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May 2, 2017 · On this day in history, 2nd May 1550, Joan Bocher (Boucher, Butcher, Knel, Knell), an Anabaptist, was burnt at the stake at Smithfield. Bocher believed that Christ's flesh was "not incarnate of the Virgin Mary" and so she was convicted of heresy and condemned to death.
Apr 10, 2012 · Abstract: Historically, few historians have examined Joan of Kent, the wife of the Black Prince and the mother of Richard II, in a serious or systematic fashion. Instead, she is seen as a romantic figure and the heroine of various legends.
Jun 16, 2023 · At the tender age of 12 or 13, she embarked on a clandestine love affair and marriage with the dashing 26 year-old Thomas Holland, an English nobleman from Lancashire. Their union, however, lacked the royal blessing it should have sought, shrouding the whole affair in a cloud of scandal.
An English noblewoman with a controversial marital history, Joan of Kent (1328–85) was an unconventional bride for a future king of England. Penny Lawne examines the life of the medieval princess…
The English authorities only mention the scene in the Tower on the morning of Friday, 14 June, when the rebels ran riot in the royal chambers, and 'matrem regis ad oscula invitabant.' The decline of John of Gaunt's influence after the rebellion gave new occasion for the princess's mediation.
May 18, 2018 · Joan of Kent, 1328–85, English noblewoman; daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, youngest son of Edward I [1]. She early gained wide note for her beauty and charm, though the appellation Fair Maid of Kent, by which she became known, was probably not contemporary.
