Thomas DE HOLLAND, 1st Earl of Kent

Abt 1314 - 1360  (~ 46 years)

• Name	Thomas DE HOLLAND  [1]
  Suffix	1st Earl of Kent
  Birth	Abt 1314  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Biographical Note	Thomas Holland was an English nobleman and military commander in the Hundred Years' War. He was from a gentry family in Holland, Lancashire, England.
  Name	Thomas Holland  [3]
  Death	26 Dec 1360  [2]
  Person ID	I97903	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert HOLLAND
  Mother	Maud LA ZOUCHE
  Family ID	F36750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan PLANTAGENET, 4th Countess of Kent,   b. 29 Sep 1328   d. 7 Aug 1385 (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	1340  [4]
  	he secretly married the 12 year old Joan of Kent, without first getting royal consent for couples of their rank. The following winter, 1340 or 1341, while Thomas Holland was in Europe, her family forced her into a marriage with William Montacute. Several years later, Thomas returned from the Crusades, when his marriage to Joan became general knowledge. Thomas appealed to the Pope for the release of Joan from the home of her second husband. He also confessed the secret marriage to the king. In 1349 Pope Clement VI annulled Joan's marriage to William Montacute, and sent her back to Thomas Holland, with whom she lived for the next eleven years. They had four known children, before Thomas died in 1360.
  Children	1. Thomas DE HOLLAND, 2nd Earl of Kent,   b. 1350   d. 25 Apr 1397 (Age 47 years)   2. John DE HOLLAND, 1st Duke of Exeter,   b. Abt 1352   d. 16 Jan 1400, Pleshley, Essex, England (Age ~ 48 years)
  Family ID	F24280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

• Sources

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