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Birth:          ABT 1348 Arundel, Sussex, England
Death:          17 Mar 1416 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_FitzAlan,_Countess_of_Kent
Alice Holland, Countess of Kent (c. 1350[1] – 17 March 1416), LG, formerly Lady Alice 
FitzAlan, was an English noblewoman, a daughter of the 10th Earl of Arundel, and the 
wife of the 2nd Earl of Kent, the half-brother of King Richard II. As the maternal 
grandmother of Anne Mortimer, she was an ancestor of King Edward IV and King 
Richard III, as well as King Henry VII and the Tudor dynasty through her daughter 
Margaret Holland. She was also the maternal grandmother of Joan Beaufort, Queen of 
Scotland.

She was appointed a Lady of the Garter in 1388.
Family[edit]

Lady Alice FitzAlan was born circa 1350 at Arundel Castle in Sussex, England,[2] the 
second daughter of the 10th Earl of Arundel, and Lady Eleanor of Lancaster. She had 
six siblings who included Richard FitzAlan, later 11th Earl of Arundel, and Lady Joan 
FitzAlan, later Countess of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton. She also had three 
half-siblings from her parents' previous marriages.

Her paternal grandparents were the 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne, and 
her maternal grandparents were the 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.


 


Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland was a granddaughter of Lady Alice FitzAlan
Marriage and issue[edit]

In 1354, at the age of four, Lady Alice was betrothed to her father's ward Edmund 
Mortimer who would in 1360 become the 3rd Earl of March. The marriage however did 
not take place. Alice married instead on 10 April 1364, 2nd Earl of Kent, one of the 
half-brothers of the future King Richard II by his mother Joan of Kent's first marriage to 
Thomas Lord Holland. She received from her father a marriage portion of 4000 marks.
[3] Upon her marriage, she was styled Lady Holland. She did not, however, become 
Countess of Kent until 1381, when her husband succeeded his father as Thomas 
Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent.

Lord Holland was appointed captain of the English forces in Aquitaine in 1366, and in 
1375, he was made a Knight of the Garter. Two years later in 1377, his half-brother 
Richard succeeded to the throne of England, as King Richard II. Alice's husband 
would become one of the young King's chief counsellors and exert a strong influence 
over his brother which led to the enrichment of Thomas and Alice. Alice was 
appointed a Lady of the Garter, an order of chivalry, in 1388.

Together Thomas and Alice had ten children:[4]
Alianore Holland (1373- October 1405), married firstly Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of 
March, by whom she had issue, including Anne Mortimer and Edmund Mortimer, 5th 
Earl of March; she married secondly, Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton, by whom 
she had two daughters.
Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (1374- 7 January 1400), married Joan Stafford, 
but the marriage was childless.
John Holland (died young)
Richard Holland (died young)
Elizabeth Holland (died 4 January 1423), married Sir John Neville, Lord Neville by 
whom she had issue.
Joan Holland (1380- 12 April 1434), married firstly as his second wife, Edmund of 
Langley, 1st Duke of York; married secondly William de Willoughby, 5th Lord 
Willoughby de Eresby; married thirdly Henry le Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham, 
her fourth husband was Henry Bromflete, 1st Lord Vessy. All her marriages were 
childless.
Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (6 January 1384 – 15 September 1408), married 
Lucia Visconti[5] (1372-14 April 1424), but the marriage was childless. He fathered an 
illegitimate daughter Eleanor de Holland (born 1406), by his mistress Constance of 
York.
Margaret Holland (1385- 30 December 1439), married firstly John Beaufort, 1st Earl of 
Somerset, by whom she had issue including John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and 
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland; she married secondly Thomas of Lancaster, 1st 
Duke of Clarence.
Eleanor Holland (1386- after 1413), married Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, 
by whom she had one daughter, Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury.
Bridget Holland (died before 1416), a nun at Barking Abbey.

Later years[edit]

Alice's husband died on 25 April 1397. In 1399, King Richard was deposed, and the 
throne was usurped by Henry IV, the son-in-law of her elder sister, Joan. In January 
1400, Alice's eldest son Thomas, who had succeeded his father as the 3rd Earl of 
Kent, was captured at Cirencester and beheaded without a trial by a mob of angry 
citizens[6] as a consequence of having been one of the chief conspirators in the 
Epiphany Rising. The rebels had hoped to seize and murder King Henry, and 
immediately restore King Richard to the throne. Less than three years earlier, her 
brother Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel and a Lord Appellant had been 
executed for his opposition to King Richard.

Alice herself died on 17 March 1416 at the age of sixty-six years.

Descendants[edit]

Alice had many illustrious descendants which included English kings Edward IV, 
Richard III (and his consort Queen Anne), Henry VII; from the latter of whom 
descended the Tudor monarchs. Alice was also an ancestress of Scottish king James 
II of Scotland and his successors which included Mary, Queen of Scots and James I 
of England. Her other notable descendants include the last queen consort of Henry 
VIII, Catherine Parr; Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick known in history as 
Warwick the Kingmaker; Cecily Bonville; Isabel Ingoldisthorpe, wife of John Neville, 
1st Marquess of Montagu; John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, and Anne Bourchier, 
7th Baroness Bourchier. Living descendants of Alice Fitzalan include the current 
British Royal Family.

Parents
FITZ ALAN Richard "Cropped Hat" (ABT 1313 - 24 Jan 1376)
PLANTAGENET Eleanor (ABT 1311 - 11 Jan 1372)

Siblings
FITZ ALAN Richard II (1346 - 21 Sep 1397)
FITZ ALAN John (ABT 1347 - 16 Dec 1379)
FITZ ALAN Alice (ABT 1348 - 17 Mar 1416)

Marriage To DE HOLAND Thomas (1354 - 25 Apr 1397)
    m. 10 Apr 1364 

Notes

Parents
DE HOLAND Thomas (1314 - 26 Dec 1360)
____ Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" (29 Sep 1328 - 8 Aug 1385)

Children by DE HOLAND Thomas 1354 - 25 Apr 1397
DE HOLAND Edmund (6 Jan 1384 - 15 Sep 1408)
DE HOLAND Eleanor (Alianore) (1386 - AFT 1413)

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