A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameJoan Goushill
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Birth1402, Nottinghamshire, England11,11
Death1460, Lancashire, England11 Age: 58
BurialBurscough Priory, Burscough, West Lancashire District, Lancashire, England2280
Spouses
Birth1400, Lancashire, England11
Death20 Feb 1459, Lancashire, England11 Age: 59
BurialBurscough Priory, Burscough, West Lancashire District, Lancashire, England2279
Notes for Joan Goushill
Joan Goushill, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Goushill and Elizabeth FitzAlan married Thomas Stanley, son of Sir John Stanley and Elizabeth Harington, daughter of Robert de Harington and Isabel Loring. They had six children, three sons, Thomas, William, and John and three daughters. He died in February 1459 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Thomas, who was created Earl of Derby in 1485; his senior line died out in 1736. His second son William Stanley was executed for treason by King Henry VII in 1495.
Sir Thomas Stanley and Joan Goushill had six children:
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby ,who married first Eleanor de Neville, and second Margaret Beaufort.
Sir William Stanley, invested as Knight of the Garter in 1487. He was beheaded for his alleged part in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy in 1495.
Sir John Stanley, ancestor of the Barons Stanley of Alderley
Elizabeth Stanley, who married Thomas le Stange, and Sir Richard Molyneux.
Margaret Stanley, who married Sir William Troutbeck, who was killed in the Battle of Blore Heath on September 23, 1459, and married John le Boteler (Butler) as her second husband, and Henry Grey as her third husband.
Katherine Stanley married Sir John Savage of Clifton, England. Sir John Savage was the commander of the left wing of Henry Tudor's army at Bosworth.11