I need to make a correction. The plague hit England in September 1348 and the Garter ceremony was the following April. A special note: The royal family lost two members during the first wave of the pestilence: their 14 YO daughter Joan on her way to be married in Castile and their months-old infant son, William. Sadly, this was their second son named William who died in infancy. They lost another two daughters during the second wave which raged 1360-61. Both died in October of 1361: Mary (17) married only the summer before to childhood companion and Duke of Brittany, John de Montfort, and Margaret (15) married in 1359 to Laurence Hastings, Earl of Pembroke,
I need to make a correction. The plague hit England in September 1348 and the Garter ceremony was the following April. A special note: The royal family lost two members during the first wave of the pestilence: their 14 YO daughter Joan on her way to be married in Castile and their months-old infant son, William. Sadly, this was their second son named William who died in infancy. They lost another two daughters during the second wave which raged 1360-61. Both died in October of 1361: Mary (17) married only the summer before to childhood companion and Duke of Brittany, John de Montfort, and Margaret (15) married in 1359 to Laurence Hastings, Earl of Pembroke,
good one. Very interesting.