Joan of Kent

Joan of Kent
Joan of Kent
4th Countess of Kent suo jure; 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell; Princess of Wales and Aquitaine
	Illustration of Joan in The Benefactors' Book of St Albans Abbey
Born	c. 1328; Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England
Died	August 1385 (aged about 67); Wallingford Castle, Berkshire (present-day Oxfordshire), England
Burial	27 January 1386; Greyfriars, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
Spouse	; Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (m. 1340; died 1360) William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury; (m. 1340/41; ann. 1349); ; Edward the Black Prince (m. 1361; ann. 1361) ; (m. 1361; died 1376)
Issue; among others	Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent; John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter; Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany; Maud Holland, Countess of Ligny; Edward of Angoulême; Richard II of England;
House	Plantagenet
Father	Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
Mother	Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell

Joan, Countess of Kent suo jure (c. 1328 – August 1385), also known as the "Fair Maid of Kent", was mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III. The French chronicler Jean Froissart described her as 'in her time the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loved', and, Chandos Herald wrote that she was 'beautiful, pleasant and wise'. After the death of her brother John, 3rd Earl of Kent, in 1352, Joan inherited the titles 4th Countess of Kent and 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell. Joan was made a Lady of the Garter in 1378.