Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter
Henry Holland | |
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Born | Anne of York | 27 June 1430
Children | Anne Holland |
Parents | (father) |
Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, 3rd Earl of Huntington (27 June 1430 – September 1475) was a Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses. He was the only son of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, and his first wife, Anne Stafford. His maternal grandparents were Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, and Anne of Gloucester.
Career
He inherited the
Constable of the Tower
Exeter was for a time
Wars of the Roses
In 1447 he married
At the Battle of Barnet, Exeter commanded the Lancastrian left flank. He was badly wounded and left for dead, but survived. Afterwards he was imprisoned, and Anne divorced him in 1472. He "volunteered" to serve on Edward IV's 1475 expedition to France. On the return voyage he fell overboard and drowned, his body being found in the sea between Dover and Calais, Fabyan saying "but how he drowned, the certainty is not known".[3] However, Giovanni Panicharolla, the Milanese envoy to the Burgundian court, was told by Duke Charles that the King of England had given specific orders for the sailors to throw his former brother-in-law overboard.[4][5]
Family
On January 30, 1446 in the chapel of the Bishop of Ely,
.He had one legitimate child:[7]
- Anne Holland (1461[8] – between 26 August 1467 and 6 June 1474), who married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset.
Since Henry had no legitimate male issue the disposition of his estates became a complex matter for his widow, the dowager
See also
Ancestry
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References
- ^ Kendall, P.M. Warwick the Kingmaker. p. 305.
- ^ However, Stubbs says it was named after the 2nd duke, who was also constable of the Tower, in his The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, vol. 3, p. 302
- ^ Robert Fabyan. The new chronicles of England and France, in two parts, p. 663. [1]
- ^ Desmond Seward. The Wars of the Roses and the Lives of Five Men and Women in the Fifteenth Century, Constable & Robinson, 2002. p. 240.
- ^ Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts in the Archives and Collections of Milan 1385-1618, p. 220 [2]
- ^ Pidgeon, Lynda (2023). "Anne of York and her Loyal Yorkist: Sir Thomas St Leger (ex. 1483)". The Ricardian. XXXIII: 107.
- ^ a b Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial And Medieval Families, Genealogical Publishing, 2005. pp. 299–301. Google eBook
- ^ Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 57, fol. 2*r
External links
- S2CID 155012397.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50223. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Pugh, T.B. (1990). "Richard, Duke of York, and the Rebellion of Henry Holand, Duke of Exeter, in May 1454". .