About this time, Joan's parents made formal arrangements with a family who had an eligible son, to whom Joan was soon engaged. We know little of this episode in her life-neither the identity of the matrimonial match nor the precise date the ensuing fracas occurred. According to custom, the engagement did not require Joan's permission or approval; nor, it seems, was she introduced to her fiancé before the pact was settled. At the time, girls and young women took this procedure as a matter of course.
Around this period, Joan's parents arranged a formal engagement between her and an eligible young man from a certain family. The specifics of this event, including the identity of her prospective fiancé and the exact timing of any dispute that followed, remain largely unknown. Typically, such engagements were made without Joan's consent or prior introduction to her future husband, as was customary for girls and young women of that era.
"According to custom, the engagement did not require Joan's permission or approval; nor, it seems, was she introduced to her fiancé before the pact was settled."
