Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent

Coat of arms of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent

Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, 5th Baron Holand, KG (6 January 1384 – 15 September 1408) was the Earl of Kent in ca. 1400 – ca. 1407. He was the 106th Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1403.

He was the second son of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice Fitzalan. His maternal grandparents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.

He was a younger brother of Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey. Edmund succeeded his childless brother as Earl of Kent on 7 January 1400.

He married at St. Mary Overy, Southwark, on 24 January 1406 Lucia Visconti (c. 1370 - 4 April 1424), daughter of Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan, and wife Beatrice Regina della Scala, without issue. He had an affair with Constance of York and fathered illegitimately Eleanor de Holland born in c. 1406; Eleanor was later married to James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley.

He was killed at the battle of Île-de-Bréhat on 15 Sep 1408.

He is buried on the island of Lavrec, in the Brehat archipelago. His remains might have been the one discovered there, showing an important warrior, died after a serious wound at the chest.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent

16. Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland               8. Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand                       17. Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury               4. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent                             18. Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby               9. Maude la Zouche                       19. Eleanor de Segrave               2. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent                                   20. Edward I of England               10. Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent                       21. Margaret of France               5. Joan of Kent                             22. John Wake, 1st Baron Wake of Liddell               11. Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake                       23. Joan Fiennes               1. Edmund Holland                                         24. Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel               12. Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel                       25. Alice of Saluzzo               6. Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel                             26. William de Warenne               13. Alice de Warenne                       27. Joan de Vere               3. Alice FitzAlan, Countess of Kent                                   28. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster               14. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster                       29. Blanche of Artois               7. Eleanor of Lancaster                             30. Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly               15. Maud Chaworth                       31. Isabella de Beauchamp

Bibliography

• Alison Weir. Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy. London, The Bodley Head, 1999, p. 111.