Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1328 – 7 August 1385) is known to history as The Fair Maid of Kent. French chronicler Jean Froissart called her "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving."

Joan is often identified as the countess of Salisbury who, legend says, inspired Edward III's founding of the Order of the Garter.It is just as possible, though, that that countess was her mother-in-law, Catherine Montacute, Countess of Salisbury.

Titles: Princess of Wales, Princess of Aquitaine, Countess of Salisbury, Countess of Kent, Baroness Wake of Liddell

Family

• Father: Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
• Mother: Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell
• Spouses: 1) Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, 2) William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 3) Edward, Prince of Wales

Issue

1. Edmund Holland
2. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
3. John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter
4. Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany
5. Maud Holland, Countess of Ligny
6. Edward of Angoulême
7. Richard II of England

Links

• http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#Joandied1385
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan,_Countess_of_Kent
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p10206.htm#i102052
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46672269