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

Family 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.