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  EARLS AND DUKES OF KENT - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND DUKES OF KENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After Johns childless death the earldom appears to have been held by his sister Joan, the fair maid of Kent, and in 1360 J ans husband, Sir Thomas de Holand, or Holland, was summoned to parliament as earl of Kent.
The 11th earl was his son Anthony (1645-1702), whose son Henry became 12th earl in August 1702, lord chamberlain of the royal household from 1704 to 1710, and in 1706 was created earl of Harold and marquess of Kent, becoming duke of Kent four years later.
To quote Sir Spencer Walpole, Kent, a stern disciplinarian, was unpopular among his troops; and the storm which was created by his well-intentioned effort at Gibraltar to check the licentiousness and drunkenness of the garrison compelled him finally to retire from the governorship of this colony.
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 Encyclopedia: Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey
On his father's death in 1397 Holland became 3rd Earl of Kent, and was elected a Knight of the Garter.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350-1397) was an English nobleman and a councilor of his half-brother Richard II.
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (January 7, 1355 - September 8 (or 9), 1397) was the thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa.
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 Earl of Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The title of the Earl of Kent has been discontinuous throughout history it is successor to the kingss and underkings of Kent.
He was a member of Edward IV's council, became Lord Treasurer in 1463/4, was created Earl of Kent in 1465 and was keeper of the Tower of London in 1470.
The third earl, Richard, was the son of 2nd earl and Anne Woodville.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
66 (inv 1380) Thomas (Plantagenet), styled "of Woodstock." Duke of Gloucester.
Afterwards 1st Earl of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset.
711 (inv 1855) Francis (Leveson-Gower), 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
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 Order of Descendants of the Knights of The Garter in England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Her marriage to William 2nd Earl of Salisbury, K.G., was declared by Pope Clement VI null and void.
Daughter and heiress of Enguerrand de Coucy, Earl of Bedford, K.G., afterwards Duke of Bedford.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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 Karen Worley's Genealogy Database - Person Page 52   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Earl of Kent was the son of Edward I Plantagenet King of England and Marguerite le Hardi of France.
Edmund Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Kent was the son of Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake.
William Montacute Earl of Salisbury married Joan Plantagenet "The Faid Maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, circa 1340 at anulled.
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 John_Holland,_1st_Duke_of_Exeter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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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 Joan_of_Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Joan's father, Edmund, Earl of Kent, was a son of King Edward I of England, and a half-brother of Edward II.
It was not for several years that Thomas Holland returned from crusade, having made his fortune, and the full story of his earlier relationship with Joan came out.
In 1385, Sir John Holland, an adult son of her first marriage, was campaigning with the King in Scotland, when a quarrel broke out between him and Lord Stafford, a favourite of the new Queen.
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 important persons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Adam of Murimuth, Alfonso XI king of Castile, Anne of Bohemia, Thomas Arundel Archbishop, William Bagot, Geoffrey Baker.
1299?- 1361 Henry of Lancaster, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lincoln;
1332 Sir Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray;
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 familytre - pafg48 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Thomas, de Holland, 1st Earl of Kent died on 26 Dec 1360 in Normandy.
Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Plantagenet was born on 29 Sep 1328.
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus was born in 1378.
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 THOMAS HOLLAND, 2ND EARL OF KENT
He was the son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock and granddaughter of Edward I. After his father's death his mother married Edward the Black Prince.
At sixteen, in 1366, Holland was appointed captain of the English forces in Aquitaine.
Holland married Alice Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel.
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 Word Hoard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
• 66 (inv 1380) Thomas (Plantagenet), styled "of Woodstock." Duke of Gloucester.
• 94 (inv 1399) Thomas (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Clarence.
• 105 (inv 1402) Ralph (Nevill), 1st Earl of Westmorland.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury (1388-1428)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Earl bore the brunt of the battle and the victory of the English is attributed, by a warm admirer, to his ability and valour.
Thomas took Puiset by storm and hanged the garrison, battered Janville with his artillery and, though it was bravely defended, compelled it to capitulate on 29th August; by which date he had gained thirty-eight places "of one sort or another".
He married firstly, Eleanor the daughter of Thomas, Earl of Kent, by whom be had a daughter, Alice, who married Richard Neville, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, and secondly, Alice, daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme (Oxfordshire), by whom he had no issue.
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 Britannia Biographies: Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
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.
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.
Thomas had issue, by the Lady Joan (shortly afterwards Princess of Wales), two sons: Thomas, 2nd Earl of Kent and John, Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter.
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 Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
This second marriage was annulled when in 1349 Thomas went to Rome to appeal, and her previous marriage with Holland was proved to the satisfaction of the papal commissioners.
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 also in 1353 parliament summoned him as Baron de Holland, and writs were in successive years directed to him until 1357.
Iin 1359 Edward III Thomas the King's Lieutenant and Captain in Normandy jointly with Philip of Navarre and, in 1360, that office was held by Thomas alone.
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 Abbot - Generation 11 - 20
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Isabel12 Le Despencer (Eleanor11 De Clare, Joan10 Plantagenet, King Of England9 Edward I, King Of England8 Henry III, King Of England7 John, King Of England6 Henry II, Empress5 Matilda, Of Scotland4, King Of Scots3 Malcolm III, Duncan2 I, Crinan The Thane1 Abbot) was born WFT Est.
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 I1476: Thomas Holland 1st Lord Holland (Sir) ( - )
Edmund Of Woodstock Earl Of Kent (5 AUG 1301 - 19 MAR 1330)
3 Edmund Beaufort 1st Duke Of Somerset = Eleanor Beauchamp
4 Constance Holand = Thomas Mowbray Duke Of Norfolk
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 John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Egmont, John Perceval, 2nd earl of, 1st Baron Lovel And Holland...
As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment.
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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 Queries 3 - Holland Surname
Henry and Cora Holland, Indianapolis, IN I have a old bible that was given as a wedding present to Henry and Cora Holland or Halland.
Could she be the same Sarah that was the child of Enos Holland in Thomas County, VA? According to the 1850 Federal Census of Thomas County, there was a Sarah Holland in that household that was 10 years old.
Hollands in Lenoir County, NC I am researching a little-known branch of the Holland family tree.
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 John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While this legal wrangling ultimately caused an enormous amount of bloodshed and destruction, it did result in one of the Beaufort descendants ascending the throne as Henry VII.
John Beaufort was created Earl of Somerset on February 10, 1397.
On September 28 of that year he married Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent; the next day he was created Marquess of Somerset and Dorset.
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 Holland of Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jean IV de MONTFORT, Count of Montfort, Duke of Brittany (1365-1399); John, Duke of Exeter (1397-1399), Earl of Huntington (1388-1399) m.
occ: 2nd Holland Earl of Kent, Baron of Wake and Woodstock, Knight of the Garter, Keeper of the New Forest (1377-1397), granted manor of Brockenhurst in 1388
Sir Thomas served under his step-father Edward "the Black Prince" in France and disguised himself at the Battle of Castile.
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 The genealogical tree of Thomas de HOLAND (1st Earl of Kent)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The genealogical tree of Thomas de HOLAND (1st Earl of Kent)
Thomas de HOLAND, Kent, 2nd Earl of Kent
Married 1 to Joan "The Fair Maiden of Kent", Countess of Kent
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 I18798: Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Of Kent ( - )
Spouses of Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Of Kent
Descendants of Thomas Holland 2nd Earl Of Kent and Alice Fitzalan
1 Edmund Beaufort 1st Duke Of Somerset = Eleanor Beauchamp
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 Queries 2 - Holland Queries
Holland/Sterling Moore marriage from TN is the same couple as found in Wilkes Co. then Elizabeth is probably a Holland widow, rather than a Holland by birth, as Sterling Moore (of Wilkes) was born c 1770.
He is the father of John Britton Holland who was born 1864 in Clinton, MO and married to AlexAnna Scott born 1862 in Daingerfield, Johnson Co., TX.
There are a lot of Hollands buried in the Fulton County Cemetary in Hickman Ky. Also a George Washington Holland is on the list of Confederate soilders, in the Columbus Belmont museum, in Columbus Ky. He was my great-grandfathers older half-brother.
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 Timeline 1575-1599
Michael Lok, textile exporter, led the financing for the 1st expedition which was made to find a route to China.
It was the 1st permanent playhouse in England.
The earl’s sailors got out of hand and looted items intended for the queen, including a large diamond which eventually found its way to Goldsmith’s Row, London.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, 1350 - 1397
Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, also 3rd Earl of Kent, 1374 - 1400
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Civil War Book Review -- Reviewers
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 ~*Thomas "2nd Earl" de Holland of Kent/~*Alice "Lady" fitz Alan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Name: ~*Eleanor Holland Born: at: 20-9720 Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: ~*Thomas "Earl" de Montacute of Salisbury
Name: Bridget Holland Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: NOTES
Name: *Eleanor de Holland Born: at: 21-816 Married: Aft 19 JUN 1399 at: Upholland,Lancashire,England Died: at: Spouses: *Edward "Baron" Cherleton
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