352 KENT. robes of the Order of the Garter(') were provided in 137S-79. She d. at Wnllingford Castle, Berks, 8 July 13S5, iiged about 54. VIII. 13G0. 2. Thomas (de Hoi.anV, Laul of Kent, and Loud Holand, s. and b., Ii. 1350, sue. to the peerages iiboveuamed (on Lis father's death] 2S Dec. 1360; distinguished himself in the wars in France, and was knighted by (his stop- Father) the Black Prince, in March 1387 ; K.G., 1375 ; Marshal" op Fxolaxu 13S0-S5 ; mm. to Pari, at Earl nf Kent, 12 Jan, 1381. Hy the death of his mother, the Princess of Waits. S July 13S:'i, he sue. her as LOUD WAKK and LOUD WOODSTOCK ; Constable ..f the Tower of London, 1889 ; of Corf e Castle, 1391, and of Southampton, W96. He mi. in 13(56, Alice, da. ■ >f Richard ( Fitzalax), Karl ok Aiu:xdki„ by his second wile Eleanor, da. of Henry (I'lastaoknktI, Earl ok Lancaster. He d. 25 April 1892 . W ill pr. 10 .May 1897.( 1 ') His widow was one of the Ladies for whom ntotSeV of the Omcr ot the Garter were provided at the feast of 13SS and at every subsequent feast down to 1399. She wns living 20 April Mil, and probably d. in 1416. llei admoii. at Lambeth 20 May 1416. IX. 1397. 3. Thomas (de Holand), Eahl of Kent, Lord Wake, LOSS Woodstock and l.oitn Holand. s. and h., b. 1374, sue. to the peerage, 25 April i:<97 ; Constable of Southampton, 1307; KG., 1397 : being cr. 2!i Sep. 1397, c ), DORK OF SURREY; Makshai. ok Kjiolahd, 1398-99; Lwu- TEnaxt ()K Ireland, 1398 ; Constable of Dublin Castle, U99.( d ) He was, however, degraded front his Dukedom, 6 i 't-t. 1399. by the Pari, of (the new King) Henry IV., against whom he appears to have conspired, and was taken prisoner anil beheaded (together with the Karl of Salisbury) by the populace at Cirencester, 6 .Ian. 1399/ 400, being subsequently declared a traitor in Pal 1. He d. s.p. His head was exposed on London bridge, his body being bur, first at Cirencester ami then at the Priory of Montgrace, founded by him at Hardelb.v, co. York. He m. J.ian, da. of Hugh (l)E Stafford). 2d Earl OK STAFFORD, by I'liilippa, da. of Thotna-i (BbaCCHAUP), Karl OK Warwick. She survived him many years and d. £> Oct. 1442. X. 1400, 4- Kdmund (de Holand), Earl of Kent [13G0], Lord to Wake [1295], LOUD Woodstock [1320], and LoRD Holand [1353], H67. br. ami li., whose succession to the family honours and estates appears to have been allowed, in spite of the proceedings against his brother above-named, lie was ft. 6 Jan, 1384 J K G., 1408; Admiral of the west and north, 1407. He m. in 1107 at St. Mary OverieS, in Southwark, Lucia, sister of Baroabo ViseoKTI, Dike ok MhaN. lie was mortally wounded while besieging the castlj of Brink, in Hritanuy, and d. s.p. 18 Sep. 1408, aged 24, being bur. in the Abbey of Brunne. At his death the Earldom of Kent became extinct while the liurontes of Wake, Woodstock, and Holand fell into «Ac)/:m«.( c ) His widow d. 4 April 1424, and was fttir. in the Augustine Friars, London. Will dat. 1423. ( a ) She possibly is the Lady in whose honour the order of the Garter received its name; the well-known tradition is, as Sir H. Nicolas remarks (Archaeologist, vol. xxxi, p. 131), petfectly in character with the manners and feelings of the time, and the circumstance is very likely to have occurred. With a few variations as to the name of the Lady, some writers stating her to have, been the Quuu, others the Countess r» 'Salisbury, and others the Countess of Kent, and with the addition that she was Edward* Mit-tiess, the anecdote is certainly as old as the reign of Henry Vll." This varied role (as Planche points out in his " Earls oj Kent ") was in a great measure fulfilled by this Joan, tho' (of course) at different periods of her life. But see other theories as to the origin of the name of this order in Belts-.' s " Order of the Garter," pp. xlii to xlvii. (>') "Jloyal WUls,"p. 118. ( c ) Four Dukedoms and one Marquessate were er. that day, of which five creations all but one were forfeited, 6 Oct. 1399. See vol. iii. p. 297, note " n,"s«A " Exeter/' ( d ) He is stated in Doyle's "Official Baronetage" to have been cr. BA RON OF NOURAGII (Ireland), May 16 1399," but this apparently alludes to a grant to him of the territorial Barony, forfeited by Arthur Macniurge. (•) The coheirs were his sisters or their descendants. See under " Wake " Barony
