PLANTAGENET, Joan "The Fair" of Kent (Countess ) ²

   Another name for Joan was OF KENT, Joan.

  General Notes:

She was known as the Fair Maid of Kent. She was the granddaughter of King Edward I and his second wife. (C-330, 437, p. 583, E) Her will is as follows: "In the year of our Lord 1385, and of the reign of my dear son Richard, King of England and France, the 9th; at my Castle of Walyngford, in the Diocese of Salisbury, the 7th of August, I Joan Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Countess of Chester, and Lady Wake. My body to be buried in my chapel at Stanford, near the monument of our late lord and husband, the Earl of Kent. To my dear son the King, my new bed of red velvet, embroidered with ostrich feathers of silver, and heads of leopards of gold with boughs and leaves issuing out of their mouths. To my dear son Thomas Earl of Kent, my bed of red camak [sic.] paled with red and rays of gold. To my dear son John Holland, a bed of red camak. And I appoint the Venerable Father in Christ, my dear friend and cousin, Robert Bishop of London; William Bishop of Winchester; John Lord Cobham; William de Beauchamp, William de Nevill, Simon de Burlee, Lewis Clifford, Richard Atterbury, John Clanvow, Richard Stury, John Worthe, steward of my lands, and John le Vache, Knights; together with my dear chaplains, William de Fulburn and John de Yernemouth; and my loving esquires, William de Harpele, and William Norton, my executors. Witnessed by the Prior of Walyngforde and John James. Proved 9th December 1385."
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Joan married Thomas I DE HOLAND Earl of Kent, son of Baron Robert II HOLAND and Maude LA ZOUCHE, in 1338.¹ (Thomas I DE HOLAND Earl of Kent was born in 1314 and died in 1360 ³.)

Joan next married Edward Of Woodstock PRINCE OF WALES, son of Edward III King of England and Philippa OF HAINAULT. (Edward Of Woodstock PRINCE OF WALES was born on Jun 15, 1330 and died in 1376.)