

Joan of Acre, Countess of Gloucester (1272–1307) daughter of Edward I of England.Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210–1238).Joan, Lady of Wales (1188–1237), wife of Llywelyn the Great, the Prince of Wales, and daughter of John, King of England.Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165–1199).Women who were also called Joan of England:.1379 – 1440), daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, wife of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Robert Ferrers, 5th Baron Boteler of Wem Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland ( c.Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326–1360).Joan I, Countess of Burgundy (1191–1205).1412 – 1431), patron saint of France, saint and martyr in Anglicanism and Catholicism The following is a list of notable women known as Joan who lived in the Middle Ages (from around the 5th to the late 15th centuries) or in the early modern (late 15th century – c. Where the same name or title applies to more than one entry, each of the sub-entries for the group is listed in order of birth year. They are divided by gender and time period and within each list are presented alphabetically, by surname or title. List of figures named Joan īelow are lists of people and fictional characters named or known as Joan. The Lusophone world later diverged in adopting João ( ) as its native form of the masculine John, while Joana, as in Catalan and Occitan, remains the female form for Portuguese speakers. Historically, Joan and Joam were also the main forms of John in medieval Portuguese (or Galician-Portuguese). Its feminine counterpart in these languages is Joana. In Catalan-Valencian and Occitan, Joan ( pronounced ) has been in continuous use as the native, masculine form of John since at least the Middle Ages.

The Anglosphere female name Joan entered the English language through the Old French forms, Johanne and Jehanne, female variants of the male name Johannes. : 144 Its ultimate origin, as with John, is from the Hebrew Yohanan ( יוֹחָנָן), " Graced by Yah", or Yehohanan ( יְהוֹחָנָן), " Yahweh is Gracious". The name was disseminated widely into many languages and cultures from the Greek name Ἰωάννης (romanised, Iōannēs), along with its feminine form Ἰωάννα (romanised, Iōanna).

In both cases, the name is derived from the Greek via the Latin Ioannes and Ioanna (or Johannes and Johanna), and is thus cognate with John and related to its many forms, including its derived feminine forms. Joan (female name: / dʒ oʊ n/ male name: ) is both a feminine form of the personal name John given to females in the Anglosphere and the native masculine form of John (for males) in the Catalan- Valencian and Occitan languages.
