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Personal data Thomas de Holand , KG, 1st Earl of Kent [Wikibio] sss 

• Also known as 06th\1st Earl of /Kent/, Thomas de Holand.
• He was born about 1314 in Broughton, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England.
• He died between 26 and December 28, 1360 in Normandy, France.Sources 1, 2, 4
• He is buried in Church of Grey Friars, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.
• A child of Robert III de Holland 1st Baron de Holand and Maud la Zouche
• This information was last updated on March 13, 2023.

Household of Thomas de Holand , KG, 1st Earl of Kent [Wikibio] sss

He is married to Joan Plantagenet.

They got married about 1339 at 1st husband.Sources 4, 5, 6

Child(ren):

1. Thomas de Holand  ± 1350-1397 
2. John de Holand  > 1350-???? 
3. Maud de Holand  ± 1351-< 1392 
4. John Holland 1st Duke of Exeter  
5. Joan Holland  1350-1384

Notes about Thomas de Holand , KG, 1st Earl of Kent [Wikibio] sss

Thomas de Holand, 1st Lord (Baron) Holand, so created March 1353/4 bywrit of summons to Parliament, KG (1348?, founding member); servedHundred Years War: Battle of Sluys (English naval victory) and Siege ofTournai 1340, Crecy 1346, Lt. and Capt. of Brittany and neighbouringparts of Poitou for duration of war March 1353/4, Keeper: Channel Islands1356, Crocy (Normandy) 1357 and Castle of Saint Sauveur le Vicomte Feb1358/9, Jt Lt. and Capt. of Duchy of Normandy 1359, Capt. and Lt. ofFrance and Normandy 1360; m. by 1339, as her 2nd of three husbands, Joan("The Fair Maid of Kent"), Countess of Kent in her own right andgranddaughter of Edward I, and in consequence was summoned to Parliament20 Nov 1360 as Earl of Kent, although the Parliament in question did notmeet till 24 Jan 1360/1, by which time he had d. 26 or 28 Dec 1360.[Burke's Peerage, p. 3100]

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Sir Thomas de Holand, KG, of Broughton, Bucks, considered to be Earl ofKent in right of his wife. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2904]

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Sir Thomas de Holand, KG, Earl of Kent, d. Normandy 26 or 28 Dec 1360; m.in or bef. 1339 Joan Plantagenet, Countess of Kent, the "Fair Maid ofKent", d. Wallingford Castle 8 Aug 1385. [Magna Charta Sureties, line90-7]

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EARLDOM OF KENT (VI, 1) 1352

JOAN, suo jure COUNTESS OF KENT, BARONESS WOODSTOCK and BARONESS WAKE,sister and heir, aged 24 and more at her brother's death. She hadmarried, in spring 1340, Sir Thomas DE HOLAND, K.G., of Broughton, Bucks,younger son of Sir Robert DE HOLAND, of Upholland, co. Lancs, by Maud,2nd daughter and coheir of Sir Alan LA ZOUCHE, of Ashby, co. Leicester[LORD ZOUCHE]. In 1337 he had served under Robert d'Artois in anexpedition to Bordeaux, and also took part in an embassy sent to theCount of Hainault at Valenciennes. In 134o he was in the expedition toFlanders, taking part in the battle of Sluys, 24 June, and siege ofTournai in July. On 6 January 1340/1 he had a protection going acrossseas with the King, in 1341 was sent with John d'Artevelt and a force toBayonne to guard the frontier, and in 1342 accompanied Robert d'Artois toBrittany in support of the Countess de Montfort. On 2 May 1343 and 12June 1346 he was about to go beyond seas. In 1343 he was one of thecommanders left to besiege Nantes, when the King-himself withdrew, and hetook part also in the assault on Vannes. On 28 June 1346 his mother hadlicence to enfeoff him of the manors of Halse, Brackley, and King'sSutton. He took the Count of Eu prisoner at the capture of Caen, 26 July1346,[g] but surrendered him to Edward III for 80,000 florins with theshield, 16 June 1347. He fought at Crécy, 26 August 1346, in the Prince'sdivision, and after the battle superintended the counting of the slain.Before 10 February 1340/1, during his absence abroad, Joan his wife wentthrough a form of marriage (possibly under compulsion) with William(MONTAGU), EARL of SALISBURY.[j] On 14 May 1347 he was ordered to jointhe King before Calais and on 24 October following the King granted him£40 for his good services. On 24 August 1352 he and Joan his wife had agrant of 100 marks p.a. for Joan's life, or, if her brother died withoutissue, until she acquired his lands. On 22 February 1352/3 they hadlivery of the lands of her brother John, the King having taken the homageand fealty of Thornas. On 18 March 1353/4 he was appointed Lieutenant andCaptain in the duchy of Brittany and the parts of Poitou adjacent as longas the war with France should last, being reappointed 8 February 1354/5,as from 13 April next, for a year. In 1356 he and Joan his wife conveyedthe manors of Chesterfield and Ashford, with the advowson of the hospitalof St. Leonard of Chesterfield, to Otes de Holand chr., for life. On 6June 1356 he was appointed Keeper of the Channel Islands as from 2 Aprillast; on 18 November 1357 Keeper of the fortalice and place of Crocy(Cruyk), near Falaise, in Normandy; and on 5 February 1358/9 Keeper ofthe castle and fortress of Saint Sauveur le Vicomte at a rent of 5,000florins with the shield, which he was ordered, 12 May 1360, to deliver toSir John Chaundos. On 28 October 1359 he was appointed joint Lieutenantand Captain (with Philip of Navarre, Count of Longueville) in the duchyof Normandy, and on 30 September 1360 Captain and Lieutenant in Franceand Normandy for a quarter of a year, to have with him 60 men-at-arms(including one banneret and 10 knights) and 120 horse-archers. He wassummoned to a Council 15 July 1353, and to Parliament from 15 March1353/4 to 15 December 1357, by writs directed Thome de Holand', wherebyhe is held to have become LORD HOLAND. He was also summoned, inconsequence of bis marriage, 2o November 1360, by writ directed ThomeComiti Kanc', to the Parliament which met (a month after he died) 24January 1360/1. He, who was a founder Knight of the Order of the Garterdied in Normandy, 26 or 28 December 1360, and was buried in the Church ofthe Grey Friars at Stamford. On 20 February 1360/1 his widow had liveryof her lands which had been taken into the King's hand on the Earl'sdeath. She married, 2ndly, by dispensation, Sunday 10 October 1361, atWindsor, Edward, PRINCE OF WALES, who died 8 July 1376. She, who receivedRobes of the Order of the Garter in 1378, 1379, 1384 and 1385, was motherof Richard II. She died apparently 8 August 1385, at Wallingford Castle,Berks, and was buried in the Church of the Grey Friars at Stamford, co.Lincoln. [Complete Peerage VII:150-54, XIV:408, (transcribed by DaveUtzinger)]

[g] On this occasion Raoul, Count of Eu, Constable of France, and Jehande Melun, Count of Tankerville, Chamberlain of France, endeavoured tohold the gatehouse of the bridge, when the burghers had fled. Lookingout, they saw a group approaching, under a banner they recognised, amongthem a very gentle English knight, who had but one eye, called MessireThomas de Hollande. To him and his companions they surrendered. Then wasSir Thomas glad for two reasons, one that they were such good prisoners,for whom he could have 100,000 gold pieces, and the other that he hadsaved their lives, for they were in great danger between the French andEnglish. On entering the city the English knights did all they could toprotect the women of the town and the nuns. Thomas was one of thecommissioners to take the surrender. (Froissart, op. cit., vol. xvii, p.253).

[j] In Thomas de Holand's petition to Clement VI, May 1347, he says thathe was married to Joan more than 8 years ago, and that while he was inPrussia Montagu married her and unjustly detained her (Cal. PapalLetters, Vol. iii, p. 252). The matter was referred to Cardinal Ademar,who, after examination, reported the earlier marriage to be legal, andthe Pope thereupon, 17 Nov. 1349, ordered Joan to be restored to herlawful husband (Beltz, citing Reg. Islip, f. 18c-Lambeth Library).

pg 51 & 196, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, etc" by Frederick Lewis Weiss, 6th Edition

pg 279, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1883

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