Joan Clinton

From CLINTON, Sir Thomas (d.1415), of Amington, Warws. and Hunton, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993

Family and Education

yr. s. of John, 3rd Lord Clinton (d.1398), of Maxstoke, Warws. by his 2nd w. m. (1) bef. Feb. 1394, Alice; (2) bef. 1409, Joan (22 Nov. 1381-c. 1457), da. and coh. of Sir Ralph Meynell (d.1388), of Langley, Derbys. and Newton Regis, Warws. by his w. Joan, and wid. of John Staunton (d.1405) of Staunton Harold, Leics., s.p.m. ?1da. Kntd. by Jan. 1386.
Clinton left no male issue, and all his property in Kent passed to his nephew, Lord William. He may, however, have been the father of one of his second wifes daughters: Anne, later wife of Robert Francis of Foremark, Derbyshire. (Her other daughters - Margaret who later married Ralph, son of Sir Ralph Shirley*, and Elizabeth, wife of William Haselridge of Noseley - were the issue of her first husband, John Staunton.) Two of the wills of Clintons widow have survived, dated 1453 and 1457.7