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- Baron de Holland Baron of Woodstock, Wake and Holland He was an English nobleman and a councilor of his half-brother Richard II. He was the son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock and granddaughter of Edward I. After his father's death his mother married Edward the Black Prince. When his father died in 1360 he became Baron de Holland. His mother was still Countess of Kent in her own right. At sixteen, in 1366, Holland was appointed captain of the English forces in Aquitaine. He fought in various campaigns over the following years, and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1375. Richard II became king in 1377, and soon Holland acquired great influence over his younger half-brother. This influence, in most historians view, was utilized primarily for Holland's own enrichment. In 1381 he was created Earl of Kent. Holland married Alice Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster. He was succeeded by their eldest son Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey. Their daughter Eleanor de Holland married Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March and became mother to Anne de Mortimer. (Wikipedia)
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, Baron of Woodstock, Wake and Holland, was engaged in the French wars in the immediate retinue of his stepfather, Edward, Prince of Wales, and gained distinction at the Battle of Castile. Upon the accession of his half brother, Richard II, his lordship obtained a grant of œ200 per annum out of the exchequer, and was constituted General Warden of all the forests south of Trent. In the ninth year of the same reign, at the decease of his mother, Joan, Princess of Wales, he had special livery of all the lands of her inheritance. His lordship married Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, K. G., 9th Earl of Arundel, and his wife, Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancester, and Maud de Chaworth, son of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster and Blanche (daughter of Robert, son of Louis VIII, King of France), son of Henry III, King of England. They had two sons and six daughters: Thomas, d. s. p., and Edmund, who also died without legitimate issue. Daughters were Alinore, Margaret, Joane, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Bridget. (Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 384)
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1350 - 1397 (46 years)