Joan Fossard

Heiress of Mulgrave.

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Willliam Fossard left a daughter - JOAN a minor in the custody of the King who gave her in marriage to ROBERT DE TURNHAM.

Joan was perhaps dead in 1200 - 1212 when Robert de Turnham held 31 & a half Knight's fees in chief in Yorkshire.

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The Grandimontine Priory of Grosmont had it's origin in a gift to the Priory of Grammont in Flanders made by JOAN, daughter of WILLIAM Fossard and wife of Robert de Turnham.

Joan granted to the Priory (and this was later confirmed by her husband in the name of King John), a dwelling house in the forest of Egton, between Egton & Cocket (in Eskdale) 200 acres of lands, with the woods round their house, the will of Egton, the sole right of free fishery in the streams & freedom from all dues, except the grinding of the corn of the Lord's household when he was in the village.

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The Lords of Castle Montferrant were in times past the Fossards, men of noble parentage and welthy withall. But when William Fossard ward to the King, being committed unto William le Grosse Earle of Aumarle as to his guardian, and now come to his yeeres, abused his sister, the Earle in wreckfull displeasure for this fact of his laid this Castle even with the ground and forced the young Gentleman to forsake his country. Howbeit, after the Earles death he recovered his inheritance againe, and left one onely daughter behind him, who, being married unto Richard de Tornham, bare a daughter maried to Peter de Mauly, whose heires and successours, being bettered in their estate by this inheritance of the Fossards, became great and honorable Barons.

Made a ward of King Richard I at the death of her father.