ROYAL FAMILY TREE

• 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