Family 1 : Edward "The Black" PLANTAGENET

* MARRIAGE: 10 Oct 1361, ,Old Windsor,Berkshire,England

Family 2 : Thomas de HOLAND

* MARRIAGE: 1346

1. +Thomas DE HOLLAND
2.  John HOLAND
3.  Edmund de HOLAND
4.  Joan de HOLAND
5.  Maud de HOLAND
Family 3 : William de MONTAGU

* MARRIAGE: ABT 1346, Of,Donyatt,Somersetshire,England


oan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, the fourth Earl of Kent, is the wife of the Black Prince. She is a popular woman, known since her girlhood as the Fair Maid of Kent. In her youth Joan was fabulously beautiful and charming although she has now run somewhat to fat: a comtemporary chronicler has remarked that Joan was "devoted to pleasure, and so fat from eating she could scarcely walk".

Although currently happily married to the Black Prince, Joan has had a somewhat chequered marital career. When she was twelve she secretly married a man called Sir Thomas Holland with whom she eventually had six children. However, when Joan's guardian Katherine Montague discovered her clandestine marriage, she married the girl to William Montague (claiming her marriage to Holland was illegal). Nevertheless, Holland was not to be denied his beautiful bride, and managed to successfully petition the pope to annul the marriage between Joan and Montague and ratify his own marriage to Joan. When Holland died, Joan waited only three months before secretly marrying Edward the Black Prince. Edward III was appalled at the marriage, but did nothing to break it up: the Black Prince is deeply in love with Joan, and she is his greatest confidante.

Joan and Sir Thomas Holland had six children, the eldest of whom is John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter.

Joan and the Black Prince have had two sons, Edward and Richard, but Edward died as an infant, and now only Richard survives to inherit his father's legacy and, perhaps, the English throne.723

William de Montacute, 1328-1397
Second (Seventh) Earl of Salisbury. Successful commander and military hero during early Hundred Years War .

Knighted in France by Prince of Wales, 1346; contracted to marry Joan "the fair maid of Kent" , annulled directly by the Pope, 1349; served in the Crecy [1] campaign; one of the original 25 founding knights of the Order of the Garter (and the last survivor of the original 25 founding Knights of the Garter), 1350; at Winchelsea (victory over Spanish), 1350; Constable of Kings army in France, 1354; commander of the rear-guard of the army of Edward, the Black Prince, participated in ravage of Southern France, and at Poitiers [1] (a very famous English victory, 12 Sept. 1356), fighting "like a lion" defeated the attack of the marshal of France. Numerous campaigns in France as part of John of Gaunt's expedition of 1369; burnt seven Spanish ships at St. Malo, 1370.

Admiral of western fleet, 1376; relieved the same year; sent to defend Isle of Wight from expected French invasion of England, 1377; chief commissioner treating with France, 1379; with new king (Richard II) when Revolt of the Villeins occurred, appointed captain against the rebels, 1381; tried to make peace between Lancaster and Northumberland.

His only son, William, was killed during a tilting at Windsor by William (the father) himself. Having no living son, he sold the lordship of Man to William le Scrope.

1. +Thomas DE HOLLAND
2.  John HOLAND
3.  Edmund de HOLAND
4.  Joan de HOLAND
5.  Maud de HOLAND

“The Black Prince”
He was married to Joan (Countess of Kent) on 10 Oct 1361 in Windsor, England. Children were: Edward , Richard II (King of England).

Edward,

prince of Wales, surnamed the Black Prince, son of Edward III., was born in 1330; and accompanying his father to France in 1346, took a leading part in gaining the victory of Crecy. During his stay in France he performed many other acts of heroism, till at length, in 1356, he won the great battle of Poitiers, when he took King John and his son prisoners, and distinguished himself as much by his courtesy to his captives as he had in the field by his unrivalled valour. In 1361 he married Joan, called the Fair Maid of Kent, daughter of the Earl of Kent, and widow, first, of Sir Thomas Holland, and then of the Earl of Salisbury, and was soon after created by his father Prince of Aquitaine. Bordeaux then became the seat of his government. In 1367 he went to the assistance of Pedro the Cruel, king of Castile, who had been dethroned by his brother, Henry of Trastamare. The latter was defeated, and Pedro re-established, but only for a short time. Prince Edward was soon after involved in disputes with his subjects, which occasioned the renewal of war between Francs and England. He died in 1376, aged 45. 722