Thomas (Holand) de Holand KG (abt. 1314 - abt. 1360)

Born about 5 May 1314 in Upholland, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Joan (Plantagenet) of Kent LG — married about 1339 in England

Descendants

Died about Dec 1360 at about age 46 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

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Biography

Thomas de Holand, K.G., "younger son of Robert de Holand, Knt.,... by Maud, daughter and co-heiress of Alan la Zouche, Knt.," married Joan of Kent, born 29 Sept. 1328, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock by Margaret Wake, in a clandestine ceremony shortly before May 1340.^[1]

"About 21 Jan. 1340/1, during Thomas' absence in Prussia, his wife, Joan, was coerced by her family into marrying William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury. [Thomas] submitted a petition to the Pope at Avignon and requested that Joan's marriage to Montagu be annulled and that she be restored forthwith to him as his wife. In 1349 Cardinal d'Albi declared Joan's marriage to William de Montagu null and void, and ordered that she be restored to Holand.... Thomas and Joan subsequently had three sons... and two daughters."^[1]

Children

• Thomas de Holand, K.G., Earl of Kent, married Alice Arundel^[1]
• Edmund de Holand (died young)^[1]
• John de Holand, K.G., Duke of Exeter, Earl of Huntingdon, married Elizabeth of Lancaster^[2]
• Joan de Holand (d. 1384^[3]), married Jean (or John) de Montfort, K.G., Duke of Brittany
• Maud de Holand (d. 1392^[3]), married (1) Hugh de Courtenay, Knt., (2) Waleran de Luxembourgh, Chev.,^[1] count of St Pol^[3]

Thomas died in Normandy in December 1360 and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars, Stamford, Lincolnshire.^[1] His widow, Joan, married Edward, the Black Prince, in 1361.^[3]

Titles

Titles of Sir Thomas de Holand, Earl of Kent:^[1]

Captain and Lieutenant of Brittany 1354-5

Warden of the Channel Islands 1356

Captain of the Fort of Cruyk, Normandy 1357

Captain of St. Sauver-le-Vicomte (Manche) in Normandy 1359

Captain and Lieutenant-General in France and Normandy 1360

and, in the right of his wife: Earl of Kent

"Holland was, in the right of his wife, a landed lord of significant territorial resources. He was summoned to parliament as Lord Holland from 1354, and his military career burgeoned with a series of independent commands. Captain of Calais Castle in August 1352, he travelled again to Brittany in 1353 and in 1354 was made the king's captain and lieutenant there, with custody of the young heir to the duchy and funding from local revenues. He became keeper of the Channel Islands in June 1356, at a time when Castle Cornet there was in French hands; his able lieutenant, his brother Otto, soon recaptured it. Holland was appointed custodian of Crocy Castle in Normandy in November 1357 and then governor of the Harcourt lands in the Cotentin, based on St Sauveur le Vicomte, in October 1358. Custody of Barfleur in the Cotentin followed in October 1359, when he was also made joint lieutenant of Normandy with Philippe of Navarre. In September 1360 he received his most important post yet, when he was made Edward III's captain and lieutenant in Normandy and France. He was now accorded the title of earl of Kent to bolster his authority and prestige. He had the delicate, diplomatic task of carrying out the provisions of the treaty of Brétigny of October 1360, but while performing this duty he contracted some illness and died at Rouen on 28 December 1360. His body was initially interred in the church of the Friars Minor in Rouen, and was later moved to the church of the Greyfriars, Stamford, Lincolnshire."^[3]

He was a founder of the Order of the Garter. His investiture was in 1348.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol III, pp 424-425, KENT #9, Joan of Kent
2. ↑ "see Exeter 10" in Richardson
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol I, pp 97-103; Vol. III, pp 295, 424-433, and 494.
• Burkes Peerage and Landed Gentry
• Wikipedia: Thomas Holland
• Sir Thomas de Holand, 1st Earl of Kent, Lord Holand, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed January 24, 2016)
• Beltz, George. Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (William Pickering, London, 1841) Page 55-57

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

Thomas (Holand) de Holand KG appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Thomas Rudyard to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. III, pages 461-465 RUDYARD) that has not yet been developed on WikiTree by the Magna Carta project. This trail is set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

Thomas (Holand) de Holand KG appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Mary Johanna Somerset to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy (vol. IV, pages 38-55 SOMERSET). This trail needs further development by the Magna Carta Project and is set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

This profile was reviewed/approved to be badged on August 21, 2016 by the Magna Carta Project. This profile was re-reviewed in 2018 by Liz (Noland-165; 27 Feb. 2018)

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