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unusual facts about Joan Welles, 9th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby



Joan Welles, 9th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

Shortly before 1 June 1470, she married Sir Richard Hastings, a committed supporter of the House of York.

Joan Welles married, shortly before 1 June 1470, Sir Richard Hastings (d.1503), by whom she had a son, Anthony Hastings.

Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles

Joan Welles, 9th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, who married Sir Richard Hastings, the second son of Leonard Hastings and Alice Camoys, daughter of Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys, by his first wife, Elizabeth Louches, the daughter and heiress of William Louches.

Both were attainted, and since Sir Robert had died without issue, the King bestowed the Welles and Willoughby lands on one of his loyal supporters, Sir Richard Hastings, who had married Lord Welles's daughter, Joan.


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