Thomas De Holand 
Thomas was born in 1314 in Broughton, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England. Thomas' father was Robert De Holand and his mother was Maude La Zouche. His paternal grandparents were Robert De Holand and Elizabeth De Salmesbury; his maternal grandparents were Alan La Zouche and Eleanor De Segrave. He had two brothers and five sisters, named Robert, John, Margaret, Maud, Eleanor, Isabel and Elizabeth. He was the fourth oldest of the eight children. He died at the age of 46 on December 27th, 1360 in Normandy, France.General Notes
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Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1360) was an English nobleman and mil
itary commander during the Hundred Years War.
He was from a gentry family in Holland, Lancashire. In his early milita
ry career, he fought in Flanders. He was engaged, in 1340, in the Engli
sh expedition into Flanders and sent, two years later, with Sir John D'Art
evelle to Bayonne, to defend the Gascon frontier against the French. In 13
43, he was again on service in France; and, in the following year, had t
he honour of being chosen one of the founders of the Most Noble Order of t
he Garter. In 1346, he attended King Edward III into Normandy in the immed
iate retinue of the Earl of Warwick; and, at the taking of Caen, the Cou
nt of Eu and Guînes, Constable of France, and the Count De Tancarville sur
rendered themselves to him as prisoners. At the Battle of Crécy, he was o
ne of the principal commanders in the van under the Prince of Wales and h
e, afterwards, served at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7.
Around the same time or before his first expedition, he married the 12-yea
r-old princess Joan Plantagenet, Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woods
tock, 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, granddaughter of Edward I and Ma
rguerite of France, and sole heir of John, Earl of Kent. However, during h
is absence on foreign service, Joan, under pressure from her family, contr
acted another marriage with William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (of w
hose household Holland had been seneschal). This second marriage was annul
led in 1349, when Joan's previous marriage with Holland was proved to t
he 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 minori
ty of the Duke of Brittany, and in 1359 co-captain-general for all the Eng
lish continental possessions.
His brother-in-law John, Earl of Kent, died in 1360, and Holland became Ea
rl of Kent in right of his wife.
He was succeeded as baron by his son Thomas, the earldom still being he
ld by his wife (though the son later became Earl in his own right). Anoth
er son, John became Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter.
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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 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.~ 1224
- b.1197 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.> 1241
- b.~ 1165 in Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1222 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.1275
- b.~ 1177 in Hale, Lancashire, England
- b.1201 in Hale, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1181 in Hale, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1253 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.~ 1304
- b.~ 1154 in Garstang, Lancashire, England d.1206 in Lancashire, England
- b.1204 in Garstang, Lancashire, England d.1272
- b.~ 1158 in Little Singleton, Kirkham, Lancashire, England d.~ 1219 in Lancashire, England
- b.1230 in Over Kellet, Bolton-Le-Sands, Lancashire, England
- b.1270 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.07 Oct 1328 in Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1142 in Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1175
- b.~ 1202 in Salmesbury, Preston, Lancashire, England d.~ 1256
- b.~ 1140
- b.~ 1178
- b.~ 1253 in Salmesbury, Preston, Lancashire, England d.> 1311 in England
- b.~ 1154 in Barton, Preston, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Notton, West Riding, Yorkshire, England d.> 1231
- b.~ 1164 in Standish with Langtree, Wigan, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1231 in Breightmet, Bolton, Lancashire, England d.> 1256
- b.~ 1180 in Breightmet, Bolton, Lancashire, England d.< 1212
- b.~ 1205 in Beightmet, Bolton, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1185 in Barton, Preston, Lancashire, England d.1220
- b.1314 in Broughton, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England d.27 Dec 1360 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1182 in Ashby De La Zouche, Leicestershire, England d.<14 May 1238 in Molton, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Ashby De La Zouche, Leicestershire, England d.10 Aug 1270 in England
- b.1179 in Coombe Biset, Wiltshire, England d.28 Jan 1232
- b.1242 in Ashby De La Zouche, Leicestershire, England d.15 Oct 1285 in Ashby De La Zouche, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1195 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in Palestine
- b.~ 1222 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.<20 Aug 1296 in England
- b.~ 1200 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.09 Oct 1267 in Ashby De La Zouche, Leicestershire, England d.25 Mar 1314 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1176 in Woodstock Manor, England d.07 Mar 1226 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1260 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1188 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d.24 Aug 1261 in Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire England
- b.~ 1245 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1180 in Ireland d.12 Dec 1244
- b.~ 1222 in Ulster, Ireland d.~ 1275
- b.~ 1206 in Ireland
- b.~ 1290 in Ashby De La Zouche, Leicestershire, England d.31 May 1349 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1200 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.<12 Nov 1295 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England
- b.1238 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.<12 Nov 1295 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1195 in Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1219 in Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England d.1278 in Dudley Castle, Warickshire, England
- b.~ 1267 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.1314 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1200 in Egremont, Cumberland, England
- b.1225 in Egremont, Cumberland, England d.29 Apr 1294 in England
- b.~ 1202
- b.1239 in Egremont, Cumberland, England d.> 1288
- b.~ 1225 in South Tynedale, Northumberland, England d.~ 1257
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Thomas and Joan were married in a religious ceremony about 1339. They had a son named Thomas.
Family Notes
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Children
Thomas De Holand
Thomas was born about 1350 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. He died in 1397 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
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