Joan (Goushill) Stanley (abt. 1401 - bef. 1466)

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Biography

Joan was the daughter of Robert Goushill^[1][2] and Elizabeth FitzAlan.^[3] She was born in about 1401 - she was said to be 2 at her father's death in 1403.^[4][5][6][7] She may have been born at Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire where her father had property.

In 1406-7 a claim was made on behalf of Joan and her sisters Joyce and Elizabeth as heirs to their father's lands.^[8]

Joan married Thomas Stanley.^[1][3][6][7] Their marriage place is not known. They may have married in about 1422.^[9] They had the following children:

• Thomas, born in about 1435 (he was said to be 24 at his father's death in 1459), who became 1st Earl of Derby^{[1][2][3][6][7]}
• William^[2][6][7]
• John^[2][6][7]
• James, who became Archdeacon of Chester, Cheshire^[2][6][7]
• Elizabeth, who married Robert Molyneux:^[2][10][11] she is called Anne by Douglas Richardson^[6][7]
• Katherine, who married John Savage^[2][6][7]
• Margaret, who married William Troutbeck, John Boteler and Henry Grey^[2][6][7]

Joan's husband died on 11 February 1458/9.^[6][7][9] She survived him, dying a little before 27 April 1466. She was buried with her husband at Burscough Priory, Lancashire.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. IV, St Catherine Press, 1916, p. 205, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Collins's Peerage of England... greatly augmented and continued to the present day by Sir Egerton Brydges, 1812, pp. 55-56, Internet Archive
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. XII Part I, St Catherine Press, 1953, pp. 250-251, Familysearch
4. ↑ Inquisition Post Mortem for Robert Goushill, in W Paley Basildon and J W Clay (eds), Yorkshire Inquisitions, Vol. V, Yorkshire Archeological Society, 1918, p. 33, Internet Archive
5. ↑ Inquisitions Post Mortem for Robert Goushill, Mapping the Medieval Countryside (University of Winchester/King's College, London), web, accessed 20 February 2023
6. ↑ ^{6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 90-91, STANLEY 10, Google Books
7. ↑ ^{7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. V, pp. 27-28, STANLEY 14
8. ↑ G A Wrottesely. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls, 1905, p. 205, Internet Archive
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Michael J. Bennett for 'Stanley, Thomas, first Baron Stanley', print and online 2004, revised online 2008
10. ↑ F R Raines (ed.). The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1664-5 by Sir William Dugdale, Chetham Society, 1872. p. 205, Internet Archive
11. ↑ 'Townships: Sefton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 66-74, British History Online, accessed 20 February 2023

• See also:

• Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 8th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, pp. 31 (line 20/33), 32 (line 23/33)and 68 (line 57/36)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

• Joan was descended from Edward III and had at least 9 lines of descent from Magna Carta Sureties, all through her mother: Roger and Hugh le Bigod, Henry de Bohun, Richard and Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy (2 lines) and Robert de Vere.

• This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 20 February 2023.

• Joan (Goushill) Stanley appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestors Elizabeth Coytemore and Thomas Coytemore to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. I, pages 559-562 COYTEMORE) that was badged in 2015 by a Magna Carta Project member. Other trails were identified and badged in 2015 between the Coytemore Gateways and several other surety barons, including: Roger le Bigod, Hugh le Bigod, Saher de Quincy, Robert de Vere, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare and John de Lacy. A trail to Henry de Bohun was identified and badged later, in 2019. All of these trails are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of Rowland Coytemore's profile.

• Joan (Goushill) Stanley appears in badged trails from the Manwaring Gateway Ancestors, Oliver Manwaring and Mary (Mainwaring) Gill, to Magna Carta Surety Barons John de Lacy, Saher de Quincy, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Henry de Bohun, Roger le Bigod, Hugh le Bigod, and Robert de Vere. The trails were re-reviewed in February 2024; they are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

• See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".