Fitzalan, Joan (fl. 1325)

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Fitzalan, Joan (fl. 1325)

Countess of Hereford and Essex. Name variations: sometimes referred to as Alice; Joan Bohun. Flourished around 1325; daughter of Edmund Fitzalan, 7th earl of Arundel, and Alice (de Warrenne) Fitzalan (d. around 1338); sister of Richard Fitzalan (c. 1313–1376), 8th earl of Arundel; aunt of Joan Fitzalan (d. 1419); married John Bohun, 5th earl of Hereford, 4th of Essex, in 1325.

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