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Birth:          1354 Upholand, Lancashire, England
Death:          25 Apr 1397 of Woodstock, Kent, England
Burial:         Abbey, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holland,_2nd_Earl_of_Kent
Thomas Holland (also known as de Holland),[1] 2nd Earl of Kent, 3rd Baron Holand 
KG (1350/1354 – 25 April 1397) was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-
brother, King Richard II of England.
Family and early Life[edit]

Thomas Holland (or de Holand)[1] was born in Upholand, Lancashire, in 1350[1][3] or 
1354[2][4] (sources differ on his birth year). He was the eldest surviving son of 
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent".[5] His mother 
was a daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, and Margaret Wake. 
Edmund was in turn a son of Edward I of England and his second Queen consort 
Marguerite of France, and thus a younger half-brother of Edward II of England.

His father died in 1360, and later that year, on 28 December, Thomas became Baron 
Holand.[3] His mother was still Countess of Kent in her own right, and in 1361 she 
married Edward, the Black Prince, the son of King Edward III.

Military career[edit]

At sixteen, in 1366, Holland was appointed captain of the English forces in Aquitaine.
[6] Over the next decade he fought in various campaigns, including the Battle of 
Nαjera, under the command of his stepfather Edward, the Black Prince. He was made 
a Knight of the Garter in 1375.[6]

Richard II became king in 1377, and soon Holland acquired great influence over his 
younger half-brother, which he used for his own enrichment. In 1381, he succeeded 
as Earl of Kent.[6]

Later years and death[edit]

Prior to his death, Holland was appointed Governor of Carisbrooke Castle.[6] Holland 
died at Arundel Castle, Sussex, England on 25 April 1397.[1]

Marriage and children[edit]

On 10 April 1364 Holland married Lady Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 
10th Earl of Arundel by his wife Eleanor of Lancaster. Lady Alice was later named as a 
Lady of the Garter.[1][2] By his wife he had three sons and six daughters. All the sons 
died without legitimate children, whereupon the daughters and their issue became 
co-heiresses to the House of Holland. The children were as follows:

Sons[edit]
1.Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent, 1st Duke of Surrey (1374 – 7 January 1400), 
eldest son and heir, created Duke of Surrey. Died without children.
2.Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (6 January 1384 – 15 September 1408), heir to his 
elder brother. Died without legitimate children, but had an illegitimate child by his 
mistress Constance of York.
3.John Holland, died without children

Daughters[edit]



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By his daughters' marriages, he became the ancestor of many of the prominent figures 
in the Wars of the Roses, including Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (father of 
Kings Edward IV and Richard III), Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII), and Warwick the 
Kingmaker, father of queen consort Anne Neville. He was also an ancestor of queen 
consort Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII. His daughters were 
as follows:
1.Eleanor I Holland (1373 – October 1405), (who bore the same first name as her 
younger sister, alias Alianore) married twice: 1.Firstly to Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of 
March (1374–1398), heir presumptive to his mother's first cousin King Richard II 
(1377–1399). Her only child and sole heiress to the Mortimer claim was Anne Mortimer. 
Following the deposition of Richard II in 1399 by his own first cousin, the Lancastrian 
Henry Bolingbroke, (who ruled as King Henry IV (1399–1413)), Anne Mortimer's claim 
to the throne of England was pursued by her son Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York 
(1411–1460) which drawn-out struggle formed the basis of the Wars of the Roses.
2.Secondly she married Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton

2.Joan Holland (c. 1380 –12 April 1434), married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
3.Margaret Holland (1385 – 31 December 1439), married first John Beaufort, 1st Earl of 
Somerset, and second Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence
4.Elizabeth Holland, who married Sir John Neville (c.1387 – before 20 May 1420), 
eldest son and heir of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and by him had three 
sons, Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, John Neville, Baron Neville, and Sir 
Thomas Neville, and a daughter, Margaret Neville.[7]
5.Eleanor II Holland (1386 – after 1413), (who bore the same first name as her eldest 
sister, alias Alianore) married Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury
6.Bridget Holland, who became a nun[1]

Parents
DE HOLAND Thomas (1314 - 26 Dec 1360)
____ Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" (29 Sep 1328 - 8 Aug 1385)

Siblings
DE HOLAND Thomas (1354 - 25 Apr 1397)

Marriage To FITZ ALAN Alice (ABT 1348 - 17 Mar 1416)
    m. 10 Apr 1364 

Notes

Parents
FITZ ALAN Richard "Cropped Hat" (ABT 1313 - 24 Jan 1376)
PLANTAGENET Eleanor (ABT 1311 - 11 Jan 1372)

Children by FITZ ALAN Alice ABT 1348 - 17 Mar 1416
DE HOLAND Edmund (6 Jan 1384 - 15 Sep 1408)
DE HOLAND Eleanor (Alianore) (1386 - AFT 1413)

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