Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter

Henry married Anne "of York" Plantagenet on 30 Jul 1447 in London, London, England. Anne (daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville) was born on 10 Aug 1439 in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England; died on 14 Jan 1476 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne Holland was born about 1455 in Bradgate, Leicestershire, England; died on 6 Jun 1474 in Rutger Chapel, St Georges, Windsor Castle, England.
2. Jane Holland was born about 1455 in East Stonehouse, Devon, England; died in 1475 in East Stonehouse, Devon, England.
3. Thomas Holland,, Knight of Lancaster was born in 1461 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England; died on 20 Sep 1501 in Lancashire, England.

John married Anne Stafford on 6 Mar 1427. Anne (daughter of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford and Anne "of Gloucester" Plantagenet) was born in 1400 in Staffordshire, England; died on 20 Sep 1432 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried in London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
beheaded

John married Elizabeth Plantagenet in 1386. Elizabeth (daughter of John "of Gaunt" Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster and Blanche "of Lancaster" Plantagenet) was born on 21 Feb 1363 in Leicester Castle, Newark, Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died on 24 Nov 1425 in Burford House, Burford, Tenbury Wells, Cleobury Mortimer, Overs, South Shropshire, West Midlands, England; was buried in Burford Church, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Anne "of Gloucester" Plantagenet on 28 Jun 1398 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Anne (daughter of Thomas "of Woodstock" Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester 1st Earl of Buckingham 1st Earl of Essex and Eleanor de Bohun) was born on 30 Apr 1383 in Pleshey, Essex, England; died on 16 Oct 1438 in Llanthony, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Anne Plantagenet
• Baptism: Bef 6 May 1383

Thomas married Joan Plantagenet, 4th Countess of Kent in 1339 in Upholland, Lancashire, England. Joan (daughter of Earl of Kent Edmund Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell) was born on 29 Sep 1326 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England; died on 7 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Plantagenet

Notes:

Widow of Thomas de Holand and only daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, son of King Edward I.

Notes:

He was a Knight of the Order of the Garter. He was Prince of England, in 1342 he was Earl of Richmond, in 1361 he was Earl of Lancaster, and, in 1362 he was Earl of Derby, Earl of Leicester and Earl of Lincoln. Also he was Titular King of Castile and Leon and Duke of Aquitane. In 1377, he became Earl Palatinate.

Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lincoln, Duke of Aquitaine, Lord of Beaufort and Nogent, Rey de Castilla y Leon, Seigneur de Bergerac et Roche-sur-Yon, Knight of the Garter.

He virtually ran England during his Father's declining years. He was one of the wealthiest men in the realm. --- He had wealth and power over the lives of others of a type we find it hard to even imagine today. His progeny became rich and powerful in his train. Perhaps he mused that he would go down in History as Duke of Lancaster, honored, feared, magnificent and respected. And yet, because William Shakespeare [1564-1616], 200 years after the Duke of Lancaster's death --- writes a play called Richard II [1595-1596] and calls him John of Gaunt, an infant nickname that John enjoyed until the age of three, and not thereafter --- this sobriquet --- corrupted from his birthplace in Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands --- sticks to him forever. Ghent is now in Belgium. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Rey de Castilla y Leon has been dead for almost 600 years --- but Shakespeare's christening wins the historical palm and is the name he sleeps with for the eons. Scribblers are often powerful beyond belief. -- Spencer Hines

He was only able to marry her after Constanza's death, at which time her children by him were retro-actively legitimated. -- Brant Gibbard

The four original Beauforts were born to Katherine Roet Swynford and John of Gaunt while John's second wife was still alive. On her death in 1394 John married Katherine, and in 1397 Richard II, as a favour to John of Gaunt and in order to neutralize John's son Derby (later King Henry IV) legitimatized the children who had been born out of wedlock. Richard's Act of Parliament did not bar the Beauforts or their descendants from the throne. But Henry IV later wrote in, between the lines of the document, a clause excluding the Beauforts from the succession. This interlineation was, bluntly, a forgery of an Act of Parliament, and Henry VII's sccession confounded it. -- from Kings & Queens of England & Scotland (by Allen Andrews, Marshall Cavendish, London 1985)

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), English soldier and statesman, the fourth son of King Edward III of England, and brother of Edward, the Black Prince. John was born in March 1340 in Ghent (M.E., Gaunt), now in Belgium. In 1359 he married Blanche, daughter of Henry, duke of Lancaster; when Henry died, John became duke.

John of Gaunt played an important part in the wars of the period between England and France and between England and Spain. He commanded a division of the English army, led by the Black Prince, that defeated the army of Henry (later Henry II, king of Castile and Leon) at N jerera in 1367. As a result of his second marriage, to Constance, daughter of Peter the Cruel (king of Castile and Leon), John laid claim to the throne ofofof Castile. . During the Hundred Years' War, he aided (1370-1371) the Black Prince against France and established English rule over most of southern France. After a severe illness forced the return of the Black Prince to England, John took command of the English armies; by 1380 he had lost much of the territory the English had previously won. In 1386 John invaded Castile, but was defeated by John I, king of Castile and Leon. John of Gaunt gave up his claim to Castile and Leon in 1387, whe when his daughter married d Henry, later Henry III, king of Castile and Leon.

John of Gaunt was also prominent in English affairs. Together with Alice Perrers, his father's mistress, John dominated the English government. He was opposed by Parliament and by the Black Prince. In 1376 Parliament banished Alice Perrers and curtailed John's powers. The death of the Black Prince that year and the dissolution of Parliament, however, enabled John to regain his power. In 1377, on the death of Edward III and the accession of Richard II (John's nephew and son of the Black Prince), John gave up his control of the government and thereafter played the role of peacemaker; he also supported the king, by whom he was made (1390) duke of Aquitaine. In 1396, after the death of his second wife, John married his mistress Catherine Swynford, and Richard legitimized their children the following year. Saddened by the exile (1398) of his son, Henry of Lancaster (later King Henry IV of England), John died on February 3 of the following year.

Birth:
Abbaye De St Bavon, Ghent, Flandre Orientale, Belgium

John married Blanche "of Lancaster" Plantagenet on 19 May 1359 in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. Blanche (daughter of 1st Duke of Lancaster Henry "of Grosmont" Plantagenet and Isabel de Beaumont) was born on 25 Mar 1345 in Castle Grosmont, Grosmont, Monmouthshire, England; died on 12 Sep 1369 in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Philippa Beauchamp on 1 Mar 1351 in Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire, England. Philippa (daughter of Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl of Warwick and Katherine de Mortimer) was born about 1334 in Elmley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 6 Apr 1386 in Stone Priory, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Eleanor de Bohun in 1376. Eleanor (daughter of 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford and Joan FitzAlan) was born in 1366 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; died on 3 Oct 1399 in Minoresses' Convent, Aldgate, London, England; was buried in Westminster, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]