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Father: Earl Thomas Holland I of Kent
Born: 1322
Married: Unknown
Died: December 28, 1360

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Mother: Princess Joan of Kent
Born: September 29, 1328
Died: July 8, 1385

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Children:
1. Earl Thomas Holland II of Kent (b.1350)
2. Lord Edmund Holland of Kent (b.1352)
3. Lady Joan Holland of Kent (b.1356)
4. Duke John Holland I of Huntingdon (b.1358)
5. Lady Matilda Holland of Kent (b.1359)
  • Note: Sir Thomas of Holland, having been engaged from the 14th to the 20th Edward III [1341-1347] in the wars of France and, in the last year commanded the van of Prince Edward's army at the famous battle of Cressy, was made a knight of the Garter and summoned to parliament as a baron. At the siege of Caen, Sir Thomas had the good fortune to make prisoner of the Earl of Ewe [Eu], then constable of France, whom he delivered up to King Edward for the sum of 4000 florins, and he (Sir Thomas) subsequently assisted at the siege of Calais. His lordship married Joan, celebrated for her beauty, under the name of "the Fair Maid of Kent". This distinguished woman inherited, upon the decease of her brother, John, 3rd Earl of Kent, that dignity, with the Barony of Woodstock, honours of her father, and the Barony of Wake, a dignity of her mothers; from which latter peerage she styled herself "Lady of Wake." In the 28th Edward III, 1355, his lordship was made lieutenant and captain-general of the Dukedom of Brittany, and he was constituted, in two years afterwards, governor of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. He had summons to parliament as Lord Holland, from the 27th to the 31st Edward III [1354-1358], but in the 34th (1360), he assumed the title of Earl of Kent, and was so summoned 20 November, in that year, in right of his wife, for it does not appear that he had any other sort of creation. In this year his lordship was appointed the king's lieutenant and captain-general in France and Normandy. He did not long, however, enjoy that high office for he died 28 December, in the same year.

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