Thomas HOLLAND , 1st Earl of Kent
- Born: Abt 1314
- Marriage (1): Joan OF KENT , 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell, Countess of Kent about 1340
- Died: 26 Dec 1360, Normandie, France aged about 46
General Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holland,_1st_Earl_of_Kent
Thomas Holland, 2nd Baron Holand, and jure uxoris 1st Earl of Kent, KG (c. 1314 \endash 26 December 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.
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. 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 vanguard under the Prince of Wales and he, afterwards, served at the Siege of Calais in 1346-7. In 1348, he was invested as one of the founders and 13th Knight of the new Order of the Garter.
Around the same time as, or before, his first expedition, he secretly married the 12-year-old Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, granddaughter of Edward I and Margaret of France. However, during his absence on foreign service, Joan, under pressure from her family, contracted another marriage with William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (of whose household Holland had been seneschal). This second marriage was annulled in 1349, when Joan's previous marriage with Holland was proved to the satisfaction of the papal commissioners. Joan was ordered by the Pope to return to her husband and live with him as his lawful wife, which she did, and had 4 children by him.
Thomas married Joan OF KENT , 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell, Countess of Kent, daughter of Edmund OF WOODSTOCK , 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret WAKE , 3d Baroness Wake of Liddell, Countess of Kent, about 1340. (Joan OF KENT , 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell, Countess of Kent was born 29 Sep 1326-1327 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England and died on 7 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England.)
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