Joan of Kent

Joan of Kent (c. 1328–1385), the Fair Maid of Kent, was the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. In 1340 she secretly married Thomas Holland, but while he campaigned in France her family married her to William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, annulled by the Pope in 1349.

She inherited Kent in 1352, and after Holland's death married Edward the Black Prince in 1361. Their younger son, born at Bordeaux in 1367, became Richard II. She died at Wallingford in 1385.