[Genealogy.com, LLC WFT Vol. 74, Ed. 1, Tree #0250, Date of Import: Apr 1, 2003]
John Holand, son of Thomas Holland and Joan 'The Fair Maid of Kent'; half-brother of Richard II, King of England; Knight of the Garter (1381); 12th Earl of Huntingdon (1388-1400); Chamberlian of England (1389); 1st Duke of Exeter (139701399). John Holland m. Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, and was part of the royal entourage until 1384, when he fell from favor for his violent murder of Sir Ralph Stafford. He distinguished himself as a soldier under John of Gaunt in Spain in 1386. Richard II made him Duke of Exeter in return for his support against the lords appellant, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, and Richard Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel. In 1399 he accompanied King Richard to Ireland. In the first parliament of Henry IV's reign (1399), John lost his dukedom and was demoted to Ea Huntington. He joined a conspiracy to rstore Richard II, but was captured at Pleshey and beheaded there on 15 January 1400, at the spot where three years earlier Richard had arrested Gloucester. He was captured at Pleshy for his part in the conspiracy against Henry IV,where he fell into the hands of the Countess of Hereford, the mother of the Bohun sisters and therefore, mother-in-law of the now King Henry. This fate was unfortunate. The Countess had Holland beheaded without trial. His head was raised on the end of a pike over Pleshy Castle and remained until the king, in deference to the feelings of his sister, had it sent to her for burial with the body.
More About John Holland and Elizabeth Plantagenet: Marriage: WFT Est. 1369-13935759, 5760
Children of John Holland and Elizabeth Plantagenet are:
John Holland (b. Abt. 1354, d. 15 Jan 1400)
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