Joan Walkefare
- Marriage: Sir Thomas de Felton Knight of the Garter 1223
- Died: After 1384, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England 1223
 Information about this person:
• Background Information. 1223
Sir Richard Walkefare, allowed his younger brother Thomas, kt. by 1350, to succeed to the Isleham manor by 1363. Sir Thomas Walkefare, who served the Black Prince in Aquitaine, [Chandos Herald, Life of Black Prince, ed. M.K. Pope, pp. 132, 256; cf. Black Prince's Reg. pt. iv, 308] was hanged by the French in 1370. [Hist. Gén. de Languedoc, ed. C. Devic & J. Vaissete etc., ix (2), 821.] Sir Richard had died earlier that year. His daughter and heir Eleanor and her husband, Sir John le Strange of Hunstanton (Norf.), released the Walkefares' Norfolk lands in 1384 to Joan, widow of Sir Thomas Felton K.G. (d. 1381), with whom Joan may have occupied them since 1370.
~A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Volume X, pp. 427-437
Joan married Sir Thomas de Felton Knight of the Garter, son of Sir John de Felton Knight, Lord Felton and Sibyl.1223 (Sir Thomas de Felton Knight of the Garter was born about 1315 in Litcham, Mitford, Norfolk, England and died before 25 Aug 1381 in Litcham, Mitford, Norfolk, England 904.)
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