- 1393-1402: Duchess of York
- 1404-1409: Baroness Willoughby of Eresby
- 1410-1415: Baroness of Masham
Lady Joan Holland was born circa 1380 in Upholland, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom to Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1354-1397) and Alice FitzAlan (c1350-1416) and died 12 April 1434 England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. She married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402) 1 November 1393 JL . She married William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (c1370-1409) 1404 JL in England. She married Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (c1373-1415) 1410 JL in England. She married Henry Bromflete (c1375-1415) 1415 JL in England.
Family
Lady Joan Holland was born around 1380 in Upholland, Lancashire, England, as one of the ten children of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1354-1397) and Lady Alice FitzAlan, sister of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (1346-1397). 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;[1]
- Bridget became a nun at Barking Abbey.
Her eldest brother, Thomas Holland (1374-1400), 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.
Marriages
She married four times. Her first husband was a duke, and the following three were barons. All of her marriages were most likely childless.
1st Marriage: Duke of York
Lady Joan married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402),[2] son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, ca. 4 November 1393. As a result of this marriage, she was styled Duchess of York. They had no children.
In 1399, Joan and her sister Margaret were invested as "Lady Companions of the Garter." They were granddaughters of Joan, the "Fair Maid of Kent" who inspired Edward III's founding of the Order of the Garter, according to popular legend.
2nd Marriage: Baron Willoughby de Eresby
After Langley's death in 1402, Joan married (before 9 August 1404) William de Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby de Eresby[2] (c. 1370–1409), a Knight of the Garter, son of Robert de Willoughby, 4th Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and Alice Skipwith. Upon her marriage, she became The Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, or Lady Willoughby. Lord Willoughby died on 30 November 1409.
3rd Marriage: Baron Scrope of Masham
Her third marriage (after 6 September 1410) was to Henry le Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham. That year, Scrope was made a Knight of the Garter. He served Henry IV as treasurer, and was executed in 1415 following the failure of his plot with the Earl of Cambridge (Joan's former stepson, being the son of her first husband, and nephew by marriage, being the husband of Anne de Mortimer, her sister's daughter) to assassinate Henry V and place Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (Joan's nephew) on the throne. [3] Lord Scrope and Cambridge were both beheaded on 5 August 1415 at Southampton Green, Hampshire, England. Cambridge's then four-year-old son, Richard Plantagenet, ultimately championed his father's cause, which evolved into the Wars of the Roses and the Yorkist claimants achieving the throne.
4th Marriage: Sir Bromflete
Less than a year later, before 27 April 1416, Joan married her fourth and final husband, Sir Henry Bromflete, son of Sir Thomas Bromflete and Margaret St. John.
She died on 12 April 1434. Her husband, Bromflete, was summoned to Parliament as the 1st Lord Vesci (or Vessy) on 24 January 1449. He died on 16 January 1469.
Siblings
See Also
Bibliography
- Cokayne, G.E. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, XII/2 (Reprint in 6 volumes, new ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, pp. 548, 899
- Lundy, Darryl (24 January 2013), Thomas de Holand, 2nd/5th Earl of Kent, p. 10292 § 102917, http://www.thepeerage.com/p10292.htm#i102917
- Lundy, Darryl (24 January 2013b), Joan de Holand, The Peerage, p. 10209 § 102085, http://www.thepeerage.com/p10209.htm#i102085
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Joan Holland
- Joan Holland at thePeerage
- Joan Holland - Geni.com
- English Kings 1066-1603 - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
- Tuck (January 2008). "Edmund , first duke of York (1341–1402)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16023. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- For the tombs of Edmund of Langley and Isabella of Castile, see 'Friaries: King's Langley priory', A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (1971), pp. 446–451.[1] Date accessed: 5 October 2012
- Joan Holland on ancestry.com
- Margery Willoughby, her possible daughter, on tudorplace.com.ar (note that Margery is listed as a daughter of Lucy le Strange)
Ancestry Trees
- Charlemagne Family Ancestry
- Rurik Family Ancestry
- Rollo Family Ancestry
- Alfred the Great Family Ancestry
- House of Normandy
- Plantagenet Family Line
- Capetian dynasty
Footnotes
- ^ Lundy 2013, p. 10292 § 102917 cites Cokayne 2000, p. 548
- ^ a b Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23), "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press): pp. ref:odnb/52801, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52801, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52801, retrieved 2023-04-24
- ^ (The Earl of March had been the heir presumptive of Richard II. In 1399 Richard was forced to abdicate in favour of Henry IV, and for the next few decades Mortimer served as a focal point for conspiracies aimed at removing Henry IV and his heirs from the throne.)