Joan Goushill
Events
Date of Birth: 1400 or 1401.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Her father’s inquisitions post mortem, taken in September and October 1403, state that she was aged 2 years and more. The Calendar of Patent Rolls (for example, 1 Hen. IV, part 5, Vol. 1, p. 207) makes it clear that her parents had not yet married 23 February 1400.
Living: 1460.
Earwaker (2:602) gives this fact.
Relationships
Father: Sir Robert Goushill (about 1370 - 21 July 1403).
Joan is mentioned in almost 20 inquisitions post mortem of her father, Robert Goushill, Knight, taken in 1403. A 1407 lawsuit (Wrottesley, p. 250, citing De Banco. Mich. 8. Hen. 4. m. 413.; links to original source below) names Joan’s father as Robert Gousehill, Knight.
Mother: Elizabeth Arundel (Elizabeth FitzAlan) (before 1375 - 8 July 1425).
Documents dealing with the descent of the property of Elizabeth Arundel, cited by the Victoria history of Sussex (7:1-7) and Sussex Archaeological Collections (56:70ff), make it clear her daughter married Thomas Stanley. Elizabeth is named as the widow of Robert Goushill and mother of Joan in almost 20 inquisitions post mortem of Robert Goushill, taken in 1403.
Spouse: Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley (2 August 1406 - 11 February 1458/49).
This marriage is given in the Complete Peerage (12/1:250-251) and many other secondary sources. Documents dealing with the descent of the property of Elizabeth Arundel, cited by the Victoria history of Sussex (7:1-7) and Sussex Archaeological Collections (56:70ff), make it clear that Thomas married her daughter. Bennett notes in his ODNB article on Thomas Stanley notes that the marriage could have taken place as early as 1422.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Elizabeth Stanley married Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sefton, before 1432; married secondly Thomas le Strange.
Katherine Stanley married Sir John Savage, of Clifton.
Margaret Stanley married (1) Sir William Troutbeck; married (2) Sir John Boteler in 1460; married (3) Henry Grey, Lord Grey of Codnor.
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435 - 29 July 1504) married (1) Eleanor Neville in 1451; married (2) Margaret Beaufort. (Margaret was the mother of the future Henry VII of England, by a previous husband.) Thomas’s support played a key role in the victory of his stepson, Henry VII, at the Battle of Bosworth. He is said to have physically placed the crown on Henry’s head following the battle.
Sir William Stanley, Knight (about 1435 - beheaded 10 February 1495) married (1) Joan Beaumont in 1460; married (2) Elizabeth Hopton after 1470. William was a prominent military commander during the Wars of the Roses. He was executed for treason, having supported Perkin Warbeck in his claim on the English throne.
John Stanley (d. before 1485) married Elizabeth Weever.
James Stanley (d. 1485 or 1486) Archdeacon of Chester in 1476. Some sources don’t list him as a child of this marriage.
References
Contemporary with Joan:
Institute of Historical Research. Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 18:9 no. 908. See also nos. 909 - 926.
"Joan and Elizabeth his daughters are aged 2 years and more and 1 year and more." [On October 4, 1403]
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Henry IV. 1 Henry IV Part V, Volume 1, page 207. Digital images are provided by Professor G.R. Boynton and the Univeristy of Iowa Libraries (http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/ ).
The original source cited by Wrottesley is available online at the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website sponsored by the University of Houston:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H4/CP40no583/aCP40no583fronts/IMG_0841.htm
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H4/CP40no583/aCP40no583fronts/IMG_0842.htm
Modern:
'The rape and honour of Lewes', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7: The rape of Lewes (1940), pp. 1-7. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56907 Date accessed: 16 March 2014.
Bennett, Michael J., “Thomas Stanley, 1st baron Stanley (1406 - 1456)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Bridgeman, Charles G. O., “The Devolution of the Sussex Manors Formerly Belonging to the Earls of Warenne and Surrey.” in Sussex Archaeological Collections relating to the Antiquities of the County, (56:54-91). In particular, page 77.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59), Volume 4 page 205.
Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester:compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882), Volume 3 page 577.
Payling, Simom. “Thomas Stanley II (1406-1459) of Lathom and Knowsley, Lancs., lord of the Isle of Man” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (1905).