Sir Thomas de Holand Earl of Kent 
Sir Thomas de Holand was born in 1314 in Upholland, Lancaster, England. Sir Thomas de Holand's father was Sir Robert de Holand II Baron Holand and his mother was Maude la Zouche. His paternal grandparents were Sir Robert de Holand and Elizabeth de Samlesbury; his maternal grandparents were Alan de la Zouche Lord Zouche of Ashby and Eleanor de Segrave. He had three brothers and seven sisters, named Sir Robert de Holand III, Alan, Otho, Alianore, Isabella, Margery, Elizabeth, Margaret, Maud and Mary. He died at the age of 46 on December 28th, 1360 in Normandy, France.General Notes
Sir Thomas de Holland, 2nd son of Robert de Holand, Lord Holland, having been engaged from the 14th to the 20th Edward III [1341-1347] in the wars of France and, in the last year commanded the van of Prince Edward's army at the famous battle of Cressy, was made a knight of the Garter and summoned to parliament as a baron. At the siege of Caen, Sir Thomas had the good fortune to make prisoner of the Earl of Ewe [Eu], then constable of France, whom he delivered up to King Edward for the sum of 4000 florins, and he (Sir Thomas) subsequently assisted at the siege of Calais. His lordship m.* Joane Plantagenet, celebrated for her beauty, under the name of "the Fair Maid of Kent," only dau. of Edmund Plantagenet, surnamed "of Woodstock," Earl of Kent, 2nd son of King Edward III. This distinguished woman inherited, upon the decease of her brother, John, 3rd Earl of Kent, that dignity, with the Barony of Woodstock, honours of her father, and the Barony of Wake, a dignity of her mothers; from which latter peerage she styled herself "Lady of Wake."
In the 28th Edward III [1355], his lordship was made lieutenant and captain-general of the Dukedom of Brittany, and he was constituted, in two years afterwards, governor of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. He had summons to parliament as Lord Holland, from the 27th to the 31st Edward III [1354-1358], but in the 34th (anno 1360), he assumed the title of Earl of Kent, and was so summoned 20 November, in that year, in right of his wife, for it does not appear that he had any other sort of creation. In this year his lordship was appointed the king's lieutenant and captain-general in France and Normandy. He did not long, however, enjoy that high office for he d. 28 December, in the same year, leaving issue by the great heiress of Kent (who m. after his lordship's decease, Edward the Black Prince, and was mother of King Richard II), three sons and a dau., viz., Thomas, his successor; Edmund; John, created Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter]; Maud., m. 1st Hugh, 3rd son of Hugh, Earl of Devon, and 2ndly, Waleran, Earl of St. Paul. Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, was s. by his eldest son, Thomas. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 279, Holland, Barons Holland, Earls of Kent]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1171 d.BET. 1212 - 1224
- b.1197 in Upholand, Lancastershire, England d.> 1241
- b.~ 1222 in Upholland, Lancastershire, England d.1275
- b.1177 in Hale, Lancastershire, England
- b.1201 in Hale, Lancastershire, England
- b.1181 in Hale, Lancastershire, England
- b.1253 in Upholland, Lancastershire, England d.1311
- b.1204 d.1272
- b.1230 in England
- b.BET. 1270 - 1280 in Upholland, Lancastershire, England d.15 Oct 1328 in Boreham Wood, Essex, England
- b.~ 1142 in of Samlesbury, Lancashire
- b.~ 1172 in of Samlesbury, Lancashire
- b.1227 in of Samlesbury, Lancashire d.~ 1256
- b.BET. 1253 - 1256 in Salmesbury, Lancastershire, England d.> 1311
- b. in of Breightmet, Lancashire d.> 1256
- b.1314 in Upholland, Lancaster, England d.28 Dec 1360 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1175 in of Molton, Devonshire d.~14 May 1238
- b.1203 in of Molton, Devonshire d.12 Aug 1270 in England
- b.1179 in England d.AFT. 28 JAN 1231/32
- b.~ 1242 d.~15 Oct 1285
- b.~ 1174 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in England
- b.~ 1222 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.~20 Aug 1296 in England
- b.BET. 1195 - 1208 in of Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in Brackley, England
- b.09 Oct 1267 in Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire d.25 Mar 1314 in Brackley, Northamptonshire
- b.1176 in Woodstock Manor d.7 MAR 1225/26 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1260 in Sutton, Northamptonshire
- b.BET. 1187 - 1191 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d.24 Aug 1261 in Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1245 in Sutton, Northamptonshire d.<19 Jul 1276
- b.BET. 1180 - 1204 d.~12 Dec 1244
- b.BET. 1220 - 1223 d.BET. 1275 - 1276
- b.~ 1206
- b.BET. 1289 - 1290 in of Ashby, Leicestershire d.31 May 1349
- b.1176 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England d.09 Nov 1241 in Barton, Lancastershire, England
- b.1202 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.08 Oct 1254 in Pons, Poitou, France
- b.1180 in of Ryhale, Rutlandshire d. in of Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
- b.1238 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England d.<12 Nov 1295
- b.1180 in of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1210 in of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England d.BET. 1278 - 1281 in Staffordshire, England
- b.1184 in of Northamptonshire, England
- b.1270 in Seagrave, Leicestershire d.1314 in Brackley, Northamptonshire
- d.<16 Nov 1246
- b.~ 1225 d.~29 Apr 1294
- b.> 1200 d.BET. 1276 - 1287
- b.1239 d.1337
- d.< 1294
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Sir Thomas de Holand and Joan the Fair Maid were married in a religious ceremony in 1348. They had two sons and two daughters, named John de Holand, Thomas de Holand II, Joan and Margaret.
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Children
Death Notes
Executed aft plotting to restore Richard II (his 1/2 brother).
John de Holand Duke of Exeter
John de Holand was born about 1358. He died in Pleshey Castle, Essex.
Thomas de Holand II Earl of Kent
Thomas de Holand II was born in Upholland, Lancashire, England. He died on April 25th, 1397 in Arundel Castle, Sussex.
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