Joan PLANTAGENET, 4th Countess of Kent

1328 - 1385  (56 years)

• Name	Joan PLANTAGENET  [1]
  Suffix	4th Countess of Kent
  Birth	29 Sep 1328  [2, 3]
  	Joan was of the House of Plantagenet.
  Gender	Female
  Biographical Note	Joan, 4th Countess of Kent, known to history as The Fair Maid of Kent, was the first Princess of Wales. The French chronicler, John Froissart, referred to Joan as "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving'.
  Name	Joan Plantagenet  [1, 4]
  Name	Joan Woodstock  [5]
  Death	7 Aug 1385  [2]
  Burial	Stamford, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I97929	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	Edmund PLANTAGENET, of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent,   b. 5 Aug 1301, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 19 Mar 1330 (Age 28 years)
  Mother	Margaret WAKE, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell,   b. Abt 1297   d. 29 Sep 1349 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Marriage	Y  [6]
  Family ID	F24291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas DE HOLLAND, 1st Earl of Kent,   b. Abt 1314   d. 26 Dec 1360 (Age ~ 46 years)
  Marriage	1340  [2]
  	he secretly married the 12 year old Joan of Kent, without first getting royal consent for couples of their rank. The following winter, 1340 or 1341, while Thomas Holland was in Europe, her family forced her into a marriage with William Montacute. Several years later, Thomas returned from the Crusades, when his marriage to Joan became general knowledge. Thomas appealed to the Pope for the release of Joan from the home of her second husband. He also confessed the secret marriage to the king. In 1349 Pope Clement VI annulled Joan's marriage to William Montacute, and sent her back to Thomas Holland, with whom she lived for the next eleven years. They had four known children, before Thomas died in 1360.
  Children	1. Thomas DE HOLLAND, 2nd Earl of Kent,   b. 1350   d. 25 Apr 1397 (Age 47 years)   2. John DE HOLLAND, 1st Duke of Exeter,   b. Abt 1352   d. 16 Jan 1400, Pleshley, Essex, England (Age ~ 48 years)
  Family ID	F24280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family 2	William MONTACUTE, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
  Marriage	Between 1340 and 1341  [2]
  Annulled	1349  [2]
  Family ID	F24297	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family 3	Edward 'The Black Prince' PLANTAGENET,   b. 15 Jun 1330, Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 8 Jun 1376 (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	10 Oct 1361	probably in St. Stephen's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England   [7, 8, 9]
  Children	1. Richard II PLANTAGENET, King of England,   b. 6 Jan 1367, Bordeaux, Principality of Acquitaine, France d. 14 Feb 1400, Pontefract Castle, West Yorkshire, England (Age 33 years)
  Family ID	F22570	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2024

  
  

  Family 4	Thomas DE HOLLAND, Knt., K.G., Earl of Kent
  Children	1. Maud DE HOLLAND
  Family ID	F36155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

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  Joan_of_Kent Joan Plantagenet, 4th Countess of Kent (1328-1385)

  
  

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