Joanna (1333–1348)
Joanna (1333–1348)
English princess. Name variations: Joan Plantagenet. Born 1333 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England; died of the plague on journey to wed Alphonso XI (1311–1350), king of Castile (r. 1312–1350), Sept 2, 1348, in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France; buried in Bayonne Cathedral, Gascony, France; dau. of Philippa of Hainault (1314–1369) and Edward III (1312–1377), king of England (r. 1327–1377).
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