ROYAL FAMILY TREE

Tracing the family history of the English and Scottish Royal Family back over 1000 years

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Parents
  • Joan
  • Lived 58 years, 10 months, 9 days

Known to history as The Fair Maid of Kent. The French chronicler Jean Froissart called her the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving. Joan inherited the titles 4th Countess of Kent and 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell after the death of her brother, John, 3rd Earl of Kent, in 1352. Her first marriage was kept secret from her second husband. When discovered, the pope ruled that her second marriage was invalid

Family
  • Married Friday, 1 July 1340
  • Groom was 26 Bride was 13
  • Marriage lasted 20 years, 5 months, 25 days
  • Ended on death of Husband
Family

Husband

William Montagu
  • William Montagu
  • 1328 - 1397
Family

Husband

Edward the Black Prince
  • Edward the Black Prince
  • 1330 - 1376
  • Married Saturday, 10 October 1361
  • at Windsor Castle, Windsor
  • Windsor Castle, Windsor
  • Groom was 31 Bride was 35
  • Marriage lasted 14 years, 7 months, 29 days
  • Ended on death of Husband