John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter
John Holland | |
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St Katharine's by the Tower, London | |
Family | Holland |
Spouses | Lady Anne Stafford Beatrice of Portugal Lady Anne Montacute |
Issue more... | Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter Anne Holland, Baroness Neville |
Father | John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter |
Mother | Elizabeth of Lancaster |
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon,
Origins
He was the second son of
Career
Holland was just a boy when his father conspired against Henry IV and was attainted and executed. Nevertheless, he was given a chance to serve Henry V in the 1415 campaign in France, where he distinguished himself at
Marriages and issue
He married three times:
- Firstly, on 6 March 1427 to Lady Anne Stafford (d. 20 or 24 September 1432), widow of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, and daughter of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford.[6] By Anne he had two children:
- Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430–1475).
- Lady Anne Holland (d. 26 December 1486), who married, firstly, Sir John Neville (d. before 16 March 1450), son of her second cousin Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland. The marriage is said to have been unconsummated. She was married, secondly, to her second cousin, John Neville, Baron Neville (uncle of her first husband), slain at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461. She married, thirdly, James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas.
- Secondly, on 20 January 1433, he married Beatrice of Portugal;
- Thirdly, he married Lady Anne Montagu (d. 28 November 1457), a daughter of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
Mistresses
By an unnamed mistress or mistresses he also had several illegitimate children, two of whom he named in his will.[citation needed] William, Thomas and Robert, the so-called "Bastards of Exeter", were active in the Lancastrian struggles, and Stow reported that two of them were among the notable dead at the Battle of Towton.[4]
Appointments
In July 1416 he was appointed
Death and burial
There is an effigy of this John Holland in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. It had originally been in St Katharine by the Tower.
References
- ^ Griffiths 2004.
- ^ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday 1926, p. 205.
- ^ Richardson 2011, p. 23.
- ^ a b Richardson 2011, pp. 134–135, No. 8.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 65.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13530. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ .
- ^ Richardson 2011, p. 135.
Sources
- Chisholm, H., ed. (1911). "Exeter, Earl, Marquess and Duke of". Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed. 10. Cambridge University Press.
- Cokayne, G.; Gibbs, V.; Doubleday, H.A., eds. (1926). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 205–11.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13530. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) First edition available at Wikisource: Hardy, W. (1891), , in Lee, Sidney (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27, London: Smith, Elder & Co .
- ISBN 978-1-4499-6638-6.
External links
- John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter at Find a Grave
- Stansfield, M. (13 January 1987). The Hollands, Dukes of Exeter, Earls of Kent and Huntingdon, 1352–1475 (PDF) (PhD). Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2018.