Thomas de Holand, Duke of Surrey

Thomas married Alice FitzAlan on 10 Apr 1364 in Arundel, Sussex, England. Alice (daughter of Sir Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and Eleanor de Lancaster) was born about 1350 in England; died on 17 Mar 1415 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military: 1337; He served under Robert d'Artois in an expedition to Bordeaux of 1337. During this time he took part in an embassy sent to the Count of Hainault.
• Military: 1340; He was in the expedition to Flanders in 1340 and took part in the Battle of Sluyes, and the siege of Tournai. The next year he was sent with John d'Artevelt to Bayonne to guard the frontier. The next year, he accompanied Robert d'Artois to Brittany in support of the Countess de Montfort.
• Military: 1343; He was one of the commanders at the 1343 siege of Nantes, and also took part in the assault on Vannes.
• Military: 1346, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France; At the 1346 siege of Caen, he made the Earl of Ewe, Constable of France, a prisoner. He delivered him to King Edward for 4,000 Florens.
• Land/House: 28 Jun 1346; On 28 June 1346 his mother had license to enfeoff him of the manors of Halse, Brackley, and King's Sutton.
• Military: 26 Aug 1346, Crécy-en-Ponthieu, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France; On 26 August 1346 he commanded the van of the Prince of Wales' division, at the Battle of Crécy.
• Offices Held: 18 Mar 1352/53; He was made lieutenant and captain-general of the Dukedom of Britanny on 18 March 1352/53.
• Offices Held: 15 May 1353; He was summoned to Parliament on 15 May 1353. He was summoned again in 1358.
• Offices Held: 6 Jun 1356; On 6 June 1356 he was made the governor of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
• Offices Held: 30 Sep 1359; On 30 September 1359 he was appointed the Lieutenant and Captian of Normandy.
• Title(s): 20 Nov 1360; He assumed the title of the Earl of Kent by right of his wife, 20 November 1360.
• Last Full Review: 12 Feb 2021

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Thomas married Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent", LG, Princess of Wales in 1339/40. Joan (daughter of Edumnd of Woodstock, Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, Baroness Wake) was born on 29 Sep 1328 in Woodstock, Kent, England; died on 7 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Berkshire, England; was buried in Greyfriars, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• General Information: Her other titles were the Countess of Kent. Although the French chronicler Jean Froissart called her "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving", the appellation "Fair Maid of Kent" does not appear to be contemporary
• Title(s): 26 Dec 1352; On 26 December 1352 she became the Countess of Kent.
• Title(s): 26 Dec 1352; She succeeded as the 5th Baroness Wake on 26 December 1352.
• Knighted: 1378; In 1378 she was appointed Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.).
• Will: 7 Aug 1385, Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Berkshire, England; On 7 August 1385 she made her will in Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Berkshire, England.
• Probate/Proved: 9 Dec 1385, Lambeth, London, England; Her will was proved on 9 December 1385.
• Last Full Review: 12 Feb 2021

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Joan was buried beside her first husband, as requested in her will.

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History:
He was also the 5th Earl of Arundel and the Earl of Warenne.

Richard married Eleanor de Lancaster on 5 Feb 1344/45 in Ditton, Kent, England. Eleanor (daughter of Sir Henry Pantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester and Maud de Chaworth) died on 11 Jan 1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Maud la Zouche on 1311 to 1314. Maud (daughter of Alan la Zouche, Baron Zouche of Ashby and Eleanor de Segrave) was born in 1290 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England; died on 31 May 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title(s): 28 Jul 1321

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Title(s):
He became the Earl of Kent.

Died:
Having become convinced that his brother, Edward II, had survived the summer of 1327 at Berkeley Castle, Edmund fell into a trap set by Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, was accused of treason in March 1330, and executed by beheading outside the gates of Winchester.

Edumnd married Margaret Wake, Baroness Wake on 25 Dec 1325. Margaret (daughter of Sir John Wake, Lord Wake and Joanna de Fiennes) was born about 1298; died on 29 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title(s): 30 May 1349; She became the Baroness Wake.

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Birth: Weis (1982) gives her birth date as about 1309.

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He was the 8th Earl of Arundel.

On 22 May 1306, he was knighted.

In 1306, he was a Member of Parliament.

Died:
He was beheaded.

Edmund married Alice de Warrene in 1306 in Arundel, Sussex, England. Alice (daughter of Sir William de Warenne and Joan de Vere) died before 23 May 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sources have given him as second marriage to Alex de Joinville. This is incorrect. She married Henry's younger brother, John of Lancaster.

Death: Weis (1982) gives his death date as 1348.

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He was also the Steward of England

History:
He was said to be Chobham, Woking, UK: Foundations: The Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 1, number 3, 2004.

In 1298/99, he was summoned to parliament.

On 10 May 1324, he was created the Earl of Lancaster.

In 1326, he arrested his cousin, King Edward II.

Henry married Maud de Chaworth in 1298. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was living in 1245.