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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.
Joan Bocher (died 2 May 1550 in Smithfield, London) was an English Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy during the English Reformation in the reign of Edward VI. She has also been known as Joan Boucher or Butcher , or as Joan Knell or Joan of Kent .
He was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent". [2] His mother was a daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, and Margaret Wake. Edmund was in turn a son of Edward I of England and his second Queen consort Marguerite of France, and thus a younger half-brother of Edward II of England.
Joan of Kent (born 1326 or 1327, died 1385), the "Fair Maid of Kent", mother of Richard II of England Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
Alice FitzAlan, Countess of Kent (c.1350-1416), wife of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent; Lucia Visconti (1372-1424), wife of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent; Joan de Fauconberg, 6th Baroness Fauconberg (1406-1490), wife of William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent; Lady Katherine Percy (1423–c.1475), wife of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent
Edward of Angoulême (27 January 1365 – c. 20 September 1370) was second in line to the throne of the Kingdom of England before his death. Born in Angoulême, he was the eldest child of Edward, Prince of Wales, commonly called "the Black Prince", and Joan, Countess of Kent, and thus was a member of the House of Plantagenet.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Baron Holand, and jure uxoris 1st Earl of Kent, KG (c. 1314 – 26 December 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of the Crécy campaign , he had apparently lost one of his eyes.
Here is an excerpt from the letter that King Edward III sent to King Alfonso of Castile (translated by Rosemary Horrox in her book The Black Death): [21]. We are sure that your Magnificence knows how, after much complicated negotiation about the intended marriage of the renowned Prince Pedro, your eldest son, and our most beloved daughter Joan, which was designed to nurture perpetual peace and ...