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John Holland, II duca di Exeter; Duca di Exeter; Stemma: In carica: 1439 – 1447: Predecessore: John Holland, I duca di Exeter: Successore: Henry Holland, III duca di Exeter Nascita: Devonshire, 29 marzo 1395: Morte: Middlesex, 5 agosto 1447 (52 anni) Padre: John Holland, I duca di Exeter: Madre: Elisabetta Plantageneta, duchessa di ...
Venne catturato nei pressi del castello Pleshy in Essex e venne giustiziato per ordine di Joan di Bohun, contessa di Hereford, suocera di Enrico IV. Terre e titoli di Holland vennero confiscati e poterono essere recuperati successivamente da suo figlio John Holland, II duca di Exeter .
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He was the second son of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, by his wife Elizabeth of Lancaster. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and Joan of Kent (a granddaughter of King Edward I), who after Holland's death had married Edward, the Black Prince. His father was a half-brother of King Richard II of England, and through ...
Holland was just a boy when his father conspired against Henry IV and was attainted and executed. Nevertheless, he was given a chance to serve Henry V in the 1415 campaign in France, where he distinguished himself at Agincourt. The next year Holland was restored in blood and to his father's earldom of Huntingdon, and was made a Knight of the Garter...
He married three times: 1. Firstly, on 6 March 1427 to Lady Anne Stafford (d. 20 or 24 September 1432), widow of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, and daughter of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford. By Anne he had two children: 1.1. Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter(1430–1475). 1.2. Lady Anne Holland (d. 26 December 1486), who married, firstly...
By an unnamed mistress or mistresses he also had several illegitimate children, two of whom he named in his will.[citation needed] William, Thomas and Robert, the so-called "Bastards of Exeter", were active in the Lancastrian struggles, and Stow reported that two of them were among the notable dead at the Battle of Towton.
In July 1416 he was appointed Lieutenant General to High Admiral of England Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (the post later became known as Lieutenant of the Admiralty) until 1435. In November 1432 he was made Deputy Marshall of England until September 1436. In 1435 he was appointed High Admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine. In March 1438 Hola...
There is an effigy of this John Holland in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. It had originally been in St Katharine by the Tower.
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1. Chisholm, H., ed. (1911). "Exeter, Earl, Marquess and Duke of". Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed. 10. Cambridge University Press. 2. Cokayne, G.; Gibbs, V.; Doubleday, H.A., eds. (1926). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 205–11. 3. Griffiths, R.A. (2004). "Holland, John, first duke of Exeter (1395–1447)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13530. (Subscription or UK public librar...
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter at Find a GraveStansfield, M. (13 January 1987). The Hollands, Dukes of Exeter, Earls of Kent and Huntingdon, 1352–1475 (PDF) (PhD). Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Archived (PDF)from the original on 26 September...Figlio (n. forse 1352 - m. Pleshey 1400) di Thomas Holland, conte di Kent; fratellastro di re Riccardo II d'Inghilterra, fu (1397) il primo duca di Exeter. Accompagnò (1386) il suocero Giovanni di Gaunt nella guerra in Spagna; nel 1379 aiutò il re contro i baroni del Consiglio di controllo.
John Holland, II duca di Exeter; Duca di Exeter; Stemma: In carica: 1439 – 1447: Predecessore: John Holland, I duca di Exeter: Successore: Henry Holland, III duca di Exeter: Nascita: Devonshire
Jean Holland (29 marzo 1395 - 5 agosto 1447), Conte di Huntingdon e 1 ° Duca di Exeter, era un nobile inglese e comandante militare durante la Guerra dei Cent'anni.
John Holland, II duca di Exeter (1395-1447); Sir Edward Holland (1399-1413). Terzo Matrimonio. Holland è stato giustiziato nel 1400 per aver cospirato durante la rivolta di Epifania contro suo cognato Enrico IV d'Inghilterra. Nello stesso anno, Elisabetta sposò John Cornwall, I barone Fanhope. La coppia ebbe due figli:
