Joan Holland, Duchess of Brittany

Lady Joan Holland (1350 – October 1384)[1] was Duchess of Brittany as the second wife of John IV, Duke of Brittany. She was the daughter of Joan of Kent and Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent. Her mother's second husband was Edward the Black Prince, and the child of that marriage was King Richard II of England.

Lady Joan Holland
Duchess consort of Brittany
Born	1350
Died	1384 (aged 33–34)
Noble family	Holland
Spouse(s)	John IV, Duke of Brittany ( m. 1366)
Father	Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
Mother	Joan of Kent

Joan Holland's marriage to John IV took place in London in May 1366, but without the approval of King Edward III of England,[2] Joan's step-grandfather, who claimed overlordship of Brittany. The couple had no children.

Joan's death, in her thirties,[3] was politically inexpedient. In 1386, two years afterwards, John IV married Joan of Navarre,[4] later the queen of King Henry IV of England.

References

1. Jean IV (Duke of Brittany); Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Bretagne (2001). Recueil des actes de Jean IV, duc de Bretagne: Supplément. Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Bretagne. ISBN 978-2-9505895-5-2. (in French)
2. The Hundred Years War (Part III): Further Considerations. BRILL. 25 July 2013. p. 243. ISBN 978-90-04-24565-5.
3. John Bell Henneman (January 1996). Olivier de Clisson and Political Society in France Under Charles V and Charles VI. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-8122-3353-7.
4. Michael Prestwich (2008). Liberties and Identities in the Medieval British Isles. Boydell Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-84383-374-1.

Preceded by Mary of Waltham

Duchess consort of Brittany 1366-1384

Succeeded by Joan of Navarre