Joan de Geneville

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(Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville, Countess
 of March, Baroness Mortimer, 2 February 1286 – 19
 October 1356, also known as Jeanne de Joinville. 
 Daughter of Sir Piers de Geneville and Joan of Lusignan,
 she inherited the estates of her grandparents, Geoffrey
 de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville, and his wife Maud
 de Lacy. She was one of the wealthiest heiresses in
 the Welsh Marches and County Meath, Ireland and the
 wife of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, the de
 facto ruler of England from 1327 to 1330.

(Previously entry no. 8999)

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