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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 .
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
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.
Joan's mother was Margaret Holland, [7] the granddaughter of Joan of Kent (wife of Edward the Black Prince) from her earlier marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent. Joan was also a half-niece of King Henry IV of England, first cousin once removed of Richard II, and great-granddaughter of Edward III. Her uncle, Henry Beaufort, was a ...
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.