Thomas (Holand), 2nd Earl of Kent

circa 1350 - 1397  (47 years)

• Name	Thomas (Holand)  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Earl of Kent
  Birth	circa 1350  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	March 1367	Vittoria, Castile   [3]
  	Knighthood
  	He was knighted by the Prince of Wales at Vittoria, on the field, before the battle, in March 1367. [3]
  Decoration	1375/76  [2]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  Hereditary Title	2nd Earl of Kent [E., 1360]  [5]
  	He was summoned to Parliament from 16 July (1381) 5 Ric. II to 18 July (1397) 21 Ric. II, by writs directed Thome de Holand' comiti Kanc'. [4]
  Office	21 July 1377  [6]
  	Keeper of the forest South of Trent, during pleasure
  	On 12 April 1378 he was granted £200 p.a. to support his rank and in lieu of any free as Keeper; on 13 March 1379/80 this was altered to rents worth £796 13s. 4d., to hold as from 21 February last until he had his inheritance. [6]
  Office	From 13 March 1379/80 to 30 June 1385  [7]
  	Marshal of England
  Office	2 Oct. 1383  [8]
  	Keeper of the King’s forest
  Office	2 Oct. 1383  [8]
  	Master of the game, South of Trent
  Military Service	13 June 1385  [4]
  	He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots, 13 June (1385) 8 Ric. II. [4]
  Office	1 May 1391  [9]
  	Constable of Corfe Castle
  	The office was also granted to Alice his wife, in survivorship. [9]
  Will	1397  [10]
  	His will is dated "in the day of the resurreccion of our lord J'hu Crist" [presumably therefore Easter Sunday], 1397. [10]
  Death	25 April 1397  [12]
  	Inquisitions, cos. Dorset, Devon, Notts, Northants, Rutland, Somerset, Northumberland, York, Lincoln, Leicester, Bucks, Worcester, Beds, Stafford, Salop, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk, Herts, Suffolk, Hereford and Essex—24 counties. Heir, Thomas his son, aged from 22 to 26 and more. [11]
  Probate	10 May 1397  [10]
  Burial	Abbey of Bourne, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England   [10]
  Person ID	I487	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	28 Feb. 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas (Holand), Earl of Kent   d. 26 Dec. 1360
  Mother	Lady Joan (Plantagenet), "The Fair Maid of Kent",   b. 29 Sept. 1328   d. 8 Aug. 1385, Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Berkshire, England (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	1346  [1]
  Family ID	F306	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Alice Fitzalan   d. 17 March 1415/16
  Marriage	Shortly After 10 April 1364  [13]
  Children	+ 1. Lady Margaret Holand   d. circa 30 Dec. 1439
  Family ID	F252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb. 2020

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent

  
  

• Notes

  He fought at the Battle of Nájera, 3 April 1367. [14] On 24 July 1371 at Plymouth he granted to his companion in arms, Sir Richard Waldegrave, and his heirs male, leave to bear his helm—"party per pale argent and gules, crowned or." [15] He accompanied the Duke of Brittany in his expedition to Brittany in March 1374/75. [16] On 22 October 1378 he was appointed a Commissioner to treat with Scotland concerning breaches of the peace. [17] In 1378 he served in the fleet in the Channel during a projected invasion of France. [18] As "Thomas, Earl of Kent," he had letters of protection, 5 June 1380. [19] On 26 December 1380 he was appointed an Ambassador to treat concerning the King's marriage to Anne, sister of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and of Bohemia, and daughter of the deceased Emperor Charles. [20] At the time of Wat Tyler's insurrection in June 1381, he and his brother were with the King in the Tower, when they started with him on his way to Mile End, but, fearing for their lives, left him on the road, to proceed to his meeting with the rebels. [21] On 2 October 1383 he was granted the custody of the New Forest and the castle and town of Southampton, for life. [8] On 20 November 1384 he was granted the custody of the castle and town of Cherbourg. [22] In 1385 he accompanied the King on his expedition to Scotland. He accompanied Richard to the borders. It was during this campaign that the followers of the Holands and the Staffords came to blows and John de Holand slew Ralph de Stafford. [23] On 25 September 1385 the King took his homage and fealty, and gave him livery of his mother's lands, although all the inquisitions taken after her death had not yet been returned into Chancery. [24] On 10 November 1385 he was sent to Calais to see that the town was in a proper state of defence. [25] On 10 August 1386 he was granted, for life, the manor of Brockenhurst, Hampshire, as from the death of Edward III. [26] On 9 May 1387 he was granted the custody of the Tower of London, for life. [27] He was appointed a Commissioner, 17 May and again 20 June 1389, to hear the appeal of Sir Robert Grosvenor against the judgment which had been pronounced in his suit with Sir Richard le Scrope. [28] In 1394 he and his son Thomas accompanied the King to Ireland. [29]

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Peter Townend (ed.), BP 1970, (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1970), page liii. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. Citing Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume vii, page 169. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, pages 154–156. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1377–81, pages 5, 187, 450. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1377–81, page 488; 1385–89, page 71. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1381–85, page 311. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1388–92, page 402. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 156. Citing Lambeth Reg., Arundel, volume i, folio 157 recto. "I Thomas of Holand' Erl of Kent and lord of Wake . . . my body to be buried as sone as hit goodlich may in the Abbeye of brune." Alice his wife and Thomas his son were legatees and executors. Printed in Nichols, Royal Wills, page 118. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 156. Citing Ch. Inq. p. m., Ric. II, files 92, 93, and file 103, no. 21; Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 66, no. 7, and Enrolments, nos. 318, 319, 323, 326, 330, 360, and 361. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 156. Citing Writs of diem cl. ext. 4 May 20 Ric. II. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 156. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1361–64, page 480. She had Garter Robes in 1388, and in 4 later years. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. Citing Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume vii, page 214. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. "Notre healme le touft en difference myparti de longes de blanc et de rouge oue une coronne door." His seal bears the arms of England within a bordure argent. Legend: SIGILLUM THOME DE HOLAND (Harl. MS. 5805, folio 119). Sandford (Royal Genealogies, page 124) shows the Earl's seal, which he says (page 216) was affixed to his deed dated 8 February 1387: a hind lodged under a tree, gorged with a ducal coronet (his mother's device) and on its neck her arms, England within a bordure argent, which arms he assumed, discontinuing his paternal arms. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. Citing Letters of attorney, 22 January 1374/75, for a year (French Roll, 48 Edw. III, m. 3); Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume viii, page 344. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 154. Citing Scottish Roll, 2 Ric. II, m. 4. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, pages 154–155. Citing Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume ix, page 68. He and John de Holand were at the unsuccessful siege of St. Malo by John of Gaunt. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Carte, Treaty Roll 64, m. 6. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing French Roll, 4 Ric. II, m. 21. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume ix, page 68. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing French Roll, 8 Ric. II, m. 15. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume ix, page 135; volume x, page 382. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Fine Roll, 9 Ric. II, m. 16. In writs of 12 October 1385 (Cal. Close Rolls, 1385-89, page 13) the date of the writ of livery is incorrectly given, either as 20 September last or 20 October last [this would be 20 October 1384]; and again (page 38) as 20 October. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Carte, Rolles Franc., 134. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1385–89, page 223. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1385–89, page 301. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Cal. Patent Rolls, 1388–92, pages 40, 51. [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 155. Citing Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume xv, page 138.