Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence

English noblewoman

FatherThomas Holland, 2nd Earl of KentMotherAlice FitzAlan

Margaret Holland (1385 – 30 December 1439) was a medieval English noblewoman. She was a daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent" (granddaughter of Edward I of England, wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England). Margaret's mother was Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.

Margaret married John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford. They had six children:^[2]

Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (1401–1418)
Joan Beaufort (d. 1445), who married James I of Scotland and Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404–1444)
Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (c. 1405–1431)
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (c. 1406–1455)
Margaret Beaufort (c. 1408–1449), married Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon

In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.).^[3] After Beaufort died in 1410 (in the Tower of London), she married his nephew Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387–1421), the son of King Henry IV. They had no children.^[3] She died on 30 December 1439 at St. Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, in London, England.^[3] Margaret and both her husbands are buried together in a carved alabaster tomb in Canterbury Cathedral that shows her lying between the two of them.

Descendants

Through her son John, the 1st Duke of Somerset, Lady Margaret is an ancestress to the Tudor monarchs.^[4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence

16. Sir Robert de Holand^[11]

8. Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand^[5]

17. Elizabeth Salmesbury^[11]

4. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent^[5]

18. Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby^[12]

9. Maud la Zouche^[7]

19. Eleanor de Segrave^[12]

2. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent^[5]

20. Edward I of England^[8]

10. Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent^[8]

21. Margaret of France^[8]

5. Joan, 4th Countess of Kent^[5]

22. John Wake, 1st Baron Wake^[8]

11. Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell^[8]

23. Joan de Fiennes^[13]

1. Margaret Holland

24. Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel^[9]

12. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel^[9]

25. Alice of Saluzzo^[9]

6. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel^[6]

26. William de Warenne^[14]

13. Alice de Warenne^[9]

27. Joan de Vere^[14]

3. Alice FitzAlan^[5]

28. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster^[10]

14. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster^[10]

29. Blanche of Artois^[10]

7. Eleanor of Lancaster^[6]

30. Sir Patrick Chaworth^[15]

15. Maud Chaworth^[10]

31. Isabella de Beauchamp^[15]

Footnotes

^ Connor 2007, p. 388, per John Stone's Chronicle.
^ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 220.
^ ^a ^b ^c Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pg 102, 103.
^ Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pg 274.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Stansfield 1987, p. 310.
^ ^a ^b Richardson II, pp. 185–187.
^ Richardson II, pp. 392–394, 485–486.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Stansfield 1987, p. 312.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Richardson II, pp. 178–179.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Richardson II, pp. 526–527.
^ ^a ^b Richardson II, pp. 392–394.
^ ^a ^b Richardson II, p. 392.
^ Richardson II, pp. 478–479.
^ ^a ^b Richardson II, p. 178.
^ ^a ^b Richardson II, pp. 525–526.

References

Connor, Meriel (2007). "The Political Allegiances of Christ Church Priory 1400–1472: the Evidence of John Stone's Chronicle". Archaeologia Cantiana. 127: 383–406.
Richardson, D. (2011). Kimball G. Everingham (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1-4499-6638-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Shaw, R.L.J. (2009). "Holland [married name Beaufort], Margaret, duchess of Clarence". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/98133. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Stansfield, M.M.N. (1987). The Hollands, Dukes of Exeter, Earls of Kent and Huntingdon, 1352–1475 (PDF) (PhD). Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2018.