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Carney & Wehofer Family
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 1350 - 1397 (47 years)
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| Name |
Thomas HOLLAND [1, 2] |
| Suffix |
2nd Earl of Kent |
| Born |
1350 |
Upholland, Lancashire, England  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
LBXV-7R4 |
| Sir Thomas de Holland |
25 Apr 1397 |
Bourne, South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire, England [3] |
| Title |
[3] |
| Baron of Holland |
| Occupation |
[3] |
| 7th Earl of Kent (Dec 1360), 6th Lord Wake and Woodstock (Aug 1385), Marshall of England, Constable of Corfe Castle, Governor of Carisbroke Castle; K.G. |
| Occupation |
[3] |
| Earl of Kent |
| Died |
25 Apr 1397 |
Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England [1, 2] |
| Buried |
Aft 25 Apr 1397 |
Bourne, Lincolnshire, England [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I594767504 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2023 |
| Father |
Thomas HOLLAND, 1st Earl of Kent, b. Abt 1314, Upholland, Lancashire, England , d. 26 Dec 1360, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Mother |
Joan of Kent, b. 29 Sep 1326, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England , d. 7 Aug 1385, Wallingford, Berkshire, England (Age 58 years) |
| Married |
1340 |
Kent, England [4] |
| Family ID |
F536728940 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Countess Alice FITZALAN, b. Abt 1352, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England , d. 17 Mar 1416, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 64 years) |
| Married |
10 Apr 1364 |
Arundel Castle, Sussex, England [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Alianore DE HOLLAND, b. 13 Oct 1370, Upholland, Lancashire, England , d. 23 Oct 1405, Bisham, Berkshire, England (Age 35 years) |
| | 2. Thomas HOLLAND, Duke of Surrey, b. 1374, England , d. 7 Jan 1400, England (Age 26 years) |
| | 3. Joan HOLLAND, b. 1380, Upholland, Lancashire, England , d. 12 Apr 1434, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England (Age 54 years) |
| | 4. Sir Edmund HOLLAND, 4th Earl Of Kent, b. 6 Jan 1382, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom , d. 15 Sep 1408, Cotes Du, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 26 years) |
| | 5. Margaret HOLLAND, Duchess of Clarence, b. 1385, Upholland, Lancashire, England , d. 30 Dec 1439, Bermondsey, Surrey, England (Age 54 years) |
| | 6. Eleanor HOLLAND, Countess of Salisbury, b. 1386, Upholland, Lancashire, England , d. Aft 1413, Bisham Manor, Berkshire, England (Age 28 years) |
| | 7. Elizabeth DE HOLLAND, b. 1388, Upholland, Lancashire, England , d. 4 Jan 1423, Durham, England (Age 35 years) |
| | 8. Bridget HOLLAND, b. 1390, Upholland, LAN, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2023 |
| Family ID |
F536728938 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Thomas Holland (also known as de Holland), 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
Thomas Holland (or de Holand) was born in Upholand, Lancashire, in 1350 or 1354 (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". 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. 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
At sixteen, in 1366, Holland was appointed captain of the English forces in Aquitaine. Over the next decade he fought in various campaigns, including the Battle of N?jera, under the command of his stepfather Edward, the Black Prince. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1375.
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.
Later years and death
Prior to his death, Holland was appointed Governor of Carisbrooke Castle. Holland died at Arundel Castle, Sussex, England on 25 April 1397.
Marriage and children
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. 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
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
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:
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.
Secondly she married Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton
2.) Joan Holland (c. 1380-2 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.
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holland,_2nd_Earl_of_Kent
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- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Alice FITZALAN, person ID GFXB-2PL. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Margaret Holland, person ID LD79-5VT. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Thomas Holland, person ID LBXV-7R4. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Thomas Holland, person ID M9WP-FX4. (Reliability: 3).
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