Joan Holland
| Lady Joan Holland | |
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| Duchess of York Lady Willoughby de Eresby Lady Scrope of Masham |
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| Spouse(s) |
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby Lord Willoughby de Eresby Henry le Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham Sir Henry Bromflete |
| Father | Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent |
| Mother | Lady Alice FitzAlan |
| Born | ca. 1380 Upholland, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 12 April 1434 (aged 53–54) |
Lady Joan Holland (ca. 1380–12 April 1434) was the third daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Lady Alice FitzAlan. She married four times. Her first husband was a duke, and the following three were barons. All of her marriages were most likely childless.
Lady Joan Holland was born around 1380 in Upholland, Lancashire, England, as one of the ten children of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Lady Alice FitzAlan, sister of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel. She was niece of Richard II of England, son of her paternal grandmother, Joan of Kent by her second marriage to Edward, the Black Prince. Joan had five sisters: Alianore became Countess of March ; Margaret became Countess of Somerset and later Duchess of Clarence; Eleanor became Countess of Salisbury; Elizabeth married Sir John Neville; and Bridget became a nun at Barking Abbey. Her eldest brother, Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, was beheaded in 1400 by a mob of angry citizens at Cirencester for his role in the Epiphany Rising, which was aimed against the life of King Henry IV of England, who had usurped the throne of King Richard. Thomas's heir to the earldom of Kent was her second eldest brother Edmund Holland.
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