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Joan Plantagenet (b. 29 Sep 1328, d. Oct 1385)

Joan Plantagenet (daughter of Edmund Plantagenet and Margaret Wake)^{9192, 9193} was born 29 Sep 1328^{9194, 9195}, and died Oct 1385^{9196, 9197}. She married Thomas Holland on 1340^{9198, 9199}, son of Robert Holland and Maud De La Zouche.

Notes for Joan Plantagenet:
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[Genealogy.com, LLC WFT Vol. 74, Ed. 1, Tree #0250, Date of Import: Apr 1, 2003]

Joan was the daughter of Edmund (of
Woodstock) Plantagenet 4th Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake of Liddell. Joan died
OCT 1385 at 57 years of age. Lady Joan Plantagenet, Princess of Wales, Fair Maid
of Kent. Joan 'The Fair Maid of Kent' was famed for her buty and charm, though her
nickname was probably a later invention. In 1349 her marriage of 1340 to William
de Montacute, 5th Earl of Salisbury was set aside because of a precontract of 1339
with Sir Thomas Holland, whom she m.. Sir Thomas died in 1360 and the
following year she m. Edward, the Black Prince, to whom she gave two sons:
EDWARD (who died in infancy) and the future RICHARD II. Both children were
b. in Gascony, where she lived with her husband from 1362 to 1371. After his
death in 1376, she protected John of Gaunt from Londoners who rioted against his
support for John Wycliffe the following year. Although 'devoted to pleasure, and so
fat from eating that she could scarcely walk', according to the chronicler Thomas
Walsingham, Joan mediated between John and Richard II when they quarrelled in
1385.

More About Joan Plantagenet and Thomas Holland:
Marriage: 1340^{9200, 9201}

Children of Joan Plantagenet and Thomas Holland are:

+John Holland, b. Abt. 1354, County Lancashire, England^{9202, 9203}, d. 15 Jan 1400, Pleshey, Devonshire, England^{9204, 9205}.