Joan of Kent, More Than Just a Pretty Face
- ISBN-10
- 1726749541
- ISBN-13
- 9781726749541
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-05
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Author
- Brenda Faye Brown
Description
Fourteenth Century England was a brutal time in history. There were constant power struggles behind the throne. Very often the king was not the most powerful person in England. During the fourteenth century the Black Plague attacked England with a vengeance. Approximately one-third of England's population died. During this time the people of England lived through one unimaginable horror after another. Whole families died, dead bodies were often dumped onto streets. There were funeral pyres everywhere, and there was a constant smell of death. The English nobility was not exempt from this horror. Many of the royals died as well.Joan of Kent was caught in the middle of this constant struggle. She secretly married at the age of twelve. Without knowing of Joan's first marriage, King Edward III of England insisted she marry another at the age of thirteen. At the age of twenty-one she married the king's first-born son, The Black Prince of England, heir to the throne. She gave the prince two sons. One would become king, but it was the wrong son.Joan was married three times, but only one of her husbands was her true love.Joan was undisputedly beautiful, but she was much more than a pretty face. She was a strong, intelligent, and a loving woman. She raised an army that saved King Edward III the English Province of Aquitaine. She negotiated tax laws on behalf of King Edward III and John of Gaunt. At one time she was the most hated woman in England, only to become the most loved.King Edward III married his queen, Philippa of Hainault, without ever having seen her. First by proxy when she was thirteen. And then the official wedding was performed a year later when she was fourteen. Queen Philippa was a beloved queen and she was England's first black queen. Joan's son Richard became King Richard II, only to be overthrown by Henry IV. Richard was imprisoned in the Tower where it is thought that he died of starvation.
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