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KENT. 351 V. 1331. 2. Edmun-d Plaxtagenet, 1st s. and k, I. about 1328, was restored by act of Pari. (1381), 5 Ed. III., to his father's dignities, becoming thereby EARL OF KENT and LORD WOODSTOCK. He d. 1 a M -J aged five years. VI. 1333, ■!. John (Pi.antagexet), Earl of Kent, and Lord to Woodstock, br, and h., h. 7 April 1300: »ac. I" the peerage, 1333, 1352. M>d was sum. to Pari, as Karl of Kent. 15 Nov. 1351, having mean- while become LUliD WAKE by the death of his mother. 39 Sep. 13-49. He m. Elizabeth, da. of William, MaBQUIS o» JulIERS, by Joanna (sister of Philippa, Queeu Consort of Edward III.), da. of William. Count ok Hainault. He d. s.p. 27 Dee. 1352, aged 22, and was bur. at the Wbitet'riars, Winchester. His widow took the veil at Waverley Abbey but afterwards m. on Michaelmas day 1360, at Wingham, co. Kent, Sir Eustace D'Abuichecourt. She d. 6 June 1411, and was bur. at the Whitefriars afstl. Will dat. 20 April, pr. 29 June taw VII. 13.52, /. Joan, Only sister and heir, site, in 1352 as mo jttre or Baroness Wake and Baroness Woodstock, and, according to 1360. the theory of Borne, as suo jure Countess op Kent. She, who "for her admirable beauty was kuown as " the Fair Maid of Kent" was li. 1331. She appears when young to have been contracted to marry William ( Montacute), 2d Earl OP Salisbury, but to have, about 134S, actunlh/ ( tho' privately) IK. (that Earl's Steward) Sir Thomas dk Holand, during whose absence from England the said Earl renewed his claim but released her when, by Papal bull 13 Nov. 13 til, his contract was declared void and the marriage', 1 *) with Holand confirmed. This Sir Thomas de Holand, who was 2d s. of Robert (de Holand), 1st Lord Holand.( c ) by Maud, da. and coheir of Alan (La-Zouche), Lord ZODOHS OV Ashby, distinguished' himself greatly in the French wars and was made KG. 23 April 1311, being one of the Founders^ 1 ) of that Order.' At the battle of Creey. 1346, he was in chief command of the van and served at the siego of Calais, 1346-47. On the death, 27 Dec. 1352, of his wife's brother, John, Earl of Kent, abovenaiued (to whom she was heir) he inherited considerable estates and was sum. to Pari, as Baron (LORD HOLAND) from 15 July (1353'., 27 Ed. III., to 15 Feb. (1356/*), 31 Ed. III., by writs directed " Thome de Holand." He was sum. to Pari. 20 Kw. 136ft, as EARL OF KEN'T,( e ) bur, d. a few weeks later 28 Dec. 1360, in Normandy. His widow m. 10 Oct. 1361, by Papal dispensation (being first cousin to the King, her future husband's father), Edward, Prince of Wales, who d. (v.p.) 8 June 1376. aged 16 ; being, by him, mother of King Richard II. She, under the name of " the King'* Mother," was one of the Ladies for whom (») "Royal WOU,» p. 211. ( b ) Sir Thomas Holand alleged " cohabitation " which removes it from the category of a mere contract of marriage. ( c ) " The members of this prosperous family [of Holand], of whom, in the course of 3 generations, there wero seven Knights of the Order [of the Garter] derived no particular lustre from ancestry. Sir Robert H. -land [the 1st Lord Holand] was the first of a gentle but inconsiderable stock, settled at Holand in Lancashire, who acquired any celebrity." [lieltz's *' Order of the Garter"]. The seven knights were as under : — [I.] Sir Thomas de Holand, afterwards Earl of Kent. 1344 ; d. 1330. [II.] Sir Otho do Holand (br. of the above) 1344 ; d. 1359. [III.] Thomas, 2.1 Earl of Kent (s. of the 1st Earl) 1375 ; d. 1327. [IV.] John, Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter (yr. s. f{ the 1st Earl of Kent) 1881; d. 1400. [V.] Thomas, 3rd Earl of Kent, and Duke of Surrey (s. of the 2d Earl) 1397 ; d. 1 100. [VI.] Edmund, 4th Earl of Keut (yr. s. of the 2nd Earl) 1403; d. 1408. [VII] John, Duke of Exeter (s. of the former Duke) 1415 ; d. 1447. ( d ) See list thereof, vol. i, p. 276, note " a " sub " Beauchamp." (°) It may be conjectured that he was sum. in right of his wife, " for it does not appear" says Dugdale, "that he was ever created to it," i.e., the Earldom of Kent. It must, however, be dealt with as a creation, for his son succeeded him in that dignity many years before the death of the widowed Countess.