Biography of Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin -1365

Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin was born to Oliver Ightham and Elizabeth Zouche.

In or before 1326 Roger Strange 4th Baron Strange Knockin (age 24) and Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin were married. She by marriage Baroness Strange Knockin.

Around 1326 [her son] Roger Strange 5th Baron Strange Knockin was born to [her husband] Roger Strange 4th Baron Strange Knockin (age 24) and Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin at Knockyn, Shropshire.

Before 1339 [her son] Roger Strange 5th Baron Strange Knockin (age 12) and [her daughter-in-law] Aline Fitzalan Baroness Strange Knockin were married. She the daughter of Edmund Fitzalan 2nd or 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice Warenne Countess Arundel. They were fourth cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King John of England.

On , probably, 29th January 1344 [her father] Oliver Ightham died at Ingham, Norfolk. He was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Ightham where his tomb is extant. Its inscription reads "Mounsier Oliver de Ingham gist icy et Dame Elizabeth sa compagne que luy Dieux de les almes eit mercy [Sir Oliver Ingham lies here and Dame Elizabeth his wife; may God have mercy on their souls].

On 29th July 1349 [her husband] Roger Strange 4th Baron Strange Knockin (age 47) died at Sedgebrook [Map]. His son [her son] Roger (age 23) succeeded 5th Baron Strange Knockin. [her daughter-in-law] Aline Fitzalan Baroness Strange Knockin by marriage Baroness Strange Knockin.

On 11th October 1350 [her mother] Elizabeth Zouche died.

On 30th November 1350 Miles Stapleton (age 30) and Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin were married.

On 4th December 1364 [her husband] Miles Stapleton (age 44) died.

In or before 1365 Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin died.

Effigy of Sir Miles Stapleton and his Lady. [her former husband] Miles Stapleton and Joan Ightham Baroness Strange Knockin

Effigy of Sir Miles Stapleton and his Lady. ONE of those engraved plates familiarly termed brasses. It is on the floor of the chancel of Ingham church, Norfolk, and commemorates [her former husband] Sir Miles Stapleton, Knight of the Garter, and his wife, Joan, daughter of [her father] Sir Oliver Ingham, and widow of [her former husband] Lord Strange, of Knockyn. He died on Wednesday before the feast of St. Nicholas, 38 Edward III. (December 4,1364.) The lady, perhaps from courtesy as a coheiress, is placed on the knight's right hand. An elegant crocketed gothic canopy and pinnacles surmount the figures. These have suffered some mutilation. Into the verge of the stone has been inserted a fillet of brass, with this inscription:

Priez pour les almes de Monseur Miles de Stapleton, et Dame Johanne, sa femme, fille de Monseur Oliver de Ingham, fondours de ceste maison; qe dieu de jour almes eit pitie.

[Pray for the alms of Sir Miles of Stapleton, and Dame Johanne, his wife, daughter of Sir Oliver of Ingham, founders of this house; may god of day almes have mercy]

That portion printed in the black letter alone now remains, the rest is supplied from Bloomfield.