Chi ha sposato Thomas Holland, I conte di Kent?

Thomas Holland (1314 – 26 dicembre 1360) fu il primo conte di Kent, il secondo barone di Holand e un comandante militare inglese.

Proveniva da una famiglia della piccola nobiltà di Upholland, nel Lancashire. Era figlio di Robert de Holland, I barone di Holand e di Maud la Zouche.

Joan, Countess of Kent suo jure (c. 1328 – August 1385), also known as the "Fair Maid of Kent", was mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III. The French chronicler Jean Froissart described her as 'in her time the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loved', and, Chandos Herald wrote that she was 'beautiful, pleasant and wise'. After the death of her brother John, 3rd Earl of Kent, in 1352, Joan inherited the titles 4th Countess of Kent and 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell. Joan was made a Lady of the Garter in 1378.