John de Holand , 1st Duke of Exeter 
John de was born after 1350 in Upholland, Lancashire, England. John de's father was Thomas de Holand , KG, 1st Earl of Kent and his mother was Joan Plantagenet , "The Fair Maid of Kent". His paternal grandparents were Robert III 1st Baron de Holand , KG, Sir and Maud la Zouche; his maternal grandparents were Edmund Plantagenet , 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake , Baroness Wake. He had a brother named Thomas de. He had a half-brother named Richard II Plantagenet King of. He died in Executed at Castle Pleshey, Essex, England.General Notes
A century and a half earlier John de Holand, great-great grandson of Henry III through his mother Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent (whose 2nd husband was Thomas de Holand, Earl of Kent), had been created Duke of Exeter. The day of his promotion (he had previously been created Earl of Huntingdon) was 29 Sep 1397, when his half-brother Richard II created five dukedoms in a single day (another of the beneficiaries being John's nephew)--an act of extravagance without parallel in the English peerage history. After Henry IV's usurpation John was degraded from his dukedom and executed. [Burke's Peerage, on the history of the Dukedom of Exeter]
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on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon:
When the third Simon de St Liz died in 1184 he left no surviving issue and David, younger brother of the Kings of Scots just mentioned, assumed the Earldom from 1185 (on the handing over of it to him by William the Lion) till it was taken away from him in 1215 or 1216 by King John. He got it back again in 1218, however. It is this David's daughter who married Sir Henry de Hastinges, ancestor of the Lords (Barons) Hastings of which the current Hastings holdersof the Huntingdon Earldom are cadets....A little over a century later the then Lord Clinton was promoted Earl of Huntingdon. Apart from his wife being the widow of Lord Hastings he seems to have had no family connection with the title's previous holders. On his death death without issue in 1354 the Earldom expired once more. Between 1377 and 1380 an anglicised Frenchman, Guichard d'Angle, held the Earldom as a life creation granted by Richard II. Eight years later [1388] it was conferred on John de Holand and from then till 1461 it shared the fortunes of the Dukedom of Exeter. [Burke's Peerage, p. 1474]
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- b.~ 1197 in Upholland, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1222 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.1275
- b.~ 1201 in Hale, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1253 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.~ 1304
- b.~ 1200 in Garstang, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1230 in Garstang, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1270 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.07 Oct 1328 in Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, England (Beheaded by partisans)
- b.~ 1193 in Salmesbury, Preston, Lancashire, England d.1227
- b.~ 1223 in Salmesbury, Preston, Lancashire, England d.~ 1256
- b.~ 1200 in Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1253 in Salmesbury, Preston, Lancashire, England d.> 1311
- b.~ 1227 in England
- b.1314 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.BET 26 AND 28 DEC 1360 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1210 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.12 Aug 1270
- b.BET 1240 AND 1242 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.15 Oct 1285 in Brockley, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1225 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.<20 Aug 1296
- b.09 Oct 1267 in North Molton, Devonshire, England d.25 Mar 1314 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England (dspm)
- b.1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.23 JAN 1274/75 in of Sutton, Northampshire, England
- b.~ 1246 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.<19 Jul 1276
- b.1216 in Kildare, Ireland d.1276
- b.1289 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.31 May 1349 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1215 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.<08 Oct 1254 in Pons, Poitou, France
- b.~ 1238 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.<12 Nov 1295 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1219 in Chalcombe, Banbury, Northamptonshire, England d.~ 1278 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England
- b.1270 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.1314
- b.~ 1225 in Copeland, Cumberland, England d.<09 Apr 1305
- b.1239 in Copeland, Cumberland, England d.> 1288
- b.~ 1225 in South Tynedale, Northumberland, England
- b.> 1350 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.9 JAN 1399/00 in Executed at Castle Pleshey, Essex, England
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevault Abbey, Fonervrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-The-Sand near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.05 Aug 1301 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d.19 MAR 1329/30 in Beheaded at Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Near Tunis, Tunisia
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- b.~ 1221 in St Maime B, France d.21 Dec 1285 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1279 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1316/17 in Marlborough Castle, England
- b.~ 1228 in Brabant, Lorraine, France d.1291
- b.~ 1250 d.1321
- b.~ 1232 in Bourgogne, France d.1273
- b.29 Sep 1328 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d.08 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1202 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.<18 Dec 1241 in Holy Land on Crusade
- b.1236 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.BEF 10 FEB 1281/82 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1216 in Liddell, Cumberland, England d.<06 Apr 1276 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1268 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England d.<10 Apr 1300 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1200 in Colne Quincy, Essex, England d.Aug 1257 in (dspm)
- b.~ 1250 in Bidford, Warwickshire, England d.<27 Mar 1285 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1215 in Gynedd, Wales d.<24 Oct 1253 in Colne Quincy, Essex, England
- b.~ 1299 in Liddel, Cumberland, England d.29 Sep 1349
- b.~ 1222 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.<30 Oct 1259
- b.BET 1244 AND 1246 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.1300
- b.1273 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.<26 Oct 1309 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1251 in Northamptonshire, England
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