Holand family

Thomas Holand, 1st Earl of Kent was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was from a gentry family in Holland, Lancashire. In his early military career, he fought in Flanders. He 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 1343, he was again on service in France; and, in the following year, had the honour of being chosen one of the founders of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. In 1346, he attended King Edward III into Normandy in the immediate retinue of the Earl of Warwick; and, at the taking of Caen, the Count of Eu and Guînes, Constable of France, and the Count De Tancarville surrendered themselves to him as prisoners. 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. ..... more

Joan of Kent and the Order of the Garter

Thomas Holand was one of the commanders at the Battle of Crécy - painting by Brian Palmer

• A1. Robert de Holand;
  • B1. Thurstan de Holand;
    • C1. Sir Robert de Holand of Upholland, m. Elizabeth de Samlesbury;
      • D1. Sir Robert de Holand, 1st Lord Holand, d:1328, m. Maud la Zouche;  ==>  la Zouche family
        • E1. Joan de Holand, m. Edmund Talbot;  <==  Talbot family
        • E2. Margaret de Holand, m. John La Warr;  <==  La Warr family
        • E3. Jane de Holand, m. Sir John Tempest;  <==  Tempest family
        • E4. Sir Thomas de Holand, 1st Earl of Kent, lvd:1314/1360, m. Joan of Kent;  ==>  Plantagenet
          • F1. John Holand, Duke of Exeter, Earl of Huntingdon, d:1400, m. Elizabeth Plantagenet;
            • G1. John Holand, Duke of Exeter, d:1395/1445, m. Anne Stafford;
              • H1. Anne Holand, m. Sir John Neville;
          • F2. Sir Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl of Kent, d:1396, m. Alice FitzAlan;  ==>  FitzAlan
            • G1. Margaret Holand, d:1429, m. John Beaufort;  <==  Plantagenet
            • G2. Eleanor Holand, d:1412, m. Thomas de Montacute;  <==  Montacute family
            • G3. Alianore Holand, m. Sir Roger Mortimer;  <==  Mortimer family