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JOAN (1328-1385), the 'Fair Maid of Kent,' wife of Edward, prince of Wales, 'the Black Prince', and mother of Richard II, born in 1328, was probably the younger daughter and third child of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, sixth son of Edward I, who was beheaded 19 March 1330, and Margaret Wake [daughter of Lord Thomas Wake of Liddell ].
Jun 4, 2017 · Also known as: "The Fair Maid of Kent" -- apparently a literary invention from long after she lived, not a title she was known by in her lifetime.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Apr 22, 2016 · His description has proved remarkably enduring, and it is by her posthumously bestowed sobriquet of ‘Fair Maid of Kent’ that Joan is best known.
Joan plantagenet, widely acclaimed as the ‘Fair Maid’ for her great beauty, was born in a century marred by domestic and foreign upheavals and by dynastic struggles. It was moreover a time of persistent, deeply entrenched attitudes towards women, their natures and their roles.
- Anthony Goodman
- NED-New Edition
- Birth, Parents and Early Life
- First Two Marriages and Children
- Countess of Kent
- Marriage to The Black Prince
- Last Years and Death
- Order of The Garter
Joan was nicknamed by some in her lifetime as "the virgin of Kent" (possibly ironically in view of her marital history), and after her death as the "fair maid of Kent". She was the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, a son of Edward I, and Margaret Wake. Her birth date is not wholly certain. 1353 Inquisitions Post Mortem for her brother John give her ...
Possibly in or slightly before 1339 Joan secretly married Thomas de Holland, one of Edward III's household knights, without a priest being present. The possible date is given by a petition of May 1347 to the Pope in which Thomas de Holland said that he had married Joan over 8 years previously. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says they ...
Following the death of her brother John in December 1352, Joan inherited very extensive swathes of land across much of Englandand became Countess of Kent in her own right. She and her husband were granted possession of these lands in February 1353.
Thomas died in December 1360. Joan, an extremely wealthy widow, was an attractive marriage prospect. In the first half of 1361 Edward, the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, son of Edward III, sought her hand even though there were discussions of his possible marriage to Margaret of Flanders. They appear to have been secretly betrothed - risking a repe...
The Black Prince died on 8 July 1376and Joan became guardian of their son the future Richard II, with a third of the revenues of Wales being set aside for her once he became Prince of Wales. Records of 1377-1385 show Richard granting a number of pardons at her request, so she seems to have been close to her son after his accession to the throne in ...
One of several legends for the origin of the Order of the Garter has it that its name is due to a garter slipping from Joan's leg when she was dancing, with Edward III picking it up and saying "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" - "Shame on anyone who think ill of this!" In 1378 she was herself made a Lady of the Order of the Garter.
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Sep 6, 2015 · Joan, known by the sobriquet of “the Fair Maid of Kent,” was thirty-two and recently widowed upon the death of her late husband, Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent. A Woman of Controversy.
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