Joan Plantagenet , "The Fair Maid of Kent" 
Joan was born on September 29th, 1328 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England. Joan's father was Edmund Plantagenet , 1st Earl of Kent and her mother was Margaret Wake , Baroness Wake. Her paternal grandparents were Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks" King O England and Marguerite Princess of France; her maternal grandparents were John 1st Baron Wake , Sir Knight and Joan FitzBernard. She was an only child. She died at the age of 56 on August 8th, 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England.General Notes
Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent" later (after her cohabitation/marriage with William de Montagu) married as her 3rd husband the Black Prince, was mother of Richard II and may well have been the lady who inspired the naming of the Order of the Garter. [Burke's Peerage]
Joan, Countess of Kent and Baroness Wake, both in her own right; married 1st by 1339 Sir Thomas de Holand, KG, of Broughton, Bucks, considered to be Earl of Kent in right of his wife. Joan, Countess of Kent, married 2nd 10 Oct 1361 Edward, (The Black Prince), Prince of Wales (dvp 3 June 1376), eldest son of Edward III, and died 8 Aug 1385, leaving by him [Richard II King of England; deposed 30 Sep 1399, murdered 14 Feb 1399/1400], with an elder son (died at age seven). [Burke's Peerage]
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First Female holder of Order of the Garter, "a great beauty".
She was described as the most beautiful and most amorous lady in the whole kingdom of her time. Born the youngest child of Edmund of Woodstock, created Earl of Kent by his father, King Edward I. She was only 2 when he was executed for plotting against the regency of Queen Isabella (who, with the help of her lover Roger Mortimer, had deposed her husband Edward II in favor of her son Edward III). Although the granddaughter of a king, she had few material prospects, and that would indicate that her marriage to Sir Thomas was a love match.
Thomas de Holand fought at the Battle of Crecy, 26 Aug 1346. During his absence abroad, Joan his wife went through a form of marriage (possibly under compulsion) with William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (d. June 3, 1397), KG. On 17 Nov 1349 the Pope ordered that Joan be restored to her lawful husband.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.1218 in Abbey, La Couroun, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevault Abbey, Fonervrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1161 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-The-Sand near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1180 in Barcelona, Spain d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.~ 1181 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France d.> 1209
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.20 MAR 1176/77 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 JAN 1232/33 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.~ 1180 in Genf, Geneva, Helvetiz, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.05 Aug 1301 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d.19 MAR 1329/30 in Beheaded at Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Montpensier, Auvergne, France
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Near Tunis, Tunisia
- b.BEF 4 MAR 1187/88 in Castile, Spain d.1252 in Palais de Louvre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.~ 1221 in St Maime B, France d.21 Dec 1285 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1279 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1316/17 in Marlborough Castle, England
- b.~ 1200 in Brabant, Lorraine, France d.1 FEB 1247/48
- b.~ 1228 in Brabant, Lorraine, France d.1291
- b.~ 1201 in Hohenstauffen, Bavaria d.~ 1240
- b.~ 1250 d.1321
- b.9 MAR 1211/12 in Bourgnogne, France d.27 Oct 1272 in Villaines-en-Duismois, France
- b.~ 1232 in Bourgogne, France d.1273
- b.1212 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, Beauce/Centre, France d.1255
- b.29 Sep 1328 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d.08 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1180 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.<20 Jul 1213 in Gascony, France (killed by crossbow while besieging a caslte)
- b.~ 1202 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.<18 Dec 1241 in Holy Land on Crusade
- b.~ 1180 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.> 1224
- b.1236 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.BEF 10 FEB 1281/82 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1192 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.1233 in Liddell, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1216 in Liddell, Cumberland, England d.<06 Apr 1276 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1195 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland
- b.~ 1268 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England d.<10 Apr 1300 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land
- b.~ 1200 in Colne Quincy, Essex, England d.Aug 1257 in (dspm)
- b.1175 in England
- b.~ 1250 in Bidford, Warwickshire, England d.<27 Mar 1285 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.1173 in Aberffraw Castle, Aberconway, Wales d.11 Apr 1240 in Aberconway, North Wales
- b.~ 1215 in Gynedd, Wales d.<24 Oct 1253 in Colne Quincy, Essex, England
- b.22 Jul 1190 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England d.>30 Mar 1236 in Court of Aberconway, North Wales
- b.~ 1299 in Liddel, Cumberland, England d.29 Sep 1349
- b.~ 1198 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.<10 Jun 1238 in Tonge, Milton, Kent, England
- b.~ 1222 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.<30 Oct 1259
- b.~ 1205 in Artington, Guildford, Surrey, England d.< 1238
- b.BET 1244 AND 1246 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.1300
- b.1273 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.<26 Oct 1309 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1251 in Northamptonshire, England
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Joan and Thomas de were married in a religious ceremony before 1339. They had two sons named Thomas de and John de.
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Children
Thomas de Holand , KG, 2nd Earl of Kent
Thomas de was born about 1350 in Upholland, Lancashire, England. He died on April 25th, 1397 in Woodstock, Kent, England.
John de Holand , 1st Duke of Exeter
John de was born after 1350 in Upholland, Lancashire, England. He died in Executed at Castle Pleshey, Essex, England.
Joan and William de were married in a religious ceremony on October 15th, 1348 in dissolved by Pope 17 Nov 1349.
Joan and Edward "The Black" Prince of were married in a religious ceremony on October 10th, 1361. They had a son named Richard II Plantagenet King of.
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Children
Richard II Plantagenet King of England
Richard II Plantagenet King of was born in Bordeaux, France. He died in Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire, England (dsp, possibly starving). He was buried in Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, England.
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