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Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1326/1327 – 7 August 1385), known as the Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, son and heir apparent of King Edward III. Although the French chronicler Jean Froissart called her "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving", the appellation ...
Jean Kent, born Joan Mildred Field (29 June 1921 − 30 November 2013) was an English film and television actress. Biography [ edit ] Born Joan Mildred Field (sometimes incorrectly cited as Summerfield ) in Brixton , London in 1921, [2] the only child of variety performers Norman Carpenter Summerfield, who used the name "Norman Field", and ...
After 1350, he served in Parliament for districts in Kent. He died in 1355. He married Joan of Beauchamp, daughter of John Lord Beauchamp; after her death, he married one Agnes Stone of Dartford. He is said to have been buried at Greyfriars, London. There also is what may then be a cenotaph to him at St Mary Magdalene Church, Cobham. References
He died very soon after, aged just 5, and was succeeded by his 1-year-old brother, John, 3rd Earl of Kent. He in turn died aged 22, and the Earldom of Kent was held in abeyance by their sister, Joan of Kent. In a separate creation of the Earldom of Kent, her first husband was created Earl of Kent. Ancestry
Joan Kent. Joan Mabel Whibley (née Coultrip, 19 April 1922 – October 2001), [1] who used the pseudonym Joan Kent, [2] was an English author. Several collections of her autobiographical stories, depicting country life in Kent in the interwar years, were published, including Binder Twine & Rabbit Stew (1976), Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie (1977 ...
May 18, 2018 · Joan of Kent, princess of Wales ( c. 1328–85). Joan was a daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent (d. 1330), and succeeded as countess in 1353. While considerably under age, she secretly married Thomas Holand. In his absence in Prussia, she soon contracted a second marriage with the earl of Salisbury; this was annulled nine years later, in 1349.
