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Historical person
1191–1237
Joan, Lady of Wales, was the illegitimate daughter of King John of England and wife of Llywelyn the Great. Her marriage helped connect English and Welsh politics during a period of negotiation, war and shifting alliances.
In Sharon Kay Penman’s Here Be Dragons, Wales and England, late twelfth to early thirteenth century.
Series
The trilogy follows native Welsh rulers and their families across the thirteenth century, from Llywelyn the Great and Joanna through Simon de Montfort’s baronial reform movement to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s final struggle against Edward I. It treats Welsh politics, marriage, kinship and resistance alongside English royal expansion.
All books in this series
