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  John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the third son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan "the fair maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, a son of Edward I.
Holland was thus half-brother to Richard II, to whom he remained loyal the rest of his life.
Holland's lands and titles were forfeited, but eventually they were restored for his second son John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter.
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 Admiralty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond 1525 - 1536
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont 1763 - 1766
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham 1788 - 1794
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 Edward III of England - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
(4) John of Gaunt (1340-1399), Duke of Lancaster.
He had two sons: Edward, Duke of York, killed fighting alongside Henry V at the battle of Agincourt, and Richard, Earl of Cambridge, executed by Henry V for treason (involving a plot to place heir presumptive Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Cambridge's brother-in-law and cousin, on the throne).
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, descended on his father's side from Thomas of Woodstock, and on his mother's side from John Beaufort, rebelled against Richard III in 1483 but failed to depose him.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
96 (inv 1399) Humphrey (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Gloucester.
633 (inv 1812) Francis Conway (Ingram-Seymour-Conway), 2nd Marquess of Hertford.
Afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1893.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1447   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance of John Hunyadi.
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (born 1395)
Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (born 1392)
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The next major change was begun in 1740 by the 2nd Duke and continued after the interruption of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, during which the Castle was occupied by Hanoverian troops and besieged by the Duke's brother, Lord George Murray, who put seven cannonballs through the roof.
The 2nd Marquis continued to support the monarch, by now in the person of Queen Anne, and was created 1st Duke of Atholl in 1703.
The new Duke, however, was not prepared to lend his support to the Act of Union of 1707.
www.students.bucknell.edu /jmay/Castle_A.html   (5977 words)

  
 1397 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
September 29 John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II of England.
September 29 - Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent is created Duke of Surrey by Richard II of England.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (born 1350)
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 Britannia Biographies: Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sir Thomas Holland, the second son of Robert, 1st Lord Holland, and Maud De La Zouche, 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.
At the Battle of Crécy, he was one of the principal commanders in the van under the Prince of Wales and he, afterwards, served at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7.
In 1353, the King, with the assent of Sir Thomas Holland and the Lady Joan, his wife, assigned, as dower, to Elizabeth, the widow of John, late Earl of Kent, numerous manors; and, in the same year, our knight had summons to parliament; and writs were in successive years directed to him until 1357.
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 Janet's Genealogy
Sir Thomas Johnes, Kt of Abermarlais, Carmarthanshire and Haroldston, Pembrokeshire, 1st Knight of the Shire for Pembrokeshire and Sheriff of Carmartenshire (1541) and Cardiganshire (1544) m’d Mary, widow of Sir Thomas Perrott, Kt, Haroldston and dau and heir of Hon Sir James Berkeley, 2nd son of 3rd Lord Berkeley.
John de Berkeley, Constable of Bristol Castle, from whom the Berkeleys of Shropshire are descended.
John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, styled in the charters, Lord of the Isle of Axholme, and the honor of Gower and Brember, was summoned to parliament from December 10, 1327, to November 20, 1360.
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 Genealogy Data Page 95 (Notes Pages)
Holland was capable of great physical violence and in 1384 (according to Walshingham's Historia Anglicana) he ordered butchered a Carmelite Friar that the King and the Duke of Lancaster had entrusted to his custody.
In Spain Holland's feats of valor on the battlefield and his skill in jousting was highly praised by the contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart.
For his support he was created Duke of Exeter, granted the furniture out of the forfeited Castle of Arundel, and his post of Chamberlain of England, which he already held for life, was made hereditary in his family.
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 Yeo Society
Both John's grandfather Theobald and father Theobald had been knighted by Edward 111 and were Lords of the manor of Bideford.
To summarise, he (Henry Bolingbroke, the new Duke of Hereford, former Earl of Derby and son of Gaunt) fell out with the new Duke of Norfolk (Thomas Mowbray the former Earl of Nottingham) over an accusation of a plot against the two of them by nobles seeking the king's favour.
In 1402, John Grenville was a commissioner in both Devon and Cornwall to proclaim Henry 1v's intentions to observe the laws and customs of the realm and was required to arrest all insurgents.
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 Dictionary of National Biography: Wesley, John (1703-1791)
WESLEY, JOHN (1703-1791), evangelist and leader of methodism, fifteenth child and second surviving son of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) [q.
Two or three of John Wesley's pupils were admitted to their meetings in 1730, and one pupil of Charles; Benjamin Ingham [q.
His pieces are contained in Osborn's 'Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley,' 1868-1872, 13 vols.; but it is difficult to apportion in all cases the respective work of the two brothers.
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 My Family
Elisabeth of Anhalt (Princess) was born in 1857.
Parents: John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster) and Blanche of Lancaster.
Joseph of Saxe-Altenburg (Duke) and Amalie of Wurttemberg (Duchess).
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 History: TODAY IN HISTORY
John Clayton, in an extract from a letter in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1735, calls gas the "spirit" of coal; and discovered its inflammability by an accident.
John Ogden, 21, for stealing 40 pounds of hatter's fur (William Mellor, 18, charged with the same offence, acquitted).
He became speaker of the House of Commons and then attorney general, after having competed for the latter appointment with the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon; this victory was the beginning of a long-standing rivalry between the two men.
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 Lord William Hastings and the Calais Wool Staple.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Hastings 4th Lord Hastings 12th Earl of Pembroke [b.1347 Sutton Valence, d.1375 Picardy] was one of Edward II's generals and was recorded as marrying Edward III's daughter, Margaret Plantagenet on the 19th May 1359, Reading, Berks., and who died in 1361 at a comparitively young age
John Holand was the son of Sir Thomas Holland [1st Lord Holland] and Joan 'The Fair Maid of Woodstock' [d.
The earldom of Huntington was suspended for 300 years from John Le Scot's death in 1327 at Darnhall [Cheshire] until 'recreated' in 1529 in George Hastings as the Earldom of Huntingdon..
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 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Joan Plantagenet (The Fair Maid of Kent)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Holland, Duke of Exeter (half-brother of Richard II)
Matilda Holland (daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Kent)
Joan's marriage to William was an"ed by Papal Bull, on the grounds that she had already been contracted to Thomas (to whom she appears to have been betrothed in 1346).
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was the son of Frederick IV Habsburg, Duke of Austria.
Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford and Philippa Beauchamp.
Duke of York, the son of Edward IV.
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 I22923: Anne Holand (Lady) ( - )
Ralph Neville 2nd Earl Of Westmorland (6 SEP 1400 - 3 NOV 1484)
John Neville 1st Lord Neville and Anne Holand had the following children
Descendants of Lady Anne Holand and John Neville 1st Lord Neville
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 Order of Descendants of the Knights of The Garter in England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Hampton~Sydney, Virginia, the lineage of John Price was
Daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, K.G. Married John I, King of Portugal, K.G. 1378 Elizabeth, Duchess of Exeter.
Daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, K.G. Married 1st John (Holland), Duke of Exeter, K.G.; 2ndly John (Cornwall), Lord Fanhope, K.G. 1378 Philippa, Countess of Oxford.
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