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Thomas Holland, 2nd Baron Holand, and jure uxoris 1st Earl of Kent, KG (c. 1314 – 26 December 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of the Crécy campaign, he had apparently lost one of his eyes.
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Apr 26, 2022 · Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, 1st Baron Holand, KG (c. 1314 – 26 December 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was from a gentry family in Upholland, Lancashire. He was a son of Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand and Maud la Zouche.
- Upholland, England
- Upholland, Lancashire, England
- 1314
The Holland family were the children and grandchildren of Joan, Countess of Kent and her first husband Thomas Holland of Upholland in Lancashire. Joan, known as 'the Fair Maid of Kent' was the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell.
SIR THOMAS HOLLAND, first Earl of Kent of the Holland family (d. 1360), soldier, was the second son of Sir Robert Holland of Holland, Lancashire, and Maud, daughter of Allan la Zouche of Ashby, Leicestershire. He joined the expedition to Flanders in 1340, and took part in the battle of Sluys.
Jul 3, 2016 · However, before this duty could be fulfilled, and at the height of his fame and prestige, Thomas Holland, earl of Kent, contracted an illness and died at Rouen on the 26th or 28th December 1360 1, depending on the source. He was buried in the church of the Friars Minor at Rouen, but was later moved to the Church of the Greyfriars at Stamford in ...
When Sir Thomas Holand was born about 1314, in Up Holland, Lancashire, England, his father, Robert de Holand III, was 38 and his mother, Maud La Zouche, was 28. He married Joan of Kent in 1340, in Kent, England.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent KG (1350 – 25 April 1397) was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England.
