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      • The Black Death, quick and ruthless as an assassin, swept through the princess’s party and killed all but her lawyer, who lived to tell the tale. Though Joan herself was hurried off to Loremo, a small, nearby village with cleaner air and a smaller population, she caught the disease and succumbed to it on July 1, 1348. She was 14 years old.
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  1. Joan of England (19 December 1333 or 28 January 1334 – 2 September 1348) was a daughter of Edward III and his wife, Philippa of Hainault. She died in the Black Death that struck Europe in 1348. [1] [2]

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  3. Joan died on the 2nd of September 1348. She was only 14 years old and left her family saddened and the country shocked at her passing.

  4. Sep 3, 2021 · Her early demise in 1348, brought on by the same Black Plague which would carry away 30-40% of her kingdom’s population, shattered the illusion of the royal family’s immunity to the sufferings of ordinary people.

  5. The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the second pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. The term Black Death was not used until the late 17th century.

  6. Jan 20, 2018 · In October, a grieving Edward III paid for Joan’s body to be recovered, but there is no record of it being returned to England. Instead, there are differing accounts of her burial in Bayonne and of her actually dying in Bordeaux, with the mayor setting fire to the Plantagenet castle where Joan’s body lay.

  7. Oct 20, 2013 · http://qed.princeton.edu/main/Image:Spread_of_the_Black_Death. Joan Plantagenet. Joan was one of the first victims of the plague. As she traveled to Castile to marry Pedro, the king of Castile's son and heir, she caught the plague in Bordeaux and died in a little village called Loremo. When Edward heard, he wrote to the king of Castile:

  8. Jul 13, 2020 · Member-only story. Joan, daughter of Edward III of England — One of the First English Victims of the Black Death. She was to wed Pedro I of Castille, future king of Castille and León, but a...

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