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  1. Dec 26, 2023 · Brief Life History of Thomas. 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.

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  3. Mar 16, 2016 · In 1340, aged 12 and under the guardianship of the king and queen, Joan had secretly married Thomas Holand, a humble household knight. A year later Joan’s widowed mother and uncle arranged her marriage to William Montague, heir to the Earl of Salisbury, a close friend of the king.

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  4. Thomas HOLAND & Joan The Fair Maid Plantagenet Countess Of KENT were married on ...1347 in .... See the full Family Tree with Dates, Places, Notes, and all the Children.

  5. May 18, 2018 · Joan was a daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent (d. 1330), and succeeded as countess in 1353. While considerably under age, she secretly married Thomas Holand. In his absence in Prussia, she soon contracted a second marriage with the earl of Salisbury; this was annulled nine years later, in 1349.

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    Joan was nicknamed by some in her lifetime as "the virgin of Kent" (possibly ironically in view of her marital history), and after her death as the "fair maid of Kent". She was the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, a son of Edward I, and Margaret Wake. Her birth date is not wholly certain. 1353 Inquisitions Post Mortem for her brother John give her ...

    Possibly in or slightly before 1339 Joan secretly married Thomas de Holland, one of Edward III's household knights, without a priest being present. The possible date is given by a petition of May 1347 to the Pope in which Thomas de Holland said that he had married Joan over 8 years previously. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says they ...

    Following the death of her brother John in December 1352, Joan inherited very extensive swathes of land across much of Englandand became Countess of Kent in her own right. She and her husband were granted possession of these lands in February 1353.

    Thomas died in December 1360. Joan, an extremely wealthy widow, was an attractive marriage prospect. In the first half of 1361 Edward, the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, son of Edward III, sought her hand even though there were discussions of his possible marriage to Margaret of Flanders. They appear to have been secretly betrothed - risking a repe...

    The Black Prince died on 8 July 1376and Joan became guardian of their son the future Richard II, with a third of the revenues of Wales being set aside for her once he became Prince of Wales. Records of 1377-1385 show Richard granting a number of pardons at her request, so she seems to have been close to her son after his accession to the throne in ...

    One of several legends for the origin of the Order of the Garter has it that its name is due to a garter slipping from Joan's leg when she was dancing, with Edward III picking it up and saying "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" - "Shame on anyone who think ill of this!" In 1378 she was herself made a Lady of the Order of the Garter.

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  6. Thomas de Holand, b.abt 1314, Upholland, Lancashire, England, son of Robert de Holand + Maud La Zouche; + Joan The Fair Maid of Kent Plantagenet, b.29 SEP 1328, Woodstock, Kent, England

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