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Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1326/1327 [1] – 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 ...
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Joan of Kent (1328–1385)English noblewoman, famous for her beauty, who married Edward, prince of Wales (the Black Prince), was the mother of Richard II, king of England, and left her own her mark on history. Name variations: Princess of Wales; Fair Maid of Kent; Joan, countess of Kent; Joan Plantagenet.
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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.
Mar 16, 2016 · As Princess of Wales, Joan set a standard of behaviour for others to admire and emulate. She was, in many ways, the perfect princess. Penny Lawne is author of Joan of Kent: The First Princess of Wales (Amberley, 2015). An English noblewoman with a controversial marital history, Joan of Kent (1328–85) was an unconventional bride for a future ...
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Apr 22, 2016 · Joan of Kent: The First Princess of Wales. By Penny Lawne. Amberley Publishing, 2016 ISBN: 9781445655277. Immortalised by the chronicler Froissart as the most beautiful woman in England and the most loved, Joan was the wife of the Black Prince and the mother of Richard II, the first Princess of Wales and the only woman ever to be Princess of Aquitaine.
Joan inherited the titles 4th Countess of Kent and 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell after the death of her brother John, 3rd Earl of Kent, in 1352. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan of Kent has received more than 853,157 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia.
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
