Joan Plantagenet Countess of Kent 
Joan Plantagenet Countess of was born on September 29th, 1328 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Joan Plantagenet Countess of's father was Edmund Plantagent of Woodstock Earl of Kent and her mother was Margaret of Lidell Baroness Wake. Her paternal grandparents were Edward I "Longshanks" King of England and Marguerite Hardi of France; her maternal grandparents were John I Baron of Wake and Joanna De Fiennes. She had a brother named John Prince of. She was the older of the two children. She died at the age of 56 on August 8th, 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England.General Notes
Joan, from her extraordinary beauty styled "the Fair Maid of Kent," married 1st William Montague, 2nd Sir Thomas Holland, 3rd the renowned hero, Edward, the Black Prince, so called from his armor. By the 3rd husband she was the mother of Richard II, King of England. By her 2nd husband she was mother of Sir Thomas Holland. This distinguished woman inherited the Earldom of Kent and Earldom of Woodstock, honours of her father, and the Barony of Wake, a dignity of her mother, from which latter peerage she styled herself "Lady of Wake." She was celebrated as one of the most beautiful women of her time and is said to have been the heroine of the episode upon which the "Order of the Garter" was founded. It was when King Edward III (her first cousin, their father's, both being sons of Edward I), picked up a garter she had dropped on the ballroom floor and uttered the famous words, "Honi Mal," "Evil to him who evil thinks."
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.01 Oct 1207 d.1272
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-Sands, Cumberland, England
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291
- b.05 Aug 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d.19 MAR 1329/30
- b.01 May 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, France d.05 Oct 1289 in Perpignan, Pyrenees Orienta, France
- b.1270 d.14 FEB 1316/17
- b.1249 d.12 JAN 1320/21
- b.29 Sep 1328 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d.08 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England
- b.1241 in Bilsworth, North Hampshire, England d.5 FEB 1280/81
- b.1270 d.1304
- b.1244 in Blisworth, Northampton, England d.1285
- b.1309 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1215 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England d.11 Jul 1302 in Courtral, Flandre, Occidential, Belgium
- b.1272 d.UNKNOWN
- d.UNKNOWN
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Joan Plantagenet Countess of and Thomas De Holland Earl of were married in a religious ceremony in 1348. They had three sons and three daughters, named Thomas De Holland II Earl of, Edmund, John De Holland Duke of, Margaret, Joan and Eleanor.
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Children
Thomas De Holland II Earl of Kent
Thomas De Holland II Earl of was born in 1346 in Upholand, Lancastershire, England. He died at the age of 51 on April 25th, 1397 in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England.
Joan Plantagenet Countess of and Edward The Black Prince of were married in a religious ceremony on October 10th, 1361. They had two sons named Edward of and Richard II King of.
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