Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence explained

Margaret Holland
Countess of Somerset
Duchess of Clarence
Birth Date:1385
Death Date:30 December 1439 (aged 54)
Death Place:Bermondsey Abbey, London, England
Burial Place:Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Spouse:John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (m. 1397, died 1410)
Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (m. 1411, died 1421)
Spouse-Type:Spouse
Noble Family:Holland family
House-Type:Dynasty
Father:Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
Mother:Alice 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:[1]

In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.).[2] 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. She died on 30 December 1439 at St. Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, in London, England. 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.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pg 102, 103.
  3. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pg 274.