundelcastle.org)