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Birth:          1386 Upholland, Lancashire, England
Death:          AFT 1413 

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8th child of Thomas de Holand and Alice Fitz Alan. Had an older sister of the same 
name (b 13 Oct 1370, d 18 Oct 1405) who married Roger Mortimer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Holland,_Countess_of_Salisbury
Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury (1386- after 1413), was an English 
noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, a half-brother of King 
Richard II of England. She was the first wife of Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of 
Salisbury. One of her brothers was Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, to whom she 
was co-heiress. She is not to be confused with her eldest sister Alianore Holland, 
Countess of March who bore the same name.
Family[edit]

Lady Eleanor Holland was born in 1386 in Upholland, Lancashire, England, one of the 
ten children of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Lady Alice FitzAlan, sister of 
Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel. Eleanor's eldest sister, Lady Alianore Holland 
who married Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March shared the same name. They were 
named after their maternal grandmother.[1] Eleanor's father was a uterine half-brother 
of King Richard II. Her eldest brother Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey was 
beheaded in 1400 by a mob of angry citizens at Cirencester for his role in the 
Epiphany Rising, which was aimed against the life of King Henry IV of England, who 
had usurped the throne of King Richard. Thomas's heir to the earldom of Kent was her 
second eldest brother Edmund Holland, to whom Eleanor became co-heiress.

Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, 
who was the mother of King Richard by her second marriage to Edward, the Black 
Prince; and her maternal grandparents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 
Eleanor of Lancaster.
Marriage and issue[edit]

Lady Eleanor married Sir Thomas Montacute, son of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of 
Salisbury and Maud Francis, on 23 May 1399, as his first wife. She was about thirteen 
years old at the time of her marriage. Thomas would later become one of the most 
important commanders in the Hundred Years War. Eleanor did not assume the title of 
Countess of Salisbury until 14 June 1409, when the title, Earl of Salisbury, was 
nominally restored to Thomas.[2] An attainder had been placed on his father's title and 
estates following his execution for his participation in the Epiphany Rising in 1400 
alongside Eleanor's brother, Thomas. Eleanor's uncle John Holland, 1st Duke of 
Exeter had also been part of the conspiracy but he had escaped the mob only to be 
captured in Essex and decapitated on the orders of her maternal aunt Joan Fitzalan, 
mother-in-law of King Henry IV.

Thomas and Eleanor made their home at Bisham Manor in Berkshire. Together they 
had one daughter:
Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury (1407-3 April/9 December 1462), married 
in 1420, Richard Neville, by whom she had ten surviving children.[3]

Eleanor died on an unknown date sometime after 1413. She was buried in Bisham 
Priory.[4]

Thomas married secondly before 1424, Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of the noted 
author Geoffrey Chaucer, but their marriage was childless. He was mortally wounded 
on 27 October 1428 at the Siege of Orléans and died several days later on 3 
November.

Alice, the daughter of Thomas and Eleanor, succeeded her father as suo jure 5th 
Countess of Salisbury. Through Alice, Eleanor was the grandmother of Richard 
Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and great-grandmother of Cecily Bonville, who became 
one of the wealthiest English heiresses in the 15th century.[3] Eleanor was also the 
great-great-great-grandmother of queen consort Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife 
of King Henry VIII.[3][5]

Parents
DE HOLAND Thomas (1354 - 25 Apr 1397)
FITZ ALAN Alice (ABT 1348 - 17 Mar 1416)

Siblings
DE HOLAND Edmund (6 Jan 1384 - 15 Sep 1408)
DE HOLAND Eleanor (Alianore) (1386 - AFT 1413)

Marriage To MONTAGU (MONTACUTE) Thomas (13 Jun 1388 - 2 Nov 1428)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
MONTAGU (MONTACUTE) John (ABT 1350 - 7 Jan 1400)
FRANCIS Maude (ABT 1370 - BEF 5 Aug 1424)

Children by MONTAGU (MONTACUTE) Thomas 13 Jun 1388 - 2 Nov 1428
MONTAGU Alice (1407 - BEF 9 Dec 1462)

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