Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence

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Lady Margaret Holland
Countess of Somerset; Duchess of Clarence
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Born 1385
Died 31 December 1439(1439-12-31) (aged 54)
Burial Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
Spouse John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
m. c. 1399; dec. 1410
Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence
m. 1411; dec. 1421
Issue Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Perche
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon
Father Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
Mother Lady Alice Fitzalan

Margaret Holland, Countess of Somerset (1385 – 31 December 1439) was the 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, 1st Duke of Lancaster 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, 1st Duke of Clarence, the son of King Henry IV. They had no children.[2] She died on 31 December 1439 at St. Saviour's Abbey, Bermondsey, in London, England.[2] 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, the 1st Duke of Somerset, Lady Margaret is an ancestress to the Tudor monarchs. Both Lady Joan, Queen consort of Scotland, and the Duke of Somerset, are ancestors of King George I of Great Britain. As such, both children are ancestors to the current British royal family.[3]

Ancestry

Family of Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Sir Robert de Holand
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Elizabeth de Samlesbury
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Maud 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
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Joan de Fiennes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Margaret Holand
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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, Countess of Arundel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Joan de Vere
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Alice Fitzalan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Blanche of Artois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Eleanor of Lancaster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Sir Patrick Chaworth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Maud Chaworth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Isabella de Beauchamp
 
 
 
 
 
 

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. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.