Joan
Americannoun
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Fair Maid of Kent, 1328–85, wife of Edward, the Black Prince, and mother of Richard II.
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a fictitious female pope about a.d. 855–858.
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a female given name.
noun
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known as the Fair Maid of Kent. 1328–85, wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard II
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Pope legendary female pope, first mentioned in the 13th century: said to have been elected while disguised as a man and to have died in childbirth
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Former Spain international Joan Capdevila has made a plea to US President Donald Trump for help after he says he was denied a travel permit to enter the United States before Sunday's World Cup final.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Writers are always selling somebody out,” Joan Didion once wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I’ve been playing that since my early 20s because I was obsessed with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez,” Price says, “and we got our hands on a copy of the ‘Rolling Thunder Revue.’
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
“If there was a Mount Rushmore of fishing, Joan Wulff would be carved onto it,” said Charlie VanDercook, an entrepreneur and angler who, in 2025, bought the school with a business partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
King Charles VII was restored to the throne shortly after, with Joan at his side.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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