Joan of Kent

Joan of Kent
4th Countess of Kent 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell Princess of Wales and of Aquitaine
Born	29 September 1326/1327 Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England
Died	7 August 1385 (aged 57/58) 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; annulled 1349) Edward the Black Prince ​ ​ (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 (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 of England, and the most loving", the appellation "Fair Maid of Kent" does not appear to be contemporary.^[2] 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. Joan was made a Lady of the Garter in 1378.^[3]