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Joan of Kent

1328 - 1385

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Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1326/1327 – 7 August 1385), known as the Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, son and heir apparent of King Edward III. Although the French chronicler Jean Froissart called her "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving", the appellation "Fair Maid of Kent" does not appear to be contemporary. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan of Kent has received more than 904,891 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Joan of Kent is the 6,617th most popular politician (down from 5,536th in 2019), the 1,304th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,180th in 2019) and the 217th most popular British Politician.

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  • 57.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joan of Kent ranks 6,617 out of 19,576. Before her are Nebuchadnezzar IV, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Olaf I of Denmark, Cao Ang, Giulio Alberoni, and Chang of Goryeo. After her are Mahmud Hotak, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Marie Anne Mancini, Fusako Shigenobu, Adolph Diesterweg, and Raymond II, Count of Tripoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1328, Joan of Kent ranks 5. Before her are Hongwu Emperor, Antipope Benedict XIII, Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg, and Peter I of Cyprus. After her are Emperor Go-Murakami, Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon, Nikephoros II Orsini, and Leopold II, Duke of Austria. Among people deceased in 1385, Joan of Kent ranks 4. Before her are Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Bernabò Visconti, and Xu Da. After her are Wang Meng, and Balša II.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joan of Kent ranks 1,304 out of 8,785. Before her are John Wilkins (1614), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Saint Malachy (1094), William Booth (1829), Alexander Cunningham (1814), and Frederic Bartlett (1886). After her are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Gareth Bale (1989), Anthony Minghella (1954), Ginger Baker (1939), David Hartley (1705), and Lucinda Riley (1965).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Joan of Kent ranks 217. Before her are Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), Ceawlin of Wessex (600), John Hawkwood (1320), Thomas Gresham (1519), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773). After her are Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Fletcher Christian (1764), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Anne Lister (1791), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), and Horace Walpole (1717).

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