Generation 7 · plantagenet · 39 of 60 · Marriage alliance — does not wear the writ

Joan Martin

Wife of Nicholas, 1st Baron Audley

Daughter · wife · mother of this house

Joan Martin, full figure, Royal / court, front

Silver circlet

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Chronicle of this board

The woman in the house the year the writ was written

Joan Martin was wife of Nicholas Audley when Edward II summoned him on 8 January 1313. The dignity is his. The blood of later generations has to come through a woman in this house.

Heirs general means that one day a daughter will be the barony. Joan stands at the beginning of that logic, whether or not she ever heard the phrase.

Wardrobe

Parliamentary household dress: ruby wool, gold lattice at the sleeve, linen veil, silver-gilt circlet, a diamond-clasped girdle. Not a peeress in her own right — not yet the age of suo jure Audley women — but the first baron's lady.

Weapons · animals · lands

The household. The nursery. The possibility of heirs general.

Palfrey; castle mews.

  • Heighley honour as consort