Alice Fitzalan | |
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Lady Holland Countess of Kent Lady of the Garter |
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Arundel Castle, birthplace of Lady Alice Fitzalan and her siblings
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Born | 1350 Arundel Castle, Sussex, England |
Died | 17 March 1416 (aged 66) |
Noble family | FitzAlan |
Spouse(s) | Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent |
Issue
Alianore Holland, Countess of March
Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey John Holland Richard Holland Elizabeth Holland Joan Holland, Duchess of York Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent Margaret Holland, Countess of Somerset Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury Bridget Holland |
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Father | Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel |
Mother | Eleanor of Lancaster |
Alice Holland, Countess of Kent (c. 1350 – 17 March 1416), LG, formerly Lady Alice Fitzalan, was an English noblewoman, a daughter of the 10th Earl of Arundel, and the wife of the 2nd Earl of Kent, the half-brother of King Richard II. As the maternal grandmother of Anne Mortimer, she was an ancestor of King Edward IV and King Richard III, as well as King Henry VII and the Tudor dynasty through her daughter Margaret Holland. She was also the maternal grandmother of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland.
She was appointed a Lady of the Garter in 1388.
Lady Alice Fitzalan was born circa 1350 at Arundel Castle in Sussex, England, the second daughter of the 10th Earl of Arundel, and Lady Eleanor of Lancaster. She had six siblings who included Richard Fitzalan, later 11th Earl of Arundel, and Lady Joan Fitzalan, later Countess of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton. She also had three half-siblings from her parents' previous marriages.
Her paternal grandparents were the 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne, and her maternal grandparents were the 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.