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English noblewoman
Margaret Holland (1385 – 30 December 1439) was a medieval English noblewoman. She was a daughter of
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent , who was the son of
Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent" (granddaughter of
Edward I of England , wife of
Edward the Black Prince and mother of
Richard II of England ). Margaret's mother was
Alice FitzAlan , daughter of
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and
Eleanor of Lancaster .
Margaret married
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset , son of
John of Gaunt and his mistress
Katherine Swynford . They had six children:
[2]
In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion,
Order of the Garter (L.G.).
[3] After Beaufort died in 1410 (in the
Tower of London ), she married his nephew
Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387–1421), the son of King
Henry IV . They had no children.
[3] She died on 30 December 1439 at St. Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, in London, England.
[3] Margaret and both her husbands are buried together in a carved alabaster tomb in
Canterbury Cathedral that shows her lying between the two of them.
Descendants
Through her son John, the 1st
Duke of Somerset , Lady Margaret is an ancestress to the
Tudor monarchs .
[4]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence 16. Sir Robert de Holand 8.
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand 17. Elizabeth Salmesbury 4.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent 18.
Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby 9. Maud la Zouche 19. Eleanor de Segrave 2.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent 20.
Edward I of England 10.
Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent 21.
Margaret of France 5.
Joan, 4th Countess of Kent 22. John Wake, 1st Baron Wake 11.
Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell 23. Joan de Fiennes 1. Margaret Holland 24.
Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel 12.
Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel 25.
Alice of Saluzzo 6.
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel 26. William de Warenne 13.
Alice de Warenne 27. Joan de Vere 3.
Alice FitzAlan 28.
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster 14.
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster 29.
Blanche of Artois 7.
Eleanor of Lancaster 30. Sir Patrick Chaworth 15.
Maud Chaworth 31.
Isabella de Beauchamp
^ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage , 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 220.
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a
b
c Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pg 102, 103.
^ Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pg 274.
References
Connor, Meriel (2007).
"The Political Allegiances of Christ Church Priory 1400–1472: the Evidence of John Stone's Chronicle" .
Archaeologia Cantiana . 127 : 383–406.
Richardson, D. (2011). Kimball G. Everingham (ed.).
Magna Carta Ancestry . Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
ISBN
978-1-4499-6638-6 . {{
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link )
Shaw, R.L.J. (2009). "Holland [married name Beaufort], Margaret, duchess of Clarence".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/98133 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
Stansfield, M.M.N. (1987).
The Hollands, Dukes of Exeter, Earls of Kent and Huntingdon, 1352–1475 (PDF) (PhD).
Corpus Christi College, Oxford . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 26 September 2018.
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