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From: "Leo van de Pas" <>
Subject: Fw: Royal Death From Plague - Joan of England
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:29:35 +0800


Joan of England
born February 1335 Woodstock
died 2 September 1348 Bordeaux

The third child and second daughter of Edward III, King of England, she was
born at Woodstock about February 1335. When only thirteen she was sent to
Spain to marry Pedro, son and heir of King Alphonso of Castile. There was to
be a spectacular ceremony of welcome in the frontier city of Bayonne when
she arrived in a triumphal procession. However, on 2 September 1348, tragedy
struck; she was suddenly taken ill at Bordeaux and died within hours, an
early victim of the plague that was to bring death to thousands in Europe.
She was buried in the cathedral of Bayonne.

Leo van de Pas

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