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Sir Roger la Zouche, Baron Zouche of Ashby

Male - 1285


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  1. 1.  Sir Roger la Zouche, Baron Zouche of Ashby died in 1285.

    Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Longespée. Eleanor (daughter of Stephen de Longespée and Emmeline de Riddlesford) was buried on 10 Jul 1276 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Alan la Zouche, Baron Zouche of Ashby  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Oct 1267 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England; died on 25 Mar 1313/14 in Brackley, Northampton, England.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Alan la Zouche, Baron Zouche of Ashby Descendancy chart to this point (1.Roger1) was born on 9 Oct 1267 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England; died on 25 Mar 1313/14 in Brackley, Northampton, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • History: birth to death

    Notes:

    History:
    In 1299, he became the Baron Zouche of Ashby.

    He was also the Governor of Rockingham Castle and the Steward of Rockingham Forest.

    Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Segrave. Eleanor (daughter of Nicholas de Segrave and Maud Lucy) died in 1314 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Maud la Zouche  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1290 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England; died on 31 May 1349.
    2. 4. Elena la Zouche  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1288.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Maud la Zouche Descendancy chart to this point (2.Alan2, 1.Roger1) was born in 1290 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire, England; died on 31 May 1349.

    Maud married Sir Robert de Holand of Upholland, Lord Holand on 1311 to 1314. Robert (son of Sir Robert de Holand and Elizabeth de Salmesbury) was born about 1270 in Up Holland, Lancashire, England; died on 7 Oct 1328 in Boreham Wood, Essex, England; was buried in Greyfriars Church, Preston, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Elizabeth de Holland  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 6. Sir Thomas de Holand, KG, Earl of Kent  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1314 in England; died on 28 Dec 1360 in Normandy, France; was buried in Greyfriars, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.
    3. 7. Maud Holand  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 4.  Elena la Zouche Descendancy chart to this point (2.Alan2, 1.Roger1) was born in 1288.

    Elena married Nicholas St. Maur, Lord Saint Maur in Apr 1314. Nicholas died on 8 Nov 1316. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Elena married Sir Alan de Charlton about 1317. Alan died on 3 Dec 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 4

  1. 5.  Elizabeth de Holland Descendancy chart to this point (3.Maud3, 2.Alan2, 1.Roger1)

    Family/Spouse: Oliver Carminow. Oliver (son of Roger Carminow and Joanna Dinham) was buried in Bodmin, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Elizabeth Carminow  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 6.  Sir Thomas de Holand, KG, Earl of KentSir Thomas de Holand, KG, Earl of Kent Descendancy chart to this point (3.Maud3, 2.Alan2, 1.Roger1) was born about 1314 in England; died on 28 Dec 1360 in Normandy, France; was buried in Greyfriars, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • 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]

    Children:
    1. 9. Sir Thomas de Holand of Woodstock, KG, Earl of Kent  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1354 in Up Holland, Lancashire, England; died on 25 Apr 1397 in England; was buried in Bourne Abbey, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
    2. 10. Edmund de Holand  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 1352.
    3. 11. John de Holand, Duke of Exeter  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1352; died about 9 Jan 1400.
    4. 12. Joan de Holand  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1356; died in 1384.
    5. 13. Matilda de Holand  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1359; died before 13 Apr 1392.

  3. 7.  Maud Holand Descendancy chart to this point (3.Maud3, 2.Alan2, 1.Roger1)

    Family/Spouse: Sir Thomas de Swynnerton. Thomas was born in Swynnerton, Staffordshire, England; died in 1331. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



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