Thomas de Holand 
Thomas was born in 1314 in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, England. Thomas' father was Robert de Holand and his mother was Maud la Zouche. His paternal grandfather was Sir Knight Robert de Holland II and his paternal grandmother is Elizabeth de Salmesbury; his maternal grandparents were Alan la Zouche and Eleanor Segrave. He had a sister named Elizabeth. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 46 on December 26th, 1360 in Normandy, France. He was buried in Grey Friars Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.General Notes
Occupation: Earl of Kent
Occupation: Knight Of The Garter
Note: One of the founders of the Order Of The Garter. He fought at the Battle of Crecy 08/26/1346 in the Prince's Division. After the battle he was in charge of counting the slain. C. 1346 his wife joan, during his absence, went through a form of marriage, possible under compulsion to William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. On 11/17/1349, the Pope ordered Joan to be restored to him.
an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years War.
He was from a gentry family in Holland, Lancashire. In his early military career, he fought in Flanders. He was engaged, in 1340, in the English expedition into Flanders and sent, two years later, with Sir John D'Artevelle to Bayonne, to defend the Gascon frontier against the French. In 1343, he was again on service in France; and, in the following year, had the honour of being chosen one of the founders of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. In 1346, he attended King Edward III into Normandy in the immediate retinue of the Earl of Warwick; and, at the taking of Caen, the Count of Eu and Guînes, Constable of France, and the Count De Tancarville surrendered themselves to him as prisoners. At the Battle of Crécy, he was one of the principal commanders in the van under the Prince of Wales and he, afterwards, served at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7.
Around the same time or before his first expedition, he married the 12-year-old princess Joan Plantagenet, Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, granddaughter of Edward I and Marguerite of France, and sole heir of John, Earl of Kent. However, during his absence on foreign service, Joan, under pressure from her family, contracted another marriage with William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (of whose household Holland had been seneschal). This second marriage was annulled in 1349, when Joan's previous marriage with Holland was proved to the satisfaction of the papal commissioners.
Between 1353 and 1356 he was summoned to Parliament as Baron de Holland.
In 1354 Holland was the king's lieutenant in Brittany during the minority of the Duke of Brittany, and in 1359 co-captain-general for all the English continental possessions.
His brother-in-law John, Earl of Kent, died in 1360, and Holland became Earl of Kent in right of his wife.
He was succeeded as baron by his son Thomas, the earldom still being held by his wife (though the son later became Earl in his own right). Another son, John became Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1171 in Upholand, Lancashire, England d.1202 in Upholand, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1197 in Upholand, Lancashire, England d.> 1242
- b.1165
- b.~ 1220 in Upholand, Lancashire, England d.1275
- b.ABT 1177/1180 in Hale, Lancastershire, England
- b.~ 1201 in Halewood, Lancashire, England
- b.1181 in Hale, Lancastershire, England
- b.ABT 1241/1253 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.> 1311 in Lancashire, England
- b.1134 in Over And Nether, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1154 in Garstang, Lancashire, England d.1206/1207 in Lancashire, England
- b.BEF 1206/1207 in Over Kellet, Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire, England
- b.1125 in Little Singleton, Kirkham, Lancashire, England d.<29 Sep 1185 in Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1158 in Little Singleton, Kirkham, Lancashire, England d.~ 1219 in Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1285 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.07 Oct 1328 in Boreham Wood, Essex, England
- b.~ 1142 in Lancashire, England
- b.1172/1193 in Salmesbury, England
- b.1227 in Salmesbury, Lancashire, England
- b.1167 in Lancashire, England
- b.1197
- b.1256 in Salmesbury, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1154 in Notton, Yorkshire, England d.> 1222
- b.1154
- b.1227/1231 in Lancashire, England
- b.ABT 1170/1180 in Barton, Lancastershire, England d.~ 1210 in Bolton, Lancashire, England
- b.ABT 1182/1205 in Barton, Lancastershire, England
- b.ABT 1170/1203 in Barton, Lancastershire, England d.1220 in Bolton, Lancashire, England
- b.1314 in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, England d.26 Dec 1360 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1182 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.<14 May 1248
- b.~ 1203 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.10 Aug 1270 in England
- b.~ 1179 in Hampshire, England d.28 Jan 1232/1233 in Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1242 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England d.<15 Oct 1285 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England
- 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.~ 1208 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.09 Oct 1267 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England d.25 Mar 1314 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1173 in Woodstock Manor, England d.7 Mar 1225/1226 in England
- b.~ 1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1260 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1191 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d.24 Aug 1261 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1246 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Carriebenan, Kildare, Ireland d.< 1244
- b.~ 1223 in Kildare, Ireland d.1276
- b.~ 1200
- b.1290 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England d.31 May 1349
- b.1176 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England d.09 Nov 1241 in Barton, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1202 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England d.<08 Oct 1254 in Pons, Poitou, France
- b.1180/1200 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
- b.1238 in Seagrave, Leicestershire, England d.<12 Nov 1295
- b.1175 in Chacomb, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1225 in Chacomb, Northamptonshire, England d.> 1281 in Chacomb, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1180 in Chacomb, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1270 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.1314
- b.~ 1200 in Cumberland, England d.<16 Nov 1246
- b.~ 1220 in Burgh-on-Sands, Cumberland, England d.~29 Apr 1294
- b.> 1200 d.1276/1287
- b.~ 1239 in Egremont, Cumberland, England
- b.1205 in South TyneDale, Northumberland, England d.1291
- b.~ 1225 in South TyneDale, Northumberland, England
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Thomas and "Fair Maid of Kent" were married in a religious ceremony in 1346. They had two sons and a daughter, named Thomas, John and Margaret.
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Children
Thomas de Holand
Thomas was born in 1354 in Upholland, Lancashire, England. He died at the age of 43 on April 25th, 1397 in Woodstock, Kent, England. He was buried in Abbey Of Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
Sir/Duke John Holland of Exeter
John was born about 1363 in Thorp Waterville co, Northhamton. He died in Castle, Pleshey, Essex, England.
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