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Birth:          1314 Broughton, Buckinghamshire, England
Death:          26 Dec 1360 Normandy
Burial:         Grey Friars Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holland,_1st_Earl_of_Kent
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, 2nd Baron Holand, KG (c. 1314 – 26 December 
1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' 
War.
Early life[edit]

He was from a gentry family in Upholland, Lancashire. He was a son of Robert de 
Holland, 1st Baron Holand and Maud la Zouche. One of his brothers was Otho Holand, 
who was also made a Knight of the Garter.

Military career[edit]

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. 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 vanguard under the Prince of Wales and he, afterwards, served at 
the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. In 1348 he was invested as one of the founders and 
13th Knight of the new Order of the Garter.

Around the same time as, or before, his first expedition, he secretly married the 12-
year-old Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent and 
Margaret Wake, granddaughter of Edward I and Margaret of France. 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. Joan was ordered by the Pope to return to her husband and live with 
him as his lawful wife; this she did, thus producing 4 children by him.

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 1352, 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.

Children[edit]

Thomas and Joan of Kent had four children:
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter
Joan Holland, who married John IV, Duke of Brittany
Maud Holland, married firstly Hugh Courtenay grandson of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th 
Earl of Devon and secondly, Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny

Parents
DE HOLAND Robert (ABT 1283 - 7 Oct 1328)
LA ZOUCHE Maud (1290 - 31 May 1349)

Siblings
DE HOLAND Thomas (1314 - 26 Dec 1360)
DE HOLAND (HOLLAND) Elizabeth (ABT 1320 - )

Marriage To ____ Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" (29 Sep 1328 - 8 Aug 1385)
    m. 1340 

Notes

Parents
____ Edmund "of Woodstock" (5 Aug 1301 - 19 Mar 1330)
WAKE Margaret (ABT 1297 - 29 Sep 1349)

Children by ____ Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" 29 Sep 1328 - 8 Aug 1385
DE HOLAND Thomas (1354 - 25 Apr 1397)

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